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  2. The Ladies

    This is a subject which has originate a good deal of healthy discussion in our day, not altogether in vain, let us hope, although I regret to add the fruit is not yet very apparent. Australian young ladies are accredited—whether ...

    Article : 1,029 words
  3. The Household.

    1. CARROT PUDDING.—Into 1 lb. of flour mix ½-lb, suet, add ½-lb. currants, and about 1 oz. of lemonpeel, one cupful of carrot, grated fine, and ½-lb. brown sugar. Moisten the whole with two eggs and half-cupful of milk. ...

    Article : 244 words
  4. Wife-Fattening in Africa.

    Speke remained in Karagwe for a month, but Grant was detained there by serious illness until the spring of 1862, when he rejoined his comrade in Uganda. During their stay with Bumanika neither of the explorers saw cause to ...

    Article : 241 words
  5. PIANO FRONTS.

    The pianoforte is a feature in our drawing-rooms which sadly needs some reform in decoration. The front of an ordinary cottage piano is usually adorned with fluted silk which, when it was new, is rarely pleasing to the artistic ...

    Article : 721 words
  6. Slightly Sensational.

    As has already been announced, Miss Emma Davenport, an attractive young Virginia lady, was recently tried in the United States Court, at Richmond, Virginia. She was charged with abstracting a valuable silk dress and two ...

    Article : 216 words
  7. Ladies' Classes.

    The decision of the University of London to admit women to all their degrees has already borne fruits. The Council of University College, London, have at once determined to provide for women systematic instruction in regular ...

    Article : 213 words
  8. The Mother and Sister of Mr. Charles Reade.

    The mother of Mr. Charles Reade was the elder daughter of the Major Scott Waring, M.P. for Stockbridge, who played so conspicuous a part in the historical Hastings trial, and immortalized himself—after a fashion—by styling ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. The Princess of Wales at Lord Lyons's Ball.

    The correspondent of the London Daily News thus describes the costume of the Princess of Wales at Lord Lyons's ball, at the English Embassy in Paris:—The Princess of Wales wore a black gauze dress over a black silk, brightened ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. Frisquet, or Ladies' Cricket.

    The members of the Alpha Frisquet Club, in the absence of any other as yet formed body, played a scratch match amongst its members on Saturday afternoon last, on Moors Park. The sides, as before, were well represented by the ...

    Article : 145 words
  11. Literary Women as Housekeepers.

    It is one phase of the popular unjust judgment of women, even in these liberal days, that it regards literary women as necessarily neglectful of household affairs, in the face of well-known facts to the contrary. A man of undoubted ...

    Article : 326 words
  12. Society and Personal.

    Madame Di Murska has been 35 years old just fifteen years. Dr. Pusey is so seriously ill that his recovery is considered doubtful. ...

    Article : 366 words
  13. The Parisian Fashions.

    Our iligantes have decidedly adopted white barege for summer evening's wear, and it is occasionally donned for afternoon drives. For evening toilettes black satin is popular, notwithstanding the heat; but for the past ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 763 words
  14. Our Fair Contributors.

    We shall always be happy to give insertion to suitable remarks from our lady readers in this column. Mutual improvement may be thus assisted, and the benefits of the observations or reflections of one or two communicated to ...

    Article : 78 words
  15. READING AT MEAL-TIMES.

    There are few habits more intensely selfish and disagreeable than reading at meal-times. Of all the twenty-four hours surely time enough to eat three meals could be spared without having to feel one's way to one's mouth whilst the ...

    Article : 258 words
  16. Three Ruinous Fashions.

    Frances Power Cobbe writes at length in a magazine article on some of the evils of modern dressing. She speaks of the thin, paper-soled boots, which leave the wearer to feel the chill of the pavement or the damp of the grass, ...

    Article : 382 words
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