Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 52, January-June, 1856
A Basquine (Illustrated)
255
A Carolina Woman of the Revolution [Susannah Smart, of Mecklenburg, NC]
213
A Child at Prayer, by John H. Bazley
[poem]
252
A Daughter's Love, by Blanche Bennairde
[poem]
61
A Day of Troubles, by Virginia De Forrest
(Illustrated) [fiction]
32
A Dirge, by N. W. Bridge [poem]
539
A Good Law [NY law that allows wife of drunkard or deserter to transact
business in her
own name, control her own earnings, and educate
her own children]
468
A Happy Marriage
444
A Lady Antiquary
560
A Lay of Loyalty, by Fausta
[poem]
254
Alphabet of Fancy Letters for Marking a Lady's Wardrobe (Illustrated)
A-N
298
O-Z
394
A-N
490
Ancestry, by Emily Herrmann [poem]
159
A Netted Tidy (Illustrated)
294
A New Heroine of the Crimea [Mrs. Duberly]
466
An Infant Boot (Illustrated)
266
Another Comet [discovered by Maria Mitchell]
372
A Picture of the Olden Time: Privy Purse Expenses of Charles II
239
Applique Cushion (Illustrated)
67
April Hours, by Mrs. J. H. Thomas [poem]
350
A Resolve, by J. L. Bryan, M. D. [poem]
253
A Vision of the Past, by Mrs. Harriet E.
Francis [poem]
351
Away with the Past, by Helen Smesdell
[poem]
447
Beauty of the Dead
382
Beauty out West, or, How Three Fashionable Young Ladies Spent a
Year in the
Wilderness, by Metta Victoria Fuller
[fiction—MN]
491
Be Gentle [with children]
345
Beckonings, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]
447
Bonnets (Illustrated)
192
Books Borrowed [poem]
186
Border for a Handkerchief (Illustrated)
105, 362
Borrowdale in a Flutter, by Debby Downright [borrowed issues of Godey's] 315
Braid Dinner Mat (Illustrated)
355
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)
74, 197, 360, 545
Braidwork--Lady's Muff (Illustrated)
167
Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
362
Caps (Illustrated)
104, 164, 196, 452, 541
Centre-Table Gossip
91, 188, 285, 381, 477, 569
Charades in Action (Illustrated) [Cab-bage]
433
Chemisettes (Illustrated)
164, 542
Chemistry for the Young
Introduction
78
Definition of
analysis, importance of clean equipment
176
Lesson 1—A
mixture of sand and common salt being given;
to separate the two (Illustrated)
270
Lesson 1 continued
(Illustrated)
368
Lesson 1 continued
464
Lesson II—Method
of cleansing the apparatus employed
556
Child's Dress (Illustrated)
8
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)
289, 383, 481, 544
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
La
Mignene and the Alexandrine (Illustrated)
389, 479
"Le
Gitana," from Brodie (Illustrated)
9
The
Adele and the Ionian (Illustrated)
293, 384, 479
The
Alboni, from Brodie (Illustrated)
200
The
Alma Escharpe, from Brodie (Illustrated)
297
The
Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated)
201
The
Escurial, from Brodie (Illustrated)
393
The
Guadiana, from Brodie (Illustrated)
485
The
Lucie and the Bijou (Illustrated)
292, 384
The
Morisco, from Brodie (Illustrated)
484
The
Poncho, from Brodie (Illustrated)
100
The
Zamora, from Brodie (Illustrated)
296
The
Zulima, from Brodie (Illustrated)
392
Collars (Illustrated)
102, 191, 361, 486, 488, 552
Colleges and Institutions for Young Women in the United States [Patapsco
Female Institute,
MD; Baltimore Female College, MD; Adelphi
College, MO;
Wesleyan Female College, OH; Bascom Female
Institute, AL; St.
