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Show When Ingenuity Takes Place of Money. The girl had no writing desk in her room and no money to buy the exquisite ex-quisite mahogany one for which she yearned. But she had Ingenuity and she had determination and she madee up her mind that somehow she- : must repair this lack. She did. so , by buying a kitchen tabley a Bmall one, for the large sum of 9& cents. She painted the legs of this white, covered the top of It with green denim,- placed a fascinating blotter framed in; cretonne and some pretty brass desk things on it and the desk, was finished. Then she had two boot shelves fastened on the wall above it- .--On these she placed a bronze bust ot Dante and some of her favorite volumes, vol-umes, and lo, at a trifling expense had made a ! very pretty and convenient corner for her dea. . |