These are sold in every toy-store; the dresses and furniture being printed on thick paper, which will bear a good deal of handling, ready for cutting out. In the country, where it may not be easy to buy them ready-made, a doll can be cut from the fashion-plate of a magazine, and a pattern made, from which the dresses and hats may be cut. If you have only plain white paper, it can be colored from the paints in your color-box; and it is really more interesting to plan a doll's wardrobe in this way than to have it all readymade. Diagrams for bed, chair, table, and sofa, are given below; and the furniture can be cut from bristol-board, and colored, or from thin, smooth pasteboard.

In cutting out this furniture, patterns of it may first be taken by laying a piece of thin paper over each diagram, and carefully copying every line. These can be laid on the cardboard, and a pencil-line drawn around them. There are three sorts of lines, each one meaning different treatment, as you will see in the description of how to cut out the rocking-chair. If you have only white cardboard to use, you will have to paint your furniture, — either dark-brown, like walnut; or in colors, like the enamelled sets.

First of all, cut round the outside of the rocking-chair; and, if you begin by cutting off the greater part of the waste cardboard, you can turn your scissors more easily. Now lay it down; take a flat ruler, or something with a straight edge, and mark over all the parts which are to be turned down, with the point of your scissors, or with a penknife, but not deep enough to cut through : these parts are indicated in little dots; thus,........................ (as seen in the lines from A to A). Now the lines marked thus_____________are to be marked in the same manner; but, as those parts are to be turned up, you must mark them on the reverse side.

Pig. 7. —Parlor Table.

As there are no lines on that side, make a little hole with the point of a pin at the extreme end of these lines (B and B), to show you where to draw your knife when the rocking-chair is turned over. Next you must cut through the lines marked thus______________(as seen in lines from C to C): now bend the parts up or down, as the lines direct. You will find, when you have cut out and bent your furniture as directed, little tabs, that are to go underneath, to gum or sew the other parts to cork-work.

Every bit of gay-colored yarn or worsted works into pretty little mats, though it is well to have a good deal of either black or some dark color as contrast. A patent spool with wires set in it, and a catch at one side for holding the worsted, is now sold; but a common spool answers just as well. A large one is necessary; and into it four stout pins are set, around the hole in the middle, and close to the edge. Then wind the worsted once around each pin, letting it be drawn rather tightly, and letting the end at which you begin be long enough to drop down through the hole in the spool, and be used to gradually pull the work through. Now, holding the spool and the worsted in the left hand, wind the worsted round so as to begin another row. Then take up the loop on the first pin, with a long pin or needle, and pull it out toward you till long enough to lift over the top of the pin that holds it. It will make a loop like a crochet-stitch, which must be pulled tightly enough to fasten the worsted firmly: keep on with this, and, as the work grows, pull it down through the hole in the spool. When you want to fasten on another color, put one end inside the spool-hole, and hold the worsted against the pin, till you have fastened it by a fresh loop. The work makes a hollow worsted tube ; and, when all the colors are used, it is to be coiled round and round, sewing it together on the wrong side, as you go, till you have a round mat, which can be lined or not as you like, and is pretty for bureau or for baby-house.