Suggestions For The Ladies

A handsome wedding or holiday gut is made by covering an easel, say, twelve inches high, with old gold plush. If the edges are careftdly joined at the back, and eaught together with silk of the exact shade of the plush, it Will be impossible to teil where the searus are. On this is to be placed a palette covered with cardinal plush, with a spray of daisies embroidered on it. To this is to be fastened a strip of pasteboard or of thin wood two inches wide; cover this with plush, flrst making two small round spaces in it, in which two small eut-glass bottles are to be placed. The plush-covered easels are very pretty also to hold toilet erlasses, or when used in the common way, to hola caDinei photographs or pained panels. An elegant mantel lambrequin is made of dark green velvet, and is without decoration except aeross the edge at the botton; crescents of tLin brass are attached to cords, and a small tassel is fastene'1 to each ; this has the efl'ect of a rich fnge. A great addition to the appearanee of the mantel is to have a piece of the velvet of the width and depth of the lambrequin fastened to the wall above the shelf. It may be taked with brass-headed nails, or fasti n ;d to a regular curtain pole with brass rings. This makes a good background o bring into relief any handsome art;cl'S of mantel furniture. Brasses and pauitin rs of any kind are shown to goo 1 adTantage; china also. Elegant frames ior the bevelled mirrors so much in vogue just now are made of velvct or plush. A beauntm one reeently made for a wedding gift was of crimson velvet. The glass was to be hung diagonally, and at the lower corner was a bouquet - if so simple an arrangement of flowers could justly be callea a bouquet - of one rose and four buds, and a few leaves. These were embroidered with ribbon and chenilïe, and so gracefully were they placed there that the effect was ais if they had just been gatheivd and dropped there. Another very handsome frame is eovered with shaded olive plush, with delicate sprays of arbutna embroidered with ehenille ánd silk on it. The embroidery on these frames, which are so lovely without deeoration, is noticeably simple, but it is wrought with such delieacy and such fidelity to nature that it may well be called a work of art.