Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-15

cipally homemade, and likely to sell. aud which
oesides anord an attractive change from the
common custom OF buying" 10 Sell again the
ordinary goods Of ordinary stores.
Lamp Shades are fashionable and useful. First
get the shape, which should be cut and re cut
Ia paper unui II nts the glass. Then you may
paint on satin, with fringe for border, or you
may arrange ferns or dried flowers on silk with
thin gum arabic. This latter work is pretty and
novel;
Autumn leaves or ferns arranged on thin silk
and covered with transparent muslin With
plnked edge, are lovely, and very pretty shades
edged with fringe.
Hanging receptacles for Christmas cards may
Oe MADE as follows: Take strip OF e0lOred card
board 12x5H inches, cut the upper end into a
point, lay on the lower edge an outer pocket of
card board, with flowers upon it inches Deep
ana cut In point: place another similar pocket
ABOVE, border the whole with gold edging, and
put DOW and loop at the top to suspend it
from. Arrange the Christmas cards In these
pockets against the wall and pretty effect Is
the result The large morocco stands intended
for three rows of photographs. twelve In a row.
MAKE excellent receptacles for Christmas cards.
and cases are made on exactly the same plan in
Crash, embroidering border In silk round each
board.
Cards look well arranged on folding screens
mixed Win good scraps and the small wooden
screens, which are fashionable now for standing
on tables, would be most attractive covered
with them. There are small Japanese screens
now to be had that would be suitable. A good
iaea Is long strip OF satin cloth to hang against
tne wall with succession of pockets all en-
Droidered with birds, butterflies and daisies.
Large bags 10 place opera cloaks in at parties
seil on very quickly, and II orders can be OBJ
ta1ned beforehand they should have the mono
gram In the center.
OF course the foundation cloth should be
quiet In color-gray, brown or stone color.
1t is pretty fashion now to have one or two
low seats about drawing room or boulder in
tne form n OF two large square cushions, one
and black, red or black, or, indeed, of any
colors to suit the furniture of the room, they
LOOK wei. They are firmly stuffed with horse
hair, and joined together at right angles, with
or without tassels. Colored satin sheeting is a
good material to cover them with, or pretty
dark-noWered cretOnne, and then they need not
be expensive. These styles are particularly
good for morning-room; gold or garnet Is a
good color for plain sheeting.
An excellent and inexpensive portiere is m ALE
or dark olive oatmeal cloth, faced with deep
border OF garnet plush, or velveteen outlined
with feather stitch In garnet, old gold, and
blue.
son cloth, or OF satin, embroidered with gold
purse silk. The Greek "key'' pattern is one or
the most effective OF all. They may either con-
sist of plain straight band OF from four to six
inches wide and about fourteen Inches long, or
they may be six inches wide In the middle and
diminish to the width Of two inches az each
end In either case they should have loop at
each end TO hang to the support which Is gen
orally fixed 10 the window frame for this pur-
pose. The bands may also be made OF crash,
or, 1or bedroom, OF dimlty, Dordcred With
narrow white cord. All should be first lined
with suh muslin. and then with silk or soft
cotton lining.
Girls like to make their own particular bed
and morning rooms pretty. This is to be done
with blue and white china, brass tOWerpots
1IkstanCs, candleSticks aud coal baskets pea
COCK feather fans, palm leaf fans. photographs
and eneFavings GRAINED In oak and yelvetl, an
tlIEacaSSarS OF guipure dart and the like
Quite inexpensive articles, quickly made, are
bath slippers, with cork soles the piece over
the instep serge, satin or flannel, almost entirely
hldden Oy gladi0luS, or a bunch OF cherries
OF dahl1a, or some large flower No shoe
maker is required; the sole and the front con-
sutute the slipper; the edge which comes on
the fnstep is bound with braid, OR a bias Dand
OF the material, and Is sewn TO the sole inside
aid turned over.
Most little maidens over three summers Old
wear aprons worked in silk or crewels. These
have the bib cut IN one with the skirt. which
slopes slightly at the side toward the waist:
there are no braces and no back bib. Some are
maze In green or grenat satin cloth, and are
colOred drill (Which is almost everlasting In
wear) is more generally employed. and very
simply orhamented Above the hem there is
row or stars in crewels. and worked w1th-what
we have hitherto called Russian embroidery
mere loose stitches.
Wall baskets like these will be found useful
In many parts OF the house. Those In the shape
or French PEASANTS ''hotte," or basket car
rled On the back, Will be found handy for many
purposes, as they are to be had In so many diff
feIent sizes; the large ones would be useful In
nall; those OF medium size will hold Dot OF
movers or trailing plants, while the small ones
make capital recepJacles for spills.
useful article for gentleman Is pocket
mace In huckaback, TO be hung by the dressing
table for brushes and combs. Take a strip OF
the stuff twenty-rour inches long, twelve inches
broad, round the ends, and WORK them over IN
the Loose DuttOnholes, fold la halt, and sew the
sides together to where the rounding begins
The upper side must be worked with large red
carnations and leaves.
In hall or gentleman's room is often re-
CURED receptacle for hat and clothes brushes,
Dutton-hoOks, straps, etc. The most useful
basket TO hold these ODDS and ends Is one Of
those sold at all basket shops for carriage bas-
kets AS they have fiat backs they can be hung
TO the wall. and may be made very ornamental
by the addition OF lining OF cOlored chintz.
Inc inning must be full, and finished Off round
rial
Tides and mats In tied work are easily made.
For these frame is necesSary-fOur pieces or
wood grOoved Or nOtched at regular intervals,
and arranged SO as to laSten at the corners into
square, larger or smaller as may be desired.
On this the wool or cotton Is wound back and
forth, an equal number Of threads to each
skein, and when the square is flied they are
lied at the Intersections with a needle and
thread. Cutting the work from the frame
leaves fringe all around. The mat may be
between each knot, in which case it will appear
70 DE formed Of f1eecy balls strung together.
The last mode Is pretty for tides. This work
looks well In bright wOOls or in red woods
ana white tidy cotton mixed.
Very simple and convenient screens, because
easily washed, to TX TO the wall at the back of
Washstands may be made by first mailing to the
wall piece Of pink {or any other color glazed
lining about three quarters OF yard wide and
the same length as the washstand. Then take
piece OF figured net or muslin half as long
again as the lining, and rather wider, so as to
allow for good deep hem at the top and bot
tom; hem the sides narrowly, and at both top
and bottom make hem one and a half inches
wide, and at the distance OF an inch from the
top OF each hem, run a line OF tiny stitches.
In each OF the spaces thus made run piece OF
narrow tape and draw Ii up until Of the width
required.
Ch1ldren's tables may be furnished with an
1nt1n1tude OF pretty things.
Excellent chatelaines for school children may
be made OF brown linen, trimmed with red
braid, Or embroidered In crewels, ribbon, velvet,
or print. Make first band for the waist about
an inch and half, then stitch six little fiat
bands about three quarters OF an inch In width,
and attach them carefully to one side of the
waStband, and 10 the other side faSten small
square pocket in such a manner that when the
wasband is worn the straps Will hang on the
left side, and the pocket on the right. At the
end of each OF the straps must be fastened
something necessary for writing, thus a note
book, ink eraser, pencil, penholder, box of pens
and penknife or a ruler, may be substituted
for the note book, and the notebook placed In
the pocket at the side.
Bed pockets Of holland, embroidered In for
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