worked. Embroidered collar and undersleeves. Black velvet hat, with a high, puffed crown; at the top are three white flowers and leaves, and a feather. The deep drapery of black lace is confined by a velvet bow. Benoiton of velvet and lace, with long plain ends falling at one side. flounce is gathered, and headed by a broad band of darker | signs, are embroidered in black silk. The buttons are also velvet. The second skirt forms a square tunic and shorter tablier; the latter has a small flounce. Close casaque; in front the basque is very deep and square; at the back it is shorter, and pointed. The trimming at the back of the corsage forms a series of folds, and terminates in a broad point. This trimming is repeated upon the straight sleeve. A flounce crosses the deep basque. The ceinture and all the bands are of velvet, with a very narrow ruffle of white lace at each lower edge. Velvet bows and buttons. Lace collar and undersleeves. Hat of brown shirred silk, with a band, bow, and floating ends of darker velvet. A cluster of crimson blossoms covers the low crown. DESCRIPTION OF OUR THREE COLORED FASHION PLATES. PLATE N. Y. 58. No. 1.-Straw Hat. The deep border is lined with blue silk and turned up at one side, where a large bow of black velvet, lined with blue, falls partly upon the hair. At the same side is a long and handsome spray of blue flowers and foliage. The loosely rolled band of velvet which passes around the crown is also lined, and knots at the back in large loops and floating ends. No. 2.-Hat of English Straw. This has a deep border, which is depressed at the sides, and waved in front. Trimming of blue gros-grains ribbon and black velvet. At the top of the high crown is a cluster of field-flowers and leaves, with a long spray, whilst in front is a small yellow bird. No. 3.-Hat of Yellow Silk. The border graduates in depth, and is turned up at the front and sides. At the back, however, it is deeper, and quite flat. It is lined with black silk, and has a high crown. The trimming consists of black watered silk ribbon, a long black curling feather, and a small wing. No. 4.-Muslin Fichu. A puffing of the material, framed in ruffles of narrow pink ribbon, heads the deep fall of rich white lace. At the waist in front is a rosette of ribbon and narrow lace, with pointed ends, which are trimmed with lace and ribbon. A rosette, with smaller ends, is placed just between the shoulders, and below it fall two very large tabs, trimmed to correspond. No. 5.-Linen Chemisette and Undersleeve. The former is plaited. The latter has no fullness. The collar and cuff are shaped and edged with narrow lace. Single loops and fringed ends of colored ribbon. No. 6.-Muslin Collerette. This is formed simply of a puffing and deep ruffle. At one shoulder is a bow of green satin ribbon, with three pointed ends. Three loosely rolled ribbons are also carried from beneath the bow to the opposite side of the collerette, where they are met by loops and pointed ends. PLATE N. Y. 59. Fig. 1.-Dress of Dark-blue Silk. The gored skirt has five closely plaited flounces, with a bias band heading. The lower flounce is deeper than the others, and the skirt itself is arranged to form a broad and training fold. Close-fitting casaque, with two very deep flounces of black lace crossing the small basque at the back, and disappearing beneath the deep fronts. These are finished at the lower edges by ruffles of narrower lace, and the small revers are caught by silk bows. At the back of the waist is a bow with several ends, which graduate in width and depth; the two lower are fringed. Large loops and fringed ends appear below the lace flounce. At the sides of the deep basques are large buttons, with simulated buttonholes. Lace ruffles, bands and bows, trim the corsage and the wide sleeves. Black velvet hat. A ruffle of white silk partly covers the top, and upon this are clusters of pink roses, buds and leaves. Double loops and floating ends of black velvet ribbon fall upon the chignon. Fig. 2.