LADIEU* FAKCT WOnS. 956 



A l^esson in Docoratinsf. — Choose a plain, smooth, red-clay flo\rer-pot. 

 Ifit is rather stnpid-lookmg all the better. With fonr bos of water-color 

 painte, lay broad bands of dull blue aroond top and bottom. If you prefer, 

 von can i>aint the intervening strip black, instead of leaving it red, and the 

 bands may be divided by a narrow line of yellow. Now yon are ready for 

 the pictures. If you possess some sheets of little scrap-chromoe, you wUl 

 soon be rid of your task. Select some very odd, grotesque ones, that will 

 surprise each other as much as possible — a huge butterfly, tiny Madonna, 

 reptiles, sprays, zebras, and the like. Paste them on in the most disorderly 

 order you can imagine, and your work is complete. Another method is to 

 cut from picture papers a quantity of small designs, being carefiil to trim 

 them very neatly. Taint these all black, and lay on a dull red or blue 

 ground. Wliichever plan yon choose, be careful and not decorate too pro- 

 fusely, as that would Ik; quite unUke the Japanese, while it would hint most 

 strikingly of a merrj-, mischievous littlo girL 



Fancjr.Card Basket.— The foundation of this basket is of wire, and it 

 is lined with quilted satin. The drapes are of cloth pinked at the edges and 

 embroidered with silk. 



FAXCT CAKD BASXXT. 



Antique I.aee. — Cast on fifteen stitches. 



1. Knit three, over, narrow, knit three, over, knit one, over, knit six. 



2. Knit six, over, knit three, over, narrow, knit three, over, narrow, knit 

 one. 



3. Knit three, over, narrow, narrow again, over, knit five, over, knit six. 



4. Cast off four, knit one, over, narrow, knit three, narrow, over, narrow, 

 knit one, over, narrow, knit one. 



5. Knit throe, over, narrow, knit one, over, narrow, knit one, narrow, 

 over, knit three. 



6. Kuit three, over, knit one, over, slip two, knit one, pass the slipped 

 stitches over the knitted one, over, knit fonr, over, narrow, knit one, begin 

 again from the first row. 



Hov to Make a Sriven. — Tlie accompanying illustration is that of a 

 beautiful but exj)ensive screen, which, h:>wevcr, may serve as a guide in the 

 making of a much cheaper one. Tlie frame-work of this is of carved wood, 

 the screen itself of embroidered silk, covered with sheer white mtulin, with 