Mary's Hall, NJ; Mystic Hall, MA]
467
Comfort for Dark Days [quotations on Fortune]
570
Comparable Female Anatomy [French, English, German—humor]
286
Convolvulus Flowers (Illustrated)
457
Convolvulus Wreath (Illustrated)
459
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated) 69, 171, 198,
358, 363, 385, 460, 543, 551
Cottage in the Venetian Style (Illustrated)
106, 172
Cousin Marion, by Virginia F. Townsend
[fiction]
33
Crochet Bonnet (Illustrated)
356
Crochet Purse (Illustrated)
455
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)
72
Crochet Toilet Mat (Illustrated)
363
Crown of Cap (Illustrated)
105
"Dearest"--That was All, by Willie Edgar Pabor [poem]
252
Dear Mother, was it Right? by Alfred Burnett [poem]
253
Death
478
Design for a Brick House (Illustrated)
530
Despair [poem]
448
Diaphane Lamp Shade (Illustrated)
38, 147, 238, 341
Dreamings, by W. M. M. [poem]
212
Dusk, by W. Gilmore Simms [poem]
160
Editors' Table
A New Year
79
Godey's as a guide
for dress and an encourager of the needle arts
177
Miscellaneous
273
A Trip to China
369
English Travel
Journals
465
Poor
"literature" submitted to Godey's
557
Education in England
178
Embroidered Cap (Illustrated)
104, 196
Embroidered Collar in Imitation of Honiton
102
Embroidered Habit-Shirt (Illustrated)
261
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated),
10, 67, 72, 73, 97, 105, 162, 166, 171, 172,
261, 357, 358, 359, 360, 362, 364, 450, 460, 545, 547, 548, 549, 550
Embroidery Design for a Gentleman's Cravat (Illustrated)
551
Embroidery Pattern for an Infant's Cashmere Boot (Illustrated)
74
Enigmas
62, 160, 254, 352, 448, 540
Evening Voices, by Lillian [poem]
351
Expenses of a Young Lady at School in the 17th Century
123
Faded Flowers, by N. W. Bridge [poem]
22
Fancies of Home, by H. L. A. [poem]
447
Fashionable Colors for Gloves [includes English equivalents for some
French colors]
285
Fashions
Bride,
bridesmaid, guest at ceremony, guest at reception, ordinary
evening
headdress (Illustrated), black and
white, bonnets
(Illustrated)
93
Evening
dress, ribbons, collar and sleeve trimmed in black velvet
ribbon (Illustrated),
canezous, jackets, bonnets (Illustrated),
dress
trimmings, Pompadour dresses, fancy silk aprons for
young
ladies
191
Evening
dress, carriage or home dress, Pamela bonnet, walking
dress,
child's walking dress, children's clothing, two party
dresses
for 12-14 year old girls (too grown up for Godey's
taste),
Leghorn bonnets
287
Dinner
dress, morning dress suitable for bride, clothing for lad of
twelve;
dress for girl 8-10, mantles, fabrics for little girls' dresses,
girls'
walking dresses, flounced dresses, guipure mantles, straw
bonnet
383
Morning
dress, evening dress for wedding reception, child's dress,
mantillas, juvenile fashions, mantles, new spring dress fabrics,
basques,
bonnets
479
Dinner
dress, carriage dress, evening dress, summer bonnets,
headdresses, fichus, undersleeves, white canzous, morning caps,
pocket
handkerchiefs, lace jackets
571
Filigree Purse (Illustrated)
546
Finger-Rings (Illustrated)
Ancient
11
Early Christian,
Egyptian Signets; Shakespeare's Signet
107
Gimmal ring,
wedding rings in different countries and times
203
Flouncing
10, 73, 97, 263, 265, 360, 364, 456
Flower Vase. In Beads (Illustrated)
101, 165
Forget, by W. S. Gaffney [poem]
251
French Flowers and Lace
190
Furs, from Lasak & Son, 520 Broadway, New York (Illustrated)
68
Getting up a Club in Borrowdale, by Debby Downright [a Godey's Club]
233
Gentleman's Shaving Book (Illustrated)
453
Gift to the Maryland Hospital
468
Girls Should be Taught to Swim
559
Godey's Arm-Chair
A Late
Fashionable Wedding; Excerpt from a Letter from
Mississippi; Naked Legged Children; Ivory Handle Cutlery
(Illustrated),
Nutcracker, Nut Picks, and Plate Warmer
(Illustrated);
Gentleman's Collars and Wristbands; When to Send
Invitations to a Ball or Large Party; Double Entendre
88
Pearl
Card Cases; Lines on Slander; Words for Some Lazy Husbands
in This
Country; Dress of Her Majesty of France, Worn at the
Closing
of the Grand Show in Paris; Hair Dye; List of New Music;
Ball
Dress for English Bride
185
Temperance
Society in Rusk, Texas; Latest style of Visiting Card
(Illustrated);
Articles for Domestic Use—Bird Cages, Wheel
Pattern
Knife Sharpener, Fluting Scissors, Cheese Scoop, Knives,
Moulds,
Corkscrew (Illustrated)
283
Caudle
Parties; College Temple at Newnan, GA; Take Care of
Your French; Dresses Worn at a Late "Drawing-Room" Held by
the
Queen of England; Notions of
Beauty; Left-Handed Side
Saddles; List of New Music; Articles for Domestic Use—Rattan
or Cane
Ware Chairs and Sofas (Illustrated)
377
How to
Work Patterns in Imitation of Honiton Lace; List of New
Music;
The Empress's Cradle; Recipe for Bavarian Cream; New
Readings of Old Proverbs; How to Get Rid of Large Black Ants;
For
Bleaching Cotton; Preventing Odor when Cooking Codfish;
Pudding
a la Godey; Inflatable Skirt Hoops; How to Use Copying
paper; Arthur's Self-Sealing Cans; Corn Cake Recipe (Humorous);
Veils
Worn Over Face in Street
473
Need
food served on trains; List of New Music; Compliment from
Nashville that Godey's clothes wearable; Prices of Moire Antique,
Lace,
and Imitation Lace
565
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)
Lesson XXII.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
119
Lesson XXIII.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
318
Lesson XXIV.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
507
Good and Bad Huswifery, by Thomas Tusser [1557, poem]
286
Half of Collar, worked with colored embroidery cottons
between 168 and 169
Hamlet and Ophelia--Romeo and Rosaline, by J.
