Pagina-afbeeldingen
PDF
ePub
[graphic][merged small][merged small]

CARRIAGE COSTUME.

Dress of chinée silk, with three broad flounces. The body half high opens in the front en caur; the sleeves are of the pagod form. Mantille à la Reine of white lace lined with blue: the lace with which it is trimmed is very broad, and is set on in small festoons, headed by a plaiting of narrow satin ribbon, above which is a narrow lace: the hood, à revers, is trimmed to correspond; the neck is finished like the edge of the hood. Bonnet of paille de riz, with a transparent edge, which is covered with a broad blonde; this blonde is continued round the curtain.

[blocks in formation]

pink sash, tied in front, the ends finished by a broad fringe.

PROMENADE COSTUME.

Dress of blue moire antique; the skirt long and full, is trimmed up the centre of the front breadth by six rows of narrow velvet. Watteau body, and rather short pagoda sleeves, with deep engageantes of lace. Sutherland paropens in front nearly to the waist; the skirt has two opendessus of white muslin, lined with pink silk; the body ings at each side; the pardessus is trimmed entirely round with two rows of white silk fringe. The sleeves are large; they are of the pagoda form, and are open about half way to the elbow; they are trimmed to correspond. Bonnet of white lace, the form round and open; it has a full, light feather drooping at the left side; the interior is ornamented with pink flowers.

[graphic][merged small]

Learned (but otherwise highly objectionable) Child (log.) Oh, Mamma, dear! What do you think! I asked Mr. and Miss to name some of the Remarkable Events from the Year 700 to the Year 600 B. C., and they could n't. But I can-and-The Second Messenian War commenced; and-the Poet Tyrtæus flourished; Byzantium was founded by the inhabitants of Megara; Draco gave Laws to Athens; Terpander of Lesbos, the Musician and Poet; Thales of Miletus, the Philosopher; Alcæus and Sappho, the Poets, flourished; and Nebuchadnez-(Sensation from right and left, during which the voice of Child is happily drowned.)

[graphic][merged small]

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

[graphic][subsumed][merged small]
[graphic][ocr errors]

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS ON HER WAY TO EXECUTION.

« VorigeDoorgaan »