Godey's Lady's Book
January-June, 1860 

A Baby's Shoe, Embroidered in Chinese Knotting (Illustrated)                           66
A Bordered Net for Sleeping In (Illustrated)                                                      71
A Braided Pincushion (Illustrated)                                                                   107
A Chenille Net for the Hair (Illustrated)                                                           355
Acting Charade.--Master-Piece, by S. Annie Frost                                          143
A Dirge, by Mrs. S. S. Jessop [poem]                                                                 62
A Flower-Pot Screen (Illustrated)                                                                   457
A Fortunate Mistake, by Paul Laurie [fiction]                                                  337
A French Belle a Hundred Years Ago                                                               150
A Friend, by J. Howard Smith [poem]                                                             350
A Gothic Villa (Illustrated) [with plans]                                                            352
A Lesson from the Flowers, by Mrs. H. E. Francis [poem]                              447
Allie Belle, by Harriet N. Havens [poem]                                                         540
Alone, by Mrs. A. M. Butterfield [poem]                                                         156
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)                                    
  
         Capitals, grapevine, A-F                                                                         12
            Capitals, grapevine, G-M                                                                      108
            Capitals, grapevine, N-S                                                                       204
            Capitals, grapevine, T, U, V, W, Y, Z                                                   300
A Morning Cuff (Illustrated)                                                                            169
Anna Heyward; or, Perfected Through Suffering [fiction]                                   342
Another Letter from Our Agreeable Western Correspondent [Wisconsin]          524
A Pen-Wiper for a Writing-table (Illustrated)                                                   263
A Record of Spring, by Marian Gwynn [poem]                                               540
Articles for Fancy Fairs (Illustrated)                            
   
         Long Purse in Knitting; Infant's Shoe in Crochet; Child's Cloth Gaiter; 
                Bracelet in Crochet                                                                              70
           
Watch-Case in Chenille; Basket in Crochet and Beads; Modelling in 
                Pasteboard and Paper; Pasteboard Boxes                                         164
           
Modelling in Pasteboard and Paper; Card Boxes; Basket and Work 
                Bag; Pasteboard Baskets                                                                  265
           
Modelling in Pasteboard and Paper; Hyacinth Stands; What-Nots, 
                or Card-Receivers; Crimped Paper Hand-Screens                            357
           
Watch-Pocket; Long Purse in Knitting; Candlestick Socket of Chenille 
                and White Beads; Modelling in Pasteboard and Paper; Charade 
                Flowers                                                                                             456
           
Straw baskets, temples, etc., lavender baskets, rice or bugle baskets      546
Articles for the Kitchen (Illustrated)                                                                   75, 171, 268
Art Thou Watching O'er Me, Mother? by Rose Clinton [poem]                        351
A Tale of the Old Church Bell, by Mrs. M. W. Hackleton [poem]                     446
A Travelling Cuff (Illustrated)                                                                          169
Aunt Sophie's Visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey                                                        225
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside:  A Visit from Old Friends, by Edith Woodley [fiction]  502
A Valentine, by Mary E. Nealy [poem]                                                            157
Avoid Deception                                                                                              241
A Winter Cuff.--Netting (Illustrated)                                                               166
Baby's Bib, Embroidered (Illustrated)                                                              395
Baby's Knitted Bib (Illustrated)                                                                           8
Baby's Shoe [crochet and wool]                                                                       167
Basket in Crochet and Beads (Illustrated)                                                        164
Bead Bracelet and Chain (Illustrated)                                                              453
Beauty                                                                                                              146
Blunders in Behavior Corrected:  Code of Deportment for Both Sexes      
           
Absence of mind; accomplishments; affectation; affronts; ballroom; 
                children; cleanliness                                                                             30
           
Calls; commands; control of temper; conversation                                 121
           
Dining out; dining at home; drinking healths; disputes; dress; 
                eccentricities; excesses; engagements; familiarity; favors                     215
           