O. F.
499
Headdresses (Illustrated)
Simple home
wear, net for young lady, cache peigne for young girl,
head-dress for young girl for concerts, etc.
63
Headdresses
for spring weddings and bridal parties
354
Headdress for
opera or an evening reception
451
Heart-Blighting, by Ada L_____ [poem]
352
Health and Long Life in America
372
Helen Bennett, by Marion Harland
[fiction]
23, 111
He said that I was False, by M. A. Rice [poem]
253
Hints to Ladies Studying Botany, by Harland Coultas
514
History of Dancing [very brief]
110
Home Truths for Home Peace [Friends Staying in the House; Preparations
for Company]
437
Homely Topics—Saturday's Mending
381
Housekeeping Journal
189
How Euphrosyne and Pete Daffodil became Literary, by Virginia
De Forrest
[fiction]
321
How Far should the Fashions be followed, by Mrs.
Merrifield
[accommodating age and coloring; cosmetics; small bonnets]
30
How Tea is Made
305
How to be Happy
14
How to Beautify the Kitchen-garden [combining the kitchen and flower
gardens]
465
Hyacinth Glass-stand (Illustrated)
454
I Am Thinking, by Marion Harland [poem]
570
I Have No Mother Now, by Corolla H.
Criswell [poem]
61
I Hold Still, by Charles T. Brooks [poem]
478
Influence, by George W. Bungay [poem]
445
Initial Letters (Illustrated)
170, 256
"Is she Happy?" by Katherine Dean [fiction]
402
Ivy Leaf Pattern (Illustrated)
358
June, by Robert G. Allison [poem]
539
Juvenile Fashions (Illustrated)
Coats, cloaks,
&c.
65
Girl's dress, boy
on hobby horse
390
Girl and boy with
hoops
391
Dress suitable for
a dancing school or small child's party; boy's
dress; chambray gingham dress for girl 6-12; costume for boy same
age;
boy's outfit
480
L. Johnson & Co.'s Type and Stereotype Foundry (Illustrated)
299
Labor, by F. H. Stauffer
122
Lady Editors—Mrs. Hicks of Virginia
560
Lady's Toilet Slipper (Illustrated)
455
Lake Michigan, by Helen Bruce [poem]
254
La Peignoir Marguerite (Illustrated)
4, 66
Lena Grant, by Virginia F. Townsend
[fiction]
124
Letter Receptacle (Illustrated)
359
Letter Writing
48
Life and Adventures of John Smith, by J. B. Duffey
41, 149, 244, 334, 438, 532
Lines by Milton in His Old Age [poem]
382
Lines to Kate Harrington, by Beatrice [poem]
415
Lingerie [description of wealthy woman's bridal trousseau, studs to close
lady's lingerie
neckband, embroidery]
91
Literary Notices
Gift Books;
Dickens's Works Complete; The Christian Year; The
Private
Life of an Eastern King; The Japan Expedition; Lives of the
Queens
of England of the House of Hanover; Horaryhead and
M'Donner; Mysteries of Paris; The Female Bluebeard; Farerino:
A
Romance; Marriage a Lottery; Frank Hilton, or The Queen's Own;
Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress; Wages of Battle; Scenes in the
Practice of a New York Surgeon; Appleton's Library for Young
People;
Juno Clifford: A Tale;
Beechcroft; Cora and the Doctor,
or
Revelations of a Physician's Wife; Aspiration:
An Autobiography
of
Girlhood; Helen Leeson: A Peep at
New York Society; Cooper's
Novels;
Almack's: A Tale of English
Society; Winnie and I; Letters to
a Young
Physician Just Entering Upon Practice; The Lives of the
British
Historians; Flora's Dictionary; Lippincott's Pronouncing
Gazetteer of the World; Inside View of Slavery
84
The
Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races; Letters of English History
and
Tragic Poetry; The Glory of the Redeemer in Person and Work;
The
Heavenly Recognition; Luther's Christmas Tree; Sallust, Florus,
and
Velleius Paterculus; Christian Theism; Table Traits, With Something
on
Them; The Foragers; A New and Comprehensive French Instructor;
Richard
the Fearless; Mortimer's College Life; The Young Lady's
Friend;
The Gloria in Excelsis; Byram's Illustrated Philadelphia
Directory; Life of George Washington; Flora's Dictionary; Curious
Stories
about Fairies and Other Funny People; Prescott's Historical
Works;
Klosterheim, or The Masque; Glenwood, or The Pariah Boy;
Aspiration: An Autobiography of Girlhood; The Physiology of
Marriage; The Works of Shakespeare; The Good Time Coming;
