MAKING STANDS. 
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various colors. A piece of looking-glass may be 
used to imitate water ; and ducks from which the 
lower portions have been cut away may be placed 
on this with a good effect. A very good stand 
may be made by simply winding a wire with 
cotton and painting the cotton. The cotton can 
be made into a species of papier-mache by soaking 
it in flour-paste. Rock work is made of either 
papier-mache, cork, blocks of wood, or pieces of 
turf painted and sanded, or by pasting stout paper 
over pieces of wood, and the whole structure 
painted and sanded. If papier-mache be used the 
effect may be heightened by sticking in pieces of 
quartz or other rock. Natural stumps, branches, 
etc., may be manufactured into stands or cases to 
advantage ; in short, with the aid of papier-mache, 
glue, moss, grasses, smalt, etc., nature may be 
imitated in a variety of ways. 
