A A A A, four posts set upright from floor to ceiling, two feet and a half from back of stage, and at distances apart marked on diagram.

Spaces marked B to be filled in with material to match the drapery back of the stage.

Dotted line C is the raised platform behind the three frames, upon which the performers stand.

Scenery is more easily managed than one would suppose. For the home of the drunkard, or of the starving seamstress, a small pine table holding a candle stuck in a porter bottle, and a broken chair, will be all that is needed.

Flower-pots or a box of plants suggest a garden-scene.

For a nursery, a cradle and some toys.

For a prison-scene, an iron bedstead and a small table, no chairs.

For a moonlight-scene, the light in front must be very dim. Cut a round hole in the background curtain, and cover it with silver lace, or white tarlatan with tinsel threads in it. A gold-fish globe full of water, and two candles or a lamp burning behind it, will give a good imitation of moonlight.

Cambric, or highly glazed paper-muslin, will pass for satin in a dim light, and cotton velvet answers every purpose for richer dresses ; tissue and gold and silver paper making lace and ornaments of all sorts.

A well can be imitated by sawing a barrel in two, covering it with gray cloth tightly tacked on, and tacking white tape irregularly up and down to indicate the mortar which joins the stones. Nail on three laths for uprights and a cross-piece; make a windlass from other pieces, and hang on a bucket and chain, and you have a well which can be used for a generation in historical or scriptural tableaux, and in country scenes.

These arrangements are for tableaux on rather a large scale, or for living statuary. Two or three tableaux are given, illustrative of what may be done in this way.