We read lately in the _Tribune_ that leaves
treated with extract of chlorophyl became transparent. This would be
a fine experiment for some of you to try, and a garland of the
transparent leaves would be much more beautiful around a shade than
the ordinary dried ones.
There are other styles of lamp-shades that can be made with little
difficulty, for instance: A very pretty shade is easily formed by
cutting in thin drawing-board fine scalloped sections, which, tied
together with narrow ribbon, take the form of a shade. Leaves are
glued to the under side of these, and a lining of thin tissue-paper
is pasted on to hold them in place. Still another is made in the same
way, with doubled sections of card-board, between each pair of which
is laid a steel engraving or wood-cut, or an unmounted photograph. The
pictures are invisible till the lamp is lighted: then they gleam forth
with something of the soft glow of a porcelain transparency.
A GLOVE-BOX.
In any of the fancy shops you can now buy the slender frames of
silvered tin on which these boxes are made.
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