-Promenade Costume. Half train skirt and scalloped tunic of black gros-grains. Close-fitting casaque of light-gray cashmere. The skirt has a deep flounce of black lace, and is draped at each side beneath a bow of black gros-grains ribbon with pointed ends. Lace ruffles and bows finish the straight sleeves. The rows of small points, as well as the larger de PLATE N. Y. 60. colors-golden-green and dark-gray. Gored skirt, with a deep bottom, and is surmounted by two bias folds. Gray overskirt ; and gathered flounce, which is set on at some distance from the this is somewhat shorter in front than at the back; the gathered flounce is headed by a single fold, and the sides are draped to form a full bouffant. The green casaque is close-fitting; the basque is short, and open at the back; the deep and rounded fronts are also widely separated. Coat-sleeves; the gray ruffle falling below each is carried up the slight opening at the outer seam, and finished by a bow. Pointed and ruffled pelerine of the gray poult de soie. Green buttons. Embroidered muslin ruff and undersleeves. Bonnet of pale-yellow silk, trimmed with black gros-grains ribbons. The coronet-front has a puffed lining of dark purple silk. At one side is a group of ribbon loops with long floating ends; at the other is a large cluster of the palest lavender-tinted blossoms with green leaves. Black lace strings knot in front. Fig. 1.- Visiting Toilet. The material is poult de soie of two Fig. 2.-Costume of Silk and Camel's Hair Cloth. The gored skirt of yellowish-brown silk is quite plain. Overdress of lightgray camel's hair cloth, with satin stripes of the same color as the lower skirt. Close corsage. Large sleeves. Open tunic, with a full bouffant. The narrow stripes down the fronts are of a darker shade. Assorted fringe trimming. Dark yellowishbrown silk is employed for the dolman. This garment has wide sleeves, partly open at the outer seams, and is lined with neutral-tinted silk. The velvet borderings, buttons, and silk soutache trimming, are all very dark brown. Ruff and undersleeves of embroidered muslin and lace. Bonnet of English straw, trimmed with blue gros-grains ribbons, black lace, and a trailing spray of blush-roses, buds and leaves. SUNSET ON THE SEA-SHORE. THE sun soars high in Heaven, while the sea that pendulum 'twixt smiles and tears! THE IBIS. THIз bird, which is considered as sacred by the Egyptians, is a wading bird of the family tantalide, and is characterized by a lengthened, slender bill, curved for its whole length, with the sides compressed and tip obtuse; but our picture will give our readers a better idea than any verbal description. There are about half a dozen species, of which three are found in the United States. The scarlet Ibis is about twenty-eight inches long, the extent of wings over three feet, and the bill about seven inches. This species is found in South America and the West Indies, but Audubon saw it in the Southern States. The white Ibis is twenty-five inches long, with wings of about forty inches, and bill about seven inches. It is pure white, with the tips of the outer five primaries shining greenish-black. The bill is red. This bird is very common in the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, and has been seen as far North as New Jersey. The green Ibis is a native of Southern Europe and Northern Africa. The sacred Ibis of the ancient Egyptians is about as large as a domestic fowl. The plumage is white. It was reared in the temples of ancient Egypt with the greatest care, and was embalmed after its death. It was forbidden to kill one, on pain of death. The cause of this superstitious reverence was the fact that they generally made their appearance when the Nile began to rise, which, being the source of the fertility of the country, the Ibis was considered as connected with the national prosperity. Herodotus says they destroy serpents, but modern ornithologists deny this. They generally make their nests in decayed trees, or on the ground, and the eggs are two or three in number. HOW TO FALL ASLEEP. THE great point to be gained, in order to secure sleep, is escape from thought-especially from that clinging, tenacious, a new channel, but actually suspends it. Since we became aware of this, we have endeavored innumerable times, while thus rolling our eyes, to think upon a particular subject, and even upon that which before kept us awake, but we could not. As long as they were moving around, our mind was blank. If any one doubt this, let him try the experiment for himself. We wish he would; let him pause just here and make it. We venture to assure him that if he make it in good faith in the manner described, the promise of "a penny for his thoughts," or for each of them, while the