Godey's Lady's Book
Volume LXI, July-December 1860 

A Day's Temptations, by Marian Gwyn [fiction]                                               427
A Heroine of To-day, by T. S. Arthur [fiction]                                                  113
Allspice Baskets (Illustrated)                                                                             70
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)                        
  
         Capitals, floral, A-H, J-X                                                                      106
            Capitals, simple, A-H, J-Z                                                                    260
            Capitals, leafy, A-Q                                                                              300
            Capitals, leafy, R-Z                                                                               400
            Lower case, floral, a-z                                                                          496
A Mat for an Inkstand (Illustrated)                                                                  160
Angels are There! by W. S. Gaffney  [poem]                                                    219
A Noble Sentiment                                                                                           518
A Plain Christmas Story, by Alice B. Haven [fiction]                                         519
Apron for a School Girl (Illustrated)                                                                549
Aprons (Illustrated)                                                                                 6, 7, 100, 259, 546, 549
Articles for Fancy Fairs (Illustrated)
           
Ornament for a lamp; purse; fan in silk and chenille; allspice baskets        69
           
Wafer baskets; feather baskets; lavender fagots; feather screens            165
A September Memory, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]                                           252
Aunt Sophie's Visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey [fiction]                                            344
A Venetian Summer Residence (Illustrated) [with plans]                                   187
A Whisper to a Newly-Married Pair
            A Whisper to the Husband—Introductory Remarks; On the Female
                Character                                                                                         217
           
A Whisper to the Husband—On General Conduct; On Constancy
                and Fidelity                                                                                       314
           
A Whisper to the Husband—On Domestic Habits; On Absence            410
           
A Whisper to the Husband—On Expenditure; Conclusion                     503
Babies                                                                                                                91
Beautiful Extract [from "The Broken Heart" by Dr. F. J. Stratton]                    540
Bonnets (Illustrated)                                                                                        350, 542
Boy's Winter Hat, in Knitting (Illustrated)                                                         454
Braided Sachet (Illustrated)                                                                             262
Braided Shoe for a Child (Illustrated)                                                              493
Braided Slipper (Illustrated)                                                                            398
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)                                                                            167, 262, 358
Braiding Pattern for Boy's Tunic (Illustrated)                                                    164
Broad Line Drawing Lessons (Illustrated)                                                          42, 232, 431
Broderie for a Skirt (Illustrated)                                                                       166
B. Umber, Artist, by Metta Victoria Victor [fiction]                                         507
By Gone, by C. S. Allen [poem]                                                                       525
By the Brook, by Charles Stewart [poem]                                                       240
Capes (Illustrated)                                                                                          159, 254, 415
Caps (Illustrated)                                                                                61, 157, 253, 350, 445, 541
Cascalaid, by H. L. Abbey [poem]                                                                    435
Centre-Table Gossip, containing--
           
Aids to a Good Figure [at Demorest's—hoops, mantles]                       568
           
Amusements for Long Evenings                                                             474
           
A Thought for Mothers                                                                         381
           
Blemishes                                                                                             285, 474
           
Camel's Hair Tassels                                                                             189
           
Fashions Below Stairs                                                                           189
           
French Gossip                                                                                      189
           
Fresh Hints for Flower Gardening        
  
             No. 4—Carnations, and how to produce choice sorts; ornamental
                    rock work in gardens                                                                      93
                
No. 5—Hollyhocks and wallflowers; miniature and bourbon roses    190
                
No. 6—Beauty of the garden lawn; ornamenting the lawn                 285
                
No. 7—Duties for month; proper situation of indoor flowers             383
           
Gems [diamonds, sapphires, topaz, emerald]                                         473
           
Illustrated Gift-books and New Juveniles                                               568
           
Notes and Queries                                                       
  
             Coffee's history; the ruling feminine passion (gowns and dresses
                    [poem]; American housekeeping; a thought for the day                    94
               
New diseases; sugar for our tea and sweetmeats; female artists; the
                    care of delicate children                                                                190
               
Egging season; tribute to Mrs. Hemans; climate of Japan                    286
                Benefit of a sea voyage; undersleeves; hoops; new opera Lurline;
                    daily duties, by Milton                                                                   382
              
Care of the eyes, value of the oyster in diet                                         474
           
Only for Something to Say [poem]                                                        285
           
Orange Sweetmeats                                                                                93
           
Sidney Dobell                                                                                         92
           
Some Gossip on Novelties [wristlet, gold belts, nets, headdresses]         567
           
The Little Girl's Song [poem]                                                                  92
           
The School Year                                                                                  382
           
The Value of a Wife                                                                              382
Chemisettes (Illustrated)                                                                                    61, 62
Chemistry for the Young                                                                      
  
         Lesson XVI (concluded), Lesson XVII--Oxygen                                    91
            Lesson XVII (continued)                                                                      284
            Lesson XVII (continued)                                                                      566
Chair Cover, in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                                451
Child's Apron (Illustrated)                                                                               259
Child's Apron in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                              546
Child's Boot, Braided (Illustrated)                                                                   353
Child's Braided Slipper (Illustrated)                                                                   68
Child's Ruff (Illustrated) [knitted]                                                                     256
Christmas Lay, by Finley Johnson [poem]                                                       562
CLOAKS, DRESSES, MANTILLAS, TALMAS &c.
           