Crochets and Quavers, or Revelations of an Opera Manager in
America; Mitchell's New National Map; Coast Survey
180
The
House by the Sea: A Poem; A
Christmas Wreath, for Little People;
Home
Garner; The Curse of Clifton; The Discarded Daughter;
Mysteries of the Court of the Stuarts; Chapman's Principia; Village
and
Farm Cottages; Plain Talk and Friendly Advice to Domestics;
Aunty Wonderful's Stories; The Great Rosy Diamond; Border
Beagles: A Tale of the Mississippi;
Cicero's Three Books of Offices,
or
Moral Duties; Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars;
The
Anabasis; Mexico and Its Religion; The Library of Standard
Letters; The Elm-Tree Tales; Oakfield:
or, Fellowship in the East;
Mimic
Life: or, Before and Behind the
Curtain; The Heathen Religion
in its
Popular and Symbolical Development; Cora and the Doctor, or,
Revelations of a Physician's Wife; Modern Mysteries Explained and
Exposed; Geoffrey Moncton: or, The
Faithless Guardian; Kate
Weston:
or, To Will and To Do; The Panorama of Life and
Literature; Casper; The Prison of Weltevreden; Instructions for the
Analysis of Soils, Limestones, and Manures
280
Home
Service; History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain;
The
Poetical Works of Augustine Duganne; Napoleon at St. Helena;
The
Works of Charles Lamb; A Child's History of the United States;
An
Outline of the General Principles of Grammar; The Way of
Salvation;
Lily: A Novel; The Life and Reign
of Nicholas I, Emperor
of
Russia; America's Mission; The Sacred Plains; The Irish Abroad and
at
Home; Our Cousin Veronica; Home Comforts; Estelle Grant, or The
Lost
Wife; Lily Huson; Caste: A Store of
Republican Equality; The
Indian
Fairy Book; Hampton Heights, or The Spinster's Ward; Modern
Pilgrims; Meister Karl's Sketch Book; The Last of the Huggermuggers;
The
Lake Shore; Amy Lee, or Without and Within; Indian Legends and
Other
Poems; The Heart of Mabel Ware; Rose Clark; Hill-Side Flowers;
The
String of Pearls; Biographies of the Heroes of History; The Sunbeam
Stories; The Song of Hiawatha; The Mystic and Other Poems; Sabbath
Evening
Readings on the New Testament; Edith Allen, or Sketches of
Life in
Virginia
373
The
Three Marriages; Life of Lord Jeffrey; Notes by a Volunteer of the
French
Republic; The History of England; A Treatise on Phonology;
The
Blind Girl of Wittenberg; Major Jones's Courtship; Major Jones's
Sketches of Travel; Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; The
Holly-Tree Inn; The Pirate's Son; Lucy Boston, or Woman's Rights
and
Spiritualism; The Attache in Madrid; Songs and Ballads of the
American Revolution; The Confidential Correspondence of Napoleon
Bonaparte with His Brother Joseph, Sometimes King of Spain;
Lanmere;
Edith, or The Quaker's Daughter; Home; Alone; Jackson
and New
Orleans; Camp Fires of the Red Men; Sense and
Sensibility; Mrs. Follen's Twilight Stories; The Blue Ribbons;
Selections from the British Poets; Our Church Music; Dreams and
Realities in the Life of a Pastor and Teacher; The Onyx Ring; Little
Paul
and Other Stories; The Hunter's Feast
469
Wild
Western Scenes; An Essay on Liberty and Slavery; The Green
Mountain Girls; Toiling and Hoping; Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily
Occurrence in Speaking, Pronunciation, and Writing the English
Language, Corrected; Ernest Linwood: A
Novel; Memoirs of
Richard Cumberland; The Ocean; Literary Criticisms and Other
Papers;
The Wonders of Science; Learning to Think; The Old
Dominion; The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Richard Penn
Smith;
Courtship and Marriage; India: The
Pearl of Pearl River;
Pictorial
Life and Adventures of Grace O'Malley; A History of
Philosophy in Epitome; The Philosophy of the Weather, and a
Guide
to Its Changes; Rachel Gray; Elements of Logic; Recollections
of the
Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers; The Creole Orphans; Woman's
Faith; The Lost Hunter; The Library of Standard Letters; Letters of
Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu; Ancient Spanish Ballads; Tolla:
A
Tale of
