Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine  
Volume 57, July-December 1858 

A Chapter on "Clubs," by Tony Dutell, Esq. [Godey's Clubs]                           131
A Christmas Eve [fiction]                                                                                  528
Adelaide Chetwood:  A Sketch of Southern Life, by Pauline Forsyth [fiction]    48
A Gentleman's Necktie (Illustrated) [netting]                                                    547
A Lover's Phases, by Frank [poem]                                                                   60
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)                                    
   
         S-Z, Capitals                                                                                          12
            A-O, Capitals                                                                                       103
            P-Z, Capitals                                                                                        202
            a-z, lower case, grass head                                                                   396
Alpine Flowers, by Willie Myrtle De Haven [poem]                                           63
An Autumn Murmur, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]                                              445
A Note or Card Case in Covered Rings (Illustrated)                                          70
A Son's Remembrance, by Finley Johnson [poem]                                          159
A Tudor Suburban Residence (Illustrated) [with plans]                                       64
Aunt Sophie's Visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey                                                          38, 423
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside:  No. XVII—The Escape-Valve, by Edith Woodley  
            [fiction]                                                                                                142
Aunt Tryphena Bordergrass' Steamboat Ride, by Clara Augusta [fiction]         430
Autumn Leaves (Illustrated) [embroidery]                                                        394, 456
Autumn Winds, by Jane H. Shaw [poem]                                                         352
A Vision, by J. M. M. [poem]                                                                           445
"Avium Migrationes," translated by Cecilia Ferguson                                      159
A Wife's Power                                                                                                  30
Basques (Illustrated)                                                                                       160, 292
Beautiful Simile                                                                                                 154
Bells in Distant Lands [poem]                                                                            444
Bonbon Basket (Illustrated)                                                                               69
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                        66, 162, 260, 288, 449, 542
Boudoir Bag (Illustrated)                                                                                     7, 75
Braiding Pattern for a Boy's Sack (Illustrated)                                                  296
Bridal Pincushion (Illustrated)                                                                          452, 453
Bridal Song, by Robert G. Allison [poem]                                                        444
Bridal Song, by Mrs. Jane M. Mead [poem]                                                       61
Broderie for a Handkerchief (Illustrated)                                                          169
Broderie for a Skirt (Illustrated)                                                                       169
Brodeuse Outline Circle (Illustrated)                                                                163
Broken Music, by H. Clay Preuss [poem]                                                        258
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                                            161, 355, 455, 541
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                          160, 161, 354
Carryl's Curtain Establishment (Illustrated)                                                         97, 171
"Catch the Sunshine," by Nannie Oh! [poem]                                                    256
Centre-Table Gossip, containing--
           
A Costly Gift Book                                                                               267
           
A Group of Household Charms                                                             285
           
A New Out-of-Door Amusement [archery]                                           381
           
Bridal Etiquette                                                                                     475
           
Convenient Hints for Quiet Households                                                 189
           
Dressing Children                                                                                 189
           
Ideal Heroism                                                                                       285
           
Literary Vanity                                                                                      381
           
Married and Single                                                                               567
           
Neighborship                                                                                          93
           
New Books and Music                                                                           94
           
Our Neighbors [poem]                                                                           93
           
New Books and Music                                                                           94
           
Sowing Seed                                                                                        475
           
The Garden                                                                 
   
             No. 7—July—Chrysanthemums, pansies, watering plants, 
                    transplanting, geraniums, composts                                                   93
               
No. 8—August—Propagation of plants                                             190
                No. 9—September—Flowers in bloom, moving plants indoors          286
                
No. 10—October—Taking up bulbs, planting bulbs, dividing hardy 
                    perennials                                                                                     382
               
No. 11—November—Evergreens and ivy                                        476
               
No. 12—December—Washing plants, proper temperature for house 
                    plants, winter flowering plants, scale control, camellias                   567
           
To Correspondents                                                      
   
             Tonics damaging teeth, tooth powders; possibility of women artists; 
                    mosaic jewelry; bridal gifts from a bridesmaid—handkerchiefs; 
                    fichus or capes; Graham bread                                                        94
               
