EDITOR'S EDITORIAL CHIT - CHAT. " PETERSON" FOR 18701- We call attention to our Prospectus, for next year, to be found on the last page of the cover. It is now admitted, everywhere, that " Peterson" is cheaper and better than any periodical of its kind. Our enormous edition, surpassing that of any monthly in the world, enables us to distance all competitors. Our fashion department, particularly, excels that of any cotemporary. Most of the other monthlies give only colored wood-cuts, or lithographs, for their principal plate; we, on the contrary, give elegant and costly steel engravings. Our styles, moreover, are the very latest, and are received in. advance from Paris. Our correspondents abroad have access to all the freshest novelties, so that our fair subscribers are never misled by false intelligence. The mammoth colored fashion-plates in " Peterson," in short, are not only the most tasteful and beautiful issued in the United States, but also the most reliable. Our original stories, tales and novelets, have been acknowJedged, for years, to excel those of any cotemporary. In 1870 the literary department will be more brilliant than ever, as a glance at the Prospectus will show. We never had such a series of novelets before : and the shorter stories will be equally attractive. The best of our contributors, moreover, write exclusively for us : no other magazine has Mrs. Ann Stephens, or Frank Lee Benedict, or the author of " The Second Life, " or several others. Every new writer of ability is engaged, so as to keep " Peterson" always fresh, and always ahead of its rivals. Now is the time to canvass for clubs ! Anybody, with a little exertion, can get up a club, and so become entitled to the premiums. Be the first in the field ! A specimen will be sent, gratis, if written for. Do not lose a moment!
TABLE . THE USUAL WAY of carpeting room in this country is neither the handsomest nor the ost excnomical. If a carpet is fitted to a room, as is Lw the general practice, there is considerable waste in cutting, or cau the carpet, afterward, be moved to another room, without great trouble and loss. Carpets should, for the sake of the style, as well as for economy, be made up either in the form of a square or a parallelogram. A square carpet can be turned four times with each side upward, making eight times, and a parallelogram four times. The length that these will last beyond one which is fitted, and which consequently exposes one part only to the greatest wear, is, of course, very great. As a carpet of this kind cannot always be made to cover the whole floor, some other mode must be adopted of covering the remainder of the space. The margin may be covered with oilcloth, or with baize or drugget ; but by far the best mode is to stain the uncovered margin a walnut color, letting the stain extend a few inches under the carpet. This method gives a pleasing finish to the room, producing a very good effect, and saves much labor in cleaning. The pattern of carpets for small rooms should be small, for a large pattern in such places is in bad taste, and in eutting to match there is great waste. The colors should harmonize with those of the room and the curtains, if you have curtains; for example, a carpet, the greater part of which is green, would suit red or white curtains, but would produce a very unpleasant effect with blue ones. When dirty, loce carpets are easily removed and shaken, and, as they are casily swept under, they do not become so dirty as when fitted ; when soiled, they may be cleansed, after beating, with the following mixture : Two gallons of water, with half a pound of soft-soap dissolved in it, to which add four ounces ammonia this may rubbed on with flannel, of andliquid the carpet then; rubbed drybewith cloth.a a coarse Staining the floor is better than painting it, for the stain is more lasting, is prettier, and is as cheap.
OUR COLORED PATTERNS are a feature peculiar to this Magazine. No other periodical publishes these useful and elegant illustrations, for they are too costly. In the present number we give a double-size one, an Anti-Macassar, or Tidy, to be worked on Java canvas, and we print it in AT A BALL given lately, in Paris, two dresses were espe- the appropriate colors, so as to show its true effect. The Java canvas is yellow, or straw-color, and the black, worked cially noticeable. One was a white tarlatan dress made with a plaited flounce, headed by a rouleau of claret-colored on it, is very effective. satin; over this fell a deep tunic of tarlatan, which at the IT IS THE FASHION to come back to ancient materials. We back formed a pannier in the shape of a large butterfly bow, see every day some reviving, the memory of which dwelt caught down and intermingled with wide bias folds of the only in the minds of our grandmothers. To-day it is the claret-colored satin. Another was a rich light-blue silk, plain crape de Chine, of which dresses are made, and espealmost covered with old point ; in the hair was a diamond cially tunics upon under-skirts of silk. Crape de Chine is a tiara, intermixed with point lace and primroses. beautiful and lovely material in white or plain gray, many , or light green. It is trimmed with black velvet and fringe LONG PLAID SHAWLS will be worn, this fall and winter, so with balls. as to imitate a coat or mantle. This is effected by laying a few folds, fastening them at the back of the neck, and then DRESSES ARE MORE varied, more extraordinary and mera bringing them down to the belt, from which the shawl is extravagant than ever. Panniers, especially, bigger and left to fall loosely. The shawl is folded in front also, and more pronounced. Instead of a bow being are worn on the in doing this, as well as the other, great room is left for the sash at the back of the waist, it now seems invariably to be exercise of taste. It is a very graceful way of wearing the placed about a quarter of a yard below in the center of the shawl. pannier. WE WILL SEND three subscribers for $4 50, during 1870, as SAVE A DOLLAR -Remember that the price of this Mugawe did this year, if no premium engraving is asked. zine is but two dollars a year, while all other first-class monthlies are three, or even four, dollars, Single subDRESSES ARE TO BE worn, this winter, in suits. They will scribers can get " Peterson" for less than the club prices of be wadded, or have a warm vest under the basque. similar periodicals. 390
