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���a six-inch shelf which serves as an umbrella rest. Holes are bored in the outside corners, through which holes the rope supports are passed to the two deep wooden pegs projecting out far enough to receive the umbrellas, and thence to the pair of brackets above the center cleat.

A Nautical Porch Seat

NEARLY every attic has a rickety chair the seat of which might be rescued and con- verted into a comfortable porch chair such as the one pictured. Attached to a substantial cross- section in front, the back se- cured to two wooden cleats on the wall, the seat is complete. Two heaw ropes are fringed and knotted

��An attractive hall-rack that was made of miscellaneous boards and rope

hats on the pegs below. These "arms" are fitted on wooden pegs that extend through the cleat in such a manner as to permit them to be moveable. Heavy wire is bent by pliers to form hooks for the coat-hangers. The hat- pegs are really a pair of wood-handled awls. The lower cleat affords support fof

���A porch seat with a nautical air — made from an old chair-seat

through the wooden brackets, then thrust through the holes in the cross- section of the seat.

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��Bad table manners gain a hen nothing with this home-made feeding trough

��Teaching Hens Good Manners l-^RE is a contrixance for cor- recting the hen's bad table manners. ()bser\e how over-crowd- ing is rendered impossible. The narrow strips of standing-room, and the lack of head-room explain the good behavior. A few packing-boxes and some nails are all that is needed to build this feeding-trough.

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