A Boy's Workshop: With plans and designs for in-door and out-door work

After the shelf is fitted into its place in the cabinet, you will find that at one end you have a convenient little tray to hold such things as chalk-line, rule, pencils, and ot...

You will have two pieces twenty-three inches long and six inches wide; these are the two end braces. Lay one of these pieces across the legs you have just joined, at the closed...

First set up the centre poles and ridgepole, placing the latter on top of the former, and sliding the iron pins down through the eyes. (_Fig. 3._) Then place in position the _re...

The directions for finding the angles might be given mathematically, so that you could get them for yourself with a little figuring, but it will be easier practically to find th...

To finish the smoke stack, and make it look like the newest fashion in American engines, you must nail on to the top, with brads, a round piece of wood, a quarter of an inch thi...

It may be constructed of nicely-selected pine, for this is easily obtained, is cheap, and any little mistake will not entail too much expense if the work has to be done again, a...

While there are several instruments in the market with which the negative can be taken, most of them are so costly as to be beyond the reach of a boy or a girl with a limited su...

I. =The Reading Union Library=, a series prepared for the Chautauqua Young Folks’ Reading Union, $1.00 volume, fully illustrated; four volumes now ready, others in preparation:...

(the strength being strength of purpose) also a good head for planning, and a memory, it turned out that the chessmen fancy proved a good thing. Nothing outside of good, hard, s...