and just now the vogue. The sleeves are the loose coat style, scalloped on the back, and slit up the depth of the cuff. The trimming consists of five rows of very narrow velvet. Three yards of material is necessary for this body, and a corset must be worn with it, as it fastens only with a strap across the chest.

Plain Zouave.-This is a remarkably pretty body for a simple morning-dress, and makes up well in any plain material, and much admired. It is cut nearly straight around the

as well as the bottom of the sleeves, is laid over in sections, and trimmed with double ruching in two colors; each section surmounted with a flat bow without ends.

Madonna Sleeve.-This is a coat sleeve with a seam on the back of the arm as well as the inside; a puff runs down the length of the

waist, and is trimmed with three rows of velvet, of a graduating width. The sleeves are slit at the back, the depth of the cuffs, and are trimmed with velvet and buttons. The quantity of material required is three yards.

sleeve, from the inside seam to half the width of the upper part; it has a box-plaited cape at top, and a small cuff at the hand.

Zouave Dress.-For a child of three years, requiring one and a half yards of cloth, or merino, or two of narrow poplin, all of which are suitable materials. The skirt is full, and laid in box-plaits on a band, and trimmed with velvet in borders, to which figures are attached. The jacket is cut away from the front, and the open sleeve rounded up on the front side, and both trimmed to match the skirt. The under

skirt is of fine tucked cambric, with little turnover collar.

Vincent Coat.-This is a handsome coat for a boy of five years, and takes two and a half yards of material, one yard wide. It may be made in cloth or merino, and trimmed with narrow

velvet in the manner indicated in the cut. The pattern is the plain sack, with the jacket part cut in point, and loose half-flowing sleeve. The side pockets in the jacket are indicated by a black curved line.

Boy's Apron.-Requires two yards of material. The front and back are alike, except the

BIBLE BOOK-MARK.

THIS little article can be worked either on velvet or watered ribbon; if the velvet is preferred, the design should be executed with fine gold thread; but if the ribbon, gold-colored silk has a very good effect. The outline of the cross is a thick line of sewing over, with the stitches worked in the same manner as the branches in muslin embroidery. Sometimes the cross is

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pocket set in the front. Coat sleeve, with a seam on the outside of the arm, but none inside. Cuff is cut on the sleeve.

left with only the outline, as given in the illustration, or it may be filled up with slanting stitches, meeting up the centre, but all emanating from the middle, where the two pieces form a square. The rays are worked solid, the stitches taking the same direction as the ends of each, producing a circular effect. When the cross is worked on ribbon, the ends are turned up at the back, so as to hide the stitches; but velvet is too thick to be finished in this way, and therefore will require lining. A gold fringe should be added to the end to complete this book-mark.

Take raw cotton, and make a tight little ball about the size of a pea; fasten this to the end of a wire nine inches long. Let the top of this little cotton ball be larger than the part where it joins the wire. Cover this cotton with green papers, and pass black silk threads, like fine net-work, over the paper. Then fasten the VOL. LXIV.-41

Pansy. The heart is formed by grouping yellow pistils as seen in the engraving, and sur rounding them with loops of cherry-colored zephyr. The base is very small, and the stem nine inches long. Cover both with green.

These flowers are not only beautiful when formed into bouquets, but they trim prettily both moss and net-work.

In the spring, the yawning chimney-places, covered with a green net, may be beautifully decorated by wreaths or bouquets of these flowers, the largest in the centre, and the others around them. The varieties are infinite, and vases, baskets, and jars may be filled with them. Small ones are beautiful upon green lampshades. They are easily made, and occupy fingers and taste without becoming tedious.

Materials. Three skeins of dark green

coarse purse silk, two strings of gold beads, twelve small rings, three silk tassels, three-quarter silk cord.

TAKE a piece of card ten and a half inches by six. Mark on the side which measures six inches six squares, the size shown in diagram No. 1, and on the side that measures ten and a half inches. Mark 12 spaces the same size, leave a margin on three sides of a quarter of an inch, rule the whole of the card across, and you will then have 72 squares; then rule diagonal lines from side to side after the manner shown in the diagram No. 2. On either side of the long way of the card cut a notch at every square. No. 1.

Sew the card up round, folding it over on to the margin which is not notched. Take the purse silk and make a slip noose, and pass it round the two notches marked 1 and 2, pull it tight, and bring the end out at notch 1, and pass it down the perpendicular line to the one marked 13; passing it inside and out again at 24; then up the line to 2, inside and out at 3, and down

again to 23, and so on till the whole of the perpendicular lines are covered, with the exception of the line at 14. Then pass the silk along the diagonal line from 14 to 6, pass the silk inside to 7, and across to 13, out at 24, from thence to No. 8, and so on, till you have crossed all the diagonal lines, ending at 15; pass inside and out at 16, returning across to 4, out at 5, then across to 15; and so on, till the whole of the lines are covered, ending at 17. Then pass it

at the back of 16, in front of 15, to the back of 14. Now pass the silk round the line marked a; take the end of the silk, pass it under the part which is passed round, and fasten it at 14.

Then carry the silk down to b, keeping the thumb pressed upon the silk to keep it in its place, and pass the silk round the line b, fastening as before, and continue to pass the silk round and fastening it till the whole of the lines from a to g are covered.