Modern Rome; Florence Betrayed, or, The Last Days of the
Republic; The First and Second Marriages, or, The Courtesies of
Wedded
Life; Aspen Court: A Story of Our
Own Time;
Charlemont, or, The Price of the Village; Beauchamp, or, The
Kentucky Tragedy; '98 and '48: The
Modern Revolutionary History
and
Literature of Ireland; The Shakespeare Papers of the Late
William
Maginn; The Works of the Late Edgar Allen Poe; Wolfsden;
The
History of England, From the Accession of James II; Edith Hale:
A
Village Story; The Island of Cuba; The War in Kansas; Recent
Speeches and Address by Charles Sumner; A Forest Tragedy, and
Other
Tales; The Bush-Boys; Tragic Scenes in the History of
Maryland and the Old French War; Village and Farm Cottages;
Christine, or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs, The Cave of Skulls:
A
Temperance Story
561
Little Economies: The Uses of Hair
[horse, camel, badger, squirrel, and goat] 156
Little Gerty, by Clarence Carleton
[poem]
253
Lou Grant; or, Make your Will, by Hannah Truman [fiction]
406
Low-Voiced Ella, by Ada L_____ [poem]
446
Lura Deane; or the Two Homes in the Country, by Virginia
F. Townsend
[fiction]
221, 306, 395
Maggie Lee, by Mrs. B. F. Enos
[fiction]
206
Maltese Lace Sleeves (Illustrated)
70
Marrying a Planter, by Alice B. Neal
[fiction]
327, 418, 515
Marketing in a Silk Dress, by C. T. Hinckley (Illustrated) [fiction]
193, 236
Mother's Nannie; or, The Child's Sorrow, by Virginia
De Forrest
(Illustrated)
[fiction]
435
Mouchoir, or Handkerchief Sachet (Illustrated)
355
Mound Prairie Institute [Anderson County, TX]
372
Mount Vernon [poem]
179
Mrs. Daffodil at Barnum's Museum, by Virginia De Forrest [fiction]
524
Muggins's MSS., edited by A. E. Stewart [fiction]
430
Music
"Lelia"
2
"The Weyanoke
Waltz"
98
"The
Powhattan Waltz"
194
"The Richmond
Waltz"
290
"The
Emigrant"
386
[short article]
417
"Marian"
545
My Angel, by Augustus L. Stone, M. D.
[poem]
252
My Lily, by Beata [poem]
60
My Wife's Portrait, by An Old Gentleman
[fiction]
56
Names for Embroidery
Sarah
69
Cornelia
198
Annette
551
Napkin Ring (Illustrated)
165
Net for Pony (Illustrated)
168
Netted Tidy (Illustrated)
166
New Fire-Escape (Illustrated)
331
New Style of Infant's Bib (Illustrated)
6
Nick-Nack Basket (Illustrated)
454
Night and Morning, by George W. Bungay
[poem]
538
Novelties for the Month (Illustrated)
63
Gypsy wrap, La
Bretelle Cloak, lace casaque, dress caps, chemisettes
163
Christening
robe, walking dress and saque for toddler, dress for 5 year
old
girl, walking dress for young girl, surcoat for boy age 4-5
257
Headdresses for
Spring and Bridal Parties
354
Headdress for
opera, lace basque, sick-room cap, dress cap
451
Invalid's cap,
breakfast cap, bretelle, berthe, collar and chemisette,
muslin
chemisette, undersleeves
541
Oakford's New Styles for Children's Fancy Hats and Caps (Illustrated) 199
Oakford's Summer Fashions (Illustrated) [Children's Fancy Hats and Caps]
489, 545
Oh, bury me there, by D. V. [poem]
351
Old Friends; or, Mr. and Mrs. Pettis, by Ann
E. Porter [fiction]
342
Old Maids
506
One of Life's Mysteries, by W. M. R. [poem]
252
Oremus, by R. Grey [poem]
64
Our Birthplace [poem]
537
Our Lord's Prayer Paraphrased, by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale (Illustrated) [poem] 60
Our Practical Dress Instructor (Illustrated)
Winter
Cloak [with diagrams]
161
A Basquine [with
diagrams]
255
Dress for Miss of
Eight or Ten Years, and Little Boy's Outfit
353
Walking Dress for
Little Girls [with diagram]
449
Part of Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)
361
Passing Years, by Amy L_____ [poem]
351
Pattern for an Infant's Boot (Illustrated)
266
Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
468
Physical Training
178
Polka Jacket trimmed with Imitation Ermine (Illustrated)
202, 259
Porte-Monnaie (Illustrated)
455
Portion of a Collar (Illustrated)
552
Poverty a Blessing
47
Prayer
478
Pretty Things from Japan
569
Princess Royal's Scarf (Illustrated)
[knitted]
264
Public Dinner to Louis A. Godey
271
Rag Fair in London
401
Receipts, &c.