Friendship and acquaintance; homely parties; hospitality; hurry; 
                imitation; introductions; invitations; jesting; ladies; leaving company     314
           
Letters; mourning; mysteriousness; punctuality; punning; purse-pride; 
                quarrels; ridicule; sulkiness; salutations; small-talk; secrecy; spite 
                and revenge; spitting; surliness; vanity; vulgarities; whispering              413
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                                        258, 449
Border for a Handkerchief, New Style (Illustrated)                                          394, 457
Bosom Friend, or Sontag, and Sleeves (Illustrated) [knitted]                              67
Boswell's Introduction to the Literary Club (Illustrated)                                    193
Brace for Child's Dress (Illustrated)                                                                 453
Bracelet in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                                         70
Braided Border (Illustrated)                                                                            550
Braided Pincushion (Illustrated)                                                                       362
Braiding Pattern for an Infant's Cloak (Illustrated)                                            170
Braiding Pattern for Pinafore or Ladies' Jackets (Illustrated)                             361
Braiding Pattern for Top of Pincushion (Illustrated)                                            15
Braiding Pattern for Zouave and Other Jackets (Illustrated)                              358
Bridal Pincushion (Illustrated) [embroidered]                                                     10
Broad Line Drawing Lessons (Illustrated)                                        44, 151, 244, 334, 435, 526
Broderie for a Child's Dress (Illustrated)                                                          552
Candlestick Socket of Chenille and White Beads (Illustrated)                           456
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                  64, 103, 104, 160, 541
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                                            159, 542
Card Receiver (Illustrated)                                                                              452
Centre-Table Gossip, containing--
           
A Charity that Begins at Home                                                              190
           
A Cheerful Breakfast-table                                                                   382
           
A German Household                                                                           477
           
A Miscellaneous Catalogue [books for children age 8-14]                       89
           
A Modern Heroine [Garibaldi's wife]                                                      89
           
Boarding-School Evils [rivalries of dress]                                              189
           
Books for Young Ladies                                                                       382
           
Fresh Hints for Flower Gardening        
               
No. 1—Arrangement of Flower Beds                                               382
              
No. 2—Bulbous Plants [hyacinths, narcissus, iris, lily, tulip, crocus,
                    snowdrop]                                                                                    478
             
No. 3—Mignonette flowers throughout the year; sowing flower 
                    seeds; preserving bulbs; perennial tuberous plants                          571
           
Hon. Mrs. Norton                                                                                381
           
India Shawls                                                                                         189
           
Isa Craig, "The Ballad of the Brides of Quair" [poem]                            285
           
Natural Ornaments                                                                               571
           
Notes and Queries                                                       
   
             How to quilt on a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine; low spirits; 
                    to remove marks of rain from a cloth mantle; paint upon velvet; 
                    Miss Hosmer's works; complaining of one's husband                        90
               
How to give children old school medicines, who was Wallenstein?, 
                    how to order books from a distance; fifty dollar sewing machines; 
                    Madame Clement's School, Beverly, NJ                                         191
               
What are cartoons? [designs drawn on pasteboard, preparatory to 
                    painting in fresco]; is America alone in her Fast Young People?; a 
                    peppermint plantation in Michigan; the Thibet goat—its cost; ink 
                    stains on valuable books and engravings                                         286
              
A Child's Smile [poem]; Easter eggs—to color them; government of 
                    children; red and black houservants                                               382
              
Domestic confectionery—chocolate drops; hair powder; cleanliness 
                    to godliness; incombustible dresses                                               479
               
To pack fruit for carriage; sea-side life; skeleton leaves; hops as a 
                    vegetable; an experiment on tomatoes                                            572
               
Over-Dress                                                                                        89
               
Sewing a Part of Education                                                               478
               
Sowing Sorrow                                                                                285
               
The Wardrobe [how do you hang up your dresses, cloaks, etc.]        574
Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                  449
Chemistry for the Young                                                         
           
Lesson XIV (concluded)                                                                       188
           
Lesson XV—Gold, tin, antimony, bismuth                                             284
           
Lesson XV (concluded)                                                                        381
           
Lesson XVI—Platinum                                                                         476
           
Lesson XVI (continued)                                                                        570
Child's Cloth Gaiter (Illustrated)                                                                        70
CLOAKS, DRESSES, MANTILLAS, TALMAS &c.
           
