Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 50, January-June, 1855
A Curious Library
173
A Female Steamboat Clerk
370
A Few Words About Modern Civilization
75
A Glance at the West
173
A Hint to the Discontented
504
A New Oven in Paris
328
All Earth is Beautiful, by Louisa Mumford [poem]
541
Allumette Vases (Illustrated)
453
A Lock of Hair, [poem]
156
An Old Bachelor's Soliloquy
76
Anecdotes of Racan
247
Another Letter from the Western Wilds [Oconto Co. Wisc.]
130
Anti-Macassar--Laurestina leaf pattern (Illustrated)
359
A Plea, by Clarence Morton
508
A Poet's Song in Despondency, by Belle Bush [poem]
350
Applique Bracelet, to be worn with the Neck-Tie (Illustrated)
259
A Prodigy in Arithmetic [Margaret Cleland, Scotland]
274
Arthur's Patent Self-Sealing Air-Tight Preserving Cans and Jars
475
A Serenade [poem]
375
A Series of Papers on the Hair
Introduction
31
Disease of the
Hair, and Directions for Its Management
131
Practice of
Applying Unguents and Oils to the Hair
233
Favorite Colors of
the Hair, Common Modes of Wearing the Hair, etc.
341
Modes of Wearing the Hair
435
Trade and Commerce in Hair, etc.
500
A Song for the New Year, by Lilian [poem]
59
At Rest, by Mrs. Bradley [poem]
478
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside, by Edith Woodley [fiction]
41
Autour Boutons (Illustrated)
71
A Villa in the Grecian Style (Illustrated)
289, 345
A Welcome to the Lady's Book, by Mabel Clifford [poem]
542
A Wife Wanted, by Billy Carroll White
[poem]
343
A Winter Scene, by H. H. Clemen, [poem]
255
Behold the Lamb! by Rev. H. Hastings Weld
(Illustrated) [poem]
58
Bead and Bugle Work (Illustrated)
69, 163, 265, 356
Bead Bracelet (Illustrated)
456
Be Not Idle, by Lilian [poem]
157
Biddy's Blunders, by Virginia de Forest
[fiction]
329
Blue-eyed Laura, Little One, by E. G. Clingan [poem]
543
Bobeche, or Ornament for the Socket of a Candlestick (Illustrated)
456
Book-Marker (Illustrated)
454
Bonnets (Illustrated)
160, 258, 385, 479
Braiding and Crochet Design for Long Curtains (Illustrated)
458
Bretelles, or Braces, for young ladies (Illustrated)
545
Bridal Presents, by Alice B. Neal
[fiction]
509
Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
4
Brother Charlie, by Virginia F. Townsend [poem]
58
By-Way Sorrows, by Lila M. Laird
[fiction]
518
Cache-Peigne (Illustrated)
456
Capes (Illustrated)
64, 448
Caps (Illustrated)
63, 64, 159, 257, 355, 385, 479, 545, 546
Card-Basket in Crochet (Illustrated)
68
Case for a Prayer-Book or Bible (Illustrated)
553
Centre-Table Gossip
88, 185, 284, 380, 476, 571
Charades in Action (Illustrated)
Fireworks
27
Blackguard
138
Mischief
231
Bridegroom
325
Rest-oration
425
Pass-port
505
Cheerfulness
313
Chemisettes (Illustrated)
63, 64, 354, 355, 448, 449
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)
65, 258, 295, 383, 481, 573
Children: What Lessons They Teach,
and What Blessings They Bring,
by Marianne
217
Chinese Ice-Houses (Illustrated)
242
Chinese Novels
271
Chloroform or Ether
370
Choice of Colors in Dress; or How a Lady May Become Good Looking
330
Christening Robe for a Child (Illustrated)
257
Christian Burial in Japan, by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, [poem]
77
Clippings by our own scissors
Cashmere Shawls
285
Miss Nightingale
382
Chloroform and the
Sensitive Plant; Sea-Bathing; True and False
Sincerity
478
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
Chale
Valentine, and Carriage Mangle (Illustrated)
390
Omer
Mantle (Illustrated)
