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TITS ROUSEBOLD. 



OUonian — Materials: Wine and canary-colored cloth, licavy cord and 

 tasHela. Make a cushion of ticking a foot square, All it tightly with curled 



hair, then make a case of 

 the wine-colored cloth, 

 and in the seam round 

 the edge of the case full 

 in one edge of the piece 

 to form the puff, then turn 

 it up, and turn in the 

 upper edge and box-plait 

 it, and sew firmly on the 

 top of the case, leaving a 

 space in the center nine 

 incheH square. Cut of the 

 Ught cloth a piece for the 

 center like the design, 

 and braid it •with gilt, 

 OTTOMAiT. ^^^-i hlue, and black 



braids, having the edge 

 of the star pinked. Fasten it to the cushion in each point with a large bead, 

 and finish each corner with a tassel. Draw the cord round the ottoman 

 firmly, and tic in a knot, leaving a loop in the center to lift it by. 



Tollot or Work Busliet. — Use black, polished, round wooden or bamboo 

 rods, an inch in circumference, 

 two thin plates of wood four 

 inches long and two and three- 

 fifths inclics wide, white satin, 

 green veloure, shaded green, 

 pinlc, purple, and brown twist 

 silk, fine gold cord, green silk 

 ribbon one-fifth of an inch wide, 

 four white Venetian beads, four 

 bronze rings, stout cardboard, 

 small steel tacks, white sowing 

 silk. 



The frame of our model is 

 constructed of four pillar-like 

 rods, each eight inches long, and 

 holding between them two 

 boxes, each consisting of fight 

 wooden or bamboo rods, and a 

 thin wood bottom four inches 

 long, and two and throe-fifths 

 inches wide. The lower box, 

 which is one and four-lifths 

 inches high, requires four rods 

 five and three-fifths inches long, 

 and four rods four and one-fifth 



inches long. Tlie upper box, wl icli is two and one-fifth inches lii^h, is of 

 exactly the same size at the bottom, while for the top, wliieli curves out- 

 ward, the two long rods must bo each six inches long, while the cross roda 

 require a length of five and ono-fiftU inchee. Small steel tacka connect the 



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