We propose to revive enough of this neglected knowledge of chivalry to serve our purpose in suggesting a method of designing devices which will not only be artistic decorations, but to the initiated can be made to portray almost any sentiment or set of principles the artist may choose. The many uses to which these designs can be applied will, we hope, at once be seen by the quick-witted American girls, and we trust will interest the reader as much as they do the writer, who in this chapter can only give a few necessary, brief hints upon the subject, sufficient, however, to explain the application that can be made of this beautiful and perfect system of =Decorative Language.= In the following directions anyone can learn how to make a device which will not only be a decoration, artistic in form and color, but will at the same time express the peculiar traits, characteristics, and virtues of the friend for whom it is intended, or the precept, code, proverb, or creed of the designer. All technical terms, as far as practicable, are discarded, but the rules of heraldry strictly adhered to, with such simplifications as are necessary to render it intelligible. =The Field.= The surface on which the design is portrayed is called the field. This may be of any shape; originally it was supposed to represent a warrior’s shield, but you may use a circle, oval, square, diamond, or any other form. [Illustration: Fig. 256.—The Field.] =The Points= on the surface of the shield locate the exact spot where a design or object in heraldry may be placed. Refer by numbers to Fig. 257. [Illustration: Fig. 257.—Points.] 1. Fess point. 2. Honor point. 3. Nombril point. 4. Dexter chief point. 5. Middle or chief point. 6. Sinister chief point. 7. Dexter base point. 8. Middle base point. 9. Sinister base point. If you desire to place a flower on the fess point, you find that it means the exact centre of the shield, and so on. The devices take significance in accordance with the more or less importance of their position on the shield; the honor point holds the highest grade, next to it the middle or chief point, and the right or dexter side is of more importance than the left or sinister. The field may be divided, if desired, in any of the following =Divisions,= each of which has a significance, suggested generally by the form: Fig. 258, the Chief, occupying the top or head of the shield, indicates pre-eminence, main object, intelligence, first principle. [Illustration: Fig. 258.—Chief.] [Illustration: Fig. 259.—Fess.] [Illustration: Fig. 260.—Parted per Fess.] Fig. 259, the Fess, denotes cause and effect, the central band containing the means by which the ends, in the other spaces, are accomplished. [Illustration: Fig. 261.—Pale.] [Illustration: Fig. 262.—Parted per Pale.] [Illustration: Fig. 263.—Bend.]