545, 546
The
Alboni, from Brodie (Illustrated)
484
The
Alma, from Brodie (Illustrated)
197, 388
The
Andalusia, from Brodie (Illustrated)
100
The
Antoinette and La Manucla (Illustrated)
294
The
Balaklava, from Brodie (Illustrated)
389
The
Darro, from Brodie (Illustrated)
293
The
Emily, and the Violet (Illustrated)
391
The
Empress Pardessus (Illustrated)
61
The
Rio Verde, from Brodie (Illustrated)
292
The
Sevastopol, from Brodie (Illustrated)
1
The
Talma Zuleika, from Brodie (Illustrated)
485
Spanish
Polka for a Child (Illustrated) [knitted]
160
Colds and Cold Water
503
Collar in Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
6
Collar Patterns (Illustrated)
4, 101, 486
College Temple, Newnan, GA
279
Corners for Pocket-Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)
5, 199, 267
Country Life
571
Crochet Edging (Illustrated)
359
Crochet Lamp-Mat--Corals and Shells (Illustrated)
548
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)
200
Cuff in Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
7
Cupid in a Quandary (Illustrated) [picture]
97
Deep Lace in Crochet--for anti-macassars, etc. (Illustrated)
355
Deep Trimming for Sleeves (Illustrated)
455
Drawing-Room Whatnot (Illustrated)
262
Dresses for Young Misses (Illustrated)
196, 263
Dress for a Young Lady (Illustrated)
161
Drive your Business, and let it not drive you
44
Dropped to Sleep, by D. Hardy, Jr. [poem]
351
Duet, by Wille Edgar Pabor [poem]
253
Editors' Table,
Eighteen
Hundred and Fifty-Five, A Few Words About Modern
Civilization, Schools for Young Ladies—Milwaukee Female
College, Schools of Design for Women
75
Suggested
reading for a Young Lady in the Country
172
Helping
the poor
271
The
value of music
367
Philadelphia
charities
465
The
old women of England
559
Education of Children,
175
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-five
75
Eliza Cook and her Journal
273
Emblematical Properties of the Wedding-Ring [poem]
283
Embroidered Bracelet (Illustrated)
262
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)
4, 67, 70, 102, 168, 198,
199,
258, 266, 267, 360, 361, 362, 457, 459, 460, 487, 547, 550, 552, 554
Employments for Young Women
367
Enigmas
60, 157, 256, 351, 447, 544
Evening Reveries, by Corolla H. Criswell [poem]
223
Family Portraits, by the Author of
"Getting into Society," "Mrs. Murden's
Two-Dollar
Silk," etc. [fiction]
412
Farm-House (Illustrated) [plans]
532
Fashions,
Walking
dress, cloak, evening-dress, mourning [widow, dinner-dress,
walking-dress, mother, walking-dress], winter bonnets, furs, velvet
trimmed
dresses, flounces, basques
91
Taffeta
dress, white robe, mourning [worn by a sister, dinner-dress,
walking-dress, worn by a grandmother], evening dresses, bridal
dresses, wedding bonnets, wreaths for the hair, the bache,
walking-dresses
187
Carriage
dress, walking-dress, mourning [for a daughter, walking dress,
for an
aunt, evening dress], short-clothes for baby, child aprons; little
girl's
drawn bonnet
286
Walking-dresses,
spring mantles, children's dresses, fabrics, trimming
skirts,
basques, straw bonnets, bonnet trims, mantillas, shawls
383
Bridal-dress;
walking-dress; new caps and bonnets; mourning [for a niece,
evening-dress, for a cousin]; new spring textiles; dressing-gowns; batiste,
barege,
slight mourning dress
479
Walking-dress,
dinner dress, girls' dresses, mourning [for mother-in-law,
walking-dress, daughter-in-law], girls' mantelets and bonnets, boys'
clothing, watering-place wardrobe, new designs for lace, scarves, new
