In the preparation of windows for this festal season, the selection of winter scenes is usually attended by successful displays. It is not a difficult matter to simulate frost and snow with material at the merchant's command. The best representation of snow is cotton wadding picked out according the amount it is desired to use. It can be laid flat or made into mounds or balls, and, when accompanied with the accessories of winter, counterfeits snow admirably. The effect is heightened by sprinkling "diamond dust" or "frosting" upon it. This may be obtained at any dealer in artist's supplies, and costs but seventy-five cents a pound. The "diamond dust" is finer than the "frosting." Icicles may be made by whittling out wood forms or cutting them from heavy cardboard, dipping them in glue and covering them with the diamond dust. Sheet ice is well illustrated by laying a large mirror down on the base of the window and making snowy banks around it. It will prove very effective if you place in your window a small tree or shrub, from which all the leaves have fallen, the branches of which may be covered with snow. With such wintry scenes as a background, may be built almost any number of designs and conceptions, according to the material at the command of the merchant. If he has dummy figures or large dolls they may be made to slide down hill, skate upon the ice, build snow forts, cannonade each other with snow balls, and such other boyish sports as all have enjoyed frequently. The toboggan slide is a new and taking idea in window dressing. Another idea in snow decoration is to dress the window with seasonable goods, and string on No. 200 white cotton thread small bits of pure white cotton batting; and fasten at intervals of every two square inches to the floor and ceiling. The effect is much like the flakes falling during a heavy snow-storm.