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��A Rocking Board See-Saw for Chil- dren's Playground

THIS excellent piece of furniture for the playground or porch may be easily made of a board and segments of

���A board with attached segments of a wheel rim making a see-saw rocking board for the children's playground

��rims from a discarded carriage wheel. The board is rounded as shown and the segments set in the board edge. Support- ing strips may be used under the board and across the lower part. These seg- ments are slightly set out, as shown, to make it rigid.

��An Overhead Dove-Tail Suspension for Table Drawers

THE method of hanging a drawer here illustrated will be found a simple and satisfactory way out of a difficulty which is often encountered. This way is practical anywhere where a light drawer, such as is used in library tables, sewing cabi- nets, and the like, is to be placed in a limited space and a bottom slide and rail are either not possible or undesirable.

The construction simply consists of a dove-tail tongue engaging in a cor- respondingly shaped notch in the upper edge of the rear end of the drawer, the tongue being fastened ei- ther direct to the table-top or to blocks, if the drawer does not come right under the table-top. In front it runs on two pins driven into the table-legs and set back about 1 in. to be out of sight, or, if the drawer does not oc- cupy the entire space between the legs, on a couple of small steel plates screwed

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��Old Tin Fruit Cans May Be Used over Again

OWING to the scarcity of tin, patent cans for preserving fruit will be ex- pensive for a time at least and difficult to obtain. If one is careful in opening the cans of fruit and vegetables purchased from the grocery store the cans can be used in the following manner: Thorough- ly clean and dry the cans as soon as con- tents are removed and store them away in a dry place to keep them from rusting. When ready to use them again fill the cans to within }4 in. of the top and then pour melted paraffin in to fill them. Tie covers on of waxed paper and the contents will be preserved as well as in the patent can or glass jar. — L. Geumaine,

���-5TEEL PL^TES-^ A dove tail table hanger for a drawer to eliminate the sticking drawer slides

to the edge of the side-ends and protrud- ing about ' 2 in.

This way of suspending a drawer has many advantages. It is extremely simple

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