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THE LADIES' PAGE.

NETTED COVER FOR HORSES' EARS.

MATERIALS.—Boar's Head netting cotton, No. 2, of Messrs. Walter Evans and Co., Derby. A large steel netting needle, and a mesh which measures No. 10 Bell gauge. If silk be preferred, fine, flat braid is the most suitable.

THE HEAD-PIECE.-Fill the netting needle with the cotton, and commencing on a foundation of 30 stitches, net 20 rows backwards and forwards quite plain; then, to form an opening for the ear, net 15 of the stitches, that is, half a row; turn back, leaving the other half, and on these 15 stitches net 18 rows quite plain as before; then cut off the cotton. To form the other side, commence at the 30th row, so as to work on the 15 stitches left, and net 18 rows on it to correspond with the other side. Then join these two pieces together by netting a row along the 15 stitches of each side, and on these 30 stitches net 3 rows plain. Then net 30 rows plain, but decreasing a stitch at the end of each row, by taking the last two stitches together and netting them as one stitch; this will reduce the whole of the stitches; cut off the cotton, as one side is now finished. Turn this piece of netting so as to work on the first row, running a foundation thread in the middle of the 30 rows. To form the opening for the other ear, net 15 stitches on the 30 stitches of the 1st row, turn back and net 18 rows plain; then net 18 rows on the other side; attach these two pieces together and net 3 rows plain; then 30 rows, decreasing a stitch at the end each time, to correspond with the other side.

To make the selvedge firm the cotton should be folded three times, and, using a large steel crochet needle, work a row of single crochet'

round the head-piece, putting the needle into the threads which form the selvedge.

If preferred, the edge may be made strong by working it round in overcast or button-hole stitch.

THE EARS.. Commence by netting 33 stitches, and make it round by netting a stitch in the 1st stitch; then work 22 rounds plain, and decrease as follows:

23rd round.-Net two stitches together as one stitch, and then net 9 plain alternately three times.

24th.-Net 2 together and then 8 plain 3 times.

25th.-Net 2 together and then 7 plain times. and continue working one stitch less between the decreases each row until all the stitches are reduced.

Work another ear the same, and sew them to the openings of the head-piece. Work a row of crochet, or overcast, round the joinings the same as the outside.

THE TASSELS.-Wind the cotton about 15 times round a card two inches wide; sew the folds of cotton together to form the head of the tassel. For the cord, double the cotton and make a chain, or plait it, for about 12 inches; attach a tassel at each end, and make four pair of tassels the same; then loop the centre of the cord into the point of each ear, and also at the narrowed points of the head-piece.

KNITTED DRAWERS FOR A CHILD ABOUT FOUR YEARS OLD.

With needles No. 9, white wool, cast on 52 stitches, and rib 10 rows, knitting and purling alternate stitches; knit 34 rows, increasing a stitch at the end of every row (all the back rows must be purled); knit 22 rows, continuing to increase, but knitting the first five stitches in each purled row so as to form a border, the increase must therefore be made in the last stitch before the border stitches; knit 10 rows without increasing, this forms one leg; knit another precisely the same; unite them by placing the border over each other, and knitting the ten stitches as five, taking one off each needle, and knitting them as one stitch; knit 12 rows,

taking two stitches together before and after the five centre-stitches in the front-rows. Now begin the slope for the back-knit 8 stitches, turn back and purl them, always knitting the five for the border; knit 11 and turn back; knit 14 and turn back, and so on, knitting three more stitches each time until you have fiftyeight for your gore. Do the other side in the same way; then knit two plain rows, taking two together every tenth stitch; take needles No. 12 or 14, and reduce your stitches to the size of the child's waist; rib 10 rows, and cast off. Sew up each leg as far as the border.

THE TOILET.

(Specially from Paris.)

TOILETS FOR WATERING-PLACES.

styles; besides the pretty silver greys and soft browns, and other set colours, these, and white and buff grounds, appear sprinkled over with tiny stars, and flowers in black, violet, green, Solferino, blue, and other shades. Light poplin and goat's-hair, in all shades of grey, tea, coffee, and tobacco colour, are much in vogue. Linen dresses are also in request.

FIRST FIGURE.-Gros-grain silk dress, ornamented at the bottom with a torsade only. Body cut in one piece with the skirt, in the Princess style. Virgilian bonnet, made of straw, a shape which nearly approaches the hat-form, but very small. The ornaments are Chantilly lace, and fruits imitated in straw. Silk strings. Next to stripes, spots seem to prevail in the A pointed cape of the same material as the patterns of our summer fabrics. Silk, Indian dress, trimmed with a deep lace flounce, accom-foulards, cambrics, alpacas, grenadines, and panies this toilet. Gloves fastening high upon muslins, all are spotted, the spots varying in the wrists, to match the bonnet-strings. size from the head of a pin to the size of a florin.

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SECOND FIGURE. Goat's-hair, or Alpaca dress, cut in rounded points at the bottom, with a button on each, and piped with ponceau silk. White under-body. Long jacket of the same material as the dress, cut in similar rounded points, with a button on each. Lamballe bonnet, made of white tulle, trimmed with poppies. Strings of poppy-coloured silk, with tulle barbes. Ponceau under-skirt.

THIRD FIGURE.-Little girl of six or eight years, in an Indian foulard frock, trimmed with strips of black velvet, each fastened with a straw-button. Shepherdess hat, trimmed with a wreath of field-daisies.

The question of crinoline appears to be decided at last. Here, in Paris, petticoats flounced and stiffened have taken its place for evening dress; but in morning and walking costume the crinoline (considerably modified in size) is retained.

Gored dresses are mounted on stiff linings, and the seams of neutral-tinted fabrics are heavily corded with a contrasting colour. Entire toilets of the same material will be much worn for promenade and travelling purposes; and some charming plaid muslins have made their appearance for white morning robes.

Alpaca is one of the favourite materials of the season, and is made up in the most charming

Cluny lace holds its ground for trimming purposes; it is especially effective on dark grounds and for ornamenting the pretty sleeveless jackets, which are in as much request as ever. Medallions of this lace, with cuffs, epaulettes, and insertions are greatly used for dresstrimmings.

For children's dresses we recommend crochet lace as very durable and pretty, besides being inexpensive, when made at home. Tatting also makes very beautiful edges and insertions, and either is very suitable for washing dresses, petticoats, drawers, &c.

Circular mantles are again in vogue, and threaten to take the place of the neat-looking and generally-becoming paletot. Trimming continues to be worn on the backs of dresses, and long sash-ends are often simulated on them.

Hats are almost the only mode for young la dies, and the latest for the seaside is of oilskin, precisely like a sailor's, the wearer waiv ing the name of a ship in favour of a gilded anchor. The latest trimming for the things called bonnets is a rosette of tulle placed rather high up on the head, with a whip and sil ver horse-shoe in the centre; these are connected by a long silver chain to a similar ornament, fastening the bonnet-string just over the ear.

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