Sick-Room
and Nursery—Cure for Corns, Another Remedy
for
Corns, Coffee a Disinfectant, A Good Restorative, Valuable
Stomachic Tincture, To Make Barley-Water Properly, Elder-Flower
Ointment; How to Cook Potatoes—To Boil Potatoes, To Boil
New
Potatoes, Potatoes a la Maitre d'Hotel, Roasted Potatoes,
Broiled
Potatoes, Fried Potatoes, Potatoes a la Creme, Potato
Rissoles, Potato Souffle, Potato Ragout, A Puree or Soup of
Potatoes, To Mash Potatoes, Potato Balls; Blancmanges—
Blancmange, Rice Blancmange, Blancmange en Surprise, Blancmange
with
Preserved Orange, Blancmange (Hot), Blancmange, Dutch;
Mrs.
Jones's Little Tea Parties—Nice Plum Cake, Gingerbread
Snaps,
Drop Cakes, A Very Excellent and Cheap Cake, "Jersey
Wonders;" Short but Useful Hints for Ladies, To Keep Silk,
Cod-Liver Oil, To Keep Fish Fresh, Washing Dresses of Printed
Muslins, Cement, To Take Stains out of Ivory, Velvet
75
How to
Cook Potatoes—Potatoes Fried With Fish, Potatoes Mashed
with
Onions, Potato Cheese Cakes, Potato Colcanon, Potatoes
Roasted
Under Meat, Potato Balls Ragout, Potato Snow, Potatoes
Fried
Whole, Potatoes Escalloped, Potato Scones, Potato Pie,
Potatoes in Haste; How to Prepare Arrowroot—For Boiling
Arrowroot
for Children, For Sick Persons, Arrowroot Pudding,
Arrowroot Blancmange, Arrowroot Biscuits, Plain Arrowroot Biscuits,
Arrowroot Cakes for Breakfast; Sick-Room and Nursery—Croup,
The
Earwig a Popular Error, Dr. Carmichael Smythe's Plan for
Fumigating Rooms, Ships, and Hospitals; The Young Lady's Toilet—
Remedy for Bad Breath, When the Breath is Affected, Aperient and
Tonic
Draught for Fetid Breath, To Sweeten the Breath, Cold Cream,
Granulated Cold Cream, White Camphorated Ointment, Cosmetic
Powder; How to Know Good Flour, To Prevent Milk From Turning
Sour in
Warm Weather, How to Keep Butter Sweet for Years;
French
Bread; Rancid Butter; A Cement; How to Preserve Beans
for
Winter; To Take Paint from a Dress; Muffins; Yeast
173
Domestic
Manupulation: Bottles, Decanters,
&c.—Cleaning, Drying,
Tying
Down (Illustrated); A Few Chapters on
the Art of Good and
Cheap
Cookery: Introductory Remarks;
Sick-Room and Nursery:
Ointments—Simple Ointment, Resing Ointment, or Yellow Basilicon,
Calomine Ointment, or Turner's Cerate; Development of the Lungs;
The
Toilet: Cosmetics for the Skin; To
Make Crisp Paste for Tarts,
Half-Pay Pudding, Short-Bread, Belvidere Cakes, for Breakfast or
Tea,
Cocoa, Arrowroot Pudding, French Receipt for Boiling a Ham
267
Domestic
Manipulations—Stoppering, Unstoppering; A Few Chapters
on the
Art of Good and Cheap Cookery—fish, milk, butter, beans
and
peas, oatmeal, barley, garden vegetables, tea, coffee, and cocoa,
sugar,
condiments; Sick-Room and Nursery—Domestic Surgery,
Dressings, Lint, Scraped Lint, Carded Cotton; The Toilet—Receipt
for Purifying and Whitening the Skin, To Promote the Growth of Hair;
Rendering Teeth Insensible to Pain, Cement for China, Plants in
Rooms,
A Galette, To Keep Cheese, Cleaning Shells
365
Domestic
Manipulation—Knots, Packages, Parcels, etc.; How to Cook
Mutton—Haunch of Mutton, Saddle of Mutton, Leg of Mutton Roasted,
Roasted
Leg of Mutton (Another Receipt), Roast Leg of Mutton Boned
and
Stuffed, Leg of Mutton Boiled, Leg of Mutton Braised, To Send a
Leg of
Mutton Neatly to Table Which Has Been Cut for a Previous
Meal;
Sick-Room and Nursery—Domestic Surgery—Tow, Ointments,
Adhesive Plaster, Compresses, Pads, Poultices, Bandages; The Toilet—
