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JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. Articles that Children can make for Fancy Fairs, or for Holiday Presents.

WORK-BASKET FOR DRAWING-ROOM.

THIS is a new and very pretty work-basket, suitable for a drawing-room table. A wire frame is the foundation of it; the other materials are cerise, white ditto, white wool, cerise cord, white gimp, and a small piece of white satin or watered silk, and cerise sarsenet.

We will describe the form of the frame, that our friends may have it made. A round, about four inches and a half in diameter is formed very substantially of wire; this forms the base. Another round is made eight inches and a half in diameter. These are covered by wires, which are repeated eight times in the round. First, two wires, three-quarters of an inch apart, are placed to connect the two rounds. It will be well to put all these sixteen wires on first, at the quarters and half-quarters of the circle. In each of the spaces between two other wires connect the rounds; but instead of being put straight up, they are bent into a zigzag form, increasing in size so as to fill up the space between the wires. Another wire is taken and bent into eight points, to form the feet. All these wires must be very closely and securely connected, to make the basket as solid as it should be. A piece of stout cardboard forms the bottom of the basket, and fits in the small round.

The covering of these wires is exceedingly easy. The zigzags are to be closely covered with cerise chenille. The pairs of upright wires have white wool wound round them, to connect them. It is done thus; thread a coarse tapestry needle with the wool, bring it over, and once round a wire, then over, and once round the other of the pairs, all the way up. A piece of chenille is worked up the centre on the inside, and a piece put straight up on the outside to conceal the stitches. The round of card-board must then be covered on one side with white and on the other with cerise, and sewed in the bottom of the basket with the white side uppermost. A little chenille cord is put all round inside, to conceal the stitches. The supports are covered with cerise, and white wound round them, and a cerise chenille cord goes outside the small round. A white gimp, about an inch wide, is put round the top, and two cords, one of cerise and one of white, complete the top of the basket.

We also give one or two little games for the entertainment of our young friends.

TWIRL THE TRENCHER.

A plate being laid on the floor, the leader of the game gives each the name of some bird, and all must take care to remember their different names.

She then calls one by her assumed name, and tells her to twirl the trencher, which she must set spinning, and at the same time call one of her companions, who must catch the plate before it falls, or forfeit.

WHAT IS MY THOUGHT LIKE?

The leader of the game having thought of some object, such as the sun, moon, or a flower, asks his companions "what his thought is like?"

As all are ignorant of what he is thinking about, their answers can of course be but random ones. When he has questioned them all round, they must each give a reason why the answers given resemble the thought. Suppose he had thought of a rose, and one of the party had said "his thought was like a little child," the reason given might be because both are tender and fragile, and must not be treated roughly. Another might have said "like a piano;" here the reason might be given because sweetness comes from both. If any one is unable to find any similarity in his answer to the thought, he must pay a forfeit.

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GODEY COME AGAIN.

A SPONTANEOUS AND EXTEMPORANEOUS POEM.
A smile breaks through the darkening leer
Of sombre clouds and sober-
An angel wipes away a tear,

'Tis Godey for October.

Twelve times a year we anxiously look
For Godey's matchless Lady's Book;
Twelve times a year it greets our eyes,
Filling us with delight and surprise.
Of all other books 'tis the peerless Queen-
The ne plus ultra of a magazine;

It elevates, instructs, refines,

With its fairy-like pictures and beautiful lines.
If any lady wishes to dash on,

She must take the Book to be in the fashion;
Or if she wishes to keep in good health,
The Lady's Book is a mine of wealth.

It drives away blues, ennui, and sadness,
And fills the heart with joy and gladness;
It is a fact, though some may doubt it,
No lady is able to be without it;

It should be on each parlor table or stand,
Throughout the length and breadth of the land.
The price of this book is three dollars a year,
But if you think that's a little too dear
(But if a lady wants something real nice,
It is worth double, yea, thribble the price),
Just give us a one dollar bill and a two,
And we'll send you Godey and the Democrat, too.
Democrat, Vandalia.

