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In-doors And Out

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho devico shown in our Ulustration is one which will be readily appreciated by evory housewifo who has a cellar. A aeverending and wcarisoma part of houoebold work consista of írequent visits to the cellar, where so many ameles of daily uso are necessarily stored. It is to obvíate a large part of this labor that the present arrangement is designed by Mrs. David Tudor, Cambria County, Fa., who furnished the sketch from which our engraving was made. It consista of four shelves firmly attached to side-pioees, and inovinf; freely in a sort of boxing which extends from tho bottom of the cellar to the ceilin; of the kitchen or dinhift-room on the floor above. The shelves are of inch boards, each threo feet long and fourteen inches wido. The side-pieces are each four fect long, and ot the same width and thickness as tho shelves. The upper and second spaces between the shelves are each fourteen iaohcj i tn the clear, and the lower eighteen incoes. The back of the"dumb-waiter" isof dressed I and matched boards thrce-quartcrs of an inch thiclr, nailed on vcrtieally. The boxiug or upright slide in which the vrholo is enclosed is also made of motehed lumber, surfaced on both 8ldes. The front above the flrst floor is protected by doors. which may be made cheaply, as shown in the cngraving, or, if dosired, may be paneled. The latter would bo preferablo íor a diningroom. The movable waitcr is suspended by cords, one oncach sido running over pulleys near the top of the boxing. Counter weights are suspended to the other ends of these cords. The two weights should be a little heavier than the shelving. In our engraving the lower part representa the cellar bottom; the dotted transverso lines show the place of the floor and floor-beams above. The counterwelghts are hidden by the doors. The entire cost of materials need not exceed two dollars, and the devlce could be constructed by any man of average mechanical ski 1 1. - American Agrtculturis t.

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Ann Arbor Democrat