TIIE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
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silver, or a combination of gold and green, crimson, 
brown or orange, and the different shades can be used 
with pretty effect in one design. 
The ends and front of the piano cover should be 
trimmed with worsted tassels of different shades, with 
a netting of gold thread over the top of the tassel. This 
makes a very pretty trimming for the edge. 
The design for darned work is for the end of a pongee 
table scarf, and is intended only as a band or border; 
therefore, a row of herring-bone stitching with ecru 
filoselle at the top and bottom of the design gives a good 
finish. The darning, whicli has already been described 
fora tidy in the October number of the Cabinet, is also 
done with the same filoselle. The Eoses are outlined 
with pink embroidery silk, and the stamens marked 
with yellow, the leaves and stems with light and dark 
shades of green silk. 
The design for drawn work is pretty as a finish to the 
table scarf, or can )e used without other decoration for 
a tidy, for which it is well adapted, as the effect is quite 
lace-like when a fine material is used. 
M. E. Whittemore. 
Chamois Vests. 
The little vests of chamois-skin so much desired for 
wearing underneath tight-fitting wraps during very 
cold weather are easily made at home. Select a couple 
of skins that are thin, yet firm enough not to be easily 
stretched out of shape; cut it out by a perfectly-fitting 
waist pattern; let it extend about two inches below the 
waist-line, and allow one inch on each front for the lap, 
but do not allow anything for seams, as it should be 
neatly joined together with yellow silk in an overhand 
seam. 
Around the outer edge, embroider in point russe 
stitches with colored silks, and fasten the front with 
button-holes and little fiat gilt buttons, and you will 
have a dainty little protector that will ward off all cold 
blasts as surely as though you wore a coat of fur. If it 
is to be worn beneath a garment that is at times loosened 
and thrown back, or one having a woolen lining, it 
should be covered with black silk before being joined 
together; use black silk for the over-handing; hem 
over the outer edges, and embroider. F. 