WE copy the following from an English magazine: "The Turkish bath is going out of fashion, not necessarily because of the beautiful weather and the opportunities for sea-bathing afforded by excursion trains, but because there is a feeling against it. The time consumed in the operations of the Turkish bath is one great obstacle to its popularity; and people, especially those who have always been addicted to cleanliness, are beginning to feel that if even a shower of something called the epidermis can be rubbed off, it by no means follows that it should. This doubt has seized hold on many thinking minds, and the shocking colds and splitting headaches that too frequently follow the extreme treatment of the Turkish bath are manifestations not to be slighted."

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The diagram before us shows a board to represent the Game of Fortification. At each intersection of the lines are small holes bored, in which are to be placed forty-three small black tacks, such as are used by upholsterers; or if these are not to be had conveniently, their places may be supplied by grains of corn or coffee, placed in line on one side of the board, so as to fill up five of the rows; on the two middle points of the sixth row are placed two buttons, these are the opposing forces. The first move is by the pawns or soldiers, all of which are to be moved along the lines, always taking care to keep each one fortified by another on every side. The object of the soldiers is to crowd the two pieces into a corner, where they are checkmated or cannot stir, when the game is won by the soldiers. On the other hand, by judicious moves, either of the two round pieces Anding any soldier unsupported by another on any of

the lines, overleaps him and removes him from the board, and can sometimes by overleaping two, three, or four, at once capture that many. In consequence of losses, when the garrison is reduced to ten or twelve, their opponents win the game. The soldiers always move towards their adversaries (never back ward), and must be supported by one at their back or beside them, and are in extreme danger when face to face with the enemy, unless so supported. Yours, P.

SIMPLE HABITS.-The Rev. Dr. Trench, the last Archbishop of Tuam, though a wealthy man, was exceedingly simple and temperate in his mode of living-a plain joint of meat supplied his dinner. Whenever he saw one of his children about to try a new dish, not tasted perhaps at any time before, he always said with a smile, "Now you are going to create a want."

GODEY'S ARM-CHAIR.

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the second floor, H denotes the chambers, all of which are provided with closets.

The estimated cost of this house if built of wood, on stone foundations, is about $1000.

TOWN, COUNTY, AND STATE.-Do not forget to pat all these in every letter you write. You do not know how much trouble it would save us.

PHILADELPHIA AGENCY.

No order attended to unless the cash accompanies It. All persons requiring answers by mail must send a post-office stamp; and for all articles that are to be sent by mail, stamps must be sent to pay return postage.

Be particular, when writing, to mention the town, county, and State you reside in. Nothing can be made out of post-marks.

Mrs. L. C. G.-Sent braiding pattern for smoking cap December 26th.

Mrs. W. H.-Godenski caps are worn both by girls and boys.

Mrs. A. C.-Sent your headdress of quilted silk 26th.
Mrs. P. S.-Sent sleeve patterns 26th.

Mrs. R. J.-Sent braided jacket pattern for little boy 27th.

Mrs. U. R.-Sent braiding pattern for collar and cuffs 28th.

Miss A. C.-Sent pattern Aissa cloak 28th.

K. A. M.-Sent patterns 28th.

Miss A. A.-Sent cigar case 30th.

Mrs. F. D.-Sent pattern marine jacket 31st.

Mrs. M. M. S.-Seut shawl by Adams's express January 3d.

Mrs. P. S.-Sent you the new style of headdress 3d.
Miss T. B.-Sent pattern of French street jacket 3d.
Miss A. M.-Sent smoking cap 4th.

Miss P. I.-Sent net for hair 4th.

Mrs. C. T. A.-Sent photograph portraits 4th.

Mrs. V. G.-Sent Garibaldi suit for little girl 4th.

Mrs. A. R. C.-Sent Marine jacket 4th.

Miss M. A. B.-Sent hair breastpin 6th.

A. P.-Sent hair fob chain 6th.

Mrs. A. C.-Garibaldi shirts are very fashionable, and generally made of merino or flannel.

Miss H. W. M.-Sent tatting 7th.

Mrs. S. L.-Sent Godenski skating cap 7th.

Mrs. A. R. G.-Sent crochet sack for infant 7th.

Mrs. W. H. F.-Sent Eugenie jacket pattern 8th.