Carriage-Dress (Illustrated)                                                                 293, 384
           
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                            97, 191
           
Evening Dress (Illustrated)                                                                   100, 191
           
Fashionable Dress for a Lady (Illustrated) [ballgown]                           514, 545
           
Fashionable Dress for a Young Lady of Fourteen (Illustrated)              543
           
Home Dress (Illustrated)                                                                     198, 287
           
Infant's Gored Dress (Illustrated)                                                         257
           
Lady's Dress (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                              260
           
Redingote Magicienne (Illustrated)                                                       199, 287
           
Spring Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                 196, 287
           
Spring Mantles (Illustrated)                                                                 488, 489, 573
           
Spring Walking Costume (Illustrated)                                                  292, 383
           
Sultana Cloak (Illustrated)                                                                     4, 91
           
The Adelaide (Illustrated) [dress]                                                        484, 573
           
The Albuera from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                          6
           
The Amalia (Illustrated) [dress]                                                           388, 480
           
The Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                 197
           
The Arragonese, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                101
           
The Aspasia (Illustrated) [dress]                                                          389, 480
           
The Beatrice (Illustrated) [ballgown]                                                    390, 480
           
The Clotilde, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                     490
           
The Constance, from Brodie (Illustrated) [ballgown]                            391, 480
           
The Cordovan, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  393
           
The Diego (Illustrated) [dress]                                                                 5, 91
           
The Gored Robe (Illustrated)                                                              294, 384
           
The Juliet (Illustrated) [ballgown]                                                         392, 480
           
The Lelia (Illustrated) [dress]                                                               485, 573
           
The Olivares (Illustrated) [cloak]                                                             1, 91
           
The Saragossa, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  296
           
The Scotia (Illustrated) [cloak]                                                            102
           
The Zouave Jacket (Illustrated)                                                           295
Collars (Illustrated)                                                                                         69, 203, 363, 396
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)                                                13, 542
Cottage (Illustrated) [with plans]                                                                      256
Cottage in the Italian Style (Illustrated) [with plan]                                            566
Cousin Annie Hastings' Letters, by Virginia F. Townsend [fiction]                      54
Cuff to Match Collar (Illustrated)                                                                     203
Damask-Work Curtain Border (Illustrated)                                                     550
Darning Stockings, by R. L. H. [fiction]                                                             528
Designs for Quilting (Illustrated)                                                                         16
Diagram of an Opera Hood, and of a New Sleeve (Illustrated)                         450
Diagram of a Fashionable Dress (Illustrated)                                                    545
Diagram of a Lady's Dress (Illustrated)                                                            261
Doll's Collar in Embroidery (Illustrated)                                                             69
Domestic Life                                                                                                   525
Draperies, Curtains, and Blinds (Illustrated)                                                     183, 282, 325, 506
Drawing-room Work-bag (Illustrated)                                                             455
Dress:  How to Adorn the Person, by Mrs. M. L.                     
   
         To consider and review our dresses, bonnets, and shawls, or their
                substitutes; leadership of the French                                                  230
           
Choice of color; promenade and ball-room; dinner                                336
           
Shawls; mantles; collars, cuffs, chemisettes, and sleeves; coiffures;
                veils; caps; straw bonnets; silk bonnets; hats                                      429
           
Caps; coiffures; ornaments for the hair; shoes                                        515
Editors' Table, containing--
           
Allibone's Dictionary of Authors                                                            466
           
American Thanksgiving in Prussia                                                          274
           
Baltimore Female College                                                                     557
           
Children                                                                                               272
           
