LADIES' FAN(;Y work. 



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A Honie-9I<ule Hassock. — Hassocks, or footstools, are corvenient Tor 

 many parpoeca. Well, let me tell you how easily you cau make one out ot 

 articles that one considers only lumber, and are often at a loss to know what 

 to do with. Take seven tin fruit cans, put one in the middle, and the other 

 six around it; draw around this a band of unbleached muslin and fasten it 

 so as to keep them firmly in place; set them on a piece of paper and out & 

 pattern of the bottom, which then cut in heavy pasteboard. Cover this with 

 ^ray paper muslin for the bottom, as it slips better than anytliing ebse. Cut 

 jut of cretonne a aiuiilar-shaped piece for tiio top, also a baud to fit the 



fujujw sham. 



aides; cord the top piece around the edge, and so-v on the band. SttifT U»e 

 cans with hay or excelsior, and let it be good and tb^ck on top of the cans, 

 also, as it will pack in a Uttle while. Draw your cretonne over it, and sew 

 firmly to the bottom, and you have your hassock to use on the porch iu 

 summer, or as a footstool before the fire. It ia strong as well as very light, 

 and can be moved easily with the foot. 



PlUo%v SHam—Made of linen. The edges cut out like design, turned 

 in and basted, then the livce overhanded on, making sure to have it full 

 enough on the points; cut a long buttonhole in the end of each point, and 

 run colored ribbons through. It is easily made and the effect is rerj 

 pretty. 



