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300 velvet glued under the inner side of the frame makes a pretty finish. Now glue the whole frame on to the picture.

If you have any old wooden frames you can guildgild [sic] them as follows: Put some boiled linseed oil in a saucer and expose it to the air for a few days. Then mix with some yellow ochre, ground in oil. This is oil gold size, which if you choose you can buy ready mixed. Give the frame a coat of white paint and three days after another. When quite dry, rub down smooth with the finest quality of glass paper. Then put on a coat of gold size and let it stand for twenty-four hours, when it will be ready for the gold leaf. To put this on, take a piece of tissue paper two inches square and rub one side lightly with wax. Get a straight edged knife and cut the pieces just the width of the frame. Put the waxed side of the tissue paper on the gold leaf, lift it up, and lay it on the frame; rub lightly on the paper with the finger, and the gold will adhere to the frame. Let each piece lap over the previous one about an eighth of an inch, so that the joinings may not show. When the frame is covered, put over it with cotton-wool. Set it away for a few hours, then brush off the superfluous gold, and your frame is done.

A FLOWER POT COVER.

Collect during the season large bunches of wheat, barley, or other heads of grass or reeds. Cut out the form of the flower pot in stiff card-board or paste-board. Cover this neatly with rows of grass or wheat arranged as closely as possible, tacking them closely around the bottom and expanding them around the top so that they will be eqidistantequidistant [sic] from each other. Then commencing at the bottom, proceed to interweave half inch scarlet or other colored ribbon in and out of the stalks, until the heads (extending above the top) are reached, when the