Maceration [to make Perfume], Absorption, or Enfleurage; To Make
Papier
Mache, Crystallizing Flowers, Pimples, Boiled Chestnuts
461
Domestic
Manipulation—Knots, Packages, Parcels, etc., (cont'd); How to
Cook
Mutton—Shoulder of Mutton, Loin of Mutton Stewed, Breast of
Mutton,
Breast of Mutton Crumbed or Gratin, Neck of Mutton, Steaks
From a Loin of Mutton, Mutton Steaks, Mutton Chops Broiled, Mutton
Chops
Fried, Chops as Beefsteaks, Mutton Cutlets, Mutton Cutlets—
Another
Way, Cutlets Saute, Cutlets in Butter; Sick-Room and Nursery—
Domestic Surgery, Bandages, To Confine the Ends of Bandages; The
Toilet—Sources of Perfumes, Allspice; To Make Glossy Shirt Bosoms,
Cheap
and Excellent Candles, Hints About Candles, To Polish
Tortoise-Shell Combs, Improvement in Soap, Mending Glass and
China
553
Reminiscences of Bonnets, by Florence Fashionhunter (Illustrated)
1830s
227
More 1830s
332
Still More 1830s
416
Rosa Bell, by H. L. Spencer [poem]
157
Ruffling for Skirts (Illustrated)
550
Sabbath Evening Thoughts, by Clarence Carleton [poem]
540
Sac Florinthe (Illustrated)
169
Saturday Night
570
Scallop for Chemise Bands and Sleeves (Illustrated)
261
Scallop for Infant's Skirts (Illustrated)
97
Scotch Law—An Important Case [marriage to deceased wife's sister]
560
Slippers (Illustrated)
170, 197, 198, 388, 455, 548
Slippers: A Wife's Stratagem, by Alice
B. Neal [fiction]
136
Song [on the Lady's Book, sung at a dinner in Louis Godey's honor]
279
Sonnets, by Wm. Alexander
Ariadne
37
Harp of Memnon
240
Eden
333
Religion
448
Iphigenia
538
Sorrow, by A. E. Porter [poem]
446
Spring Voices, by Jenny Marsh [poem]
537
Stanzas [poem]
446
Sydney Smith on the Education of Women
312
Slippers. A Wife's Stratagem, by Alice
B. Neal [fiction]
136
Table-cover, in Crochet (Illustrated)
549
Table-cover made of Patchwork (Illustrated)
71
The Americans as Linguists
372
The Angry Word, by M. A. R. [poem]
61
The Angel of Annunciation, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]
241
The Art of Making Wax Fruit and Flowers
Waxen Fruit
Moulds
20
Lemons, Citrons,
Limes, Melons, Capsicums; Plums, Apples, Pears,
Cherries, Closed Peas, Nectarines, Strawberries, Gooseberries,
Green
Figs; Peaches, Apricots, Filberts, Almonds; Moulds for Half
Fruit;
Moulds of Many Parts—Pomegranate and Medlar
134
Mould of a
Cucumber and an Egg, Mould of a Mulberry, Raspberry,
&c., Pine-Apple, Sections of Fruit, Mould of Small Fruit, Grapes,
Currants &c., Other Objects
231
Casting the Fruit,
Casting an Orange, Casting Other Fruit, Stalks,
Solid
Fruit,
Finishing the Fruit, To Prepare Fruit Previous to Coloring
325
Coloring Sections
of Fruit, Putting on a Rosy Tint, Putting on Streaks,
Specks,
and Irregular Patches, To Put a Downiness or Powdering
Upon
Fruit, Varnishing a Fruit
404
Small Clustered
Fruits Not Made by Casting Nor in Wax, General
Observations on Casting Wax, Elastic Moulds, Wax—To Obtain
and
Prepare, Wax—To Whiten, To Clean a Brush, Wax—To
Remove
from a Dress
500
The Art of Sketching Flowers from Nature (Illustrated)
Drawing Materials, Of Freedom and Correctness of Drawing, Curved
Lines
52
Of
Gracefulness and Contrast of Outline
217
Leaves,
Outlines from Nature
422
The Centre-Table Commonplace Book
286, 478, 570
The Christmas Eve Bridal, by Fanny Fales [poem]
159
The Consumptive's Wish, by Miss M. A. Rice [poem]
538
The Crib and the Cradle [use of]
478, 569
The Early Dead, by Linda Lee [poem]
467
The Exile, by E. J. Dobell [poem]
538
The First Telescope, by G. R. W.
