MOV. 26 
for Women. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS KAY CLARK. 
DESCRIPTION OF CUTS. 
Fig. 534—afternoon-dress. 
The polonaise is of copper-red cashmere ; 
the skirt, cuffs, and sachet are of stamped 
velvet of a darker shade ; the scarf, draped 
eio. 534. 
crosswise over the front of the skirt, is of 
surah, a kilting of which is placed under the 
skirt at the bottom, just showing under a 
kilting of lace. 
Fig. 535.— walking-dress for little girl 
FROM SIX TO EIGHT YEARS OLD. 
The dress is of light-brown cashmere, with 
a scarf and collar of shaded blue and brown 
striped material. A Mother Hubbard bonnet 
of brown cashmere, trimmed with kiltings ; 
bows and strings of blue ribbon is suitable to 
be worn with the dress. 
FIG. 540.—FLOWER POT WITH COVER, ORNA¬ 
MENTED WITH EMBROIDERY. 
The framework of the cover is of liamboo, 
lined with crimsou cloth ; it is ornamented 
with a drape of olive-green olotli which is 
shown in the cut ; it is pinked at the edge ; 
PIG. 535, 
the embroidery is worked in chain and long 
stitches with crimson and two shades of olive 
silk. A tassel of wool ornaments the drape 
between each section. 
Fig. 53(5,— SPRAY EMBROIDERY. 
This spray is for disposing at intervals on 
flounces, drapes of dresses, &c.; chain, cord¬ 
ing, coral, long and lace stitches, are employed 
in the design. 
Figs. 537 & 538.—Design in satin and long 
stitch. 
Fig. 53‘J.— Design in embroidery in satin 
and knot stitches. 
THE RURAL MEW-Y0R3CER. 
TABLE ETIQUETTE. 
“ It is manners that win ” respect for the 
lowest as well as the highest. In my opinion 
“ manners" at the table, is one of, if not the 
leading point of etiquette to be observed. 
Some people eat too rapidly, either for 
health or manners while some eat so slowly 
as to appear ridiculous. While somo eat too 
much for health or manners, others pick at 
their food os daintily as birds. Of course 
there arc some whose appetites are poor, and 
w ho make an appearance of eating, but I 
have seen young girls—plump, rosy, robust 
creatures, who in company would not eat 
enough to keep a cat alive. I once visited a 
family in which were two girls answering 
this description. I had dinod and supped with 
them, but never in their own house. I bud 
often smiled at their dainty appetites, so at 
variance w ith their plump bodies and rosy 
cheeks, and thought I should see somo hearty 
eating at their own table, but really, I nearly 
starved during the few days I spent with 
them. They rarely at# a whole biscuit at a 
time ami partook of other things in accord¬ 
ance, and I was ashamed to satisfy my hun¬ 
ger before them. At the end of my visit with 
them, one of the girls ueeompnniisl me to 
visit some mutual friends, and I was so 
amazed that I scarcely ate any myself, to see 
that girl eat, after the first meal. 
Ii is really absurd to see a stout, healthy 
person sit down to a well supplied table and 
eat estbetaeally. On the other hand it is not 
exactly absurd, but rather disgusting to re¬ 
fined tastes to see a person eat with such gusto 
so greedily and rapidly. One thing I have 
noticed, is, that many persous who have ex¬ 
cellent table manners, will make faces every 
time food is conveyed into their mouths. I 
have often been amused at the ugly con¬ 
tortions of face practiced by some people— 
people who would have been dreadfully morti¬ 
fied bad they realized what they did. 
fiu. 537. 
Mrs. Mary Wager-Fisher, gave some excel¬ 
lent hints and advice upon “ Table Etiquette,” 
a few months ago, but I noticed that, several 
persons were disposed to criticise and question 
the sensibleness and practicability of certain 
points such us conveying the food to the 
mouth with the fork instead of the knife, 
drinking tea and coffee from the cup instead 
of the saucer, etc. Now, all these things have 
been sanctioned and adopted by people of re¬ 
finement and education and have become im¬ 
mutable laws, and there is no use nor need of 
rebellion, for society will frown you down and 
your punishment is swift and sure, if you 
break these laws. 
To a man who lives on a farm, remote from 
city, or town, these things seem silly and ab¬ 
surd, and be goes all his days, the same old 
way, scorning the new, eats with his arms 
akimbo, conveys his food to his mouth on his 
knife, drinks his tea and coffee from his saucer, 
and makes a loud, sucking sound in so doing. 
Dips his own knife into the butter and wipes 
his mouth on his handkerchief, the back of his 
hand, or perhaps on his sleeve. Of course the 
children, having no other example, do the 
same things; some of thorn after awhile are 
drifted into quite another sphere of life, there 
to be greatly mortified at their own ungrace¬ 
ful manners, and lose some of the respect they 
entertained for “ Father and Mother,” w ho 
taught them their iU-manners. 
Nothing that tends to refine mankind, is 
senseless or useless. MRS. w. v. a. 
EMBROIDERY OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 
From the earliest times embroidery and 
fine needlework have boon flic occupation and 
amusement of women. We are told by Wil¬ 
liam of Malmesbury that. Saint Dunstan in his 
younger days assisted a noble lady in drawing 
a design for embroidering a Sacerdotal robe. 
The four daughters of Edward the Elder, also 
the sisters of King Athelstan, were distin¬ 
guished on account of their great skill in spin¬ 
ning, weaving, and embroidery. In t he tenth 
century, Elfrida, widow of the Duke of 
Northumberland, presented to the church of 
Ely. a curtain or veil on which she had 
worked the figure of tho deceased Duke. 
