Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31
DECORATIVE ART.
CRYSTALIZED ORNAMENTS.

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thorn; wind some loose wool OF cotton
around the branches, and tie it OF With
worsted. Suspend this in a basin or
deep jar. Dissolve two pounds of
alum in quart of boiling hot water,
and pour it over the twig. Allow it to
stand twelve hours. Wire baskets may
be covered in the same way.
SHAM PILLOW FOR CHILD'S CRIB.
Something new. Make your pillow
the required size, stuff it with husk
stripped up fine. First cover the pill
low with tight slip OF silk, putting
full puff where the white points will
come. Make white slip, just the size
of a pillow, cut the edges in deep
points, finish with embroidery; work
button-holes in the ends Of half the
points; linen buttons fasten the points
together.
LINEN CHEST.
Take common packing trunk, line
the inside with bleached muslin, cover
the lid On top with the same quite
closely, and then between the wood and
the covering stuff sufficient quantity
Of c1lrled hair to makesthe top a good
shape; then cover the whole with Gre
tonne or rep. Around the lid lay a
wide band of some other goods to cor
respond, bordering the edges with cord
at each corner and in the center or
sides of cover; glue On large transfer
flowers, round the sides lay q wide
band, cord it both sides and finish off
witt, a deep worsted fringe, loop up a
cord with tassels, fasten it to the lid, a
little distance apart to open it by.
PAsSEPARToUT FRAMES.
Trim the margin Of the picture to the
size required; have a glass just the
size of the picture; the edges must be
perfectly smooth. Cut cardboard the
size OF the glass, about one-half the
length. One inch from the sides cut
with knife a small place in the card
board. Cut two pieces Of tape each
two inches long and draw the ends
through the places cut in the board,
leaving enough for q loop on the right
side; glue the ends down and glue a
small piece of muslin ovAT the ends of
the tape. Cut brown paper and black
morocco paper pieces one yard long
and one inch wide. Hold the glass,
picture and cardboard together, glue
the brown paper first and bind them.
holding them in place at the same time.
Let it dry, then bind with the morocco
paper. Pictures, with black back
grounds look nicely bound with red.
For standard passepartout, take Of thick
cardboard piece six and a half inches
long, one inch wide at the top, two
inches wide at the bottom; take a
piece Of muslin two inches long. glue
part of the muslin on to the small end,
the other part to the frame. This is
the genuine way to make passepartout.
I have made them for the trade.
vALANCEs AND LAMBREQUINs,
NIantel valances and bracket lambre-
drins are made of crochet macrame
lace, lined with colored satin, Or have a
strip Of satin ribbon running through
the threads, finished az the ends with
bows. To make the lace, use a large
ivory crochet hook, and cotton sein
cord-that which is very firm is the
best. I used the unfinished for cover
Put it would not remain in place. Gro.
Chef a chain of thirteen stitches. put
the thread over the needle twice, put in
the first stitch, slip one, then the other
repeat twice, make one chain, ther
three stitches as before, which complete
the shell; nine chains; then in the last
stitch of the first row, make shell the
same as the first Turn and make
two chains, one shell, seven chains, one
shell. Turn, make two chains, one
one shell, five chains, putting the needle
in the fifth stitch of the first make nine
throwing the three chains together i,
the center, four chains, one shell. Turn
two chains, one shell, seven chains, on,
shell, two chains. Now make a shell O
eight stitches in the outer opening o
the shell directly underneath, complet
ing the scallop by catching it in the
outer opening of the first shell made
Put the three over the needle ant
make single crochet between eac]
stitch of the scallop, two chains. The
commence again from the beginning
in the small loops at the bottom of til
scallop tie fringe.
The lace makes pretty chair back
and cushion covers. 1t should b
fastened to the mantel with small bras
tacks.