Homemade Bead Portieres

A very pret t y work a great many ecergetic women are trying now is that of making their owu bead portieres. TJj Japanese shops sell baniboo and strings of beads, so that one can uiake cnrtaius te harmoniza perfect!? witb each roon. For iustaDoe, I saw a oharming effect i produced by a porti ero of green be.'.ds nsed between a dining rooni and a small I conservatory adjoining. You have no ■ idea how exquisite the plauts aud flowers looked throagh this transparent screen of greeu. Gold beads give a snnshiny efTect, and portieres of solid pink or bluo beads are daiuty in the extreme. A frieud who has reeently returned from "'apan tslls me that the cnrtains stran in pr.tterns are made by having the designs dravrn on large pieces of pappr and laid on the floor, and then the beads arestrxmgon just as we wonld trace out the lines in making lace. -