collars, capellines
573
Fashions of Shoes (Illustrated)
Ladies'
Slippers, Misses' Boots
168
Female Colleges in the United States [Franklin Female College at Holly
Springs, MS]
368
Female Courage
441
Female Physicians
78
Flouncing for Sleeves (Illustrated)
102, 296, 487
Flower Stands and Glazed Cases for Window Plants (Illustrated)
33
Flowers Made of Wood-Shavings (Illustrated)
162
Foot-Wear [carriage overshoe, infants' socks]
361
French Frivolities under the Old Regime
211
Furs for the Ladies (Illustrated)
105, 201, 297, 393, 489
Garden Borders
477
Gathered to her Babies, by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Long [poem]
348
Gentlemen's Knitted Braces (Illustrated)
260
German Plaid Comforter (Illustrated)
165
German Philosophy
76
Gold Fish
119
Godey's Arm-Chair
Award
winning corn cake recipe; description of New York soiree;
humorous "Epitaph on a Youth Who Died of Eating Fruit;"
82
Madame
Sontag; the moral treatment of the insane; pattern prices;
antidote for strychnine; pronunciation of crochet; tableaux;
180
Use wafers as well
as adhesive on envelopes with money; How to Answer
a
Proposal; Ossian Minstrels; Godeys in backwoods Alabama;
to
Manage
a Rearing Horse; always place "Miss" before your name;
what is
terra cotta; when riding horses side by side, which side should
the
lady ride on?; should you take your glove off when shaking hands 278
Cottage
Pudding; Dandy Pudding; Alum Baskets and Ornaments;
wedding
in England—ladies in 13th century attire; Mutton and
Turnips;
value
of gems in crown of England; ether pearls; flower-pots for rooms;
to
improve tea; white waistcoats not in general use at parties; eat olives
with
fingers; gentlemen's shirts same for past 20 years; very bad taste to
perfume
letters; General Twiggs's Hair-Dye
372
A Lock of Hair;
Real Golden Ink; ballgown of Eugenie; a letter from
Nebraska; Babies; Improving Tea; why people don't like their own
Daguerreotypes; Water-Filters; Kissing; which finger wears engagement
ring;
cleaning gold embroidery
471
Responsibility
of publishers; Dress of Queen Victoria at recent levee;
Dandy
pudding corrected; how to make sugar out of sawdust; making ice;
keeping
cranberries; gloves at dinner-parties; black vs. green tea;
travelling alone in a railroad car
566
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)
Lesson
XIII. Proportions of the Human
Figure
45
Lesson
XIV. Perspective Drawing
116
Lesson
XV. Perspective Drawing (Continued)
212
Lesson
XVI. Perspective Drawing
(Continued)
314
Lesson
XVII. Perspective Drawing
(Continued)
408
Lesson
XVIII. Perspective Drawing
(Continued)
515
God, Send a Merry New Year
88
Good Advice to Readers
317
Hair Ornaments Prices
279
Heart's-Ease
186
He Doeth All Things Well, by Kate Harrington [poem]
446
Hill Farm; or, A Week's Angling, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]
140, 219, 303
Home for Female Servants in New York
468
Hour-Glass Table
572
House-Hiring and Furnishing
185
First floor
285
Second floor
381
Chamber furnishing
572
I Have Loved Thee Fondly, by Finley Johnson, [poem]
542
Illumination Under Water
530
Imitation of Dresden China (Illustrated)
264
Indian Ornamental Work--Screen (Illustrated)
362
India Rubber Shoes
40
Initial Letters and Names (Illustrated) 62, 167,
199, 353, 357, 458, 459, 487, 554
Jackets or Spencers and Sacques (Illustrated)
158, 354
Jenny Deans, or Helen Walker
466
Jenny Lind and the Opera
562
Judy's Anti-Macassar (Illustrated)
358
Just Down the Road, by Virginia F.
