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FASHIONS TOR JANUARY. 



The styles in dresses and bonnets are pretty much un- 

 jhanged. Heavy materials, reps and poplins, are made 

 ^ith pointed waists, or in the form of jackets, with a box 

 jlait in the back. Plain waists are trimmed in front to 

 mitate a jacket, and finished in the back with a bow and 

 jnds. Skirts are trimmed with braid or narrow velvet- 

 'ibbon, put on in elaborate patterns. 



Solid colors are more worn than plaids or figured ma- 

 erials, and the colors are this year peculiarly brilliant. 

 The Humboldt purple and Azurine bine are novelties 

 vhich add j^reatly to the variety and elegance of a lady's 

 jostume. Both colors look well in the evening. 



Drab hats and cloaks have come in again, and are a 



pleasant change after the universal black which has been 

 worn so long. Felt bonnets are now very much worn, 

 trimmed with velvet and feathers. All the trimming is 

 not placed directly on the top of the bonnet, as formerly. 

 Long feathers are much worn, and are decidedly more 

 graceful than the short ones, which only form a, tuft. 

 Bows of velvet and flowers form the inside trimming. 

 Head dresses of all varieties adorn the beads of ladies, 

 both young and old. Nets, caps made of lace or muslin 

 in the same form as the nets — ruches of silk, bands 

 of velvet, flowers and feathers — all have their appro- 

 priate places in this important branch of a lady's 

 toilette. It is difficult to err if the head dress is appropri- 

 ate to the occasion, and at all becoming to the wearer. 



MOUSE PE» WIPER. 



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We have taken from GoJei/s Lady's Boole this 

 jngvavingof a very curious and fanciful penwiper, 

 thinking that at this holiday season it would be 

 iseful to our lady readers. The directions are 

 rery clear, and there is no diflaculty in following 

 ,he pattern. 



Another very pretty fancy article of the same 

 vind is made with a very small, round, fancy bas- 

 tet, about an inch and a half across the top, with 

 I delicate handle. This is stitched on a circular 

 lenwiper made of colored cloth, pinked at the 

 ;dges. The basket can be filled with steel pens 

 \t sealing wax. It is a convenient as well as 

 u'etty article for the writing-table. 



To make the penwiper shown in the engraving, 

 •'take gray Canton flannel, the wrong side of 

 which will represent the mouse's skin. Cut diagram 

 N'o. 1, then cut two pieces size and shape of No. 2. 

 These last will be for the ears of the mouse, and are to be 

 cut' without allowing for seams. In piece No. 1, you 

 must allow for a seam at the side marked a in the middle 

 and b at each end. Fold the piece allowed for the seam, 

 put the points b and b together, and sew them from a to 

 b, then from b to c. Then sew it together all round, 

 making a small plait at every half inch, leaving a small 

 Bpace to fill it. Then fill the body with wadding, shaping 



it like a mouse, and making the under part a little flat so 

 as to fasten the mouse to the penwiper. The ears must 

 be folded a little, as in the dotted line in No. 2; fasten 

 them at the places marked by a star in diagram No. 1, 

 and by drawing the thread through the head from star to 

 star, the hollow of the head is formed. Put a black bead 

 for eyes on the places marked by a cross. Run some 

 stiff thread through the snout, and crochet a cord for the 

 tail, and fasK"^ the mouse on the penwiper, 'wbich is 

 made of black a'K. scarlet cloth." 