How to make an egg go into a bottle; watering plants; Christian 
                    charity better than cleanliness; preservatives from moths; vegetable 
                    or botanic extract, liquid bandolines, rose bandoline, almond 
                    bandoline, gum tragacanth                                                             190
               
Cosmetics discourages; cleaning grease from wallpaper; blacking for 
                    kid or morocco; taking ink from unpolished surface; Philadelphia 
                    cream cheese receipt; making oil cloth                                           286
               
Brightening grates, cleaning German silver; taking impressions of 
                    leaves; macaroni; definition of "growing in masses" in gardening; 
                    barberry jelly                                                                                 382
               
Mince-pie; German vs. Italian music; to have roses bloom in winter; 
                    macaroni receipts                                                                          476
               
Best composition for doll's heads, doll's clothes; warming carriages; 
                    California marble, infant formula; black poplin for mourning; 
                    measurements needed for custom riding habit                                 568
Chemistry for the Young                                                                      
   
         Lesson X (continued)                                                                            272
            Lesson X (concluded)                                                                           368
            Lesson XI.  Special Remarks Concerning Mercurial Combinations         462
           
Lesson XI (continued)                                                                           556
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                        481, 569
Christening Robes (Illustrated)                                                                         447, 448
Christmas for Rich and Poor, by Annie Fraust (Illustrated) [fiction]                 513
Cigar-Case in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                                  163
Clergyman's Band Case (Illustrated)                                                                171
CLOAKS, DRESSES, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
           
A Girl's Cloak (Illustrated)                                                                  487, 569
           
Bride's Dress (Illustrated)                                                                    297, 383
           
Fancy Dresses (Illustrated) [costumes]                                                488, 489, 569
           
Girl's Dress (Illustrated)                                                                       105, 191
           
Good Advice (Illustrated) [girls' dresses]                                                 4, 95
           
La Demie Toilette (Illustrated)                                                             196, 287
           
La Victoria (Illustrated) [dress]                                                            486, 569
           
Le Paris Elegant (Illustrated) [children]                                                197, 287
           
Morning-Dress (Illustrated)                                                                     5, 95, 100, 191
           
Opera Cloak (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                 9, 74, 75, 95
           
The Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                              11
           
The Austurian (Illustrated)                                                                   393, 477
           
The Barcelona, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                              262
           
The Castiglione, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                            360
           
The Cherbourg (Illustrated)                                                                 385, 477
           
The Coatee (Illustrated)                                                                      104
           
The Latest Style of Dinner-Dress (Illustrated)                                      101, 191
           
The Lonjumeau Dress (Illustrated)                                                       388, 477
           
The Lou-Lura (Illustrated)                                                                   389, 477
           
The Ophelia (Illustrated)                                                                      485, 569
           
The Rose (Illustrated) [dress]                                                              484
           
The Sevillian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                                 106
           
The Tablier Style (Illustrated)                                                              293, 388
           
The Valencian, from Brodie (Illustrated)                                              551, 569
           
The Zerlina Dress (Illustrated)                                                             390, 477
           
Walking-Dress (Illustrated)                                                                     8, 95
Collar and Sleeve in Brussels Embroidery (Illustrated)                                      356, 357
Collars (Illustrated)                                                                            102, 104, 200, 356, 362, 548
Contentment                                                                                                     412
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)                                            6, 102, 165, 266, 298
Corners for Samplers (Illustrated)                                                                      73
Covers for Cake Baskets, etc. (Illustrated)                                                      359
Crochet Lace (Illustrated)                                                                               261, 451
Crochet Mat, with Forget-me-not Bordure (Illustrated)                                    454
Crochet Purse (Illustrated)                                                                              392, 456
Crochet Toilet Mat (Illustrated)                                                                       263
"Cut a Dido" [origin of phrase]                                                                          128
Darkened Days, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]                                                       62
Darned Netted Curtains (Illustrated)                                                                545
Design for a Country-House (Illustrated) [with plans]                                       353
Diagram for a Child's Over-Gaiter (Illustrated)                                                 395
Diagram of Dress Body (Illustrated)                                                                451
Disenchantment, by Pauline Forsyth                                                                437
Doll's Collar (Illustrated)                                                                                 548
Douglas & Sherwood's Patent Balmoral Skirt (Illustrated)                                  69
Drapery Body for Evening Costume (Illustrated) [with diagram]                       543, 544
Dress-Body (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                                           450
Editors' Table (Illustrated)
           