operation is in progress, will add very little to his wealth. Such being its effect, we cannot won imperious thought which, in most cases of wakefulness, has possession of the mind. We always effect this by the following simple process: we turn our eyeballs as far to the right or left, or upward, or downward, as we can without pain, and then commence rolling them slowly, with that divergence from a direct line of vision around in their sockets, and continue doing this until we fall asleep, which occurs generally within three minutes, always within five at the most. The immediate effect of this procedure differs from that of any other that we have ever heard to procure sleep. It not merely diverts thought into der that it should bring sleep to a nervous and wakeful man at night. The philosophy of the matter is very simple. A suspension of thought is to the mind what a suspension of travel or labor is to a weary body. It enjoys the luxury of rest; the strain upon its faculties removed, it falls asleep as naturally as the farmer in his chair after toiling all day in his fields. MEN generally put a greater value upon the favors they bestow than upon those they receive HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS. TO REMOVE IRON RUST.-Mix fine salt and cream of tartar, moisten with water, and lay on the stain; expose to the sun, and repeat the application if necessary. FRIED CURLS.-One egg, three tablespoonfuls of fine sugar, three tablespoonfuls of cream, one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-fourth teaspoonful of soda, a little salt and nutmeg or extract of lemon; mix it stiff enough to roll; have pine sticks made round, seven inches long, and half an inch through; cut and roll the dough into strips about as large as a pipe-stem, pinch one end on the stick, roll or wind around the stick, and fasten with a pinch to the other end. Have the rolls about a quarter of an inch apart, so as to allow for rising; three sticks are sufficient; when the curls are done you can slip them from the sticks; don't wash the sticks, but roll them in paper, and put them away. RICH CREAM CAKE.-Put two well-beaten eggs into a teacup, fill it up with sweet cream, then take one cup of sugar, one cup of flour, one small teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, beat well together, and flavor to taste; bake in a shallow pan. COCOANUT PIE.-Peel the dark skin off, grate the meat upon a large grater, such as is used for green corn, beat one egg light, add a cup of milk, and sugar to taste; if a large cocoanut, add one-half the grated meat; if a small one, the whole; bake with one crust. COCOANUT CAKES.-Rub a cup of sugar and one third of a cup of butter together, add one egg, one-half cup of milk, stir into a cup and a half of sifted flour a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and one-half teaspoonful of soda, and add to the other ingredients, and when well beaten stir in the grated cocoanut, the whole of a small one or half a large one; drop the mixture into pans, allowing a scant spoonful for a cake; do not let them touch before baking; when done, separate them with a knife, putting them on a sieve or platter to cool. BEEF CHEESE.-Have a beef-shin well broken, put it to cook in boiling water, cook till the meat drops from the bone, take out the meat and bones, leaving the water boiling, chop the meat fine, and skim the pot thoroughly; if the water is boiled down to two quarts, or a little more, it will do; mix the meat and water from the pot together, season as you like with salt, pepper, and sage, pour it into deep earthen dishes to cool; next day it will cut nicely. Cook pigs' feet the same way; it is the best way to cook them. DEVILED TURKEY.-Take a cooked leg of turkey or large fowl, cut it all over to the bone, pepper and salt it well, using black pepper and cayenne, then get some mixed mustard, mix it with about a third its quantity of flour, and' plaster the leg over with this mixture as thick as it will stick, also stuffing the gashes with it; when this is done, put it on a gridiron on a clear fire. Serve hot. MARROW PUDDING. -Boil with a quart of new milk cinnamon and lemon-peel, and strain to it about half a pound of beef marrow, finely chopped, a few currants, washed and picked, some slices of candied citron and orange-peel, a little grated nutmeg; brandy, syrup of cloves, a tablespoonful of each, and half a pound of Naples biscuits. When the mixture is cold, add eight eggs well beaten, leaving out five of the whites, and bake in a dish with puff paste around. SALAD DRESSING. The yolk of a hard-boiled egg, one teaspoonful of mustard, two tablespoonfuls of oil, one teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar, one teaspoonful of common ditto, half a teaspoonful of sugar; rub the egg very smooth, add a little salt, then the mustard, then the oil by degrees, working it with the rest till quite smooth; then add the cream, and lastly the vinegar. KIDNEYS.