The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-09

OeauS, anu also IN chenille oil very Inc
strands and close pile hi will not fray.
Jets will be used again, especially In a
bandeau OF large, taceted pieces, Some-
times with pendants, on covered bonnets,
on black bonnets and on round hats.
There are also bandeaux of jet leaves and
of rosebuds, with yellow plush for the
petals, with fine jet beads on their calyces
and stems; large jet butterflies and jet
stars of great size, fern leaves. aigrettes.
pompons and fou~ptain-like sprays Of jet
are on either black or colored bonnets.
For the first dark bonnets are large
fruits, peaches of emerald Tue and grapes
with their bloom admirably copied in
shaded velvets, with also plums, prunes,
cherries n berries. Large soft flowers
have some of their petals OF silk and
others of velvet, in order to get delicate
standings; roses, dahlias and peoples are
made in this way in the refined shade of
~red-purple called scabieuse, In rich yellow
bouton d'or and in bright coquelicot
red.-Hdfper's BdzGr.
Musk.
Most people take it for granted that
because musk is sold in what is called a
pod. therefore 1t is a vegetable product.
But the truth is that it is entirely an
animal product, being a substance found
in u two or three-inch sac in the body of a
little musk deer of Asia. This sac, when
tied up and dried, goes by the name of q
pod among the hunters who bring it into
market. Probably there are few things
subject to such adulteration, as one part
of pure musk will scent thousands of
parts of some other powder mingled with
it, and, as the pods sell for from SIS to $50
apiece, the adulteratiOn has its profit. 1t
is indeed SO pungent that when just fresh
it has been known to produce violent
bleeding at the nose, and many people are
r- r.1nn,-ktl.l4 81 a A. ~ va oos1 hand
aches, brought about by contact with the
pure article; and while a suspicion Of it is
very agreeable to many persons, atom
too much becomes offensive, as it is the
case with patchouli. 1t vas formerly
largely used in therapeutics, especially in
much from the difficulty of obtaining 1t
in a pure state as from ANYTHING else. and
is now seldom given except in hysteria or
Observation-Disclosures BazGr.
Myths Concerning Women.
Woman's first appearance has been a
fruitful subject for the legend mongers.
The Phenician myth of creation is found
in the story of Pygmalion and Galatea.
There the first woman was carved by the
first mar out of ivory and then endowed
with life by Aphrodite. The Greek the
DRY of the creation OF woman, according
to Hesiod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest,
ordered Vulcan to make woman out of
clay, and then induced the various gods
and goddesses to invest the clay doll with
all their worst qualities, the result being
q lovely thing, with a witchery of mien,
refined craft. eager passions, love of dress,
~treacherouS anners and shameless mind.
The S~candinavians say that as Odin, Viii
and We, the three sons OF Dor, were walk
ing along the sea beach they found WI
sticks of wood, one of ash and n of elm.
Sitting down the gods shaped man and
women out of these sticks, whiting the
woman from the elm and calling her
Emia.
One of the strangest of stories touching
the origin of women is told by the NADIA
eascarenes, In SO far as the creation of
man goes, the legend is not unlike that
related by Moses, only that the fall came
before Eve arrived. After the man had
eaten the forbidden fruit he became
afflicted with a boil on the leg, put Of
which, when it burst. came a beautiful
girl. The mans first thought was to
throw her to the pigs, but he was COM
mand by a voice from heaven to let her
play among the ~diggings until she was
of manageable age, then to make her his
wife. he did so, called her Barboura,
and she became the mother of all races
of men. The American Indian myths
relative to Adam and Eve are numerous
and entertaining. Some traditions trace
our first parents to white and red
maize; another is that man, searching
for a wife, vas given the daughter of
the king of muskrats, who, being dipped
into the waters of q ~neighboring lake,
became a woman.-LOnd0n Tablet.