WHENEVER I go to my window, And look out into the street — Look out across the pavement Crowded with hurrying feet — My eye travels up and over The house-fronts, dingy and dull, That break in upon my dreaming Of the Land of the Beautiful ! Till it reaches another window, Just ac

order to remove the occasion for this frequent complaint, JOLLY & SON, SILK MERCERS, BATH, Have entered into arrangements with eminent Lyons and Spitalfields facturers to produce for them several qualities and makes of BLACK SILKS, A. any of which may be purchased with the certa

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design. The whole of the outline is to be traced out in steel beads. We mention this first, although they are better put on last, when the wool of the interior portions has been worked in. The scallops which are shown within the interior margin, which encloses the centre, are al

What wonderful progress must have taken p'ace in the manufacture since the first pair of "stays " was worn ! We suspect, however, that the last fifty years have witnessed greater improvements than any five hundred years of previous ages; but then we move more rapidly now-a-days

VEriIIIMENTS FOR HOMES OF TASTE.* THE AQUARIUM-HOW TO AND KEEP IT. THIS is the season par excellence for forming the aquarium, when properly managed one of the pleasantest adjuncts of a home of taste, but too often, alas! from erroneous ideas of its requirements and capabilities,

SUCCESSFUL FERN - GROWING AND ITS SECRETS. __ -- Most ladies take an interest in ferns, some being not only very successful in their home cultivation, but wisely making their annual summer holiday the occasion for adding to the interest of their stock, by which means they contriv

Tuesday.—Divs. due at Bank. „ 6. Wednesday.—First quarter moon 4.30 A. M. „ 7. Thursday.—Sun sets 8.15 P.M. ~ 8. Friday.—Sun rises 3.54 A. M. „ 9. Saturday.—Fire insurance due.

The committee who organised courses of lectures for women at Cambridge last year have issued the following scheme of lectures for the academical year 1870-71. They will be delivered, generally speaking, twice a week within the period of University residence: English History, by

Procurable of all Chemists and Italian Warehousemen. CONVI7LSIONS IN TEETIIING.—None but anxious Mothers know the real worry of the " teething time," and the Nursery has no worthier or more innocent adjunct than Mrs. Johnson's American Soothing Syrup, which, easily applied to th