THE LADIES' PAGE. THE NECKTIE OR LAPPET. FOR RIBBON. MATERIALS.-Walter Evans and Co.'s Boar's-head crochet cotton, No. 16, Tatting Pin No. 2, and a small shuttle. For a coarse Trimming use Boar's-head Cotton No. 10, Tatting Pin No. 3. For Children's Dresses or other fine Trimming use Cotton No. 20. THE FIRST Side. 1st Rosette.-Commence a loop, work 4 double stitches, then (1 pearl and two double alternately 7 times): 2 double more to make 4 in all. Draw close. Reverse the work, and always leave the eighth of an inch of thread before commencing the Rosettes and Dots. The Dot.-Commence a loop, work 4 double. Make an extra pearl loop by turning the cotton twice round the pin, then 4 double. Draw close. Reverse. 2nd Rosette.-Commence, work 4 double, join to the last pearl of the previous Rosette; then two double, (1 pearl and 2 double, 6 times); 2 double more, draw close. Reverse the work. Centre Rosette.-commence a loop, work 2 donble, then (1 pearl and 2 double 11 times). Draw close. Reverse the work. 3rd Rosette.-work a Rosette as the 2nd. Rosette. Commence again at the Dot, and repeat until the length required is made, ending with the 3rd Rosette, then reverse. The Round End-The Dot.-Commence at loop, work 4 double, join to the next pearl of the centre Rosette; then 4 double, draw close. Reverse. Work a Rosette as the 2nd Rosette; then repeat the Dot and the 2nd Rosette alternately until five Dots are made; then make a joining to the next pearl of the centre rosette; and to form the other side of the pattern work as follows: THE SECOND SIDE. 1st Rosette.-Work the 2nd Rosette as in the First Side. Reverse the work. 1st Dot.-Commence, work 4 double, join to the extra pearl of the previous Dot, then 4 double._Draw close. Reverse, 2nd Rosette.-Work a Rosette as before. Then join to the centre pearl of the centre Rosette. Repeat the two Rosettes and the Dot. working the other end to correspond. LACE EDGING, MATERIALS. To make a Lace one and a half inches in depth, use Walter Evans and Co.'s Boar's-head Cotton No. 14, Tatting Pin No. 2, and one Shuttle. For a finer Lace use Cotton No. 20, and for a coarser size Cotton No. 6 or 10, and Tatting Pin No. 3. 1st Rosette.-Fill the shuttle, and, com- | times); 1 double more, 1 pearl, 3 double; draw close. mencing a loop, work 2 double stitches, then (1 pearl loop and 2 double stitches alternately 11 times); draw quite close. 1st Dot.-Commence a loop, work 3 double (1 pearl and 3 double twice); draw close. Turn this Dot down under the left thumb. Always leave the eighth of an inch of cotton between the Dots and the joinings unless directed otherwise. 2nd Rosette.-Commence a loop, work 2 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double alternately 8 times); draw close. Turn this Rosette and and the Dot down so that the 1st Rosette is at the top. 2nd Dot.-Commence, work 4 double, join to the last pear! but one of the 1st Rosette; then 4 double; draw close. Reverse the work so that the 2nd Rosette is at the top. 3rd Dot.-Commence, work 2 double, join to the last pearl but one of the 2nd Rosette; then 2 double, 1 pearl, 4 double; draw close. Reverse the work. THE TREFOIL.. 1st Oval.-Commence a loop, work 5 double, join to the next pearl but one of the 1st Rosette, then 3 double, (1 pearl and 2 double 3 2nd Oval.-Commence a loop close to the last Oval; work 3 double, join to the last pearl of the 1st Oval; 2 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double 7 times); 1 double more; draw close. 3rd Oval.-Commence a loop close to the last Oval; work 3 double, join to the last pearl of the 2nd Oval, 3 double, then (1 pearl and 2 double 3 times); 1 double more, 1 pearl, 5 double; draw close; make a joining to the pearl of the last Dot, leaving the same space of thread as before. 4th Dot.-Commence a loop, work 4 double, 1 pearl, 4 double, draw close. Make a joining to the next pearl but one of the 2nd. Rosette. 5th Dot.-Commence, work 3 double, then (1 pearl and 3 double twice); draw close. Turn this Dot down under the thumb. 3rd Rosette.-Commence, work 2 double, 1 pearl 2 double, join to the pearl of the 4th Dot; 2 double, 1 pearl, 2 double, join to the last pearl of the 3rd Oval, then 2 double, (1 pearl and 2 double 7 times); draw close. Commence again at the first Dot and repeat the direction. The Heading.