lection of colors for morning and evening costume. Our readers will find the following list of harmonious groups of service in the arrangement of colors in dress; we have given the most useful as well as the most agreeable combinations.

Blue and lilac, a weak harmony.
Blue and drab harmonize.

Blue and stone-color harmonize.

Blue and fawn-color, a weak harmony.
Blue and white (or gray) harmonize.
Blue and straw-color harmonize.

Blue and maize harmonize.

Blue and chestnut (or chocolate) harmonize.
Blue and brown, an agreeable harmony.
Blue and black harmonize.

Blue and gold (or gold-color), a rich harmony.
Blue and orange, a perfect harmony.

Blue and crimson harmonize, but imperfectly.
Blue and pink, a poor harmony.

Blue and salmon-color, an agreeable harmony.
Blue, scarlet, and purple (or lilac) harmonize.
Blue, orange, and black harmonize.

Blue, orange, and green, harmonize.

Blue, brown, crimson, and gold (or yellow) harmonize
Blue, orange, black and white, harmonize.

Red and gold (or gold-color) harmonize.
Red and white (or gray) harmonize.

Red, orange, and green, harmonize.

Red, yellow (or gold-color,) and black, harmonize. Red gold-color, black and white, harmonize.

Scarlet and slate-color harmonize.
Scarlet, black, and white harmonize.
Scarlet, blue and white harmonize.
Scarlet, blue and yellow harmonize.
Scarlet, blue, black, and yellow harmonize.

Scarlet and blue harmonize.

Scarlet and orange harmonize.

Crimson and black, a dull harmony.

Crimson and drab harmonize.

Crimson and brown, a dull harmony.

Crimson and gold (or gold-color,) a rich harmony.

Crimson and orange, a rich harmony.

Crimson and maize harmonize.

Crimson and purple harmonize.

Yellow and chestnut (or chocolate) harmonize.

Yellow and brown harmonize.

Yellow and red harmonize.

Yellow and crimson harmonize.

Yellow and white, a poor harmony.

Yellow and black harmonize.

Yellow, purple, and crimson harmonize.

Yellow, purple, scarlet, and blue harmonize.
Yellow and purple, an agreeable harmony.

Yellow and blue harmonize, but cold.

Yellow and violet harmonize.

Yellow and lilac, a weak harmony.

Green and scarlet harmonize.

Green, scarlet, and blue harmonize.

Green, crimson, blue, and gold, or yellow, harmonize. Green and gold, or gold-color, a rich harmony.

Green and yellow harmonize.

Green and orange harmonize.

Orange, blue, and crimson harmonize.

Orange, purple, and scarlet, harmonize.

Orange, blue, scarlet, and purple harmonize.
Orange, blue, scarlet, and claret harmonize.
Orange, blue, scarlet, white, and green harmonize.
Orange and chestnut, harmonize.

Orange, and brown, an agreeable harmony.
Orange, lilac, and crimson, harmonize.

Orange, red, and green harmonize.

Purple, scarlet, and gold-color, harmonize.
Purple, scarlet, and white harmonize.

Purple, scarlet, blue, and orange harmonize.

Purple, scarlet, blue, yellow, and black harmonize. Purple and gold, or gold-color, a rich harmony.

Purple and orange, a rich harmony.

Purple and maize harmonize.

Purple and blue harmonize.

Purple and black, a heavy harmony.

Purple and white, a cold harmony.

Lilac and crimson harmonize.

Lilac, scarlet, and white, or black, harmonize.

Lilac, gold-color, and crimson harmonize.

Lilac, yellow, or gold, scarlet, and white harmonize.

Lilac and gold, or gold-color, harmonize.

Lilac and white, a poor harmony.

Lilac and gray, a poor harmony.

Lilac and maize, harmonize.

Lilac and cherry, an agreeable harmony.

Lilac and scarlet, harmonize.

White and gold-color, a poor harmony.
White and scarlet harmonize.
White and crimson harmonize.
White and cherry harmonize.
White and pink harmonize.
White and brown harmonize.
Black and white a perfect harmony.
Black and orange, a rich harmony.
Black and maize harmonize.
Black and scarlet harmonize.
Black and lilac harmonize.

Black and pink harmonize.
Black and slate-color harmonize.
Black and brown a dull harmony.

Black and drab, or buff harmonize.

Black, white, or yellow and crimson harmonize

Black, orange, blue, and scarlet harmonize.

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE TOILETTE.

T is every woman's duty to make herself as beau

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tiful as possible; and no less the duty of every man to make himself pleasing in appearance. The duty of looking well is one we owe not only to ourselves, but to others as well. We owe it to ourselves because others estimate us very naturally and very properly by our outward appearance; and we owe it to others because we have no right to put our friends to the blush by our untidiness.

If a gentleman ask a lady to accompany him to the opera or a concert, she has no right to turn that expected pleasure into a pain and mortification by presenting herself with tumbled hair, ill-chosen dress, badly-fitting gloves and an atmosphere of cheap and offensive perfumes. So, also, if the gentleman comes to fulfill his appointment with tumbled clothes, shaggy hair and beard, soiled linen and an odor of stale tobacco, she may well consider such an appearance an insult.

Duty, has more to do with attention to the toilette than vanity. We are therefore bound to turn our