time, forming a handsome feature on the side elevation. Opposite the drawing-room, on the other side of the hall, we enter the dining-room connected with the kitchen, but the direct communication is cut off, in order to get a private stair to the chamber floor, and stairs to the cel lar, and to stop all smells and sounds from the kitchen. To the kitchen is connected a pantry, large enough to be divided, and a door to the veranda, with steps descending to the yard. The second floor is divided into five comfortable chambers, the hall running through, and giving an excellent communication to all the chambers: a door might lead out on the back veranda, ornamented with stained glass. There would be a cellar constructed under the whole or part of the building, divided into the necessary and desired compartments, including a furnace, with the requisite pipes and flues for heating the whole building.

We have designed this villa for brick, either roughcast or masticated, and painted of a light freestone colour. The window-sills and brackets under balconies to be freestone, the balconies, veranda, and cornice for tower to be wood, coloured to harmonize with the walls. All the window-sashes, &c., and inside woodwork, except floor, to be of a dark colour, grained to represent oak or walnut. The first story to be twelve feet in the clear, and the next story eleven feet. Inside shutters to all the windows, made either to slide into the wall, or to fold. The walls to be papered, and the paper of a pattern corresponding with the style of the building; and, if the ceilings of the drawing-room and library were decorated, it would decidedly add to their beauty, and increase the harmony of the interior with the exterior.

PLAN OF SECOND STORY.

We have in Philadelphia decorative painters whose names are too well known to need farther recommendation, to whose judgment a person may safely trust the execution of the inside painting and decoration of any house, and who will be sure to give satisfaction, when a fair chance is given them for exercising their talent and genius.

It not being our purpose to enter into the particulars of the cost and construction of our design, the hints here given are only thrown out with a view to indicate better the plans of the designer;-when, therefore, the building would be executed, a specification and working drawings will be required from the architect, for the most important details.

made in this pattern, and trimmed with satin of the same colour as the lining of the hood, are worn to evening parties, &c.; but are not as much admired as the opera-cloak of last season.) Flounced dress of plain silk.

FIG. 3. Dress of Embroidered Cashmere, with trimming of Wreathed Riband.-Undersleeves of rich lace, wide and straight. The hair forms a point on the brow. The cap à la Marie Stuart is composed of silk net-quillings, flowers and small bow of riband being gracefully arranged on either side.

FIGS. 4 and 5 are specimens of a new style of Cap, that has lately been extensively adopted. It is not beautiful, but it is fashionable, and as a novelty is presented to our readers' consideration, without a word of recommendation. As a faithful chronicler of the caprices of the generally tasteful Parisians, we may not omit mention of the continuance of the abominable waistcoat, whose introduction as an article of feminine costume was noticed in an earlier number of the Magazine. The showiest of these, such as complete the carriage attire of the élégantes who patronise this barbarism, are made of shot silk of brilliant colours, with small gold buttons placed close up

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the front; and side pockets with flaps. Collarettes of Valenciennes serve, in some cases, in place of the rolling collar worn by others.

We notice a variation of the waistcoat in a later invention called the Coire de feu, or fireside garment; that has, in description, at least, a more comfortable and homely sound, and may not appear so entirely useless as its predecessor.

It is made of chiné cloth, of black and gray mixture. Pockets, turned-down collars, and sleeves à la mousquetaire, buttoned in front. The whole trimmed with narrow velvet riband, black, mazarin blue, &c. It is fastened by bands at the throat and waist, passing over spherical buttons.

A very pretty article for out-door dress, termed the "Burnous," is also made of chiné cloth, with a profusion of velvet-riband trimming, a shade darker than the material; quilted lining of the same colour. The collar is provided with a hood, that, when not used as covering for the head, forms a tippet on the shoulders. Bows of riband are arranged on the inside edge to encircle the face.

