LADIES' FAXCY WORK. 



"Work Table Cover, — Thia cover if of fawn-colored cloth, ornamented 

 elaborately on the euda in application embroidery. The design fignres, 

 which look dark in the UloBtration, are applied in broken cloth; on the mid- 

 dle of each leaf 

 ofthe large mid- 

 dle application 

 figure apply a 

 piece of dark- 

 brown velvet. 

 Edge all the ap- 

 plied figures 

 with fawn-col- 

 ored soutache, 

 and ornament 

 the pieces of vel- 

 vet besides in 

 point Kusse em', 

 broidery with 

 fawn colored 

 saddlers' silk. 

 For the lines of 

 the design sew 

 on brown sou- 

 tache in two 

 shades. The 

 cover is bor- 

 dered with light 

 brown open silk 

 fringe an inch 

 a n d a quarter 

 wide. Brown 

 percale lining. 



Imitation 

 Coral Hang- 

 ing Baskets. — 



Take old hoops 

 with the cover- 

 ing on; bend and tie in any shape desired; tie with >Trapinug- twine, with 

 ends of the twine left one-fourth of an inch long; cover the basket when 

 formed with knots or ties about one inch apart all over the basket. Then 

 take one half pound of beeswax, melt it in a shallow pan, stir in enough 

 Japanese vermilion to get the color you wisb, then roll the basket in the 

 melted wax until it is covered completely. We have one made in thia way, 

 that has hung exjKwed to the weather for two years, and is still as good aa new. 



WORK TABIJB COVES. 



