A BEAUTIFUL FLORAL ORNAMENT.—
Take a soup plate or pickle dish, and fill it with sand. Moisten the sand with water, and heap it to a cone, and then thrust into the wet sand flowers and foliage enough to cover the whole surface, and you will have, if you arrange it well, the most beautiful floral ornament that can be imagined. This is an excellent way for arranging short-stemmed flowers, or those the petals of which are too soft to be tied without injury among stiffer ones. Or place in the center of your soup plate a tea cup, a child's mug, or a wine glass, in which insert a made bouquet, and then, filling the plate around it with sand, proceed as above. This will give a better cone than the first method.