THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
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baskets are used to stand beside the 
tire-place through the autumn and 
winter to hold the wood for replenish¬ 
ing the open wood-fire now so much 
in vogue, and they are very pretty 
receptacles for the same. 
A tidy mado of pongee 
is exceedingly pretty, 
ornamented with darn¬ 
ed work. Some grace¬ 
ful design is first lightly 
sketched upon the ma¬ 
terial, and embroidered 
in outline with ' silk. 
The color of leaves and 
flowers, the veining of 
the leaves and stamens 
in the flowers also to 
be embroidered. The 
edges of the tidy are finished with a hem an inch and a 
half wide. The entire surface of the pongee, except the 
hem, flowers and leaves, is to be covered with darning, 
executed with silk the color of the pongee. The stitches 
are placed as regularly as possible, thus giving the 
groundwork the appearance of silk canvas. The work 
is not difficult, and is durable and pretty. M.E.W. 
A Dinner-table “Harmony” in Yellow 
and White. 
The following description of an effective dinner-table 
decoration, earned out in yellow and white, appeared 
recently in the Art Interchange and may be useful to 
people desiring something novel. Down the centre of 
the table was placed a piece of cream-colored satin 
sheeting, with the family coat of arms embroidered in 
yeUow silk in each corner. In the middle of each side 
was worked the crest and a shield. A conventional 
border, worked in yellow silk, comiected the armorial 
bearings. The whole of the centre of the satin was 
finely darned with the same silk in a diamond pattern, 
having in the middle of each diamond a small flower; 
all round the edge a small tassel of fringe yellow silk 
was worked in. The effect of a centre-cloth as above 
is extremely handsome, as it looks a mass of em¬ 
broidery when the details are elabor¬ 
ately carried out, so much so as almost 
to hide the satin sheeting. The d’oyleys 
for the dessert plates were worked on 
similar satin, with the coat of arms 
in the centre, having the 
edged scalloped round, 
and tiny tassel fringe, 
all in yellow. The 
menus were quite plain, 
cream tinted, with a 
gold line round the 
edge. The name-cards 
were tied on to the top 
of the menus with yel¬ 
low ribbon. In the 
centre of the table there 
was a large piece of pre- 
sentationplate. Oneach 
side of the centre-piece, a Palm was planted in a soup- 
plate. The plants had been taken out of the pots, and a 
good deal of earth shaken away. (If this is carefully done, 
no permanent injury is sustained by the plants, as they 
can be repotted again, and do well.) The Palms were 
made quite firm in the plates with sand, which was 
covered with Lycopodium, taken out of the pots, and 
with the roots laid on the top of the sand in the shape 
of a mound. Round the edge of the plate Ferns were 
placed, and yellow Cornflowers, so much used, were 
wired and stuck in about the gi-een groundwork. A 
brass Eastern bowl was placed on each of the four cor¬ 
ners of the centre-cloth, a little way in. The bowls had 
Lycopodium on the top of the plates, with white Water- 
Lilies laid on, and a little Maidenhair Fern. Each of 
the eighteen guests had a specimen glass, with a fine 
Mareclial Niel Rose in it. Over the table hung an 
antique brass chandelier, filled with candles; and on 
the table were some brass candlesticks. The effect of 
the tout ensemble was remarkably good. 
Needlework Notes. 
Although few distinctively new stiches are employed 
in executing the many beautiful designs in needlework 
for the fall and winter seasons, those already familiar to 
us are so modified as to give to the decorations a fresh- 
Desiqn for Tidy in Harked Wore.. 
