ilomciitic O’ConomLT 
line is worn very small, the drapery clinging 
around the feet. Paniers are almost dis¬ 
pensed with, a small puff in the back taking 
the place of the former fashionable struc¬ 
tures. 
Bows of black velvet ribbon are arranged 
among the puffs and braids of the hair. Es¬ 
pecially are they placed under the chignon, a 
little to one side of the center, to relieve the 
present high styles of wearing the hair. 
Pompadour or square necks 
are in. vogue for evening dress¬ 
es; the opening may be filled 
up with tulle, lace, and re- * 
lieved by velvet dog collar and 
pendants. 
Fanciful jackets are made of K 
velvet and wide lace inserting. 
The lace is arranged like bre- fj ' 
telles, and the jacket is edged 
with a narrow, black laco frill 
over a pinked-out white silk 
frill. Others arc embroidered. 
Light organdy muslin flounces 
are much used for trimming _ jgg 
evening silks. The muslin is ^ 
trathered verv full. Trimming 
WHY WASH MONDAY 
HOME DEESSES, 
“ THERE'S ne'er a bit of comfort took 
Upon the washing day’’ 
Has been verified in thousands of homes 
where steam, suds, confusion, a “picked up ” 
WELL-managing housewives are already 
considering their Spring sewing. Among the 
first things necessary are the home dresses. 
For home wear, calico retains its supremacy. 
The most desirable is the English, which is a 
yard wide and can bo bought for 20 ceuts. It 
U firm and close in texture aud of patterns 
which commend themselves both in color and 
beauty. Unlike our American prints, they 
do not ape the French, but have a character 
quite their own. The prevailing tint is gen¬ 
erally brown or purple, in slender sprigs or 
geometrical patterns. That in black and 
white is extremely pretty, and washes ad¬ 
mirably. 
FRENCH CALICO 
is always desirable. It comes in beautiful 
designs—stripes in colors harmoniously min¬ 
gled (v in dark grounds, black, brown or 
wood tints, interspersed with bright bouquets 
aild festooned with vines. 
DOMESTIC INQUIRIES 
to color “soldiers’blue?” also, how to make 
genuine doughnuts? for T heard an Eastern 
woman say that Western women’s doughnuts 
were no more like the real article than an 
apple is like a potato; also, how to make bot¬ 
tled pickles like those we buy at provision 
stores. B. Guthrie. 
Wii.i. some one tell me how to use potash 
in muking soft-soap? Mrs. E, W. Avery. 
PIN CUSHION, 
They are very 
dressy, and, coquettishly made, make a very 
becoming morning toilette. They cost from | 
25 to 50 cents a yard and are a yard wide. 
AMERICAN CALICOS 
we find now at ante-war prices. They are j 
constantly improving in designs, but not in 
texture. They are so cheap, however, that 
they can be often changed, if one docs not 
take the making into consideration. 
TRIMMING CALICO DRESSES. 
(t is not in good taste to ornament calico 
dresses elaborately. The most popular style 
is tho loose Gabrielle, which may be finished 
with a deep Spanish flounce. The sleeves 
are made coat—tapering closely to t he wrist. 
Oxydizod buttons are very suitable, or bril¬ 
liant pearl, medium size. We doubt whether 
any style of calico dress can ever rival tho 
blouse, fitting easily and loosely, and full skirt 
with gored front. This is much more becom¬ 
ing to most figures. 
PERCALES 
are chiefly seen iu polka spot s and are very 
stylish. Being of lighter material, they take 
more trimming than calicos. A loose jacket, 
slashed and bordered with trimming, an | 
overskirt, not too full, and a flounce on the 
underskirt, with a row of trimming above, 
i 3 the prettiest way of making these. Of 
fighter Spring goods it is too soon to speak. 
PARTY ORESSES 
The materials for party dresses are velvet, 
silk, and tarlotan. The first we leave out of 
consideration. All evening silks come in 
tints, of which tho loveliest are tea rose, 
rose tendre, del blue, and tho gaslight blues, 
greens, and pinks ; silks which throw off the 
light, changing and flashing at every turn. 
There dresses are trimmed with a flounce 
about nine inches In depth, headed by full 
white ruching. Overskirts are of tulle, 
looped up with Wailing vines of bronze 
leaves, tea roses, morning glories and pan¬ 
sies. The corsage is belted, and, with Gre¬ 
cian folds across tho breast, caught, with a. 
breast knot similar to the flowers on tho 
skirt. Sleeves, Marie Antoinette—that is, 
just below tho elbow, and finished with a 
frill. 
A very pretty party dress had the front 
width of pink silk, trimmed with narrow 
flounces to tho waist. The back was of mauve 
in a court train. Around tho bottom was a 
side plaiting, a finger in depth, of t he pink silk. 
