narrow gold embroidery design, and black lace, 
embroidered with colored filoselle. 
FIG. 55.—KCTITK. 
The ruffle Is of cream-colored Hsgo, encircled by 
a wreath of pale pink end blue flowers ; ittsfin- 
tons. The cloth was different from anything we 
had seen, and what was our astonishment to learn 
that it was “ nothing but bed-ticking.” 
A couple of tv intera after that they were “ quite 
the rage ” among the school girls in our city, and 
I worked one for my sister, in dark purple making 
the collar, etc . of cashmere the same shade, it 
was very much admired. Those worked In cardi¬ 
nal colors, however, are ihe handsomest 
In making anything of the kind, the artlclemust 
be cut out. merely allowtog for deep seams as it 
does not readily ravel. •• Grandmother ” writes 
such good at Holes, can she not tell how to moke 
something pretty and useful ? 
Hastily, Mrs. W. V. A. 
Dear Miss Clark Many obligations to Mary 
Wager-Fisher for her directions for constructing a 
“ -T a pa new quilt. ” I wish every one of the ladles 
CONDUCTED BY MISS BAY CLARK, 
THE CHILDREN 
FOUND IN THE DESK OF CHARLES DICKENS AFTER HIS 
DEATH. 
When the lessons and tasks are all ended, 
And the school for the day is dismissed, 
And the little ones yathr-r around me 
To bid me “ gnod-niklit” and be kissed; 
Ob. the little white arms that encircle 
My neck in a tender embrace | 
Oh, the smiles that are halos of Heaven, 
Shedding sunshine and love on my face ! 
And when they are gone r sit dreaming 
Of my childhood, too lovely to last; 
Of love that my heart will remember, 
When it wakeB to the pulse ot the past, 
Ere the world and its wickedness made me 
A partner of sorrow and sin, 
When the priory ot God was about me, 
And the glory of gladness within. 
Oh, my heart grows weak as a woman’s, 
And fountains of feeling will flow. 
When X think of the paths steep and stony 
Where the feet of tUe dear ones most go: 
Of the mountains of sin hanging o’er them, 
Of the tempests of late blowing wild; 
Oh, there’s nothing on earth half so holy 
As the innocent heart of a child I 
They are idols of hearts and of households, 
They are angels of God in disguise, 
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, 
His glory still beams in their eyes: 
Oh, those truants from earth and from Heaven, 
They havu made me more raauly and mild, 
And 1 know how Jesus could liken 
The kingdom of God to a child. 
Seek not a life of the dear ones 
All radiant, as others have done; 
But that life may have just ns much shadow 
To temper the glare of the sun: 
I would pray God to guard them from evil, 
But my prayer would bound back to myself; 
Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner. 
But a sinner must pray for himself. 
The twig is so easily bonded, 
I have banished tho rule and the rod; 
I have taught them the goodness of knowledge, 
They have taught me the goodness of God. 
My heart is a dungeon of darkness 
Where 1 shut them from breaking a rule; 
My flown is sufficient correction. 
My love is the law of the school. 
I shall leave tbe old house in the Autumn, 
To traverse its threshold no more, 
Ah ! how I shall sigh for the dear ones 
That meet mo each morn at the door. 
I 6hall miss the good nights and the kisses, 
And the gush of their innocent glee, 
The group on the green and the flowers 
That are brought every morning to me. 
I shall mIns them at morn and at eve, 
Their song in the school and the street, 
I shall miss the low hum of their voices. 
And the tramp of their delicate feet. 
When tho lessons and tasks are all ended. 
And death says the school is dismissed, 
May the little ones gather around me, 
To bid mo “ good-night” and be kissed. 
NY MONEY IN IT, 
ANNIE I,. .JACK, 
a new neighbor made us a call of ceremony the 
other day, and ot course we discussed the usual 
toplc3 that lot rest our sex. 
