A Simple Book-Shelf by Mrs. Brown

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 16.

A Simple Book-Shelf.

By Mrs. Brown

THE boys of our household have an attic to themselves, and they do a little manufacturing occasionally. They enjoy outdoor fun as much as any boys, but the attic is useful when they are in the house, and on wet evenings it is a great advantage. They have just made a very pretty pair of book-cases. They obtained for a few cents eight pine boards three-fourths of an inch thick, eighteen inches long, and seven inches wide. A trifle more secured a few yards of red sash cord. They took four boards for each case, made an even hole at each corner, then passed the four cords through the holes of the top shelf first, making the knots carefully, to support it in the right place. They then did the same to the second and third shelves, and mounted the bottom one last, making the knots very secure, and cutting off the spare line. As their books varied in size, the distance between the shelves, instead of having the same space between each, varied. The shelves were then stained, and, having found in the house some ornamental leather strips that once adorned the edges of a book-case, they nailed these along the front edges of their shelves with small brass nails, and the work was done. A set of book-shelves is an accession to a bedroom, especially, as is often the case, when young people have their own rooms and spend spare minutes there.—Mrs. Brown, in N. Y. Observer.