SIMPLE SUBSTITUTES
Umbrella-stands are- such, unlovely! things as a rule that people of taste are devising all kinds, of substitutes of more artistic merit. . ■ •■ A tall pottery or porcelain jar forms a good home for the sticks and ur- | brellas, but such jars are highly priced and therefore beyond the. means of many women. Just as decov&tive and considerably less expensive, however, aro tall brass cans, • which are wide enough to take the sticks and umbrellas of an entire family. The cans are often made more decorative by/the'addition of copper bands. A pieco of old oak panelling can be made into a splendid stand for umbrellas by screwing a tow of metal clips along tho top to take the handles. Screw a little shallow zinc tray to the base to collect tho "drips" on wet. tlays, calculating the distance between clips and tray so that tho- ferrules may just rest within tho latter. Some folk favour the horizontal rather than the vertical method of ranging tho umbrellas, since the risk of sticking oue ferrule through the silk of another umbrella is thus ruled out. Two upright lathes of wood are fitted with largo hooks of worked and embossed brass, so that the handles and ends of the "brollies" can rest upon them. Damp umbrellas must be dried off, of course, before being put away oil a rack of this sort. This is.the chief drawback to tho method.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 13
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237SIMPLE SUBSTITUTES Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 13
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