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The Living-Room Window

Some of the individual figures were grotesque enough, as for instance, a dragon with bat-like wings, came near the present fashionable rage for Japanese ornamentation. The backs of the chairs were covered in designs something like that in the illustration of Chair Cover, or rather, ornamented by pieces like those fastened to the back, for the cut really represents what the ladies call a tidy. XII. A Rocking Chair.

THE rocking-chair deserves more than a passing notice, for it is "mother's chair," and made for her especial use. The boys, let us suppose, having reseated and cushioned the old rocker, the girls covered it. The seat and back were cushioned with hair, covered with soft grayish material. Then Turkish toweling was cut somewhat larger, to allow for fold and nailing. The figures were cut from dark cloth, and appliqued to this foundation with zephyr worsted, the fringe and tassels made of ravelings of the toweling colored red. The cross-stitch at the edges was worked with the same color. The dragon rampant was considered especially appropriate, since the grandfather had once been a sailor to the "China Seas." XIII. A Practical Family.

The old grandfather had reason to be proud of his descendants. There were three boys and three girls, and each "wonderful for something," as the old gentle- HH Y