-Take four kidneys, divide them as usual, put them in an enameled saucepan, with one pint of water and a wineglass of sherry, stew by the fire for four hours, flavor the gravy with Harvey sauce, and thicken with flour and butter before serving. into an earthen dish, and cover them with water; let them APPLE JELLY.-Take sour apples, cut them without paring cook slowly until the apple is cooked through and looks red, then strain through a cloth, squeezing them so as to get all the juice; "boil the juice half an hour, then to a pint of this liquid add half a pound of sugar (don't use dark sugar), and boil if your apples are good, and you have been careful, and made no quickly fifteen minutes; then cool, and you will have nice jelly mistake. molasses, three cups of flour, four eggs, one half pound of cur- DELICATE CAKE. -One coffee-cup of white sugar, five tablespoonfuls of butter, not melted, the whites of six eggs, one teacupful of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, three cups of flour, and extract of lemon to flavor. BRAISED LEG OF MUTTON.-Have a good leg, bend it a little with a rolling-pin, make an incision in the knuckle, in which put two cloves of garlic; then put it into a braising-pan, with a pound of lean bacon cut into eight pieces; set over a moderate fire half an hour, moving it now and then until becoming a light brown color: seasoned with a little pepper and salt, add SPONGE CAKE.-One cup of white sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two spoonfuls of butter, one egg, one pint of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar stirred well into the flour, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk; flavor with lemon; cut in squares, and sprinkle thickly with sugar before baking. STEWED CALVES' FEET.-Cook a couple of calves' feet in some water, with lemon-juice, a head of celery, a little thyme and tarragon, pepper and salt. When the meat can be easily taken from the bone, cut it up in convenient pieces, egg and bread-twenty pieces of carrots of the same size as the bacon, fifteen midcrumb them, and fry them in butter; make some gravy with the liquor the feet were boiled in ; season it to taste; add a glass of port wine, some pieces of pickled cucumber, and a few capers. Put the feet into the gravy, stew them for one hour, and serve. dling-sized onions, and when half done, fifteen middling-sized potatoes, two bay-leaves, two cloves, and a pint of water; replace it upon a moderate fire, moving round occasionally; stew three hours, dress upon your dish, with the carrots and onions arranged tastefully around: take off as much of the fat from the gravy as possible (which will be a little thickened by the potatoes), take out the bay-leaves and put the trimmings round the mutton, which serve very hot. INDIAN MUFFINS.-Sift and mix together one pint and a half of FILLET OF VEAL.-Brown a little flour in some butter, add some stock to it, a laurel-leaf, pepper, salt, a little cayenne, a glass of Madeira, a few button mushrooms, and a couple of truffl's cut in pieces; lay the fillet-which must be previously half-roasted-in this gravy, stew it for half an hour, and serve, removing the laurel-leaf. Forcemeat balls and stewed sweet-very light, and stir into them, alternately (a little of each), the breads may be used as a garnish. AUNT KATIE S PUDDING.-Two tablespoonfuls of tapioca soaked over night in water sufficient to cover. To a scant pint of milk put the yolks of two eggs, beaten with a scant half-cup of sugar, mix this with the tapioca, and bring to a boil. