One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

by Harold Morse Dunphy

PLAN No. 826. WINDOW SCREENS

All outside doors and windows should be screened. It will be an economy to buy the screen doors. For both doors and windows use non-rustable screen wire.

A very cheap, convenient and easily made window screen is shown in [Fig. 23]. Any woman can make this screen fit any window. Often in old houses window frames have warped and it is hard to make screen frames fit the windows.

Fig. 23.—Window screen.

Heavy denim or jeans or any other heavy material, of dark color, is cut into strips 4 inches wide. This is sewed around the edge of the screen, leaving about 2 inches of the doubled material as strips for eyelets. Eyelets are worked across the top and down the side strips. Small tacks are driven in the lower casing of the top window and down the sides of the window frames. The eyelets in the window screen are fastened over the heads of the tacks and thus the screen is held in place. This screen can only be used when the upper window cannot be lowered and it can be removed easily when not needed.