THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
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board tliree circular pieces two inches in diameter with a 
piece one inch and a-quarter long and three-eighths of an 
inch wide, projecting from one side for the handle. Cover 
two of the card-boards with blue velvet for the outsides, 
and line one of them with silk of the same color as the 
velvet; also cover one side of the third piece of card¬ 
board with the same silk, and placing a layer of cotton 
smoothly between, blindstitch this piece firmly to the 
one covered only with velvet. Cut from white cashmere 
two smaller circular pieces to hold the needles; button¬ 
hole the edge of each piece with blue silk and fasten 
them on the inside of one of the covers. Sew the circular 
part of the covers together three-eighths of an inch, at a 
point just opposite the handle, to serve as hinge, and 
tie around the handles when closed a tiny ribbon bow. 
A worn-out emery can be so renewed by covering it 
with brown cashmere and gluing it securely in a gilded 
.acorn cup as to be more attractive than it was perhaps 
originally. C. 
Floral Note Paper. 
The following suggestions for decorating note paper 
are so good that we copy them from an Exchange for 
the benefit of our readers. 
“Collect from the heaths and hedgerows any smal 
flowers, mosses, ferns, grasses of a suitable kind, and 
dry them in books with a little pressure. The yellow 
flowers keep their colors best, but all kinds of flowers, 
if small, and of such form as to submit to be flattened 
without injury, will serve the purpose, and many kinds 
of leaves are as suitable as flowers. The garden will 
supply its share of subjects, but the wild stuff is always 
preferable, and the interest is augmented when the 
papers represent the beauties of some particular place, 
A fair artist in this kind of work traveled much and took 
with her a little pot of gum wherewith to prepare note 
papers for her letters to friends, and she would often add 
aliappy word, writing beneath the flowers ‘Sunshinefrom 
Ben Nevis,’or ‘A garland from Plinlimmon,’etc. 
In mounting them it is sufficient generally to touch 
the dried flowers with a little clear gum, but sometimes 
the botanists’ method is best. It consists in fixing the 
flowers with tiny slips of paper laid across here and there 
The delight of friends in reading letters written on papers 
prepared in this way need not here be enlarged upon.” 
AUTUMN FASHIONS IN HATS AND BONNETS. 
Plain felts in dark colors are imported in large quan¬ 
tities for fall and early winter wear. Round hats are 
similar in shape to those worn during summer, with 
rather high square crown and narrow brims which may 
be rolled on all sides except the back, or else be slightly 
wider on one side and rolled; but in all the styles, the 
brim is narrow in the back. The trimming universally 
consists in a cluster of small pointed wings, or pompons 
of breast feathers with an aigrette or head in the 
centre, placed directly in front, with sometimes a few 
loops or twists of velvet to relieve the stiffness, a plain 
or folded velvet band around the crown, and the brim 
faced. 
When the velvet is draped about the crown, it is 
sometimes lightened up with tiny cut steel or gilt beads 
sewed on about an inch apart, and the effect is especially 
pretty when black velvet is thus ornamented with steel 
and combined with gray pompons on a black hat. Long 
ostrich feathers are not often seen, and tips even 
have been largely superseded by the plumage of small 
birds, which is used in profusion often constituting the 
only trimming. 
The new feature in bonnets is the pointed front, seen 
alike in the capote as well as the poke shapes, and it is 
given prominence by clustering most of the trimming 
tipon it. Velvet is chosen for dress bonnets, and felt 
for general use. New felts have the lower edge of the 
crown cut out in a curve to admit the hair. They are 
trimmed with a cluster of ribbon-velvet loops made 
to stand upright, resembling small wings, and placed 
on the top. A bird’s head or wings may be mingled 
with the loops, or a cluster of feathers, wings 
and breast-plumes arranged together will take the place 
of the velvet loops. The edge of the bonnet is usually 
puffed with the velvet or finished with graceful folds. 
Strings of medium width velvet ribbon are crossed at 
the back of the crown, fastened on each side by a small 
fancy pin, and extend just far enough to tie in small 
double bow with short ends beneath the chin. If wide 
velvet is used, they are then made two yards long. 
Crowns to dress bonnets are made of very fanciful 
materials; some are a network of gold cord over satin, 
others are of velvet with figures embroidered all over 
them, and outlined with silver or gilt thread. The 
ornamentation sometimes extends over all the material 
used for the bonnet, and m such cases a single piece of 
velvet covers the entire frame and is arranged in irreg¬ 
ular loose folds, and then puffed over the brim or else 
tacked down at intervals, leaving the embroidered fig¬ 
ures in relief in the spaces between the tacking. 
A handsome white bonnet was entirely covered with 
velvet leaves overlapping each other, the only trimming- 
consisting of a bunch of white and gilt skeleton-like 
leaves and seed-pods placed directly on the top. 
Scarlet as well as the dull reds is conspicuous among 
general trimmings; some bonnets even are made of 
scarlet velvet ornamented with jet, and having black 
velvet trimmings and dull reds all combined with smoke 
grays. Brighter greens are worn than formerly, and a 
bonnet of dark myrtle green has its arched brim nearly 
covered inside with fine pipings of red velvet. Such 
combinations however, are in marked contrast to the 
modest colors so long worn, and doubtless will not 
readily become very popular. 
Hats for children are shown in quaint shapes, but the 
modification of the Mother Hubbard pokes will be most 
used, as they make so picturesque a framing to little 
faces, that they must continue to retain their popularity. 
Bright colors are generally chosen, the crowns puffed, 
the brim corded and the facing shirred to form a ruffle 
on the edge, with ruche of lace inside. Short curly 
tips and fluffy bows are the only trimming, and are 
placedas on bonnets for grown people, directly in front. 
Cap bonnets for small children are of lace ruffles, or else 
heavy open lace over satin with rosettes across the top 
and strings the color of the satin lining. 