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add a little sugar and flavoring, and mix in the pudding. yellow Indian meal, and one handful of wheat flour; melt a quarter of a pound of fresh butter in one pint of milk; beat four eggs milk when it is quite cold, and the meal, adding one small teaspoonful of salt; the whole must be beaten vigorously; then butter some "muffin-rings;" set them on a hot griddle, and pour some of the batter into each. Send the muffins to table hot, and split them by pulling them open with your fingers, as a knife will make them heavy. Eat with butter, molasses, or honey. A STRING OF BEADS. THE BEST CRAP.-A Scotch nurse was out with a baby in her master's garden, and the gardener inquired: 66 Is't a laddie or a lassie ?"" "A laddie," said the maid. "Weel," said he, "I'm glad o' that, for there's ower mony women in the world." "Hech, mon," says Jessie," did ye no ken there's a maist sown o' best crap?" COMPLIMENTARY.-A Yankee paper says: "Ole Bull, when young, attempted suicide, and now he is the best violinist in the world. There is a young man in our neighborhood who plays the accordion, and he is not a success. Probably if he were to attempt suicide he would learn much faster. Should he succeed in his attempt at suicide, we would be just as well satisfied." THE BEST PAINT FOR FACES.-Water-colors. "GENTLEMEN of the jury," charged a Western judge, "in this case counsel on both sides are unintelligible, the witnesses on both sides are incredible, and the plaintiff and defendant are both such characters, that to me it is indifferent to which you give a verdict." A YOUNG man asked a young lady her ge, and she replied: "Six times seven and seven times three added to my age will exceed six times nine and four, as double my age exceeds twenty. The young man said he thought she looked much older. THERE is more truth than poetry in the following line from an advertisement: "Babies, after having taken one bottle of my soothing syrup, will never cry any more.' 11 SIR WALTER Scorr, in lending a book one day to a friend, cautioned him to be punctual in returning it. "This is really necessary,' "said the poet, in apology,-" for, though many of my friends are bad arithmeticians, I observe almost all of them are good bookkeepers." A WAG, in what he knows about farming, gives a plan to remove THE children say "it's scold" weather always when house-clean- widows' weeds; he says a good-looking man has only to say, ing is going on. "Wilt thou?" and they wilt. A LAWYER'S acquaintance with a client is apt to be a brief one. "I live by my pen," said a poet, wishing to impress a young lady. "You look as if you lived in one," was the reply. A LITTLE BARGAIN.-Pet: "Mamma, I want to make a leetle bargain with you.' Mamma: "What is it, my dear?" Pet: "If you will give me a paper of sugar-plums every day, I won't tell anybody you take your hair out of a drawer." A PHOTOGRAPHER advertises: "Babies taken and finished in ten minutes," which is rough on the babies. WHAT physician stands at the top of his profession?The gentleman who attends "patients on a monument." ONE FAULT.-It was wittily said of a beautiful French literary lady, that she had but one fault-her husband. THE RING AND THE ROPE.-A maiden lady, not remarkable for either beauty, youth, or good temper, came for advice to a Mr. Arnold, as to how she could get rid of a troublesome suitor. "Oh, marry-marry him," he advised. Nay, I would see him hanged first." A CLOSE-FISTED old fellow, in treating a friend to some liquor, poured out a very small drink. The latter, taking the glass and holding it above his head, remarked, very skeptically: "You say this is forty years old!" "Yes," replied the host. "Then," replied the friend, "all I have to say is, it's very small for its age." WE hear a great deal about labor reform, but there seems to be a greater need for reforming some of those fellows who don't labor. A LADY with two marriageable daughters informed a gentleman that one was a "blue-net," and the other was a "bronze." quite as lief have a good kiss as a new cashmere. A YOUNG lady, writing on the subject of kissing, says: "I should We would quite as lief, if not liefer, give it her. A BARE-FOOTED, bare-headed little boy astonished a worshiping congregation, a few Sundays ago, by rushing into the church and exclaiming : "Where's my pap?