T. S. B.-Cloak pattern 8th.

Mrs. M. N. M.-Sent pattern Epernon cloak 8th.

Mrs. W. H. L.-Sent opera hoods 8th.

P. J. C.-Sent pattern Cleopatra jacket 8th. Mrs. D. F. P.-Sent your sleeping cushion to hang on the back of a chair 9th.

Mrs. R. J.-Sent braiding pattern for tidy 9th.

L. M. R.-Sent hair ring 9th.

Mrs. T. McL.-Braiding is very fashionable for children's clothing; also for chairs and tidies.

Miss L. A. M.-Sent photograph portraits 10th.

Mrs. J. J. L-Sent crochet cap and sack for infant 10th.

Mrs. G. H.-Sent braided jacket pattern for your little boy 11th.

Miss H. E. B.-Sent photograph portraits of the Generals 11th.

Mrs. G. C. E-Sent ribbon, &c., 11th.

Mrs. C. J. P.-Sent cloak pattern 13th.

Mrs. J. L.-Sent braiding pattern for chair 13th.

Mrs. E. E. D.-Sent photograph portraits 13th.
Mrs. J. S. M.-Sent hair bracelet 14th.
Mrs. D. A.-Sent hair studs 14th.
Miss S. P. R.-Sent photographs 14th.

Mrs. E. P. M.-Sent worsted and thread 15th.
Mrs. A. B.-Sent pattern Marine jacket 16th.
Mrs. C. B. H.-Sent stamped pattern for infant's
blanket 16th.

Mrs. E P.-Sent headdress 20th.

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Mrs. J. G.-Sent crochet caps for your little girls 20th. Mrs. H. B.-Sent Eugenie jacket pattern 21st.

Mrs. C. L. G.-All the new headdresses encircle the head like a wreath, as in fig. 4, February number. Mrs. M. L.-Sent pattern of French promenade jacket 23d.

Mrs. H. L.-Sent Godenski caps 23d.

Mrs. L. P.-Yes, we can give you directions for a brioche to be done in crochet. They are the newest, and very pretty.

H. A. DREER'S-SEEDSMAN-ANSWERS TO HIS CORRE

SPONDENTS.

The Gazania Splendens is one of our newest and best bedding plants, blooms during the whole summer and autumn, and is readily propagated from cuttings. Price 25 cents each.

Canna Sreds-The seeds will germinate much more freely by scalding them, or soaking them in hot water about twenty-four hours before planting.

Cuttings.-Pure sand is the best for rooting cuttings, especially of soft-wooded plants. We are now experi menting with a new method of striking cuttings, by keeping about one inch of water constantly above the sand, in water-tight dishes, instead of pots. Petunias, Verbenas, and Fuchsias have rooted firmly by this method. We shall give our experience in a subsequent number of the Lady's Book.

Chemistry for the Young.

LESSON XX.-(Continued.)

466. Ammonia-Moisten some freshly-burned quicklime with a little water. The lime will crumble to powder, or, in other words, become slacked. Mix equal parts of this slacked lime and sal-ammoniac. Put the mixture into a small retort, and apply heat.

A pungent

odor will be recognizable; from the evolution of ammonia in the form of gas. Ammonia being greedily ab sorbed by water, forming liquor ammoniæ or hartshorn, cannot be collected over that liquid. If desired quite free from admixture with atmospheric air, it must be collected in a pneumatic-trough which contains mercury instead of water. For our purpose, however, it will suffice to collect it by way of displacement. Being a somewhat light gas, however, the delivery tube must point upward, thus. We may easily know when the

bottle is filled by bringing near to its mouth a glass rod, dipped in hydrochloric acid (spirit of salt, or muriatic acid), when dense fumes of sal-ammoniac will appear; or a slip of originally blue litmus-paper, reddened by the fumes of hydrochloric acid.* Collect several bottles full of this gas, closing them either by stoppers or glass valves.

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467. Invert a bottle over water, and agitate. how the water rises. If the bottle were originally quite filled with ammonia, it will become now quite full of water; and the solution will be hartshorn.

Alkalies turn this paper blue.

