Resourceful

There is really nothing the American girl cau't do wheu ahe tries. For instance, a oouple of clever Washington girls have actuully made themselves a piano lamp. They have wit, they have the best of breeding, bnt they haven't money. A ready made piano lamp was beyond them, so they set to work to manufacture one. First they took three broomsticks and tied thein ■ together tripod fasliion. These they wrapped lightly v.'ith coarse cord and fastened a flowerpot at the top. The whole was covered with innumerable coats of black enamel paint, and when an old brass lamp was fitted into the pot, with an overgrown shade to top off with.. yoti'd have said the lamp was the latest thing in vroiight iron. It sonnds like a story out of a woman's magazine, bilt it isn't. It's