** Bill File Made of Corkscrews [315]

An ordinary corkscrew makes a convenient file for small bills or memoranda.  It may be thrown in any position without danger of the papers slipping off.  A rack to hold a number of files can be made of a wood strip (Fig. 1) fitted with hooks or screw eyes cut in a hook shape, as shown in Fig. 2,

[Illustration:  Bill File]

Single bills may be separated from the others and will remain separated as in Fig. 3.  —­Contributed by James M. Kane, Doylestown, Pa.

** Ornamental Metal Inkstand [315]

The metal required for making this stand is 3/16 in. in width and may be

[Illustration:  Inkstand and Details of Frame]

steel, brass or copper.  The shaping is done as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.  There are, in all, eight pieces to be bent.  The two supports are each formed of one piece of metal with the exception that the end scroll pieces on the under side are made separately.  Eight rivets are required to fasten the two horizontal rings to the supports.  The glass receptacle can be purchased at a stationery store.

** Holding Eyeglasses Firm [315]

Persons who wear noseglasses and who are troubled with excessive perspiration, should chalk the sides of the bridge of the nose before putting on the glasses.  The latter will then never slip, even in the warmest weather.  If the chalk shows, use a pink stick, which can be purchased from any art school or supply store.

Substitute for Gummed Paper [315]

Gummed paper is a great convenience in the home especially for labels, but it is not always found among the household supplies.  The gummed portions of unsealed envelopes in which circulars are received can be utilized for this purpose.  Quite a large label may be made from these envelope flaps.

** Repairing a Broken Phonograph Spring [316]

As I live a great distance from a railroad station, I did not care to pay the price, and await the time necessary to deliver a new phonograph spring to replace one that broke in my machine, and I repaired the old one in a creditable manner as follows: 

I forced the two ends of the break out where I could get at them, then heated each end separately with a pair of red hot tongs and turned a hook or lap on them the same as the joints in knock-down stovepipes.  When the ends were hooked together, the spring worked as good as new.  The heated portion did not affect the strength of the spring.  —­Contributed by Marion P. Wheeler, Greenleaf, Oregon.

** Calls While You Are Out [316]

If you wish to know whether or not the door or telephone bell rings during your absence, place a little rider of paper or cardboard on the clapper in such a way that it will be dislodged if the bell rings.

** A Small Bench Lathe Made of Pipe Fittings [316]

The most important machine in use in the modern machine or wood-working shop is the lathe.  The uses to which this wonderful machine can be put would be too numerous to describe, but there is hardly a mechanical operation in which the turning lathe does not figure.  For this reason every amateur mechanic and wood-worker who has a workshop, no matter how small, is anxious to possess a lathe of some