nient and ornamental floor pillow is especially adapted for
the summer home, the piazza, the lawn or the lounging-room. The frame,
which is made of good springs enclosed in a strong linen covering, is
on casters, and can be readily moved from place to place. Covered with
Bagdad stripes, tapestry, or any artistic material, it makes a
Christmas present that would please the most fastidious taste.

A Corner Closet.

Lack of closet room in a house is a fruitful theme for complaint in
these days of contracted space. Architects there are who are willing
to sacrifice every consideration, not excepting internal utility, for
picturesque outside effects.

In such cases recourse must be had to wardrobes, but as these are
expensive, the busy fingers of the housewife must be depended upon to
improvise substitutes. If there is a corner in the room with
sufficient space (sometimes the architect denies us this small boon)
it may be utilized in the manner herewith described.

Two strips of wood as long as you desire and four inches wide by one
inch thick are screwed in the angle of the wall about six feet from
the floor; boards are cut off to fit in the corner and resting on
these strips; this will form the roof. A brass or wooden rod is then
run across the front of this board from wall to wall and from which
the curtain is suspended by rings. Cretonne, chintz or printed cotton,
will make a good list to choose from, and are inexpensive. One may
screw upon the underside of the roof and on the cleats as many hooks
as are required, and, if desired, a shelf may be introduced about
fifteen inches below the roof, and on that attach the hooks. Such an
emergency closet will often be found a great convenience, and the cost
will be trifling. It will be well to stretch a piece of muslin or
paper across the upper side of the roof to keep out the dust.

[Illustration: REPLICA OF A GRECIAN VASE.]

A home-made Japanese cabinet may be readily made of the common
materials found about the house, such as boxes of hard or soft wood.
The smoother the boxes, the better; but they can be planed, if they
are not.

The shelves are so arranged as to accommodate the different sizes of
Japanese bric-a-brac. The small cabinet in the upper left-hand corner
is simply a smooth bit of the board, finished with two ornamental
hinges, either brass or bronze. The escutcheon is of the same. The
circular panel can be either of Lincrusta, bronzed, or to make it a
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