A Seasonable Dress (Illustrated)                                                         351
           
Beautiful Morning Robe (Illustrated)                                                    388, 475
           
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)                                                                8, 95, 488
           
Dinner-dress for a Young Lady (Illustrated)                                         489
           
Dinner or Street Dress (Illustrated)                                                      197
           
Evening-Dress for a Sea-side (Illustrated)                                            198, 287
           
Henry the Second Cloak (Illustrated)                                                   391, 475
           
La Mathilde (Illustrated) [dress]                                                          199
           
New Style of Dress (Illustrated) [with diagram]                                      64
           
New York Style of Cloaks (Illustrated)                                               389, 475
           
Out-Door Dress for the Country (Illustrated)                                       198, 287
           
Pardessus de Voyage (Illustrated) [cloak]                                           393
           
Peignoir, or Morning-dress (Illustrated)                                               397
           
Poplin Dress, Suitable for a Little Girl (Illustrated)                                447
           
Promenade Dress and Coat of the Same Material (Illustrated)              489
           
Promenade Dress for Boy and Girl (Illustrated)                                    488, 569
           
Robe de Chambre (Illustrated)                                                            484, 569
           
Shawl Mantle for Autumn (Illustrated) [with diagram]                           354
           
The Barcelona, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  385
           
The Bedouin D'Ete, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                           108
           
The Caldeno Mantle (Illustrated)                                                         393
           
The Castilian, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                    486
           
The Clotilde Cloak (Illustrated)                                                           392, 475
           
The Coraline (Illustrated) [dress]                                                         485
           
The Garibaldi (Illustrated) [cloak]                                                        487, 569
           
The Georgette (Illustrated) [dress]                                                       396
           
The Japanese (Illustrated) [dress]                                                        196
           
The Jeddo (Illustrated) [dress]                                                             294
           
The Medicis, or Shawl Mantle (Illustrated)                                          292
           
The Montressa (Illustrated) [cloak]                                                      487, 569
           
The Oberon Cloak (Illustrated)                                                           390, 475
           
"The Prince" Wrap for a Boy (Illustrated)                                            394, 475
           
The Salamaneon, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                 12
           
The Saragossa, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                  295
           
The Tagus, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]                                        204
           
The Zouave Morning Robe (Illustrated)                                               293
           
Winter Jacket for a Girl (Illustrated)                                                     394, 475
Coats for Boys (Illustrated)                                                                             542
Coiffure for a Young Lady (Illustrated)                                                                4, 95
Coiffure for Ball Costume or Full Evening-dress (Illustrated)                                5, 95
Collar in Star Pattern (Illustrated)                                                                    299
Collars (Illustrated)                                                                                           10, 299, 358
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)                            11, 70, 161, 264, 356, 446, 544
Costume in All Ages                                                                                           59
Cottages (Illustrated)                                                                   89, 186, 187, 281, 380, 470, 564
Cottage in the Bracketted Style (Illustrated) [with plan]                                    470
Cottage in the Gothic Style (Illustrated) [with plan]                                           380
Crochet Flowers
            Hawthorn, or May Flower; Primrose                                                     163
            Scarlet Geranium                                                                                  259
            Forget-Me-Not; Laburnum                                                                  351
            Heartsease; Campanula                                                                        452
            Jonquil; Cineraria, or Autumnal Daisy                                                    548
Crochet Maltese Collar (Illustrated)                                                                   10, 71
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)                                                                                202
Cuff Embroidered on Net (Illustrated)                                                             456
Description of a Botanical Excursion in the Highlands of Scotland                        33
Design of a Country Residence (Illustrated) [with plan]                                    186
Design for a Southern House in the Italian Style (Illustrated) [with plan]            281
Design for a Smoking Cap (Illustrated)                                                            166
Destiny; or, The Autobiography of a Lowell Operative, by Burner Browner
  
         [fiction]                                                                                                 209
Diagram of Hug me Tight (Illustrated)                                                              545
Diagram of New Style of Dress (Illustrated)                                                       65
Do Something                                                                                                     49
Down in the Corn, by Julia Southall [poem]                                                    327
Dreams, by Julia W_____ [poem]                                                                   144
Editors' Table, containing—
           