-Use cotton two sizes finer than the Tatting, and Walker's Uncotopic Crochet Needle No. 4. Work 3 chain and 1 plain in each pearl of the Dots, and also in the two centre pearls of the Rosette. THE TOILET. (Specially from Paris.) FIRST FIGURE.-Dress of black tulle with not imagine what an aristocratic grace this new small gold-coloured spots. Deep double fantasie possesses. In old Mecklin or English flounce at the bottom of the skirt. Camargo appliqué, the effect on black velvet is very elepanier of black tulle very large. A scarf of gant. At the first concert at tha Tuilleries the black gros-grain festooned with gold begins at Empress threw the light of her beauty on a very the waist and ends under the panier. Another simple half-mourning toilet, composed of white wide band of gros-grain also festooned falls at satin with a tunic of pearl-grey Chinese crape, the side on the puffings of the skirt. Tulle very much relieved at the sides and very long corsage with faille braces embroidered in gold behind, trimmed with a number of little folds. and fastened by bouquets of gold tendrils. In the hair a wreath of gold vine-leaves, and grapes. Black satin shoes trimmed with gold lace. SECOND FIGURE.-Bride's toilet in white poult de soie. The dress is plain at bottom. Fly's-wing panier, open and trussed up on the middle; it is trimmed with a roll of white sacin and bordered by a handsome fringe of twisted silk. Corsage high with a standing collar of Mechlin lace, something like a ruff. Wreath of orange blossom in the hair. Bouquet of the same attached to the corsage, and descending on the skirt. Tulle veil enveloping the whole toilet and concealing the face. Mechlin lace cuffs under a tight sleeve. Dauphine shoes of white gros-grain with a Louis XV. bow. In the morning we go to hear a sermon, in the evening we dance. This is life at Paris. People are invited to a soirée musicale, but when the concert is finished, some one sits down to the piano and plays a polka, when a dance is sure to ensue, and as the carnival is to be so short, there is an excuse. Moreover, Lent does not prevent réunions; on the contrary, they are so numerously attended that we suffer from them. The company arrive in crowds at certain distinguished mansions; and therefore, though it be a season of mortification and humiliation, ladies must dress. Here are a few hints upon this topic. Sleeves in the mode Medicis, made with a fan of lace falling on the hand, are a success. With high open corsages the frill Medicis is worn, it is elevated en evantail at the back and forms two large révers on the corsage. a little imperceptible wire is passed through the frill which is very finely plaited. You can One of the most remarkable toilets that have appeared at the réunions, was a robe of Prussian blue satin, garnished upon the sides with a flounce of point d'Angleterre, opening on an apron of sky-blue satin. The skirt was mounted behind at a certain distance from the waistband, in hollow plaits, like a headed flounce, and the plaits bound with sky-blue satin. A waistband of bleu de ciel, with long ends lined with Prussian blue satin fell on the skirt: the corsage was acutely pointed. So we "go forward and back, so we go round and round," as the old nursery rhyme has it. We perceive a presentiment of spring already in evening toilets: velvet is almost invisible, and tarlatane in the ascendant for young ladies. If tarlatane is worn over white, it has not only a charming but at times a magnificent effect; upon white silk, for instance, with one deep-headed flounce and five or six narrow ones, with a little gathered one set foot to foot, forming a heading to the whole series. The corsage should be ornamented with the same, a flounce forming a little point upon the shoulder. This is the true robe nuage. We have seen the bonnets for the demi-season, which are very small, and generally made of tulle assorted to the toilet. Par example a blue tulle bonnet with a little blue plume at the side, and an aigrette of scattered feathers in the middle of the front. On the summit of the head, in place of a bow, are four coques formed of a bias-piece of blue velvet. The barbes are of blue tulle fastened with a bow of blue velvet. This style of bonnet is reproduced in pearlgrey, with a diadem of bronze flywings. In vert clair, Van Dyck red, in mauve, violet, and pensée, with bouquets of Parma violets. 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