The train was trimmed with drapery—that 
is, a straight piece of silk caught up at inter¬ 
vals with a bow or strap. The waist was of 
pink silk pointed in front. The sleeves to the 
elbow mauve, and finished with a pink frill 
aud black velvet bows. 
Young ladies for the most part wear tarla¬ 
tans, and no prettier dresses could be worn. 
They require several skirts of tarletan, as 
Tins Pin Cushion (see engraving) is worked 
with bright silks on a dark silk or Merino 
ground. The sprigs may be worked in green, 
I and the < irocian pattern of green, gold and 
brown. The sides should be made on card 
boaixl. The card should bo of the colors of 
tho embroidery. 
PIN CUSHION. 
dinner and cross looks, if not words, are 
always the accompaniments of that dreaded 
But why do you select Monday as 
Monday. 
tho washing day ? If you have no better rea¬ 
son than because your grandmother always 
did, it would bo about ns sensible for your 
husband to go to mill with the grist in one 
end of the bag and a atone in the other, to 
balance, because that was his grandfather’s 
way. If you keep the Subbath and do no 
work on that clay that can bo dispensed with, 
you will find more to do ou Monday than any 
other day of t he week. Then the Saturday’s 
baking has vanished and needs to be renewed, 
and there arc always little things to bo done 
preparatory to washing—garments to bo fin¬ 
ished or mended and clothes to bo put to soak. 
Tuesday is a much more convenient day 
for washing, and tho work wifi bo rendered 
lighter by tho preparations of tho previous 
day — preparations which ought not to bo 
made on the Sabbath. Then don’t exert 
yourself too much for the Bake of getting the 
washing done by some particular hour. I 
know whereof I speak ; for haven’t I arisen 
while it was yet night, just late enough to 
escape the sin of the good deacon’s wife, who 
washed on Sunday, and accomplished the 
washing before breakfast; sustained through 
the unaccustomed hours of labor, and for 
tho loss of sleep, by the thought that my 
long line of snowy clothes would excite tho 
envy and admiration of my neighbors when 
they first looked out in the morning. Then 
because tho clothes were dried, sprinkled, and 
folded in tho morning, I kaire done tho iron¬ 
ing in the afternoon, and have finished that 
Monday’s performances by going to bod and 
staying there tho rest of tho week sick. 
If you cannot get the washing done in time 
to have tho clothes dried the same day, leavo 
them in tho rinsing-water till the next; or if 
your washings are very large, take two days 
for it, —anything rather than have tho wash¬ 
ing-day So filled with hard work and con¬ 
fusion, for which the clean clothes it pro¬ 
duces are no compensation, nor to the tired- 
out house-wife for the severe labors of that 
ever-to-be-dreaded day. G. R. B. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
Bess in May—Y our troubles are not unlike 
those of most young girls of fourteen. Gen¬ 
erally every girl’s mother knows what is best 
for her. If you will think a moment you 
will see that age and experience must have 
taught her a groat deal which it is not possi¬ 
ble yet for you to k now ; and on that account 
you should bo willing to yield to her judg¬ 
ment of what Is best for you. Certainly a 
girl of fourteen might bo permitted to corre¬ 
spond with her girl friends, provided those 
friends are such as she should have. Every¬ 
thing, though, depends on her own disposi¬ 
tion, and the judgment with which she has 
selected her friends. You know yourself 
that, girls do not always choose companions 
suitable for them, and a mother cannot be 
blamed, in such cases, if she endeavors to 
prevent, further int imacy, iu your case, not 
knowing yourself or your friends, it would be 
impossible to ail vise you further than that 
“mother nearly always knows best.” 
It is our opinion that girls should be sent to 
school 
WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ACCIDENT 
Prof. Wii.der of Cornell University, gives 
the following short rules for action in cases 
of accident, which it will be found useful to 
preserve or remember: 
For dust in tho eyes, avoid rubbing; dash 
wafer into them; retuovo cinders, etc., with 
the round point of a lead pencil. 
Remove water from tho ear by tepid wa¬ 
ter; never put a hard instrument into the 
ear. 
If any artery is cut, compress above the 
wound; if a vein is cut, compress below. 
If choked, get upon all fours and cough. 
For slight bums, clip the part in cold water; 
if the akin is destroyed, cover with varnish. 
Smother a fire with carpets, &c.; water 
will often spread burning oil, and increase 
danger. Before passing through smoke, take 
a full breath and then stoop low; but if car¬ 
bonic acid gas is suspected, walk erect. 
Suck poisoned wounds, unless your mouth 
is sore; enlarge the wound, or, better cutout 
the part without delay; hold the wounded 
part as long as can be borne to a hot coal or 
end of a cigar. 
In caso of poisoning, excite vomiting by 
tickling the throat or by warm water and 
mustard. 
