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LAMBREQUIN'S, BASKETS, ETC. 
The illustrations on this page represent several beau¬ 
tiful household ornaments. The Lambrequin is con¬ 
structed by simply using a 
hoard of proper shape, and 
fastening thereon with glue 
acorns, leaves, nuts, shells, 
etc., which can be found in 
our forests ; or it can he con¬ 
structed of leather, in imita¬ 
tion of the natural. The lit¬ 
tle hanging corner Book-shelf 
is exceedingly simple to con¬ 
struct, its size being about fif¬ 
teen inches in diameter. The 
Flower-Basket is made of 
bamboo reeds, and prettily 
trimmed with cords and tassels. It is about twelve by 
eighteen inches in diameter, and sufficiently large to 
hold one large-sized flower-pot and plant. It makes 
a very simple, pretty and acceptable flower-pot stand 
for a parlor centre table, or in the window. 
Even as I write, I see about me some pretty things 
which I have never yet seen mentioned, and will try to 
describe some of them in return for the direction and 
help received from others. 
Wall Pocket. 
A dainty little wall pocket may be made from cigar- 
HINTS AND HELPS. 
The Cabinet, as it comes to us from month to 
month, is always a welcome visitor, and so great is 
the variety and excellence of its contents, that it some¬ 
times seems as if every possible thing of beauty or ob¬ 
ject of household art, within its province, had been 
already described in its pages. But each new number, 
rich in suggestion and helpful hints, reassures its 
Lambrequin. 
lighters. Take twenty-four slips, using the uncolored 
kind, and interweave them basket-fashion to form a 
square; make another square like the first and fasten 
each of three corners of the second square to the mid¬ 
dle of a side of the first, respectively. This will cause 
the second square to round outward somewhat, form¬ 
ing a pocket, of which the first or fiat square is the 
back. One or two trials will show you exactly how 
to arrange them. Now pass two additional slips 
through openings in each of the upper corners of the 
hack piece, and interweave the other ends of these 
four slips to form a pointed top like the tops of the 
photograph frames made of the cigar-lighters. Make 
a tiny bouquet of feather-grass and sew it upon the 
upper corner of the pocket, concealing the ends of the 
dried grass-stems, which should come 
down to the middle under a little oval 
picture or a scarlet rosette tacked on 
with a few stitches. Put little hows of 
scarlet satin ribbon on each corner of 
the back piece and one at the top where 
the strips cross, by which the wall 
pocket is suspended. 
A Court-Plaster Case 
Is an acceptable Christmas gift to 
most any one, and even little fingers 
can readily make them. Two pieces of 
perforated card, each two and one-half 
by three and one-half inches in size, are 
to he bound with narrow scarlet, blue or 
green ribbon. In the centre of one; 
work an initial, on the other the words’ 
“ I heal all wounds, save those of love.” 
Cut four pieces of court-plaster of dif¬ 
ferent color three-quarters of an inch 
smaller each way than the outei - pieces 
and place them between two pieces of 
Bristol board of the same size. Sew the 
covers together, leaving them open at 
one end. Make two holes through the 
remaining piece, near one end, and pass through these 
a piece of ribbon, tying the ends in a bow. Insert 
between the covers the bow at the top, and hang up 
by a strap of ribbon. 
A Paper-Holder 
Well adapted for holding pamphlets and magazines, 
may be readily constructed out of stiff pasteboard, 
bleached muslin and a roll of scarlet dress-braid. Cut 
out from the card-board, two pieces, one for the back 
twelve inches wide, twenty inches high in the middle, 
and sloping in deep> curves to 
the sides, where it is but 
thirteen and one-half inches 
in height; the bottom is also 
cut in four scallops, and an 
inch and a half above; then 
draw a line across where the 
bottom of the pocket is to 
come; the pocket is twelve 
inches square. Lay these 
pieces on the muslin, and 
mark around them with a 
pencil, but do not cut away 
the margin until the orna¬ 
mentation is applied. Arrange on the front piece a 
bouquet of ferns, mountain fringe—Adluinea—and 
yarrow leaves; surround this with a light wreath of 
partridge-vine and wild clivers, and place in each 
corner a small, pretty leaf. For the back, place a 
bouquet of tiny leaves in the upper point; a gera¬ 
nium leaf in each of the lower points, and a small rose 
leaf in each of the two still below; in the middle, ar¬ 
range an initial of the smallest fern fronds. When 
all is arranged and securely fastened, spatter with a 
brush dipped in India ink and rubbed over a sieve. 
Afterward, with a brush, delicately vein each leaf. A 
delicate line of fern fronds is arranged across the bot¬ 
tom of the back piece before spattering. Apply the 
muslin to the cardboard and bind each piece with 
scarlet braid. Stitch the front to the back firmly, on 
the line previously drawn, and lace the pocket to the 
back piece with braid or scarlet cord. 
Pretty Baskets 
Can be made of cigar-lighters, interweaving them 
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