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attentive to the cleanliness of all the 
bird's surroundings during the breeding 
season, remembering that the food must 
be nourishing. When a hen gets delicate 
it will be judicious to give her a month's 
rest and a 1 onic. 
The temi)erature of the apartment 
where your breeding-cage is placed 
should be only moderately high, and it 
should be equable. Never keep birds in 
a room tbat is heated by gas, or those 
terrible abominations called petroleum 
stoves. 
The less luxuriously canaries are fed in 
ordinary times — when not breeding — the 
better. Birds of this kind, if kept clean 
and nice, thrive best on simply what are 
called the white-and-black canary-seeds. 
See that they are good and fresh, and free 
from dust. You may let them have a 
tiny morsel of loaf-sugar, but the fewer 
delicacies the better. Be careful to wash 
out the glass every morning before you 
place the fresh water in it, and let the 
bird have a saucer bath every day if it be 
so minded. 
Green food should not be forgotten, but 
always give it fresh. Groundsel and 
chick weed are probably the best. 
(To he Continued.) 
Amateur Carving. 
AST month we gave several ex- 
fimples of ama teur carving, exe- 
cuted by some of the students 
in the Cincinnati School of De- 
sign, under the superintendence of Mr. 
Ben. Pitman. This month we exhibit 
two other examples executed by students 
in the same school. The examples shown 
are simply surface carvings, and are suit- 
able for base-boards, skirtings, or any 
flat members. The designs are easy to 
execute, and may be wrought in pine, 
cherry, oak, walnut^ or otiier suitable 
wood. 
Fig. 1 shows a flower pattern conven- 
tionally treated. If handled with bold- 
ness, this design makes a very effective 
baseboard, and if finished as described 
m our last nimiber, would be as pretty as 
effective. 
Fig. 2 is equally adapted for baseboards, 
mantel friezes, or window cornices. It is 
easier to execute than Fig. 1, and there- 
fore more likely to be adopted by the 
amateur. Care should be taken on the 
straight lines, for nothing spoils carved 
work more than broken straight lines or 
ragged edges. 
Figs. 3 and 4 show two designs of 
ciirvings iu Moresque style, which is be- 
coming very popular just now. The 
Mahometan religion forbade ornament, 
and hence- we seldom, if ever, find the 
slightest effort at natural carving in 
Moorish architecture or fnrnjture. This, 
at first thought, would seera to indicate 