468. Supposing it desired to make a solution of hartshorn at once, the materials might have been mixed with water, and distilled; or the following device may be adopted. Into a deep wine or ale glass pour quicksilver up to a. Then fill the glass with

water; cause the delivery-tube to plunge beneath the mercury, and force

over the gas. By this means the water employed can never come into contact with the end of the tube. Place the solution aside for investigation hereafter.

469. Instead of lime, add to some sal-ammoniac in a glass test-tube a little potash (potassa fusa), or potash solution (liquor potassæ); apply heat as before, and remark how ammonia, as evidenced by its peculiar odor, is evolved. Remember, generally, that all salts of ammonia are decomposed by heating with potash. Hence, supposing it desired to liberate ammonia from any substance holding it in combination, heat the substance with potash.

470. Put a little muriate of ammonia (sal-ammoniac) into an iron spoon, apply the heat of a spirit-lamp flame, and remark how the sal-ammoniac becomes volatilized. Most salts of ammonia, when sufficiently heated, sublime unchanged; and no salt of ammonia, even if partially fixed, when thus treated, can retain its ammonia.

471. Finally, let us recapitulate the tests for ammonia: (a) Its peculiar smell. (b) It fumes when brought in contact with the vapors of hydrochloric acid. (e) It changes yellow turmeric paper to brown, and restores litmus-paper, which has been reddened by an acid, to its original blue; both results disappearing as soon as the respective papers are warmed; thus proving the alkali to be volatile. (d) It forms salts, from which ammonia may be liberated by contact, under application of heat with potash or lime, or soda; and (e) lastly, it may not only be demonstrated to exist, but may be separated and quantitatively estimated by means of bichloride of platinum (340).

472. Ammonia is an universal result of heating any soft animal body, except fat, in a close vessel. Put a bit of flannel or of feather into a test-tube, apply a spiritlamp flame, and demonstrate that ammonia is evolved by means of (1) reddened litmus-paper; (2) of yellow turmeric paper; and (3) a glass rod dipped into hydrochloric acid.

473. Collect the ammonia thus evolved; for which purpose, proceed as follows. Repeat the arrangement of test-tube and feather, with this addition: append a cork and small tube thus: and cause all the volatilized matter to pass through some hydrochloric acid, placed in a wine-glass. The operation will require to be dexterously managed, in order to prevent the acid from rushing back into the tube. By this treatment, the ammonia will be dissolved in the acid, and hydrochlorate of ammonia will result. Into this solution of hydrochlo rate of ammonia, pour bichloride of platinum, then add alcohol, when the distinctive com“ pound of chloride of platinum with sal-ammoniac (343) will fall. Supposing the analysis to be quantitative, the platinum compound has only to be collected, and weighed every 223 parts of it contain 17 parts exactly of ammonia (333).

In the preceding experiment the ammonia has actually been generated by the process of combustion. Let us now vary the analysis by operating upon a substance actually containing ammonia. We will take guano for this purpose. Put about a teaspoonful of guano into a small flask-not a tube like the preceding, because the mixture to be made froths so much that a portion would come over; add some liquor potassæ; adapt a bent tube, apply heat; pass the liberated volatile matters through hydrochloric acid; add bichloride of platinum, and demonstrate, as before, the existence of ammonia. We have described a simple wineglass as the recipient for hydrochloric acid in the preceding experiments; but a far more convenient piece of apparatus would be that usually employed, which is a bulbed glass vessel of the following shape:

Centre-Table Gossip.

ENGRAVINGS.

We are happy to say that even in this unfavorable season the American taste is turning towards a more substantial and artistic style of holiday and anniversary gifts than the bonbons and jewelry of the past few years. Not a few lovely little pictures find their way from the galleries into pleasant homes, and portfolios, containing photographs of good pictures, or large framed engravings, are also in demand. Few can afford really good oil-pictures, while the many, who waste money upon mirror-frames and patchwork chairs, can afford fine engravings, which give their spirit and life. The taste is refined, and imagination kindled, by a perpetual surrounding of these gentle and lovely creations; and no home looks to us so bright, so home-like, as that which evinces such advances of correct and elevated taste. Only try it-give up the set of showy lace-curtains, or the new oval mirrors for this year, and expend the sum in good engravings for these now empty, voiceless walls. See if you are not satisfied with the investment as the year comes round. The very books you have so carefully gathered in the little library, or the cheerful sittingroom, seem to enjoy their new neighbors, and to be brightened by them.