A Blind Girl's Idea of Ladies, by Mrs. Hale [poem]                               558
           
A Contrast                                                                                             83
           
Fairies                                                                                                  177
            Genevieve, by Fannie Stevens Bruce [poem]                                       275
            Harem Life                                                                                           275
            Household Management in Germany                                                       83
            How can Social and Domestic Life be Improved?                                 557
            Knowledge                                                                                           276
            Lazy Ladies                                                                                            83
            Our Little Children, Shall They Live? [Philadelphia Children's Hospital,    81
            Our National Thanksgiving                                                                    463
            Poetry worth Gold                                                                                  82
            Sonnet.--The Power of Thought, by Mrs. Hale [poem]                         179
            Subscribers for the Washington Portrait                                                 371, 466, 559
            Thanksgiving Day                                                                                 371
            The American Ladies' Mount Vernon Association                                 178, 371, 466, 559
            The Bible in Education                                                                          179
            The Herndon Memorial                                                                           83, 276, 558
            The Mother of the Chevalier de Bayard                                                 466
            The True Principles of Economy                                                            557
            To the Memory of Captain Herndon, by a Young Lady [poem]             558
            Unhappy Women                                                                                 275
            Valedictory Address                                                                             465
            Visit to a Water-Cure [Mount Prospect Water Cure at Binghamton, 
                NY]                                                                                                  371
            What a Christian Woman has Done                                                       369
            What a Heathen Woman Does                                                              370
            Who are the Authors of the Atlantic Telegraph?                                     463
            Witchcraft:  Its Persecutions, and its Victims Chiefly Women                 558
            Woman's Sphere, Rights, and Duties                                                     273
Education                                                                                                           56
Effect of Color upon Health                                                                              150
Ellen Galt Martin [deaf and mute], by Joe, the Jersey Mute                              347
Embroidery for a Talma or Child's Cloak (Illustrated)                                      294
Embroidery for an Infant's Shawl or Blanket (Illustrated)                                  170
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)            66, 71, 75, 101, 102, 105, 163, 167, 168,
            169, 170, 261, 264, 266, 267, 294, 296, 297, 298, 355, 357, 358, 362, 363, 364,
            392, 449, 451, 456, 457, 458, 487, 488, 489, 490, 545, 549
Enigmas                                                                                            63, 159, 258, 352, 446, 540
Fancy Bead Basket (Illustrated)                                                                      544
Fancy Mat, with Bead Border (Illustrated)                                                       548
Fashions                                                                                  
   
         Organdy robe; challis skirt with muslin jacket; grenadine dress; 
                children's dresses; dresses for girls 10-14; morning dress; walking 
                dress; opera cloak; morning and evening dress for watering places; 
                opera cloaks; flowers to trim evening dresses; headdresses; 
                handkerchiefs; carriage screens                                                           95
           
Ashes of roses dress; walking dress; riding-habit; boy's dress, girl's 
                dress, morning dress, dinner-dress, basque, child's dress, various 
                styles of hoops, basques going out of style; sleeves; fabrics; second 
                mourning styles; juvenile fashions; jewelry                                          191
           
Carriage dress; evening dresses; lavender dress; dinner dress; children's 
                dresses; favorite colors for fall bonnets (illustrated); evening 
                headdresses; fall silks; trim on dresses; capes; fichus; jackets; caps     287
           
