Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — A Butterfly House. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Butterfly House.

This butterfly garden is very romantic and pretty. A looking-glass is cut the proper size and placed in the back of a square bird cage. It can be easily secured there by a band

of soft green baby ribbon, which ends in bows of rosette shape. The bottom of the cage is covered with rich earth and sweetwilliam, forget-me-nots and Wandering Jew. These plants are sturdy and easily cultivated. As the spring sunshine calls forth the bright winged butterfly, just catch him very gently and transplant him to the home-made garden. There he enjoys life just as much as in the world at large, for of course the garden must have for itself the sunniest window in the house. The butterfly only lives a day. As they die one by one, stick them to the looking glass with a little glue. Even when the season is past and your garden no longer nurtures live butterflies, you possess for always an ornament which suggests the summer and its cheeriness.— [Aunt Laurie in New York Recorder.