We find some of the pictures of the present season thus described:

"The Muste Goupil consists of several hundred small photographs, from original pictures of Delaroche, Dedreux, Scheffer, Lassalle, Vidal, Murillo, Titian, aud others. Then there are the costly engravings of the 'Conception,' rare proofs of Thosei and Morghen, a new invoice of that touching Martyre Chrétienne, which, by the way, should be called the Martyrdom of St. Sulpice, for in this work, as in all others of the great artist, Delarocho, there was a special purpose-an historical subject, conscientiously carried out to the end. Very cheap and very charming are two new lithographs from Frère, 'Going to School,' and 'Christmas Eve.' 'Phryne devant le Tribunal' is a faithful photographic copy from Girome's most celebrated picture in the late Paris Expo

sition. Equally remarkable are several transcripts from Meissonnier."

FASHION ITEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. THERE are cashmere shawls of a new description: those of one color prove their last year's date; the new ones are covered all over with a design of palms, or with medallions of bright colors; sometimes the pattern is broad stripes of white and black, or red or blue.

The looms of our celebrated lace-maker, Violard, have fabricated exquisitely beautiful Point de Bruxelles, Point d'Angleterre, and Point d'Alençons tunics, to be worn over the short upper skirt of either tulle, crape, or satin, for ball-dresses. The lower part of the second jupe is trimmed with bouillonnés, or narrow flounces, of either crape or tulle. The cashmere shawls, which I have described above, are flounced with the guipure or Chantilly lace, from Violard, No. 4, Rue de Choiseul.

The walking and carriage-robes, for the spring, will generally be of plain taffetas, decorated up to the knee with small flounces and chicorie ruches, or else a perfectly plain skirt, having within three or four inches of the edge a velvet band, varying in width from a quarter to a half-yard. The corsage is plain, pointed, and fastened in front with large velvet buttons; the sleeves are square, and bordered by a broad velvet, and on the top of the sleeve there is a velvet rosette.

As trimming for the front of skirts the Ville de Lyon has some articles quite out of the common way, and really artistic; a bunch of grapes, for instance, accompanied by lace and jet, of graduated dimensions, the same bunch of grapes with green leaves and purple fruit, a cordon of roses, the very ne plus ultra of perfection, and as simple trimmings, something quite new; square velvet covered with jet, and round buttons covered with crochet embroidery. In crochet embroidery there are also stomachers and aprons for the fronts of skirts. Very wide black silk sashes, with drooping loops and long fringed ends, are put at the side of the waist.

The novelties in silks include some of Lyons manufacture, having the two sides of different colors. They are rich in texture, and are called soieries à double face. These new silks are much used in Paris for paletots, burnouses, and robes de chambre. One side of the silk is generally black, and the other of some bright color, as, for instance, violet or yellow.

The new colors, Vésure and capucine (orange and cinnamon-brown), will, of course, give place to softer tints as the spring opens. Lobelia or azurline blue, tourquoise blue, and June or Pomona green, with a pale shade of water, or sea-green, with new shades of mauve, will be the most popular.

A novelty of recent creation, by a Parisian modiste, of high repute, is a combination of the Medici waistbands with braces, with long ends, to which are attached little pockets. This little ornament is very graceful for a young girl, and may be arranged to suit any toilet.

The most fashionable trimming for rich, dark silks, intended for full dress, is of velvet and jet, mixed with lace. We have seen some very pretty designs in clusters of fruits and bunches of flowers, mixed with foliage. Fruits in chenille have an excellent effect upon the fronts of satin dresses. Ribbon is put ou in the Greek pattern at the bottom of dresses and round mantles. Ribbon is also much used in appliqué upon cloth and velvet. Knots of cord, with balls and tassels, forming patterns in relief, are appearing; also bands of cut and

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