NEWSPAPER RACKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 6

NEWSPAPER RACKS

HOW TO MAKE THEM Otd-fashibned newspaper racks with wide spaces to contain papers are much improved if each space is divided, as this allows different papers and periodicals to be separated and their names to be kept in view. Suitable divisions can be made q iickly. Cut one piece of three-ply wood to the length of the stand and of such width as to drop easily into the space which is to be divided, and a second piece, to form the division, the same length, and sufficiently wide to reach four inches below the top of the rack. Cut two nieces of wood, tive-eighths of an inch thick, to the length of the plywood, and so wide that when laid together and the thickness of the plywood added they are « qual to the width of that piece of plywood which is to form the bottom of the construction. Attach the other pieces of plywood, edgeways, with three scr.ews to one. of the'se pieces; thc*n screw the bottom piece of plywood to it from underneath. Push the second thick piece of wood against the side of the division and also screw it from un.lerneatn. If iiny difficulty is'found in holding this piece of wood in position while screwing, it may bo secured before hand with glue. The .construction is then ready, to be stained, if necessary, and dropped into place. If liked, more than one division may bo made in this fashion, or the divisions may be of different widths.

A useful device provides accommodation for the stockings which are about to be left hanging on the backs of chairs in small bedrooms. Buy a cheap wooden embroidery frame, pad each ring with some cotton material, and cover it with silk. Tie on a piece of ribbon to each and hang in a cupboard One can be- used for stockings and the other for ties. They will be found well worth the trouble of making.