HOME DECORATIONS. 
Portfolio for Writing-Paper. 
A PIECE of light pasteboard ten*'inches deep and fif¬ 
teen wide should be used for the foundation. Make 
a fold in the centre so that the two leaves will each present 
a surface ten inches deep by seven and one-half wide, 
cover the outside with deep wine-colored velvet or satin, 
and the inside with olive-green silk, and join the edges of 
the two materials as neatly as possible. A sheet of white 
blotting-paper should be folded together and cut the same 
shape as the cover, only one-half inch smaller each way, 
and fastened in it by slipping it behind a small cord elastic, 
which should extend from top to bottom where the cover 
is folded. The writing-paper is held in place in the same 
way. 
The design given in our illustration is to be painted on 
one side of the cover; the pink and white blossoms prove 
Sweet-Pea—Design for Portfolio Cover. 
very effective upon the deep red velvet. It is also very 
suitable for embroidery, but this must be done before 
being made up, and the blossoms should be worked with 
filo-floss, which resembles filoselle in appearance, but is 
