n in Netting, to our female
readers, we have thought of something within our compass, and beg leave
to lay before them, our

DIRECTIONS FOR NETTING A HUSBAND.

Take as many meshes as are within your reach, and get the softest
material you can to work upon. Go on with your netting as fast as ever
you can work the material about with your meshes until you find you can
turn it round your finger and thumb with the utmost facility. Let your
netting-needles be very sharp; thread them double to prevent them from
breaking; and we may observe, that silken ringlets serve exceedingly
well as thread, when the work in hand is the netting of a husband.
Always employ the brightest colors you can, and the final operation will
be the joining together, which should be neatly finished off with a
marriage knot, and the husband will be completely netted.

Winter Fashions.

[Illustration: FIGURE 1.--PROMENADE AND MORNING COSTUME]

Heavy, rich textures of silk have taken the place of the lighter stuffs
used at the beginning of December. _Brocards, satin princesse, antique
moires, Irish poplins_, and heavy _chine_ silks, such as were worn by
the belles who saw Washington inaugurated, are now in vogue. The latter
material is called by the French _camayeux_. It is made of all colors,
such as light violet upon dark violet; or, what is more beautiful, large
white roses, hardly visible, and partly concealed by light green leaves
upon a ground of dark green, forming an _ensemble_ at once coquettish,
brilliant, and extremely elegant. Plain _poplins_ are much worn; also
_royal Pekin_ or black damask, trimmed with two broad flounces of
Cambray lace. Instead of a corsage, a _petite_ corsage of the same
material is worn, wide open in front, and closed at the waist with two
double buttons, or a large bow of ribbon.

FIGURE 2 represents this style of corsage. The edge is trimmed with lace
or fullings of ribbon, the sleeves three-quarters long and in pagoda
form. The same figure represents a very pretty style of head-dress. The
cap is composed of plain _tulle_ of the lightest description; upon one
side of the head, partially covering the ear, is a bunch of roses, or
other flowers, pendant.

[Illustration: FIG. 2.--HEAD-DRESS AND CORSAGE]

FIGURE 1 represents a promenade and a morning costume. The PROMENADE
COSTUME is a high silk dress; the waist and point long; the sleeves
three-quarter length and wide at the bottom; the skirt long and
exc