Dressing gown; walking dress; dinner dress; pointed basque; tablier 
                style of dress; bride's dress; wedding reception dress; girl's dress; 
                child's walking dress; boy's dress; effect of business panic on dress; 
                bonnets; mantles; dress fabrics; dress trimmings                                  383
           
Carriage dress; robe dress; walking dresses; cloaks; displays at Genin's; 
                bonnets; mantles; mourning store                                                        477
           
Bride's dress, bridesmaid' dress; robe a lez; cloak; dress; child's cloak; 
                children's dresses; raglans losing favor; cloaks; pardessus; dress 
                trimmings; jackets or basques; bonnets for girls ten to twelve; round 
                beaver hats; walking dresses for little girls                                          569
Fashions in the Olden Times [1719-1753]                                                         511
Father and Mother                                                                                            527
Figures for Samplers (Illustrated)                                                                       73
Firesides and Facts of the Revolution, by E. F. Ellet [The Caldwell Family of 
            SC, Major Robert Gillam, Benjamin Eddins]                                          253
First 18 Lines of R. Herbert's Latin Prize Poem "Avium Migrationes" Translated 
            by Cecilia Ferguson                                                                           159
Flower Border, in Berlin Work (Illustrated)                                                     358
Fourth of July Celebration at Dozeyvale, by Kate Berry Potter [fiction]              17, 115, 223
"For Better, for Worse," by H. C. [poem]                                                         257
French Dinner Napkin Ring (Illustrated)                                                             71
Godey's Arm-Chair                                                                 
   
         Pennsylvania State Editorial Convention; The Old Dominion Coffee Pot; 
                Appeal to Not Use French in Articles; Douglas & Sherwood's Skirt 
                Manufactory; Home Difficulties; Hymeneal Revenge [poem]; A Wife 
                Wanted; Boarding on the European Plan; Jokes; Predictions from 
                1827; The Value of a Sister                                                                88
           
Philadelphia Restaurants; Atlantic City; Poem to Godey's; Jokes; 
                Retiring to the Country; The Importance of Customary Occupation; 
                How to Dry Currants [poem]; Dresses Worn at Her Majesty's 
                Drawing-Room; Musk; Hair Preparations; Mrs. Partington on 
                Hoops; Godey, after Longfellow                                                       182
            Soule College for Young Ladies [Murfreesboro, TN]; poem about 
                Godey's; The Old Pedagogue; Toilet Curl Clasps; Enticing Away 
                Servants; Dresses Worn at the Last Reception;  A Warwhoop 
                [poem]; Response to Advertisement for a Wife; Hints Relative to 
                Flowers                                                                                            279
           
Toilet Curl Clasps; Excursion to Lancaster, Harrisburg, Altoona, 
                Cresson, Etc.; Cherry Hill Cut [men's haircut]; The War-Hoop 
                [poem]; Sundry Mottoes from Punch; Very Neat [poem]; Jokes; 
                Poem/Letter from Katharine P.; New Music; Balmoral Skirts             375
           
Grandest Store in Philadelphia Yet; Christian Courtesy; To Katharine P. 
                [poem]; Ladies' Travelling Reticule; Why Ladies Should Read 
                Newspapers                                                                                     470
           
[all notes and advertisements]                                                                563
"Gone Home," by the late D. Hardy, Jr. [poem]                                              255
Guardian Angels, by Daniel Jay Sprague                                                         407
Half an Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)                                                          362
Handkerchief Border (Illustrated)                                                                    162, 298
Headdresses (Illustrated)                                                                     65, 66, 259, 260, 457, 542
Health Department                                                                   
   
         Popular Errors, Etc., by Jno. Stainback Wilson [patent medicines,
                perils of medicine by intuition]                                                             85
           
Author a "regular physician," dress (corsets, thin shoes, pro-hoops)       180
           
Dress—danger of corsets, infants' clothing                                             276
           
Diet                                                                                                      372
           
Bathing                                                                                                 466
           
Drinks—Water; Alcoholic                                                                    560
Hints to Dressmakers and those who Make their own Dresses, by Mrs. 
                Damas
   