Witlof, King of Mercia, presented to the Ab¬ 
bey of Croyland a golden curtain embroidered 
with the siege of Troy. 
FIG. 538. 
After the fall of the Roman Empire the 
art of tapestry-work appears to have been 
lost in Euroj>e. It was agaiu introduced from , 
the Levant by the Crusaders. The celebrated 
needlework of Bayoux is supposed to have 
been the work of the Normuu Matilda, the 
Queen of William the Conqueror, and her 
handmaids. It was presented to the Cathe¬ 
dral of Bayeux in Normandy, where it was 
sometimes exhibited. It was a continuous 
web of cloth, two hundred and twenty-seven 
feet in length, and twenty inches in width, 
including the border V. ntthe top and bottom. 
It represents the invasion and conquest of 
England by the Normans. It has five hun¬ 
dred and fifty figures in it. 
It is most amusing to know that, owing to 
the period at which it was worked, tho colors 
in which it is executed were of a most motley 
description, consisting of dark and light blue, 
green, red, yellow and buff. The skies wore 
nearly always represented as blue or grey or 
brown; any foliage that was wrought in was 
generally green ; but no attention at all was 
paid to the colors of the horses. They were 
veritable patchwork, as, for instance, a red 
horse had two blue and two buff legs, 
and a green or yellow mane. Tho hoofs 
of tho horses wore also worked of still 
another color. Tho faces of the figures are 
of tho cloth the tapestry was worked on, 
the outline of the features being worked in 
tent-stitch or chain-stitch with any odd color 
that came the most readily to the hands of the 
fair lady at work on it. Tho borders of the 
tajiestries were formed by a representation of 
the slain at the battle of Hastings, la id length¬ 
ways one after the other. It is said, never¬ 
theless, that faded as this work now is, it ex¬ 
cites great admiration ut the industry that 
FIG. 539. 
could chronicle by the aid of the needle such a 
series of events in history. Next to the work 
of Queen Matilda came that of Adolftis, the 
daughter of Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine. Es¬ 
pecial mention is uiudo of a magnificent 
standard embroidered by her, and which was 
carried at the head of the army. 
The first Queen of lleurv V III., Katharine 
of Arragon, gave all her leisure hours to em¬ 
broidery. Shakespeare, in the 3rd Act of 
“ Henry VIII ,” represents Katherine at 
needlework with her women. Lady Jane 
Grey was a proficient in beautiful needle¬ 
work. Anne Boleyn, educated at tho Court 
of Francis I., devoted much of her time to 
tapestry work. Of the work of Queen Mary 
no traces are to be found. Queen Elizabeth 
was highly extolled for her needlework. In 
the Bodoliau Library, at Oxford, may still be 
found a copy of the Epistles of St. Paul, tho 
binding of which was worked in embroidery 
by the Queen when a Princess. Mary Stuart 
Queen of France and of Scotland, found 
tapestry work a great resource, both in her 
happier days and during her imprisonments. 
Several pieces of tho work of this most beau¬ 
tiful and accomplished Quoon are still pre¬ 
served. At Allanton House was formerly a 
splendid bed embroidered by her and her 
ladies. This was unfortunately burnt up by 
an occidental fire. 
At Holyrood Palace in her chamber is 
shown a box covered with her embroidery. 
Other pieces of her work are preserved in the 
castles of some of tho nobility of Scotland. 
CORRESPONDENT’S CORNER. 
To Cover Slate Frames with Flannel. 
—Noticing an inquiry “ How to cover slate 
frames with flannel,” I thought I would send 
my way. 
The object, is to avoid tho noiso made by 
shoving slates oil the school desks. I have 
seen slates with little knobs like buttons on 
the corners of the frame; these worked very 
well. In the absence of these, flannel covers 
can ha lists I. With u gimblet, boro two holes 
on each corner of the frame, cut the flannel in 
strips to fit tho frame nicely on both sides, 
then slip n darning needle and some twine 
through the two holes so that tho twine will 
roach, slanting, across the cloth. Tie the ends 
of the twine securely. Make another hole half 
way between, slip the needle through that 
and tie on the outside. The corners may b« 
sewed neatly down with a needle and thread, 
but the covers will not stand school children’s 
usage unless fastened on in the way above 
stated. Tacks would scratch a desk. 
Aunt Rachel. 
THORNS AND ROSES. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
(Continued from pnKo 78(1.) 
“ I.ofc us turn this way, Kate, and through 
that field!” he said. 
And thou I remembered riiat Brandon w'ould 
uever listen to his own praises, 
fig. 540. 
“ I have something to tell you,” 1 said. 
And ho looked at mo, smiling. 
“ Is it what Nevil told me last night! Then 
dear Kate, I congratulate you.” 
“ Oh! Brandon, 1 am so happy!” I cried 
for seeing his kind face, I felt that I could 
speak more freely to him than to any other. 
** I atu so glad I How strange it seems for 
little Kate to be engaged!” 
*• 1 am little Kate no longer, brother 1” 
'* I shall always think of you as my little 
companion, though. I pray that the future 
may be full of blessings lor you two and as 
happy as tho present.” 
‘'And now there is something else I must 
say to you, Brandon,” 1 continued, lotting the 
reins full and stroking Diamond’s mane. 
“ Yesl” 
A certain eagerness in his eye struck mu, but 
liis glance fell beneath mine. 
