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only tlie extreme points. Make a foundation of card 
below the steps and cover with green moss. Cluster 
grasses, immortelle flowers, pretty leaves, shells, etc., 
A PRETTY WASH-STAND. 
This pretty wash-stand will certainly excite the 
admiration of all who see it, and create, no doubt, the 
desire to make a fac-simile, which we are glad to say 
may be easily done. First, it will be perceived that 
the table fits snugly in the corner, which is a great 
advantage where room is an object; a triangular box, 
or case, made of a section of a common packing-box, 
will answer, and should be two feet on the sides, and 
two feet three inches in height, rounding out ou the 
top and bottom, in a gradual curve, two inches deeper 
at the centre. 
Square blocks, two inches square, of u inch stuff,” 
are nailed under the lower corner, on 
which casters are fastened. On the up¬ 
per sides are fastened two pieces of hoard, 
eight inches high at the front, and curved 
gradually toward the hack, where they 
unite in a point, two feet high. This 
may he sawed out tastefully with the fret 
saw, and carefully carved with tools, or 
merely sawed out in scrolls on the top 
and embellished with painting, etc. 
Against the hack are fastened two nar¬ 
row shelves, supported by brackets (the 
small ornamented iron ones answer well, 
and appear extremely tasteful if of good 
design), or three single brackets of carved 
wood, a corner one high against the cor¬ 
ner, and one ou each side, lower down, 
and placed flat against the sides. These 
are to accommodate the various articles 
required on such a stand, the soap and 
tooth-brush cases, the mug, and water 
decanter, etc. The insides of the lower 
part is fitted with a shelf for the slop- 
pail, shoe-hruslies, etc. Six feet above 
the corner of the hack, a little corner 
bracket is conveniently arranged so as to 
hold a vase of flowers, statuette, or other 
suitable ornament, and is fourteen inches 
deep on the sides, extending out about 
an inch and a half in a rounded form on 
the front. 
The wood-work of the stand is stained, 
and embellished to suit the furniture of 
the room, and the top covered with a 
brown ornamented oil-cloth, a lambre¬ 
quin of which is arranged to hang down 
one foot below the edge, and is cut out 
in a design figure, under which is laid 
oil-cloth of huff or other contrasting 
colors, and the points hound with brown 
or huff worsted braid. 
The hangings of Swiss muslin are to 
he lined and trimmed to correspond with 
the style of furniture. 
Mrs. C. S. Jones. 
A Moss-Cross and Flowers. 
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MOSS-CROSS AND FLOWERS. 
Line a recess with white velveteen. 
Cut a wooden or card cross with three 
steps, using care to make the steps of 
size suitable to depth of case. Fasten on 
the back of recess, and cover with the 
stiff white moss found on rocks, and clus¬ 
ters of the sealing-wax moss ; if none of the latter can 
he procured, dip pieces of the white moss in scarlet 
sealing-wax, dissolved in boiling alcohol, touching 
A Pretty Wash-Stand. 
fences, with ferns that have been piessed ; cluster 
flowers and grasses, at the back, upon the steps; and 
form a vine of tendrils, stems of ferns, bright green 
leaves and tiny berries or flowers; let it fall in thick 
sprays from one arm, and cluster thickly upon the 
top and other arm ; doc various pretty shells among 
the moss over the entire cross, and touching with 
mucilage, dust with diamond powder. Frame in a 
rustic frame of black walnut inlaid with white wood. 
Mrs. 0 . S. .Tones. 
SEAWEED FLOWERS. 
A new species of artificial flowers has become fash¬ 
ionable in England—Seaweed flowers. We find the 
following reference to this new industry in an English 
journal devoted to fashion, and which amongst other 
things informs its readers that Seaweed 
flowers are patronized by the Queen. 
Flower making occupies large numbers 
of women, girls, and hoys. Deft and 
subtle fingers cut out and fasten, paint, 
and wire the hits of muslin and silk which 
are to imitate the pride of the garden or 
the glory of the hedgerow. 
It is our purpose at present to intro¬ 
duce to our readers a new species of arti¬ 
ficial flowers. These flowers are said not 
to spoil either by wind, or sun, or rain, 
and they are not so dear as the ordinary 
artificial flowers. We are all perfectly 
acquainted with the hunches of seaweed 
which visitors bring hack with them as 
seaside trophies. They are gummed 
against a piece'of white bristol hoard in 
various more or less fantastic devices, 
and underneath the trophy is written : — 
Call us not weeds— 
We are but flowers of the sea. 
Anything more unlike flowers can 
hardly well exist; hut the seaweed 
flowers we are now speaking of are as 
different from these weeds as possible. 
They are brilliant in color, they are ele¬ 
gant in form, they are artistically ar¬ 
ranged, and are really “ things of beauty." 
A great deal has been said of late 
about the reckless destruction of life 
which follows the adoption by women of 
certain fashions, such as the wearing of 
bright colored plumage of birds. Lady 
Burdett Coutts has urged this as a reason 
why some women should find some new 
adornment other than the feathers whose 
metallic gloss is so exquisite. 
Here is a new adornment—newer than 
birds’ wings, newer than even the heads 
of birds, capable, too, of rendering colors 
as bright as the brightest on a bird’s or 
insect’s wing, while at the same time tire 
half tints so dear to the eyes of the fash¬ 
ionable world can he rendered in their 
most exquisite shades. Can anything he 
conceived more appropriate for the trim¬ 
ming of a dress of a sea nymph at a fancy 
hall than seaweeds themselves ? But it 
is not only for such special use as this 
that the new seaweed flowers are elegant 
and suitable ; they are mounted ns flow¬ 
ers for the hair, for bonnets, for tiiin- 
upon this, and let a few droop carelessly upon the 1 mings of dresses, for ornaments for the dinner tables, 
steps, and form a background of the light green and j for banner-screens, and for ornaments to take the 
silvery mosses and lichens found upon old trees and i pkee of the standard wax flowers. 
