Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — Te chers’ Association. [ARTICLE]

Te chers’ Association.

The Executive Committee of the Jasper County Teachers* Association will meet at the law office of D. B. Miller, in Rensselaer, on| Satuaday, Nov. 27,1880, at 2 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of arranging a programme, appointing time and place for next meeting, and transacting other business of the Association. Each member of the Committee is requested to bring a iist of subjects from which to prepare a programme. Those who will participate in the ex, ercises are requested to send in their names with the topics they would dis, cuss, to the Committee.

E. R. PIERCE,

Clara Coen. Cor. Sec’y.

Pres’t.

—Ladies and gents—l shall not ask you to buy, but give us a call and examine our goods and you will see that you can save money at the New Store.

Fancy Work with Autumn Leaves. —The bright tints of autumn leaves are very lovely for ornamenting our pallors, boudoirs, and dining tables. Bracke’s and picture frames can also be adorned with them, and tl uy add greatly to the beauty of one’s surroundings. Collect a large quantity, combining every hue, from crimson to scarlet, from scarlet to yellow, and from yellow to green. The red beech and the beautiful variegated sumach are very desirable, as also are the oak and ferns, but the maple exceeds them all in the great variety of its tints, and the various sizes of its leaves. Smooth every leaf on the wrong side, with a moderately warm iron, holding it upon the leaf only a minute. Then take a camel’s half pencil and a little olive oil, and carefully brush over every part of the leaf. Place them ou a flat rurface to dry, and let them remain until the next day. For wiring these leaves into garlands, etc., for preparing them for boquets, take the fine green coveted reel wire, such as is always used in manufacturing wax flowers, and attach it around the stem, first laying it so that it will extend the entire length of the leaf to support it. Afterwards wind around each stem to conceal the wire, either narrow strips of green tissue paper, or brown Berlin worsted, and join the leaves together in sprays; of the individual leaves of each spray must be of the same species. Prepare a large number of these sprays mounted on wires, and then arrange them in vases, about picture frames, over mirrors, and as ornaments to lace curtains, and your apartments will present a festive appearance, although the dreary winter weather has browned the face of nature. Oak leaves, acorns, and bright colored beans, gummed upon a card board frame, will make handsome corner brackets, or wall pockets and vases to hold your beautiful leaves. The acorns and beans ought to be cut in half when used for this purpose— Country Gentleman.