The mode of dressing the hair now varies very much with the taste of the individual. It has become more universally acknowledged, that

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the same style will not suit every face; and, with commendable independence, the most sensible, as well as the loveliest, of the Parisian maidens consult their own mirrors, as to the effect of braid or curl, instead of blindly copying that which appears beautiful on some fair friend,, whose features may be formed in a very different mould from her own:-now at fashionable reunions may be seen ladies of equally undoubted taste and distinction, coiffured according to extremely opposite models.

The hair in raised bands, forming a point in front, leaving the forehead open, and spreading elegantly at the sides, is considered by many of the brightest as the mode par excellence. A cord of pearls, rolled with dark hair, when thus arranged, and falling to the right and left in interlaced rings, constitutes the most fitting ornament. With waved, puffed bands of hair, variegated geranium wreaths are considerably worn; and this reminds us of the propriety of noticing that wreaths of various descriptions have lately grown into high favour, especially for ball-room attire. Pomegranate flowers, and heaths sprinkled with small white pearls are among the prettiest. An avoidance of showy combs, and the prevalence of the Grecian knot, fastened with pins, and brought low on the neck, form the peculiarities most observable the present season, and are instances of an improved and purer taste.

While we promise to faithfully record the approved novelties of fashion, as they appear, we also desire to note down from time to time such observations as may seem in our wisdom capable of giving entertainment, or of being practically suggestive, to our lady readers, on matters connected with kindred subjects;-and hope, by

this deviation from the mere minutiae of detailed description of dress, we shall add to the interest of this monthly department of the Magazine. Will this be regarded as an innovation or improvement? We trust the last may be the verdict rendered; and inferring a pleasant assent from our fair friends, proceed at will.

It is generally conceded by visiters, as well as natives, that the women of France excel in those indefinable graces that make up the perfection of a refined toilette. But while our country women acknowledge a sincere and half-envying admiration of the Parisians' success, we do not think they properly appreciate or comprehend the real secret by which that success is attained. Certainly not by a continued effort to dazzle, by the gaiety of their attire, but-rather by the apparent unconsciousness of being well dressed; the careless ease with which every article is worn; by the nice adaptation of colour and style to the occasion and the complexion they are required for: though colour and style be of the plainest and gravest, and though the wearer even look shabby to the glance of the uninitiated. A Parisian dame of distinction would be apt to smile with the sauciest contempt, and utter some of the prettiest expressions of affected horror imaginable, on beholding the extravagant finery that distinguishes the street attire of some of our city belles.

We commend the following sketch of a Parisian lady, to the attention of those who are interested in the philosophy and significance of dress, quoted from a very amusing work, entitled "Pictures of the French People;" in which is given characteristics, as observable in the various vocations incidental to a residence in their gay metropolis.

"She wears no dazzling colours, no elaboratelycarved zone or buckle; no embroidered flounce is seen waving over her instep; on her feet are shoes of prunella, the sandals crossing a cotton stocking of exceeding fineness, or a plain silk one of soberest gray; or else she wears a delicate boot of the simplest character. Her gown is of a stuff well chosen, but of no great cost; yet its style and fashion shall attract you, and excite the envy of many a city-bred dame; it is usually a wrapper, fastened with knots or bows, and prettily edged with a cord that is but slightly perceptible. She has a manner, all her own, of folding around her a cloak or shawl, which she arranges about her neck and shoulders with a sort of bridling curvet that would convert a bourgeoise into a hunchback, but which, in her, is made to indicate the most exquisite proportions of form

even in the very act of veiling them. But how is this done? Ah! that is her secret; and she keeps it without requiring the protection of a patent.

"Poets, artists, lovers! all ye who worship Ideal Beauty, that mystic Rose of Genius happily unrevealed to the mere creatures of common life,-hover round and admire this flower of loveliness, at once so judiciously concealed, and so skilfully displayed! The coquette!-observe her! Her walk is a kind of waving and harmonized motion, that makes her soft and dangerous form to quiver beneath its draperies, as at midday the serpent goes gliding through the trembling grass. Is it to a demon or an angel that she owes the graceful undulation, mantling beneath her long scarf of black silk, agitating the