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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
TWELFTH REGULAR DISCUSSION. 
Topic: Convenient Thinyn Furmern' Jioyx 
iintI diris Con Moke. 
Uncle Mark:— Here we are ready for the 
Vitb discussion, a round dozen complete. I 
hoped to see more of you here with accounts 
of your work with hammers and saws, scis¬ 
sors atid needles; and I miss the absent ones; 
but offer a hearty welcome to those who have 
come, and hope to see the rest next time. It 
is not always those things that, are hardest to 
make that are the most useful: simple things, 
that are easily made, are sometimes the great¬ 
est conveniences. We want your attention 
while the Cousins tell us how to make seme 
convenient things. 
CHAS. W. Cook: —Last Winter and the 
Winter before I made nine cages for blue¬ 
birds, as they are good to have in an orchard 
to destroy insects injurious to the trees. I 
make u square box, with a small hole in one 
side for a door; this box I nail up in a tree, 
and either blue birds or wrens are pretty sure 
to build a nest in it. 
I have just been making some bandies for 
small floors which had none. I split a piece off 
a short board and whittle it out in the center, 
hollow on one side and curved on the other, 
fastening it to the door by driving two nails 
through each end. A good knob may be made, 
to be used for the same purpose, by cutting a 
large spool in halves and screwing one half to 
the door. 
A pretty hanging basket for vines and small 
plants may be made by taking a summer 
Crook neck Squash, after it is hard and dry, 
cutting off part, r f the large end, cleaning out 
the seed, and filling it with earth, attaching 
three strings hi hang it by. It maybe filled 
with water instead of earth, and be used as a 
kind of banging vase. 
Uncle Mark;—A Hubbard Squash shell 
would be very suitable for the same purpose, 
1 should think, and the dark-green color would 
bo oven prettier than the yellow of the Crook- 
neck, though the Hubbard is almost too good 
to be used for anything but the table. 
Glennik; I have made several handy things 
that I enjoy, more because they were made out 
of whatl happened to have and materials that, 
were of no other use,than becauseof theirgrpat 
value. One thiug I have found very handy Is 
a wall pocket made out of a pieee of oil¬ 
cloth, longer than wide; iu each of the upper 
corners are cushions, one for pins, the other 
for threaded needles. Between these cushions 
are leaves of red flannel button-hole stitched 
with green silk, for unthreaded needles; a 
pocket in the center is made of white oil 
cloth bound with red oil*cloth, and holds bast¬ 
ing thread. On each side of this are little 
pockets cut pointed below, for thimbles; ac¬ 
crue the whole lower part is a large pocket 
for the tape measure, beeswax, etc. The lit¬ 
tle pockets and the lower one are of red oil¬ 
cloth; scrap pictures on the center pocket and 
lower one add to the beauty. The whole 
thing Is bound with red oil-cloth stitched in 
wliiie t hread. 
Another way in which I used materials I had, 
was by sewing together two strips of red rib¬ 
bon. each three inches wide, and 1 sewed over 
them some black worsted lace, from an old 
black sack, allowing one piece to come below 
t bcriblton. This made a handsome lambrequin 
for a corner shelf, and cost, only a few minu¬ 
tes’ time. 
To keep the dust from the lamp when not 
in use, T took a piece of stiff gray' paper.large 
enough to go arouud it, and pasted the edges 
together; then put it over the lamp, and cut 
six slits fti the upper edge and bent them 
down aud fastened in the center for the top. 
On two opposite sides I put a gay vine from 
wall paper. For the other sides, 1 cut out the 
colored flowers from the seed catalogues. 
When we had some red paint at one time, T 
picked up all the old slate frames I could find 
and painted and varnished them, some I only 
varnished ;then 1 took pictures from illustrated 
ed papers auii pasted them on stiff paper and 
slipped them iuto the frames. When they are 
soiled I will have some new'ones; but I do not 
leave them up in fly time. 
To make a paper holder, I took two pieces 
of paste-hoard, fastened the lower edges to¬ 
gether, put a cord through the upper corners 
aud spread them as far apart as I wanted, 
then put in a cord to hang it up by. On the 
front I made a medley picture mostly from 
agricultural advertisements. 
Dora Ricks: — I have made some pretty 
ornaments out of the Everlastings that were 
among my Garden Treasures. To make a 
cross. I took a slender stick twelve inches long, | 
and another six inches loug. 1 lied them to¬ 
gether in the form of a cross, put a small 
bunch of grass at the top and a bunch of the 
smaller flowers, then flowers a size larger, and 
so on, putting the largest flowers in the cen 
ter; then made the base similar to the top. I 
made a wreath of the flowers and hung the 
cross inside the wreath. I covered a card re¬ 
ceiver made of paste-board, with some of the 
flowers, and made a picture frame uud I have 
given uway some wreaths and bouquets. 
