These can be made of linen or cambric leaves, sewed between heavy- pasteboard covers, and ornamented in any way to please the fancy. The edges of the leaves should be pinked with a very small pinking- iron. In these can be fastened sketches, wood-cuts from papers, engravings, embossed pictures, decalcomanie or scrap-book pictures. FAMIL Y REGISTERS. 331 Old ledgers make very good ones when only wood-cuts or common pic- tures are used. It is pleasant to have a dainty receptacle for one's belongings, and those who are at all proficient in hand painting can have a fine oppor- tunity to exercise their skill and taste. There are many pretty ways for making them : Take two thin, beveled boards, twenty-seven by eigh- teen, sandpaper them to perfect smoothness and paint them blacky put near the edge a border of small ivy leaves (first pressed or ironed) gummed on as flat as possible, and on the raised part or center fasten firmly a spray of bright-colored autumn leaves. This must then be varnished two or three times, which will make a perfectly smooth sur- face ; holes must be bored for ribbons to tie the back and front. In lieu of the leaves may be used bright scrap borders, and pictures for the center. This will make a handsome, yet economical, portfolio for either pictufes^ or music. There are so many designs, borders and pic- tures now, nm sale, that when one has any artistic taste or can blend colors suitably, they can give almost the effect of painting. Heavy pasteboard can be covered with gray crash toweling, mummy cloth or Java canvas, bound around the edges with leather, braid or ribbon. Monograms, initials, grotesque or fancy patterns, can be worked in the center, or flowers or figures may be appliqued on. The edges may in this case be bound with velvet, and a border of it feather-stitched near the edge. The inside and pockets may be made of corresponding colors in serviceable material — of scarlet worsted can- vas, worked in a border of gold flosselle, and an initial of the same gold color worked in the center, edges bound with black velvet, pockets and linings of scarlet merino, and the backs tied with gold cord and tassels. Enameled cloth makes nice portfolios, and gray and reddish brown form a pretty combination by cutting out the gray in some pretty design, and showing the scarlet beneath. White holly wood or ebony cut out in fret-work designs and lined with velvet, makes an elegant receptacle for small paintings and sketches. If suitable boards can be obtained and painted a dead, heavy white, relieved on the corners by gilding, and ornamented with delicate French pictures, the whole highly varnished until it looks like enameling, and lined with silk, it will be found a very desirable parlor ornament. FAMILY REGISTERS. Nearly all have their portfolios and scrap-books, but how many of us have a family register ? The family chronicles have mostly been con- fined to the mere entry of the births, marriages and deaths of one sec- tion of a family only, within the covers of a family Bible. But the idea is to keep, not only these events, but every item of interest and import- ance in the history of the whole family connection. 332 SEA- WEED SPECIMENS.

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These can be made of linen or cambric leaves, sewed between heavy pasteboard covers, and ornamented in any way to please the fancy. The edges of the leaves should be pinked with a very small pinkingiron. In these can be fastened sketches, wood-cuts from papers, engravings, embossed pictures, decalcomanie or scrap-book pictures. FAMIL Y REGISTERS. 331 Old ledgers make very good ones when only wood-cuts or common pictures are used. It is pleasant to have a dainty receptacle for one's belongings, and those who are at all proficient in hand painting can have a fine opportunity to exercise their skill and taste. There are many pretty ways for making them : Take two thin, beveled boards, twenty-seven by eighteen, sandpaper them to perfect smoothness and paint them blacky put near the edge a border of small ivy leaves (first pressed or ironed) gummed on as flat as possible, and on the raised part or center fasten firmly a spray of bright-colored autumn leaves. This must then be varnished two or three times, which will make a perfectly smooth surface ; holes must be bored for ribbons to tie the back and front. In lieu of the leaves may be used bright scrap borders, and pictures for the center. This will make a handsome, yet economical, portfolio for either pictures or music. There are so many designs, borders and pictures now on sale, that when one has any artistic taste or can blend colors suitably, they can give almost the effect of painting. Heavy pasteboard can be covered with gray crash toweling, mummy cloth or Java canvas, bound around the edges with leather, braid or ribbon. Monograms, initials, grotesque or fancy patterns, can be worked in the center, or flowers or figures may be appliqued on. The edges may in this case be bound with velvet, and a border of it feather-stitched near the edge. The inside and pockets may be made of corresponding colors in serviceable material — of scarlet worsted canvas, worked in a border of gold flosselle, and an initial of the same gold color worked in the center, edges bound with black velvet, pockets and linings of scarlet merino, and the backs tied with gold cord and tassels. Enameled cloth makes nice portfolios, and gray and reddish brown form a pretty combination by cutting out the gray in some pretty design, and showing the scarlet beneath. White holly wood or ebony cut out in fret-work designs and lined with velvet, makes an elegant receptacle for small paintings and sketches. If suitable boards can be obtained and painted a dead, heavy white, relieved on the corners by gilding, and ornamented with delicate French pictures, the whole highly varnished until it looks like enameling, and lined with silk, it will be found a very desirable parlor ornament. FAMILY REGISTERS. Nearly all have their portfolios and scrap-books, but how many of us have a family register ? The family chronicles have mostly been confined to the mere entry of the births, marriages and deaths of one section of a family only, within the covers of a family Bible. But the idea is to keep, not only these events, but every item of interest and importance in the history of the whole family connection. 332 SEA- WEED SPECIMENS.

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