Coming from a country village where the peo¬ 
ple think themselves advanced, because they are 
replete with social gossip and live In communities 
she chared against ihe Isolation of nur quitr life’ 
Having no taste for reading she hasahouse mil 
oi fine furniture but without any books. We made 
various but vain al tempts to enter Into a conver- 
saUon on any subject we could think of, but re¬ 
signed ourselves at last to an unlimited account 
of the small details of her past village Hie. our 
eldest daughter was painilog our Christmas cards, 
having txmgut the plain gilt ed^ed cards, and ar- 
ranged her own designs, with appropriate senti¬ 
ments. We thought this, while good practice, 
would add to their value to frleuds, and had 
amused ourselves some dull December afternoons 
devising appropriate mot toes for thedlfferent re¬ 
cipients. our visitor with the slightest possible 
show of attention examined the work and then 
turning to me. asked Ja a half scornful tone, "is 
there any money in It V” 
The question has occurred to my mind a great 
many times since, in view of the many ways in 
which people spend their time. While I admire 
the farmer’s wife, who while her husband Is snug¬ 
gling and poor, bears her share of the burden 
and helps him to the independence they bo: h de¬ 
sire, I cannot agree with the grasping spirit, that 
after competence Is gained, continues to feel that 
the life Is “ mote than meat, or the body than 
Ished in front by loops of pale blue ribbon and 
drooping flowers. 
FIG, 56.—INSERTION I DARNED NET. (BRETON LACE.) 
This lace Is very much ussd for trimming even¬ 
ing dresses, fichus, cravats, Ac., and It Is espe- 
cally effective when worked with colored filoselle 
upon white or black Brussels net. 'The design 
must first be traced upon transparent linen or 
paper. The net should be firmly tacked over it, 
and the pattern worked to tracing. The open 
of the Rural would give directions for macing 
some useful or ornamental article, for there are 
sure to be some to whom it would be new—what¬ 
ever may be written upon—even if familiar to 
many. 
Just now I can think of nothing but be&rtlc!ciwj 
and some of tbe uses to which It may be put. By 
working tbe white stripe with some colored wool, 
in eat-stltch, you have a handsome cloth. 
An acquaintance of mine has a pretty scrap hag 
made of " ticking,” worked with scarlet German- 
holes are made by sewing over two or three me 3 hes 
of the net, and then outlining In darniog stitch; 
all the remainder of the designs Is worked In 
darnlng-stltch. When the lace Is required to be 
washed, It should be worked with white linen 
flossette on white Brussels net. 
FIG. 51, 5S.—sprays : embroidery. 
These sprays are worked In long and cording 
stitch, with crewels or embroidery silk ; they are 
town wool,‘the edges whipped together and hound 
with scarlet skirt-braid; a tassel made of the wool 
fastened on each end of the four corners at the top 
and one on the bottom, and suspended by a piece 
of ihe braid. 
Another useful article Is a shoe-bag that was 
hung on the inside of a closet-door; a large square 
of the ticking was worked with dark-red wool and 
bound wl i h braid to match; then there were six 
smaller squares worked and bound like the large 
DESCRIPTION OF CUTS 
FIG. 50.—BORDER EMBROIDERY. 
This design Is intended to be used for trimming 
dresses; it Is worked with silk in chain-stitch and 
small Jet bead3. 
fig. 51.—trimming: okouuet and mionakdise. 
As will be seen from the illustration, this pat¬ 
tern Is worked diagonally. 
Commence with twenty-one chain, pass over 
five chain, one treble Into the sixteen! h, keep tbe 
top loop on the hook for the next and following 
trebles, turn the cotion twice round the hook, 
work off aa for a tteble, leaving the top loops of 
each on the hook ; che tiebics «ro worked into 
every other stltcn of the chain ; take a length of 
migoardlse, * work a treble as before described 
Into two picots together, repeat them r three limes 
more, work an ordinary treble Into tho two next 
pieces together, then work off each loop on the 
hook as one stitch. 
2d row: Four chain (as all the trebles are work¬ 
ed as described In the last row, we shall not re¬ 
peat the directions), pass over the first treble, one 
treble Into the top of each of the six next succes¬ 
sive treble, one ordinary treble into each ot the 
eight next successive stlicbes, and one into the 
two next picots of mlguardlse together ; keep the 
top loop of each on the hook, and work off aa de¬ 
scribed In first row. 
3d row: Four chain, pass over the flivt treble 
one treble as described Into each ot tho five next 
successive stitches, one ordinary ireble Into each 
oi the eight next successive stitches and Into the 
two next picots of mlgnardlse together; work off 
as described for previous rows. 
4th row: Four chain, pass over one treble one 
treble as described imo each ot ihe four next 
successive rrebles, one ordinary treble Into each of 
eight next successive stitches and Into the two 
next picots ot mlgnardlse together; work off the 
same as previous rows. Repeat from the first row, 
working into the stitches or last row Instead of 
Into the chain, as described for first row. 
