The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . ight outside of the room, anddoes away with the heat caused by having a lamp within,where you are working. First, cut a ten-by-twelve-inch window opening inthe partition on a level with the top of the make a frame a little larger than this opening andeither set a piece of ruby or orange glass in it, or pastea sheet of ruby or orange paper over it. Build a trackabove and below the opening for the frame to slide in,doing the work neatly, so there will be no possibility oflight leaking through. The light,
The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . ight outside of the room, anddoes away with the heat caused by having a lamp within,where you are working. First, cut a ten-by-twelve-inch window opening inthe partition on a level with the top of the make a frame a little larger than this opening andeither set a piece of ruby or orange glass in it, or pastea sheet of ruby or orange paper over it. Build a trackabove and below the opening for the frame to slide in,doing the work neatly, so there will be no possibility oflight leaking through. The light, which may be a candle or lamp, should standupon a shelf supported upon a bracket outside of thewindow. It is convenient to have the window slide, asit enables you to open it and have white light to workby when a ruby light is not necessary. This window furnishes light for developing, whichwill be done upon the table, but none for the shelf below,where the sink is located and where the fixing trayshould be kept (that there will be no danger of getting A BOYS DARK-ROOM 163. Powder-\an. hypo into the developer). In order to have light forthis shelf, you had better follow the scheme shown inFig. 170. Cut an opening four by six inches in thework-table directly in front of the window, and makea half-inch rabbet around itsupper edge to receive a five-by-seven camera plate (seeFig. 170). If it is not possible to haveoutside light for the darkroom, A Home-made Lantern, suchas is illustrated in Fig. 176,will be found very is made out of a wooden boxabout ten by ten by twelveinches. Cut two openingssix inches square in two sidesof the box and cover one withone sheet and the other withtwo sheets of orange or redpaper, spreading paste overthe entire surface of the paperto make it stretch tightly overthe openings as it dries. The orange and red wrappersof some makes of printing papers and developing pow-ders can be used for the covering of these openings. For a chimney, proc
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