THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
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Design for Lamp Screen. 
“ special ” is for pink shades only, and the “ general me¬ 
dium ” for all other colors. 
It is possible to imitate nearly all flowers in lustra 
painting, but it will be necessary for those of a deep crim¬ 
son shade to work them in with crimson lake and vermil¬ 
ion in oil-colors first, and lighten with lustra carmine. 
In working upon plush, if not the depressed, the strokes 
should be firm and worked with the pile, the brush well 
filled with color, which must be about the consistency of 
syrup. 
Golden-rod, elder-flowers, or any of that description, 
should be painted in masses with short strokes. White 
flowers are painted with silver, shaded with steel and 
black, and the stamens of large flowers should not be 
painted until the petals are dry. 
It would be well to practise on small designs before 
attempting larger ones, that experience may thus be 
gained in mixing colors. 
The brushes should be always thoroughly cleansed in 
turpentine, and afterward washed in hot water with soap, 
then dried on a soft cloth before putting them away, 
otherwise they soon become unfit for use. 
Table scarfs, and many other useful articles, can be 
made very beautiful by decorating with the lustra colors, 
as described for the lambrequin. 
M. E. Whittemore. 
Butterfly Screens. 
B LACK satin is the most suitable material for these 
convenient little screens, as it gives a pleasant 
shade and can be decorated with painting or gay-colored 
embroidery silks to resemble very closely a large butterfly. 
It is best to cut a paper pattern of the design and try it 
on the lamp, for, while the screen should be large enough 
to be useful, it must not be so large as to be out of pro¬ 
portion to the size of the lamp. 
When you have the pattern just right, cut the wings 
first from the satin, as they are made separately; the lin¬ 
ing may be of the black or else of some bright color, as may 
be fancied. Sew the outside and lining together in a 
seam on the wrong side, then turn them and press with a 
warm iron. Fasten a fine wire in the edge to keep the 
wings in shape. Make the body of the butterfly of a lit¬ 
tle roll of cotton, cover it with satin and fasten the wings 
to it, and paint or embroider them as preferred. A piece 
of stout wire, by which to hang the screen on the chim¬ 
ney or shade is then fastened on the under-side of the 
wings, and bent as shown in the illustration. 
Hair-Pin Holder. 
T HE pretty little baskets made of twigs of the Norway 
spruce and offered for sale in many fancy stores can 
be very easily constructed at home. 
Select the new growths of the wood and remove all the 
bristle-like leaves; the best method for doing this is to 
heat the pieces quickly, a few at a time, to dry and loosen 
the leaves, which can then be easily removed by scraping 
the twigs with a dull knife in the direction of the foliage, 
but be very careful not to destroy the wood buds. 
For the bottom of the basket cut a piece of thin pine- 
wood two inches square and at each corner tack a strip 
of the spruce five inches in length. The twigs can be 
rendered so very pliable by steaming them for a few 
minutes that they can be bent into any desired shape. 
Join these corner-pieces at the top with four twigs three 
and a quarter inches long, but not quite as thick as those 
used at the corners, Then tack still smaller twigs on the 
sides and bottom, as shown in the illustration, and arrange 
Hair-Pin Holder. 
