. Carpenter. particularshelf panel is for certain pamphlets, an-other for catalogues, another for or more should be set aside for theuse of the family upon which may bestored from time to time the really beau-tiful and meritorious pictures, poems orother instructive matter which might beremoved from magazines or othersources. The children should have a shelfor two for their cut outs, their bird andnature pictures. Make it a cabinet notonly of last resort, but an ever-avail-able consulting point for every one, and 50 THE CARPEDTER when once installed, there will be nodoubt of its valu


. Carpenter. particularshelf panel is for certain pamphlets, an-other for catalogues, another for or more should be set aside for theuse of the family upon which may bestored from time to time the really beau-tiful and meritorious pictures, poems orother instructive matter which might beremoved from magazines or othersources. The children should have a shelfor two for their cut outs, their bird andnature pictures. Make it a cabinet notonly of last resort, but an ever-avail-able consulting point for every one, and 50 THE CARPEDTER when once installed, there will be nodoubt of its value to all.—Paul D. Otterin Building Age. Framing Hip Roofs Out of Square (By J. Barry, L. U. 509.)It has until recently been the universalcustom to set jack rafters parallel withside plates of building when irregular inshape or not square, as shown in are many good reasons why sucha custom is faulty. If you make thejack rafters on sides andj-ends of suchroofs meet together on hips, they will be. Fig. 1—Old Way. much nearer on one hip and much widerapart on the other than they are on sideof building (as shown in Fig. 1). Be-sides, the jack rafters will all be differ-ent lengths and bevels, and each one


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