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ory of delicious firnits. For a gentieman's handJierchief^ nothing can be in 

 better taste than hia initiAla wrought in anch becoming drapery. And so 

 through the whole alphabet vou can weave something synonymous from 

 nature about each letter. Such work flavors of botany, which is a science 

 everybody should srady. Aside from its being a moat delightful study in 

 itself, it ia the key to a marvelous world of infinite and ever- varying delights; 

 it keeps you from going through life witii your eyes blinded; it tends to 

 make you gentle, large-hearted and thankful. These forms will, or ought 

 to, stimulate your pencil for drawing. Drawing cultivates your eye as noth- 

 ing else will. It educates your hand; it civilizes you generally. Make a 

 sketch of anything, and it will ever after possess a new interest. You tread 

 on a thousand forms of v^eta- 

 tion every day.- Can you make 

 a drawing of one? The fine 

 drawing we give would be a 

 nice design for a center of a 

 pillow sham. 



Persian Ragt 3Iat<{<> «t 

 Home. — It is easy enough after 

 you once know how, and, for 

 that matter, so ia everything 

 you unflertake. To make a rug 

 you will need plenty of perse- 

 verance, for it is a large con- 

 tract to make one of ordinary 

 size; but it is very pretty work, 

 and can be done with ease by 

 even those ladies whose failing 

 eyesight compels them to give 

 up the variotis fascinating forms 

 of fancy work, which are too 

 apt to prove a tax to the best of 

 eyes. 



Purchase from come carpet 

 dealer a supply of scraps of 

 tapestry Brussels carpeting; 

 pieces that are too small to be 

 worked up into hassocks are '^^- 3.— nnriAL letttb. 



quite large enough for the puri>oee. Cut thoBo into strips of any length 

 their aize allows; but let them be of uniform width, say three inches. Ravel 

 these all out, reji-cting the linen, and collecting in a box the little crimped 

 worsted threatls. Then provide yourself with a pair of the largest-sized 

 steel knitting-needles, and a ball of the coarsest crochet cotton, either white 

 or colored. Set on ten sdtchcs, and after knitting a row or two to make a 

 firm beginning, go on ns if yoa were making a garter, but with every other 

 stitch lay a thread of the crimp«d wo >1 across the needles. After knitting the 

 stitch, take the end of wool which shows npon the \»-rong side, and turn it 

 toward the right side, knitting a stitch above to secure it. Then pnt in 

 another thread of wool and repeat the process. The back of the strips should 

 have something tlie appearance of that of a body Brtissels carpet, while the 

 front shonld l>e li'ic a sort of thick, long napped phisli. The colore may l>e 

 Bsei without selection, making a sort of ditnv tfftct; or carptta m;ty bo 