-the pigs are out!" Two years ago a Connecticut man received a gross insult from a neighbor who lives a quarter of a mile or more from him. After anchored them in a field adjoining his neighbor's back yard. "No, madame, marry him, and I'll assure you it will be but a long meditation he has now purchased a peacock and a jackass and short time before he hangs himself." A TRAVELER who had been newly robbed inquired of the first gentleman he met, who was also in a melancholy humor, a cause having lately gone against him, where he might find a justice of peace, to whom the gentleman replied: "You ask for two things together which singly and severally are not to be had. I neither know where justice is, nor yet where peace is to be found." THE STLYE.-Soon after the publication of Miss Burney's novel of "Cecilia," a young lady was found reading it. After the general topics of praise were exhausted, she was asked whether she did not greatly admire the style. Reviewing the incidents in her memory, she replied: "The style! the style!-oh, sir, I have not come to that yet!" "WHO DOESN'T?"-"Do you enjoy good health?" "Yes," was the reply. "Who doesn't?" A REBUKE.-A young lady became so much dissatisfied with a person to whom she was engaged to be married that she dismissed him. In revenge, he threatened to publish her letters to him. " Very well," replied the lady; "I have no reason to be ashamed of any part of my letters except the address." "UNLESS you give me aid," said a beggar to a benevolent lady, "I am afraid I shall have to resort to something which I should greatly dislike to do." The lady handed him a dollar, and compassionately asked: A CLIENT calling at his lawyer's office, in which there was a blazing fire, exclaimed: แ Why, your office is as hot as an oven. "Why shouldn't it be?" retorted the lawyer, "since it is here that I make my bread!" THE following are supposed to be witty obituaries: "Henry Grundy, of Newcastle, Indiana, celebrated his twentieth anniversary by muzzling his gun over a log." "It saves the marble-cutter so much work to make even years of it." Two Hibernians were passing a stable which had a rooster on it for a weather-vane, when one addressed the other thus: "Pat, what's the r'ason they didn't put a hin up there instead of a rooster?" "And sure," replied Pat, "that's aisy enough; don't you see it would be inconvanient to go for the eggs?" AN old negro named Pete was very much troubled about his sins. Perceiving him one day with a very sad, downcast look, his master asked him the cause. "Oh, massa, I'm such a great sinner!" 66 "But, Pete," said his master, “ you are foolish to take it so much to heart. You never see me troubled about my sins." duck-shooting, and kill one duck and wound anoder. don't you run "I know the reason, master," said Pete; 'when you go out after de wounded duck?" "Yes, Pete ;" and the master wondered what was coming next. "Well, master, dat is de way wid you and me. De debil has got you, sure; but as he am not sure of me, he teazes dis chile all de time." A POLICEMAN asked a drunken Ethiop, whom he could scarcely see in the dim light of a cell: "Are you colored?" A SOLDIER, telling his mother of the terrible fire at Chickamauga. was asked by her why he did not get behind a tree. "Tree!" said he. "There wasn't enough for the officers." "If there is anybody under the cannister of heaven that I have in about, like a boy constructor, circulating his calomel upon honest folks." A YOUNG woman's conundrum-Who is our favorite Roman Hero? utter excrescence," says Mrs. Partington, "it is the slanderer going Marius. A CONNECTICUT. farmer has named a prize rooster Robinson, because Robinson Cruso. MUSIC is the food of love-beef and mutton that of matrimony. WHAT did the spider do when he came out of the ark? He took a fly and went home. A YOUNG man generally gives a lock of his hair to his sweetheart before he marries her. After marriage she generally helps herself. WE would say to all young men, marry your second wife first, and keep out of debt by all means, even if you have to borrow the money to do it. WHY is the water-lily like a whale ?-Because it comes to the surface to blow. ON a tombstone in New Jersey is the following: the defendant was dead, and, tossing the paper over the wall of the LAST ABODE.-A sheriff, who had a writ to serve, ascertained that cemetery, he made return upon the writ that he had left the summons at the last and usual place of abode. A PHILOSOPHER says: "I never yet heard a man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take a delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature." |