For acid poisons, give alkalis; for alkaline 
poisons, give acids—white of egg is good in 
most eases; in a case of opium poisoning give 
- strong coffee and keep moving. 
If in water, float on the bock, with the 
nose and mouth projecting. 
For apoplexy, raise the head and body; 
for fainting, lay the person flat. 
There are both advantages and dis¬ 
advantages connected with every school, but 
the former far outweigh the latter. Girls 
generally study harder when coming in com¬ 
petition with other girls, and above all they 
learn to exercise self-ndiaacc and judgment 
which is the most important part of educa¬ 
tion. Still if you want an education you can 
acquire it at homo. Be advised, seriously, to 
pay better attention to your spelling, writing 
and composition, if you want to bo an ac¬ 
complished correspondent. A girl of four¬ 
teen who ha3 made proper use of tho most 
inferior advantages should be able to spell 
correctly and to apply correct punctuation 
marks. 
No ; you are too young to be allowed to go 
out in the evening alone, even if some one 
will see you hobie. Dear, young girl, apply 
yourself for three years at least to diligent 
study and reading before cVen wishing to go 
into society. 
“How should a young lady ask a young 
gentleman to take off his hut and overcoat ? 
How should she ask him to call on leaving ? 
How should she ask them Into the parlor if 
they are not shown directly into it ?” 
In all such matters exercise your common 
sense. Ask a gentleman to remove his over¬ 
coat and hat. If you want him to call again 
simply tell him so. Invito him politely to 
walk into the parlor ; apologize for his being 
left in the hall. These are very unimportant 
matters, and the most direct way is the best. 
Wear your dresses to your shoo tops. Braid 
your hair iu one braid in the back, hanging 
down and tied with ribbon if it is long 
I enough. If not, lxook it up and fasten with 
a bow where it is fastened. 
The eyelashes will grow out if cut off ; but 
they will not be Improved. Healthy, digest¬ 
ible food, plenty of brown bread and molas¬ 
ses, and early hours, with cleanliness and 
plenty of exercise in the open air, aro the best 
possible remedies for a poor complexion. A 
week of such regimen will not answer ; make 
it your habit. Avoid fried cooking and 
pastry. To remove freckles, wash your face 
TO REMOVE MOLES FROM THE FACE 
Our correspondents frequently inquire how 
to do this. Wo find the. following in an ex¬ 
change, and give it for their benefit and what 
it is worth :—“ Ladies have a horror of those 
black eminences on the face called moles. 
Even homely men dislike them, but there 
they ordinarily remain as guides in giving a 
description of an applicant for a passport. 
A mole is a thickening of the bpidermis, or 
outer skin, probably induced by an obstruc¬ 
tion in tho outward ends of a cluster of ] 
HUdorio ducts or sweat tubes. To be clear 
of them readily, run a fine noodle through 
one side to the other. Let an assistant take 
hold of both ends of tho needle and pull, so 
as to 11 m.ko a neck of. clear skin at its base. 
It is neither painful,‘difficult, nor attended 
with hardly a tinge of blood. Next ligate 
that neck behind the out-dragged mole with 
n delicate, strong, waxed silk thread that cuts 
off the circulation ; clip away tho unused 
thread and wait tho result. A slight local 
inflammation ensues, which is the gluing to¬ 
gether the new surface of the stretched skin. 
In a few days the old offense drops off, de¬ 
prived of nutrition, leaving no scar. If a lit¬ 
tle reddish by the remains of a subsiding 
inflammation, wot tho spot occasionally with 
cold water. Proceed to the next, and the 
next, seriatim. Before aware of it any mole- 
disfigured face may become as good us new.” 
APPLE BUTTER, 
I take pleasure in giving Mrs. T. 0. Bowen 
my recipe for making apple butter. Tho rule 
is, one barrel of eider and eight bushels of 
apples ; but for my family of six, I take eight 
gallons of eider and t wo bushels of apples ; 
boil the cider down one-third ; then having 
your apples peeled, quartered aud cored, put 
iu as many as will cook conveniently, and as 
they break and settle add more apples. I 
put thorn in as fast as I think they will cook 
nicely, but can give no rule. 1 make it in an 
old-fashioned “ big brass kettle,” out of doors, 
as it will do so much faster than on a stove. 
It will toko six or seven hours to cook tho 
above amount if your eider is boiled away 
beforehand, which I think is tho best way. 
It must be cooked till it is a .smooth moss or 
till there aro no chunks of apple discernible. 
I do not add tho spices till it is nearly done, 
and then only spice and cinnamon—mostly 
cinnamon, as we prefer that. It must be 
stirred constantly. G. a. l. 
A USE FOR RUSHES, 
When I was quite a little girl, I remember 
paying homage to an egg shell which hung in 
the cottage window of an old lady whom I 