Townsend [fiction]
430
Keep Nearer to thy Youth, by R. S. S. [poem]
540
Knitted Chair-Tidy
260
Knitted Eyelets
70
Knitted Lace Undersleeve (Illustrated)
66
Lady Physicians
175
Lady's Cravat or Neck-Tie in Applique (Illustrated)
259, 264
Lady's Reticule--Crochet (Illustrated)
104, 167
Ladies' Union City Mission
279
Lamp or Gas Shade (Illustrated)
264
Lamp-Mat (Illustrated)
263
"Last Cake of Supper", a parody of "Last Rose of Summer [poem]
379
Last Words of the Emperor
561
Laura Grahame; or, the Result of a Reverie, by Virginia
De Forrest
(Illustrated)
[fiction]
497
Letter from a Young Lady
172
Letters left at the Pastry-Cook's, [being the Clandestine Correspondence
between Kitty
Clover at School, and her "Dear, Dear Friend" in
Town"],
Edited by Horace Mayhew
Showing how
long a purse is sometimes needed at school to make it
"The Happiest Time of Our Lives"
29
Showing
what was the cause of the postponement of the ball
113
Showing
what cruelties pride is frequently the unnatural parent of
209
Showing
that school is not such a terrible place after all
327
Life and Adventures of Ferdinand Cortes, by John
B. Duffey 51,
145, 224, 318, 417, 534
Lines, by W. S. Gaffney [poem]
447
Lines on Botany, by Emanuel Price [poem]
208
Lines on Leaving School, by Emily Herrmann [poem]
444
Lines, on Seeing the Picture of a Child Gathering Lilies from a Brook,
by Faith Farley [poem]
544
Lines, Suggested on Viewing an Engraving of "Retsch's Poesie," by S.
S. B.
[poem]
447
Lines to a Lady who will understand them, by R.
James Keeling [poem]
157
Literary Notices
Narrative
of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands, in
1850
and 1851; The Western Home, and Other Poems; Lives of the
Queens
of England Before the Norman Conquest; Afraja, a Norwegian
and
Lapland Tale; Things as They Are In America; What Not;
Memories Over the Water; Party Leaders; A Complete Treatise on
Artificial Fish-Breeding; Emmanuel Philibert; The Youth of Madame
de
Longueville; The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; A
Practical and Commercial Arithmetic; Complete Concordance to the
Holy
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; Poems by William
Cullen
Bryant; Synonymes of the New Testament; Easy Warren and
His
Contemporaries; The Ladies' Complete Guide to Crochet,
Fancy
Knitting and Needle-Work; Totemwell; Kansas and Nebraska;
The
Poetical Works of Mark Akenside; The City Side; The
Inebriate's Hut; Literary Recreations and Miscellanies; Illustrations of
Genius
in Some of its Relations to Culture and Society; Fanny Gray;
The
Smithsonian Institution; Memoirs of a Grandmother; The Little
Pilgrim
79
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity; The Scholar's Companion;
Personal Recollections of the Stage; Peterson's Library of Humorous
American Works; Ruth Hall: A
Domestic Tale of the Present Time;
Christy's Plantation Melodies; Brushwood, Picked Up on the
Continent; Pebbles From the Lake Shore; Harry's Vacation; History
of the
Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the
United
States; The Illustrated Natural History; Harper's Story-Book;
Later
Years; Agnes and Caroline; The Young Husband; Famous
Persons
and Places; Out-Doors of Idlewild; The Home in the Valley;
The
Rat-Catcher; Beautiful Bertha; The Plum-Woman; Old Karl, the
Cooper,
and His Wonderful Book; Life in the Clearings Versus the
Bush;
Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife; The Wanderers by Sea
and
Land, with Other Tales; Nothing Venture, Nothing Have; Fred
Vernon;
or, the Victim of Averice; You Have Heard of Them; Anabel:
A
Family History; Ida Norman; or, Trials and Their Uses; The Works
of Ben
Jonson; The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; Gems of Beauty;
or,
Literary Gifts for 1855; The Book of the Boudoir; or, Memento of
Friendship; The Souvenir Gallery: an
Illustrated Gift-Book for All
Seasons; The Amaranth; or, Tokens of Remembrance; This, That,
and the
Other; Town and Country; Popular Tales; Children's Trials;
"What is Home Without a Father?"
