Description

16 pages. Contents: Practical notes on cements; Black gros grain paletot - front and back illustrations; Mode of roasting coffee; Having One's Own Way; Manners Upon the Road - of temper and temperament; New York Fashions - mourning dress goods, bonnets and veils, widows' mourning, dresses, trimmings, second mourning, varieties; Personal; Basket of covered card-board rings; needle-work and lace collar imitation of bruges lace; crochet and lace insertion and edging for lingerie; carriage leather flower-pot screen; black lace and bead sprays for bonnets, head-dresses, etc.; spring and summer hats and bonnets of trulle crape; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Selection of Annuals; Making both ends meet; The Tea-Pot, by Hans Christian Andersen; Mr. Sutherland's Sickness, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Gossip; Dolly Varden Carriage costume; The Origin of Lace; Devices for looping trained skirts; Sympathies and antipathies; Tatted Edging for Lingerie; humor. Average wear. Book