Stella March:—I made a lamp shade as 
a present for ruy Aunt Anna last, Winter, 
and she said it was pretty and convenient. I 
will try to tell you how I made it; the mate¬ 
rial isunperforated card-board; a sheet costs 
ten cents. I chose card-board of a light pink 
color, and cut, out the four pieces for the 
shade: the pieces are shaped something like 
the letter V, with the point cut off; each piece 
of mine was '>X inches across the narrowest 
part at the top. and 8% ‘inches across the 
widest part at the lower edge. The two 
straightedges where the pieces join are six inch¬ 
es long (if you take four sticks of these lengths, 
and lay them together, you will see just the 
shape, and can cut a pattern). With a pink- 
ing-lron I scolloped the upper and lower edges, 
aud with a shoe maker’s punch made 10 holes 
along both sides of each piece, so as to lace 
the shade together, i made a cord of pink 
zephyr by twisting it double, and doubling 
the twisted thread, and it then wound itself 
into u single cord. Then I laced the shade 
together, the same wav I lace my shoe, and 
tied the zephyr in a bow knot at the lower 
edge of the shade. Aunt Anna has a wire 
that (its on the lamp chimney, and my shade 
rests on t he wire, so the heat does not scorch 
it. I pasted a pretty colored pictu re on each 
piece of the shade. Since then I have orna¬ 
mented another shade with pricked work: a 
lady who teaches in a Kindergarten school 
visited my mother and taught me to do 
the pricked work. She teaches the little 
children in the Kindergarten to do it, and they 
are all smaller than I am, so I wanted to try 
it. Miss Howard had a pricking needle with 
her, and I got a shawl, a stand, and the four 
pieces of the lamp shade; then, spreading t lie 
shawl on the stand. Miss Howard put one 
piece of the lamp shade down, laid a picture 
of a vine on it, aud pricked holes through the 
picture with the needle, all around t he edges 
of the leaves and all along the stem of the 
vine; the shawl under the card board 
made the needle go through easily, and 
made the pricks show plainer. When she had 
pricked all around the vine aud along the 
middle vein of each leaf, she took the pattern 
off, turned the card board over, aud told me 
to fill each leal' full Of pricks, and to be sure 
to bold the needle straight up and down, I 
filled one leaf full, I thought, aud when I 
turned the cardboard over J found the pricks 
had raised the curd board up, roakiug the leaf 
stand out like embossed 11 cures do, hut it was 
not. lull of pricks yet: aloug the vein and near 
the edges of the leaf I hud not made any, so I 
turned the card-hoaid over and made some 
more. I filled all the leaves this way and 
pricked aloug the stem on the same side on 
which 1 filled the leaves. When Miss Howard 
bed gone away, I made a needle for myself 
by putting a common needle into a pine stick. 
I split the stick a little way and then put the 
eye of the needle into it. and wrapped and 
tied it with thread. A line needle makes the 
prettiest work. The light from the lamp 
shining through the pricks, shows the vine 
and other figures very plainly. You can 
pr.ck almost anythiug. hut some thiugs ure 
prettier than others. 1 pricked the words 
Rt UAL New-Yorker on a piece of card¬ 
board us it, is (in the outside of the paper, and 
tacked it in my window. I tried to make the 
cow and the hen as they are there, but no one 
could tell what I meant by the pricks. 
Annie S. Daniel:— A useful thingisadish- 
mop, and as I expect all the Cousins’ mothers 
have white cotton fringe, such as was used on 
counterpanes but is uow out of fashion, aud 
looked upou as useless, I will tell them how 1 
make mops of it. Take a smooth slick 13 or 
II inches long and three-quarters of au Inch 
in diameter, bore a gimlet hole m one end; 
then wrap the fringe ruuud aud round the 
stick until the mop i> just large enough to go 
iuto a cup. cut it off; fasten the end neatly 
with needle and thread, then sew through the 
hole and the fringe from side to side with a 
strong cord, bore a hole in the other end, put 
iu a cord to hang up by, aud your mop is 
complete. 
A comfortable seat can lie made of a deal 
box I uvert the box.uiake a cushion the size of 
the bottom, lay on this a cover aud tack os you 
would a mattress, fasten this on the bottom, 
box plait a skirt round the box and tack it on; 
or, if the box has a lid fastened on with 
hinges, put the cushion on this with a narrow 
quilling as a fiuisb; it will answer as a scrap- 
box or receptacle for slippers, etc., as well as 
a seat. 
A large new carboy was broken lately; I cut 
off the wicker cover just above the haudles, 
sewed the edge over aud over, passing my 
needle through the upright willows to prevent 
the others from pulling out, cut a piece of 
thick juanilla paper the size and shape of the 
bottom, laid ou this a piece of brown linen, 
then cut a strip of linen the depth of the 
basket, sowed this in round the bottom like 
lining a bat, turned it to the npper edge and 
finished with a bright crimson damask bind¬ 
ing. This is for a work basket. There was a 
little basketelike cover on the month. I fast¬ 
ened it securely ou the inside of the basket as 
a place to drop a thimble, buttons, etc. 
Uncle M ark :—Some of the Cousins may 
not know what a carboy is, so 1 copy what 
Webster has to «ay about it. for yon: “Car 
boy, a large globular bottle of green glass, 
inclosed in a basket-work for protection; 
used especially fur carrying e u-rosive liquors, 
as sulphuric acid, etc.” The work-basket 
made from the basket-work is very appropri¬ 
ate. White carpet chain can be used in mak 
ing the mops, as well as the fringe Annie 
dscribes. 
