ers--with
bows of braid, soft ribbon or with heavy tassel-tipped cords, or a
smaller rug without fringe might be suspended by gilt rings and
finished at the bottom with a row of tassels in mingled shades.

In a small apartment, where the radiator is an objection, hang on the
wall over it a large picture, placing before the unsightly heater a
screen of not too high dimensions. If a space is too large for your
picture, hang on either side a bracket, on which place a quaint jug or
jar.

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For a sewing-room, or, in fact, any apartment where the weekly mending
is done, a darning screen is wonderfully commodious. Its conveniences
consist of two capacious pockets, to hold stockings or any garment
fresh from the laundry and needing attention; a handy shelf whereon to
place one's sewing, a tidy little cushion with scissors and loosely
swung by ribbons to one side.

[Illustration: ORNAMENTAL SCREEN.]

It is a delightful bit of property to serve one, while seated at an
open window in summer time or upon an upper veranda with one's work,
looking out over the sea with the perfume of flowers in the air.

Trim the skeleton screen to harmonize with the fittings of the room.

A carpenter constructed the framework for the two panels, with the bar
across the top, and the little shelf for twenty-five cents. The pine
used was an old packing box. The panels must be three and one-half
feet high and eighteen inches wide, made of strips three inches broad.
The shelf should be eight inches wide and twelve inches long.

Four yards and one-half of chintz in cream-tinted ground, sprinkled
with Dresden nosegays gaily dashed with pink and delicate green color,
eight cents a yard. Four grades of delicate pink silesia and two and
one-half yards of unbleached muslin for interlining, made an item of
fifty cents. Hinges and corners and nail-heads of brass, satin ribbon
and tacks, by considerable calculation, can be pressed into the amount
of seventy-five cents.

A Saturday morning industriously spent in the upholstery of the little
screen presented it in completeness.

Screens can be used to protect from drafts of air, by day or night, to
keep the sun from an exposed spot on the carpet, to shade the light
from weary eyes, to temporarily close archways that have no doors, and
to conceal a door that is not often used. They will divide a large
room into two small ones when a sudden influx of company arrives, or
even close in a corn