A Good Example [the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion
                of Sanitary Knowledge]                                                                    463
           
A Mother's Song [poem]                                                                      271
           
A Word With Our Young Writers                                                         556
           
Blood Relations Should Not Marry Together                                         462
           
Changes in Life                                                                                     369
           
Country Life and Its Advantages                                                           366
           
Dangers of Wealth                                                                                175
           
Florence Nightingale's Book                                                                 269
           
His and Mine, by Kate Harrington [poem]                                          463
           
Irish Servant Girls in America                                                                174
           
Medical Colleges for Women [Female Medical College of
                Pennsylvania, New England Female Medical College]                       270
           
Missionary Women--Helpers of the Poor and Ignorant                          556
           
Music                                                                                                   461
           
Parental Decision [discipline]                                                                   78
           
Places of Education for Young Ladies [Brownsville College of Young
                Ladies [MS]; Laurensville Ladies' College [SC]; Mt. Carroll
                Seminary [IL]; Tennessee Female College [Franklin, TN]; Miss S. J.
                Hale's Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies                           557
           
Poisonous Paper-Hangings                                                                   174
           
Prophetess or Preacher                                                                        173
           
Roman Catholic Schools for Young Ladies                                           369
           
Sewing Machine Clubs                                                                         271
           
Thanksgiving--the new National Holiday                                               271
           
The Education of Women in America                                                    368
           
The Effect of Fashionable Follies in the Nineteenth Century                    367, 462
           
Troy Female Seminary                                                                          368
           
The Fine Arts                                                                                       173
           
The Fine Arts at Home                                                                         556
           
The Needle and Its Work                                                                     463
           
The Queen of Inventions--The Sewing Machine                                      77
           
The Sewing Machine [time comparison hand and machine]                    174
           
The Sewing Machine and Its Merits                                                      369
           
The Women of Japan, and Why They are Educated                              368
           
Time [poem]                                                                                         556
           
Varieties in Verse [poem]                                                                       79
           
Ventilation                                                                                            175
           
What's in a Name [meaning of Beatrice, Clara, Felicia, Letitia, Ada,
                Elizabeth, Emma, Isabel, Mary, Matilda—choose children's names
                carefully]                                                                                            78
Early Dawn, by M. A. Rice [poem]                                                                   435
Ella's Doubt, by Mary E. Nealy [poem]                                                            151
Ella Moore's Letters from the City [see Godey's Arm-Chair]                         88, 184, 282, 375, 471
Embroidered Flounce for Child's Jacket or Mantle (Illustrated)                        168
Embroidery for a Lady's Under-skirt (Illustrated)                                             298, 356
Embroidery for a Square Pillow-case (Illustrated)                                            264
Embroidery for Chain Stitch (Illustrated)                                                          162
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)            9, 10, 11, 64, 65, 70, 72, 101, 103, 107, 162,
            166, 168, 203, 254, 255, 256, 258, 264, 294, 296, 297, 299, 352, 354, 356, 357, 361,
            396, 399, 447, 455, 456, 493, 494, 495, 496, 545, 547, 550
End of Waist-Ribbon or Neck-Tie (Illustrated)                                                548
Evening, by Mrs. A. E. Burton [poem]                                                             416
Fancy Pen Wiper (Illustrated)                                                                            66
Fan in Silk and Chenille (Illustrated)                                                                   69
Fashions                                                                                  
  
         Tunic dress; evening dress; children's dresses; coiffures; aprons; new
                style of girdle; dinner and evening dresses for watering places;
                mantles; reorganization of merchants in Philadelphia                              94
           
Morning dress for watering place; evening dress for young girl;
                headdresses; bonnets; garden hats; riding hats; standing collars;
                fabrics; morning robes; white dresses; hoops                                     191
           
Evening dresses; out-door dress for the country; evening dress for the
                seaside; ladies' short night dresses; mantles; bonnets; gold
                ornaments; sleeves; trimming; fans; coiffures; cuffs and collars;
                habit-shirts                                                                                       286
           
Evening dresses; principal materials for dress goods; new colors;
                ribbons; gold trim; fall wraps                                                             383
           
Walking dress; reception or dinner dress; child's dress; breakfast
                robe; cloaks; wrap for boy; jacket for girl; sortie de bal; corded silk
                casaque or basquine for the South; black wraps; trimmings; colors;
                stripes; gored dresses; sleeves; bonnets                                             475
           