Robbie:—M y mamma says I had better 
write to you and tell you of the hammock I 
made for my sister. I thought that would be 
too easy, but she says that is jnst what the 
Cousins want. You see 1 knocked an old flour 
barrel to piece* one day, and that afternoon a 
tittle hoy came to see me and he said: “ Why 
don’t you make a hammock of those staves *’ 
and 1 thought he was otoly fooling. But be 
said we would take them to the tool house and 
see what we could do. We bored one hob' in 
each end ol every stave until we bad emuigh. 
Dick said. He wouldn't tell me what he was 
going to do next, but told me to ask papa for 
a piece of rope we had found, aud when he 
got it he liegan weaving it in and out of the 
holes along one end of all the staves and then 
I knew what he had made the holes for. W ben 
the rope was woven in each side, our ham¬ 
mock was done, and we left a long part of 
the repeat each end so it would swing nicely. 
We took it out to the apple orchard and put it 
between two trees, and it was late of fun. 
Then papa and mamma aud sister May came 
out to try it, and May liked it so much 1 gave 
it. to her for her very own, and now 1 am go¬ 
ing to make rue another, only instead of lairing 
boles I will make notches in each end of the 
staves and weave the rope around that way. 
Maybe, Uncle Mark, you will think that 
isn’t useful enough for the Discussion, but it 
Is awfully comfortable. 
I can make a first rate milking stool by 
nailing a block of wood, the right size, on to 
one leg. 1 often make chicken coops for my 
mamma, by nailing laths on to the open side 
of a dry goods box, and fixing loose laths to 
null up as an opening for a door; you know 
how l mean, 1 guess. But 1 am getting 
lin'd in my finger* and can't, tel) yon any 
more. 
P. S.—Mamma has read this over and says 
it would sound better to say ** the hammock 
Dick aud I made.” 
(Concluded next week.) 
WINTER SPORT FOR FARMERS’ BOYS. 
1 1 there is a desire to keep the boys upon 
tlie farm, they must be encouraged in the line 
of sport more especially during that season of 
thr. year in which the farmer finds his great', 
est leisure. In most, portions of New England 
there are, at the present time, more or less 
lakes aud ponds that are accessible without a 
great amount of travel. These bodies of wa¬ 
ter are pretty generally stocked with fish of 
some kind, which are free plunder to all who 
seek for thorn; but there would be little pleas¬ 
ure. and perhaps no luck, fishing from a boat 
upou the open water in cold weal tier, and so 
this pleasure is postponed until the ice is suf¬ 
ficiently frozen to lie perfectly secure, and 
then there is afforded a line opportunity for 
sport, in which the boys, if so disposed, should 
be indulged. Fish culture is becomiog so 
important that it almost makes a connection 
with fanning operations, the same us poultry 
keeping aud bee culture, becauseof the profit 
that, comes from it. as a source of food supply. 
Fish being a valuable aud important, article of 
food, there is no reason w hy it should not lie 
enjoyed, so long as the boys look upon the 
necessary labor of its procurement as sport. 
In Winter the sport becomes more exciting 
because, being conducted through the ice, a 
single individual may set from fifteen to 
twenty live hooks, aud the excitement and 
spurt, that follow from running fora ”1111 up” 
are just immense. The tishmg is through 
holes cut in tne ice by uieaus of an ice chisel, 
aud by means of tilts, which arc of so many 
forms’ that description would hardly be pos¬ 
sible. One of the simpler kind is made by 
taking pine stuff and dressing out some pieces 
twelve or fourteen inches long and halt an 
inch square, across the middle of which is 
riveted—so that it will turn—a piece of about 
the same leugth, aud the same size at one end; 
but on oue side of the rivet widening out to 
an loch and one-half, like a paddle and snaven 
down thin. Opposite the paddle end the line 
is attached, tne riveted erostf-pieee is laid 
across the hole, the tine is dropped in with 
the paddle resting upou the ice. When the 
tish comes along and takes the hook the line 
runs out and the end over the hole is pulled 
down which raises the paddle end, giving 
notice that a fish is hooked and for it tnere is 
a general scrabble. 
Other kinds more delicate to the touch are 
made b> means of oue stick aud a wire at¬ 
tached to one end, upon which is a steadying 
weight, the stick being set in the ice by cut¬ 
ting a gash, the wire is placed at au angle, 
over the top of which the line is attached, 
whereby on the slightest touch the wire is 
pulled down, the weight descending the wire, 
and holding the opposite end to which is at¬ 
tached a red flag, in a vertical position, also 
indicating a bite. 
Fisbiug by this means affords a great 
amount of sport for boys, both young and of 
mature years, besides affording excellent food, 
Two men fished three or four hours upon the 
Columbia reservoir one day and caught over 
eighty perch and pickerel. Give the boys a 
chance occasionally to indulge in such sport 
as that aud they will be less desirous of leav¬ 
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