A white and light-colored dress makes the wearers appear larger, while a black or dark dress causes them to appear smaller than they actually are. A judicious person will therefore avail herself of these known effects, by adopting the style of dress most suitable to her stature. To sum up in a few words our impressions on this subject, we should say that the best style of dress is that which, being exactly adapted to the climate and the individual, is at once modest, quiet, and retiring, harmonious in color and decoration, and of good materials. We conclude with the following admirable extract from Tobin's "Honeymoon," which we earnestly recommend to the attention of our fair readers:-- "I'll have no glittering gew-gaws stuck about you, To stretch the gaping eyes of idiot wonder, And make men stare upon a piece of earth, As on the star-wrought firmament--no feathers, To wave as streamers to your vanity-- Nor cumbrous silk, that, with its rustling sound, Makes proud the flesh that bears it. She's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely-- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in! _Julia._ I shall observe, sir. _Duke._ I should like well to see you in the dress I last presented you. _Julia._ The blue one, sir? _Duke._ No, love--the white. Thus modestly attired, A half blown rose stuck in thy braided hair, With no more diamonds than those eyes are made of, No deeper rubies than compose thy lips, Nor pearls more precious than inhabit them, With the pure red and white, which that same hand Which blends the rainbow mingles in thy cheeks; This well-proportioned form (think not I flatter) In graceful motion to harmonious sounds, And thy free tresses dancing in the wind, Thou'lt fix as much observance as chaste dames Can meet without a blush." [Illustration] THE TURKISH COSTUME. "I REMEMBER," says Mr. St. John, "once seeing a Falstaff fasten his Kashmire, six or seven yards long, to a door-handle, and having gone with the other extremity to the opposite side of his court-yard, began to wind his huge form into it with as much gravity and decorum as if he were performing a pious mystery. He had a peculiar theory as to the position of every fold, and if he failed in arranging them exactly, would unwind himself again with a rapid rotary motion, his hands raised in the air. The operation, with all its vicissitudes, generally lasted about half an hour; and I have rarely seen a magnificent Effendi, without thinking of how he must have looked whilst putting on his shawl." DAIRY-HOUSE AND PIGGERY. [Illustration: CHEESE DAIRY-HOUSE.] WE do not present our readers the following as model cottages; but we give them a model "Dairy Building" and a model "Piggery." They are from C. M. Saxton's work on "Rural Architecture." CHEESE DAIRY-HOUSE.