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mon kitchen table of whitewood, 
mounted on four strong wheels from 
8" to 10" in diameter, will not weigh 
so much that it cannot be wheeled 
about quite easily. 
Around the top of the table have a 
strip of wood about 4" wide by 7/ & " 
thick, nailed fast, thus converting the 
table top into a box of that height. 
Into this box the plant pots are to be 
set. See that the joints at the corners 
and around the edges are made tight, 
when the work is done, by a filling of 
white lead; and when everything is 
ready, spread a 1" layer of coarse 
gravel over the surface. On this the 
pots will stand, and thus they will 
drain after watering; at the same time 
the gravel will take care of this drain¬ 
age until it is dried up naturally by 
the air of the room. 
The table itself ought to be painted 
to conform to the decorative scheme 
of the room in which it is to stand; 
and paneling around the shelf under¬ 
neath, or a cretonne or chintz valance, 
should conceal the utilitarian nature 
of its contents. The box top of the 
table will not only retain any dirt that 
scatters, but will, by means of the 
gravel, remain tidy-looking, notwith¬ 
standing scattered dirt and the mois¬ 
ture that may remain from drainage. 
Who does not love a cyclamen in bloom? It takes 
more than a year from seed to floiver, but its indoor 
blossoming period is long 
Plants for indoors are, of course, 
as entirely a matter of personal pref¬ 
erence as are plants outdoors. For 
myself, I should above all have some¬ 
thing with flowers, and let the palms 
and ferns and rubber-plants be con¬ 
spicuous by their absence. The beauty 
of a fern lies almost as much in a suit¬ 
able environment as in the plant itself 
—“fern in a crannied wall,” you 
know, and all that sort of thing. 
“Fern in a parlor window” somehow 
holds no charm and no meaning, at 
least for me. But this is not to say 
that, for those who like them, there is 
any good reason for not having them. 
If you are fond of ferns indoors, by 
all means have as many as you want. 
Of flowering plants there are a 
great many that take kindly to the 
house—some sturdy chaps that grow 
outdoors in the garden, and some too 
fragile to be subjected to the boister¬ 
ous outdoors at any season. Some are 
perennials, and some others are bien¬ 
nials ; some are shrubs when they are 
at home, and some, indeed, are trees 
in their own part of the world. There 
is indeed a wide field from which to 
make a selection for any setting. 
Yet a few are so much better than 
all the rest that it is the few that are 
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(2i5i) Certainly she should have a 
cooking apron. This is just the 
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(2152) The two above are known in 
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girl, 12%" tall, absolutely unbreak¬ 
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boy in gingham overalls ( 2153 ), $1 
(2154) Bubble, bubble—no trouble at 
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bibs. $1.25 
(2155) she can have a quilting party 
with this complete outfit of thim¬ 
ble, needles, white thread and four 
packages of gingham squares. 50 
cents 
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