         A Few Hints on Stays; Hints on Making a Skirt                                       36
            Hints on Apron-Making; How to Make a Cap                                      151
Hints on Jackets--When to Wear Them, by Mrs. Damas                                  268
House Gardens                                                                                                 391, 428
How to Make Home Happy                                                                             230, 299, 309
I am not Lonely [poem]                                                                                    351
Innocence, by W. S. Gaffney  [poem]                                                                 62
Jessie Moore's Journal, by Virginia F. Townsend [fiction]                                498
Kate Arnold, by Violet [fiction]                                                                        240
Laces and Embroideries                                                                                    155
Lady's Dressing-Slipper, in Damask Tapestry (Illustrated)                                499
Lady's Cuff (Illustrated)                                                                                   104
Life's Stage, by C. H. M. [poem]                                                                      255
Lines, by Esther [poem]                                                                                   350
Lines, by J. R. Conyngham [poem]                                                                  538
Lines to Miss E. H. H., by G. R. Calvert [poem]                                              256
Literary Notices                                                                       
   
         Lily White:  A Romance; Principles of Social Science; Contributions to 
                American History; The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the 
                Supreme Court of the United States; Sermons of the Rev. C. H. 
                Spurgeon of London; Glimpses of Jesus; Life Thoughts Gathered 
                from the Extemporaneous Discourse of Henry Ward Beecher; 
                Robert Oaklands or The Outcast Orphan; The Corsair:  A Venetian 
                Tale; Ciprina, or The Secrets of a Picture Gallery; The Iron Cross, 
                or The Countess of Errol; Charles Ransford, or Love on Board a 
                Cruiser; History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the 
                Constitution of the United States; History of Europe from the Fall of
                Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Napoleon in 1852; The New 
                York Pulpit in the Revival of 1858; Practical and Progressive Latin 
                Grammar, Elementary Course; The True Glory of Woman as 
                Portrayed in the Beautiful Life of the Virgin Mary, Mother of our 
                Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ; Recollections of the Last Days of 
                Shelley and Byron; Run Away to Sea:  An Autobiography for Boys; 
                The Hand, but Not the Heart or The Life Trials of Jessie Loring; 
                The Hero Missionary, or A History of the Labors of the Rev. 
                Eugenio Kincaid; Gunn's Domestic Physician, or Home Book of 
                Health                                                                                                85
           
The History of Minnesota; Quits:  A Novel; An Epitome of the 
                American Eclectic Practice of Medicine; Mary Derwent; Why Do 
                You Wear It? or The Fashionable Professor; The Bouquet and Other 
                Poems; Cornell's First Steps in Geography; Ursula:  A Tale of 
                Country Life; Fred Markham in Russia, or The Boy Travelers in the 
                Land of the Czar; Steps Toward Heaven; The Yellow Frigate, or 
                The Two Sisters; The Living Age; Prayers for the Use of Families; 
                Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit; Select Discourses; Woman:  
               
Her Mission and Life                                                                        181
           
Lord Montague's Page:  An Historical Romance of the Seventeenth 
                Century; Confessions of a Pretty Woman; The Jealous Wife; A Poor 
                Fellow; Hadji in Syria, or Three Years in Jerusalem; Osceola, the 
                Seminole, or The Red Fawn of the Flower Land; Wildflower; The 
                Garden:  A Pocket Manual of Practical Horticulture; The World's 
                Battle; A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation; The 
                Boy Missionary; Life of Bishop Heber                                               277
           
Man Upon the Sea; Mizpah:  Prayer and Friendship; Moredun:  A Tale 
                of Twelve Hundred and Ten; Memoirs of Rachel; Doctor Thorne: 
                Novel; Mensuration and Practical Geometry; History of King 
                Richard the Second of England; History of King Richard the Third, 
                of England; Belle Brittan, or A Tour of Newport and Here and There; 
                Two Millions; The Public and Private History of Napoleon III, 
                Emperor of the French; Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single 
                and Married; The Family Aquarium, or Aqua Vivarium                      373
           
Courtship