Brides and bridesmaids; robe de chambre; promenade dress for boy
                and girl; cloaks; opera hood; bridal cloaks; shawls and scarves;
                bonnets; children's hats; boots; gaiters; children's headwear                568
Firesides and Facts of the Revolution, by Mrs. E. F. Ellet [Col. Williams and
            His Wife, The O'Nealls; Tobacco Rolling; The Soldier's Revenge] [SC
                and VA]                                                                                            413
Floral Card-Basket, in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                     359
Flouncing for Morning Sleeves (Illustrated)                                                        72
Flower-Pot Shade (Illustrated)                                                                        356
For a Pincushion (Illustrated) [embroidery]                                                      258
From Our Own Correspondent, by Virginia de Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]  316
Fringe for Curtains, etc.                                                                                    260
From My Window [fiction]                                                                               504
Gauntlet in Crochet (Illustrated)                                                                       547
German Work-Basket (Illustrated)                                                                  448
Glove Box (Illustrated)                                                                                      66
Glove Top                                                                                                          63
Composed of Black Lace and Black Velvet (Illustrated)                                  360
Godey's Arm-Chair                                                                 
  
         Our music; play on word "paper"; statistics on women's manners on
                street cars; the Ten Commandments in Ten Lines [poem]; the scold's
                bridle (Illustrated); etiquette for presentation at British court; flowing
                or short hair for ladies; How to Dress a Doll (pinafore, cape, hat);
                Ella Moore's Letters from the City—Letter 1—Tableaux Vivants
                (concluded)—Grandmother's Trunk, The Dying Brigand, Second
                Sight, The Intercepted Letter                                                                83
           
Diamond Ruffle Trimming; Patty Cake Polka; how to tell direction of
                breeze; new hat (Illustrated); Acrostic (Louis A. Godey), by Minnie
                Thankful
[poem]; infant education; How to Dress a Doll (nightdress)
                (Illustrated); list of Grecian paintings; Ella Moore's Letters from the
                City, Letter II—Impromptu Charades—Innocent, Patchwork,
                Songstress, Courtship, Dramatic; ancient embroidery; the Queen's
                drawing-room                                                                                    180
           
Pleasant jaunt over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—Baltimore to
                Harper's Ferry to Martinsburg to Piedmont to Altamont to Oakland to
                Wheeling; The New Census and the Fair Dissenter [poem];
                Shreveport Female Institute; How to Make a [Doll] Bed (Illustrated);
                Patent Enameled Collars and Cuffs for Ladies (Illustrated); Friend
                Godey [poem]; Ella Moore's Letters from the City, Letter III—
                Proverbs—A friend in need is a friend indeed, money makes the mare
                go, all's well that ends well, charity begins at home, faint heart never
                won fair lady, it never rains but it pours, there's no rose without a
                thorn, when the cat is away the mice will play, a stitch in time saves
                nine                                                                                                     276
           
To our Texas subscribers; music—Mr. Everest's compositions, beautiful
                Germans songs, Poulton's music; Ella Moore's Letters from the City—
                Letter IV—Moving Tableaux—The Trial of Constance de Beverly;
                horticultural gossip—crocus, hyacinths, tulips, trees, plants, and shrubs,
                amaryllis, other bulbs, camellia japonica; the Young America piano; fat
                young ladies and vinegar; a list of articles we can supply; evening
                parties, by an old-fashioned man; the necessity of labor; every day
                absurdities; How to Make a [Doll] Bed                                              373
           
Shaler's patent skates; letter from Darlington CH, SC; Ella Moore's
                Letters from the City—Letter IV—Moving Tableaux—Joan of Arc's
                Trial [with poem]                                                                               467
           
Rival Claims—Christmas in the City and Country; Our Music; Christmas
                lay.  Christian charity, by Finley Johnson [poem]; the American press;
                hair ornaments (Illustrated); Misses Clipton's Boarding and Day
                School for Young Ladies, Old Point Comfort, Virginia                       561
Guipure Pattern for Sleeves (Illustrated)                                                           264
Habit-shirts (Illustrated)                                                                                     61, 353, 350
Handkerchief Reticule (Illustrated)                                                                   261
Have Your Pavement Cleaned? (Illustrated)                                                    479
Headdresses (Illustrated)                             4, 5, 61, 101, 102, 103, 200, 253, 254, 445, 490, 511
Health Department                                                                   
           
Mothers should nurse their children                                                         80
            Raising children by hand; how children should be raised by hand; how to
                give the milk; when to give the milk                                                    175
           
Food for young children; sleep of infants—opiates                                 272
           
Time for weaning infants; food and drinks of infants before weaning;
                infants often suffer for water; diet, etc. after weaning                          464
           
Diet and drinks of nursing women; drugging nursing women; air,
                exercise, etc. of nursing women                                                         558
Home                                                                                                               138
Hope Lincoln, by Daisy Howard [fiction]                                                         220
Horticultural Gossip                                                                                          376
How They Make Tea in Russia