ABSTRACT
The smaller banner and lamp screens are often very useful and always graceful and pretty. The frame for a panel screen may be constructed by any good carpenter who has well-seasoned wood to work with. Though a good carriage-maker can do better than any amateur workman: Put a quarter of a pound of best size in a stone pot, with sufficient water to cover it. The handsome stands are made of gilded iron, having a solid base, a slender upright, and a cross-piece from which the banner screen is suspended. Perhaps the handsomest screens are those which are painted by hand. The frame is thus strengthened, and neither the picture nor the glass need be so large. In the water-color exhibitions in London, solid screens serve as hanging places for many small sketches which would stand but a poor chance among the large frames on the wall.