Fig. 52.—Horae dresses for young ladles from 
twelve to fourteen years of age, is of myrtle-green 
cashmere, woven striped borders of dull red ; It is 
trimmed with a klfflng, and scarf draperies fast¬ 
ened at the back under a bow ot ribbon. 
The other Is of hair-brown vigogne; it Is trim¬ 
med with two deep killings; collar and scarf 
drapery of woolen plaid. 
fig. 03.—muff. 
The muff is of chocolate satin, gathered In 
small puffs; it Is lined with old-gold satin, and Is 
trimmed with coffee-colored lace and loops or 
ribbon. 
FIG. 64.—PELERINE. 
The pelerine Is of black satin, trimmed with u 
REMODELING 
The lull lust j eara style of polonaises make over 
very easily and are much less trouble to drape and 
He than when made new. 
The gray or drab ladles cloth I shall describe 
was originally mace up with black velvet, which 
was put on in revets and a vest front, ft was very 
full, drooping m the back. 
Ihe back is cut pilnt'fs-s ami long enough to 
reach the top of theshlrtflounce or shout 32 Inches 
tu length from the waist. The seams left open 10 
inches at the bottom and taced with the cloth, 
the side seam irimmed with velvet revers. The 
vest is cut off ar the waist acd a wide velvet belt 
sewed In the seams of the second dart, and passing 
over the first, finishes the bottom of the waist 
In front. The front of tho polonaise below the 
waist is cut, in i lie form of a COaL-leavlug a wide 
apron ship.id drapery that is slightly full and 
fastened In wlih the side scams to cover the under 
tkiit. Ihe trent breadths ot the pdonalse are 
tilmmed also with ifcvers. The from, breadihs are 
or a unltorm width man i h waist to the boltcm 
or iue polonaise, ana fit, smoothly ard without 
draping anywhere, a velvet ttlmined under skirt 
finishes (Hesuit. 
A i urbau to match the dress made of yard 
black velvet and >j jaid black or drab satlu is 
easily made by any one at nil used ,o “ doing for 
thems'ffvt'.s Take an old bonner, shape and cut 
the size n qulred tor ihe band, and put a run crown 
of any stiff material or bonnet net, and sew the 
wire that was o.i the old bonnet around It to keep 
It In shape. Pur the satin in ihe crown exactly 
the same way and size as the net, and roll me vel¬ 
vet around the band. T o take away me stiff look, 
bend the wire Into "crooks” our little milliner 
called it, and pinch In the crown. There will be 
enough velvet for a loop or two. An ostrich tip 
will finish It beautifully Mrs o. \V D. 
REPLY T-T OI D MAIDS, 
Dear me! what a letter ftom Alllne Ray; the 
replies she makes to the "Old Maid No 2 .” and 
Dr. A E. S., mustamuse the readers of the Rural. 
It seems that Alline Ray has pitched Into me and" 
1 suppose she Is going to drag me over the coals 
for the answer I made to "Old maid No. 3 ” and 
Miss Irene. 
Now Alline, you say “just wait until Dr. A. E. 
8., and old maid No. 3 are twain.” I must say in 
reply that I desire you to know that I am not In 
haste to marry. I am strongly inclined to believe 
that your husband is like the one you suppose 1 
will be when No. 2. and myself are one, so you 
had better drag him over the coals and teach rum 
suitable to be dotted about antimacassars, cush¬ 
ion covers, work-basket-covers, Ac. 
FIG. 59.—POMPADOUR 8AT0IIET. 
This satohet may ba made la a variety of pretty 
materials, such as satin, velvet or plush. The one 
Illustrated is of olive silk, ornamented with a ruby 
velvet applique design; it Is finished with cord and 
rich fringe, and Is suspended from the waist by 
means of a double cord of silk. 
one and firmly sewed on It, three squares above 
and three below. It was pretty and useful for 
slippers, best shoes, rubbers, etc. 
several years ago I met a young lady from Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn , who was the possessor of a handsome 
wardrobe. She frequently wore for street wear a 
short, double-breasted basque of navy-blue, the 
collar, cuffs, pockets, etc., being of plush the same 
color, and a double row of largo white pearl but- 