176
The
Works of Shakespeare; An Offering of Sympathy to the Afflicted;
Mary
and Ellen; or, the Best Thanksgiving; The Little Pilgrim; The
American Sportsman; Lingard's History of England Abridged; May
and
December: A Tale of Wedded Life;
Nelly Brackend:
A Tale of
Forty
Years Ago; Leibig's Complete Works on Chemistry; The Wife's
Victory; The Mysteries of the Court of Queen Anne; Parish and Other
Pencillings; American Principles on National Prosperity; Harper's
Gazeteer of the World; The Rose and the Ring; The New Jersey
Medical
Reporter; The American Home Cook-Book; Humanity in the
City;
The Life of Horace Greeley; Hagar, the Martyr; Little Folks'
Own;
Love in Idleness; Rose and Lillie Stanhope; Maxims of
Washington; Mile-Stones in our Life-Journey; The Boat Club; The
History
and Poetry of Finger-Rings; The Life of P. T. Barnum;
Nothing
Venture, Nothing Have; Country Life, and Other Stories;
The
Angel Children; The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood; The
Complete Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver
Goldsmith; The American Almanac and Repository of Useful
Knowledge; The Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell; The Poetical
Works
of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Notes on Duels and
Duelling; Merrie England; Home Life: Twelve
Lectures; Cornell's
Primary
Geography; My Courtship and Its Consequences; The
Aimwell
Stories; The Knickerbocker Gallery; Memories Over the
Water
274
Discourse in
Commemoration of the Founding of the Academy of
Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia; Miranda Elliot, or, the Voice of
the
Spirit; The Sons of the Sires; The Initials, a Story of Modern
Life;
Scripture Portraits; The New Pastoral; Chemical Atlas; American
System
of Education; A Year of the War; Analytical Class-Book of
Botany;
Getting Along, a Book of Illustrations; Avillion, and Other
Tales;
Harper's Story Book; Harper's Gazeteer of
the World; Inez,
A Tale
of the Alamo; The Coquette, or, the History of Eliza Wharton,
Tom
Crosbie and His Friends
370
Lectures
on English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson; Mornings
with
Jesus; Corsica; Marco Paul at the Springfield Armory; Harper's
Story
Book; North and South; Ingenue; American Railway Guide to
the
United States for 1855; Questions of the Soul; Satire and Satirists;
Cosas
de Espana; The New Jersey Medical Reporter; The Virgin
Queen;
Chandler's Plan of Sevastopol from Public Documents; Pride
and
Prejudice; The Banking House; The Life and Beauties of Fanny
Fern;
The History of the Hen Fever; Harvestings; A Long Look Ahead;
Mrs.
Elizabeth Fry; The Trifolium
469
Patent
Office and Patent Laws; The Most Eminent Orators and
Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times; The Rag-Bag; Travels
in the
East; The Physical Geography of the Sea; An Introduction
to
Practical Astronomy; The Story of the Peasant Boy Philosopher;
Lives
of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses; The
Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington;
Harper's Story Book; Tom Burke or "Ours"; Charles O'Malley,
the
Irish Dragoon; Kate Aylesford: A Story of the Refugees; Grace
Lee;
The Castle Builders; The Old Inn; Mammon, or, The Hardships
of an
Heiress; Men of Character; A History of England; English, Past
and Present; The Life of
William H. Seward; The Slave of the Lamp;
O'Halloran and
His Man; Visits to European Celebrities; The
Philosophy of
Sectarianism; The May Flower and Miscellaneous
Writings; Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind
563
Literature in Russia
173
Look for the Flowers
440
Lounging-Cap Purse (Illustrated)
162, 452
Love, by Robert
Miller [poem]