520
The Gray Moss Wreath, by Peyre Vidat
[poem]
405
The Gypsy (Illustrated) [fiction]
502
The Hidden Path [book review]
141
The Husband's Song, by Charles Swain
[poem]
189
The Inkstand--A Fable [fiction]
31
The Island in the South, by Paul H. Hayne [poem]
158
The Ladies' Mount Vernon Association
83, 179, 372, 468, 558
The Life Boat, by D. Hardy, Jr. [poem]
62
The Loved Ones afar, by F. B. Plimpton
[poem]
159
The Madras Hawker (Illustrated)
521
The Mendicant. A Story of Brittany.
Translated from the French,
by Anne T. Wilbur [fiction]
424
The Minstrel's Curse, by Charles L.
Mansfield [poem]
349
The Moment of Trial, by Virginia De
Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]
228
The Night before the Wedding, by Virginia De Forrest [fiction]
131
The Non-Existence of Woman [property rights of wives in England]
79
The Old and the New Civilization [China]
370
The Poor in the City [why they are more in the city than the country]
178
The Prisoner [poem]
251
"The Scene is in the Seer's Eye" [poem]
352
The Requisites for Eloquence
179
The Sacrifice [poem]
468
The Starry Lesson, by Amy L_____
[poem]
445
The Stranger, by Clara Moreton [poem]
540
The Tapestry Carpet; or, Mr. Pinkney's Shopping, by Alice
B. Neal [fiction] 15
The Teeth
Lesson
First—Tooth Decay
382
Lesson
Two—Proper Mouthwashes, Toothbrush
477
The Toilet in Old Times
220
The True Idea of Female Education [The Mother, Women at Home, Women in
Society, Women as
Writers and Teachers]
370
The Two Locks [poem]
160
The Two May-Days, by Mrs. Thomas P. Smith
[fiction]
510
The Water-Lily
382
The Widow Bedott
188
The Young Lady's Toilet [poem] [self-knowledge, contentment &c.]
78
The Zephyr's Song, by Linda Lee [poem]
509
Thought, by S. J. Hale [poem]
560
Thought, by George Lewellyn Miner
[poem]
539
Thoughts of Home, by J. C. Gardiner
[poem]
133
Thoughts at Sunset, by Levi West [poem]
446
Tidy and Border, in Crochet (Illustrated)
547
Tidy Darned in Colors (Illustrated)
544
To A. C., by M. L. Sheldon [poem]
445
To a Transplanted Wood Flower, by G. W. Bungay [poem]
320
To Correspondents
Choice of
piano for school-room; fireplace grates; ladies fishing; dry
walks
in gardens; paying calls at a fashionable city hotel; entertaining
with
ease; good penmanship
92
Ladies
who attended Crystal Palace Festival, saving curtains from sun
damage;
jacket same as basque; amount of jewelry to be worn;
school-girls' allowances
190
Reviving
frosted houseplants; washing/cleaning the hair
287
Yardage
for a shirt; slippers; printed jaconets; chantilly lace suitable
mantle;
Eaton Book Club
383
Fashionable
colors for gloves (French names); rhubarb jam; mantles
for
July and August; absorbing odor of new paint; killing red ants;
book
suggestions
479
Critique
of modern poetry by women; book suggestions on proverbs;
potting
vs. collaring meat; a voluntary vs. an interlude; tableaux
vivants
introduced in Berlin in 1826; bird's eye linen favorite fabric
for
children's high aprons
571
To Francesca, by R. N. [poem]
448
To Miss Adelaide F. Terry, by Edgar Gordon [poem]
62
To my Sister Emily, by Ada L_____
[poem]
538
Transient Thoughts, by Mrs. Susan H.
Waddell
59
Travelling Basket in the Form of a Gourd, (Illustrated)
5, 67
Trials of an English Housekeeper [fiction]
No. IV. Norah Connor
49
No.V. Norah Connor's Dismissal
346
No. VI. My Pretty Maid
527
Two Views of Fancy Work
189, 285
Undersleeves (Illustrated)
191, 543
Unique Style of Bell Rope (Illustrated)
71
Vase for Flowers (Illustrated)
262
Vine Leaf Pattern for Braiding (Illustrated)
64
Visions of Other Lands, by Amy L_____ [poem]
61
Walking Dress for Little Girls (Illustrated)
449
Watch and Handkerchief Case (Illustrated)
260
Webster Fancy Basket (Illustrated)
1, 67
What is Needed in America [education of women as teachers]
82
What the Pedagogue said to his Brother, by George
Lewellyn Miner [poem] 350
"When We Are Dead," by D. Hardy, Jr. [poem]
350
Why the Romans went to Bed Early
421
Will you go, Love, a-Maying? by H. Clay Preuss [poem]
429
Winter Nights, by T. Hempstead [poem]
60
Wives, a Help, or a Hindrance, to Success in Life
92
Woman's Heart [poem]
185
Women and Novels
559
Words, by An English Lady
129
Writing for an Album, by Mrs. C. W.
Denison
55
Young Lady's Headdress (Illustrated) [crochet]
259