False Pretences                                                                                      80
           
Fancy--Truth (from an unpublished Poem)                                         177
           
From Three to Five; or, a Drive in Washington                                      466
           
Giving Good Advice                                                                             370
           
Health of American Women Deteriorating                                             467
           
Hints about Love and Marriage [incompatibility, true love, a man's
                idea of love]                                                                                     176
           
How to Become Famous                                                                      559
           
Idyls                                                                                                     368
           
Lines, by Mrs. Virginia Cary [poem]                                                   177
           
Mount Vernon                                                                                      274
           
New England Woman's Medical College                                               468
           
New York School of Design for Women                                               468
           
Notes on Nursing, by Florence Nightingale                                            467
           
Our Friend, Mrs. Haven [and the "Sensible School" of writing]              176
           
Our Native Language                                                                            369
           
Palace Homes for the Traveller                                                             465
           
Polyglottic                                                                                            468
           
Sewing and Swimming                                                                          369
           
"Strong-Minded Women"                                                                     177
           
Swedish Women                                                                                  559
           
Thanksgiving a Legal Holiday                                                                368
           
The American Sculpteress—Harriet Hosmer                                         467
           
The Freemason's Hymn, by Sarah Josepha Hale [poem]                        81
           
The Ladies' Mount Vernon Association                                                   80
           
The New National Holiday [Thanksgiving]                                            175
           
The "Presentation Plate" and "The Light of Home"                                   79
           
The Salons of Paris                                                                               558
           
Washington National Monument                                                             81, 274
           
Women's Wages in California                                                               468
Embroidery Composed of Guipure and Transfer (Illustrated)                            297, 356
Embroidery, Inserting &c. (Illustrated)             7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 102, 103,
           
106, 160, 170, 259, 261, 267, 292, 293, 294, 297, 360, 362, 395, 396, 449, 451,
           
459, 491, 540, 543, 547, 551, 552
Emma's Grave, by James Ristine [poem]                                                          254
End of Neck-tie (Illustrated)                                                                            299
Enigmas                                                                                            62, 158, 255, 351, 447, 540
Eva Lee, by Mrs. M. M. Hines [poem]                                                               61
Evangeline, by J. W. Beazell [poem]                                                                 447
Evening Shadows, by Mabel Gray [poem]                                                         61
Fancy Cape (Illustrated) [spotted lace, velvet, bugles, ribbon]                          104
Fancy Crochet (Illustrated)                                                                              168
Fancy Headdress (Illustrated)                                                                          262
Fancy Mourning Cape (Illustrated) [net, lace, and ribbon]                                103
Fairies, by Nellie [poem]                                                                                  157
Fashions                                                                      
   
         Bridal toilet; reception toilets; mantles and cloaks; lady's hood; wedding 
                ball dress; coiffures; evening receptions; sleeves; flounces and ruffles; 
                striped silks; moire fabrics; colors; furs                                                 90
           
Evening dresses; opera dress; children's clothing; lady's night dress;
                use of guipure, thread, and Chantilly lace; dressing the hair; collars and 
                cuffs; Valenciennes lace; slippers, boots, and shoes; headdresses; 
                heart-shaped watch                                                                           191
           
Spring dresses; home dress; redingote magicienne, knitted counterpane 
                in stripes, Fifth Avenue shopping; burnous; silk mantles; crinoline—
                notes from England and France; bonnets; dressing the hair; 
                bridesmaid dresses; mohair                                                               287
           
Dresses; walking dresses; child's dress; carriage dress; gored robe; 
                spring silks; cheques; shawls; bows; trims; skirts; bonnets                  383
           
Dress; walking dress; ballgowns; child's dress; bonnets; bonnet 
                trimming; headdresses; sashes; ribbons; flounces; morning dress 
                fabric; gored dresses; sleeves; black lace points and mantillas            479
           
Robes; dresses; spring mantles; travelling dresses; clothes for summer 
                watering places; underskirts                                                              573
Ferneries for the Parlor, by Harland Coultas                                                    443
Filling for Wheels (Illustrated)                                                                          396
Flounce for Evening-dress (Illustrated)                                                             550
Flouncing for an Evening-dress (Illustrated)                                                      486, 550
Forgiveness                                                                                                      415
Frame Cottage (Illustrated) [with plans]                                                           567
Fretfulness                                                                                                        155
Garden Hood, for a Little Girl (Illustrated) [knitted]                                         450
Gentleman's Gaiter (Illustrated)                                                                          73
Gentleman's Shirt (Illustrated)                                                                          259
Godey's Arm-Chair                                                     
   
         A list of articles we can supply; hoops worn by factory girls; portable 
                hand-books of games; paper shirt-collars; The Greeting of the New 
                Year to Godey, by Kruna [poem]                                                       85
           
Optics of a soap bubble (Illustrated); draperies, curtains, and blinds; 
                crown silk court skirt; finding fault with your children; bird in a cage
                trick                                                                                                  183
            Boswell's Introduction to the Literary Club; tight sleeves; The Flower-
                Garden—roses, verbena, petunia, heliotrope, fuchsia, geraniums, 
                hollyhock, phlox, dahlia, daisy chrysanthemum, carnations, alyssum, 
                double daisies, delphinium, hardy flowering shrubs; short note from
                Texas; usefulness of the Lady's Book; promote and encourage the 
                study of music—pianos for $150—including letters from Judson 
                Female Institute in Marion, AL and Farmville Female Seminary, 
                Farmville, VA; draperies, curtains, and blinds; tableaux vivants:  
   
             Mischief in School (Illustrated)                                                        279
           
Fun at home; Parables of Our Lord; The Flower-Garden—gladiolus, 
                Gandavensis varieties, double tuberose, tiger-flower, Jacobea lily; 
                To the Lady's Book, by S. L. P. [poem]; tableaux vivants:  The 
                Burglary (Illustrated); How to Dress a Doll (Illustrated); lady 
                office-holders in England                                                                    375
           
Ossian E. Dodge; Georgetown (S. C.) Times on women; experiment 
                with a new set of teeth; How to Dress a Doll (Illustrated); Madame 
                Clement's French and English Protestant Family School for Young 
                Ladies [Beverly, NJ]                                                                        472
           
Instructions to Texas subscribers; Ella Moore's Letters from the City—
                Letter 1—Tableaux Vivants—The Bleeding Nun, Lifting the Veil, 
                The Sorceress; Oakford's fashions; note from Sequin Mercury; 
                cottage in the Italian style; frame cottage (Illustrated); Miss 
                Martineau on cookery; How to Dress a Doll (Illustrated)                 563
Godey's Offering for New Year's (Illustrated) [designs for bags or smoking 
            caps in crochet; short purse in crochet; fancy crochet bag; basket purse] 68
Gothic Cottage (Illustrated) [with plans]                                                            63
Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter; or, The Three Ages of Dress (Illustrated) 
           
[turn of century, 1830s, 1860]                                                              289
Half of a Toilet Cushion (Illustrated)                                                                547
Half of Morning Collar (Illustrated)                                                                  396
Headdresses (Illustrated)                                                                                 105, 262, 448
Headdresses, Neck-tie, and Fancy Cuff (Illustrated)                                        105
Health Department, by Jno. Stainback Wilson, M. D., Columbus, Ga.                                   
   
         Intense mental application, light reading, bad positions, directions for the 
                sedentary, directions for those who have more leisure, women should 
                not submit to restraints                                                                         82
           
Quantity of gastric juice, effects of stimulants and over-eating; fat bacon 
                and pork, and frying; the warm bath and wetsheet pack                     178
           
Effects of taking tea and coffee on children, transmission from parents to 
                children—hereditary disease, mortality of infants, function of the lungs275
           
The dress of infants; the dress of little girls                                             370
           
Air for children