The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-27
of Jersey City Home
Making Is DR.. Koonz's
Beautiful Residence.
MRS. SHERMAN'S ROSARIES.
i Montana Woman Physician
Items for Ladies---Personal and
Otherwise.

The Editor Of the JERSEY CITY
NEWS presents has compliments to the
ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
dngites their cooperation Ia mating
this column a feature Of general inter
est and utility. Information and sssg-
gestions are earnestly solicited, and
assurance Is giuen that all cornmapd-
cations aoaU recedue immediate and
careful attention, and GodU be regarded
as strictly confidential If the aossteTs so
desire.
Nothing gives a woman nor pleas
ure or greater happiness than a beau
tiful house, where she reigns a
veritable queen of her W little do
main. In Jersey City there are many
handsome houses, artistically and
richly furnished. 1t is not the exterior
that delights the woman's heart, no
matter how pretty it may be, but the
interior, where she has plenty of OPP
p~ortunity to display her fine feminine
taste in arrangement.
One of the most beautiful homes
that / have seen in Jersey City is that
of DR.. Koonz, who resides on Commu-
nipaw avenue, in a large house with
handsome grounds surrounding it.
This was recently purchased by him.
Within, the eye quickly discerns the
perfect harmony of taste, united with
an elegance of style which has made
this home SO attractive in appearance.
A broad hall, richly carpeted and fur
nished in walnut, divides the house in
the centre. On one side of the hall is
the drawing room, and on the oppo-
site side are the library and dining
room.
THE DRAWING ROOM.
The large drawing room, which is SO
rarely found in the United States, is
in every detail an elegant and luxur-
ious apartment. A thick velvet car
pet covers the floor, and curtains of
the finest lace drape the large win
dows, Portieres of tapestry hang
before the doors ~concealing the frame
work. The furniture, arranged effect
lively about the room, is of antique
design in cherry, upholstered in silken
pushes of different colors. A grand
piano stands at the lower end of the
room.
The feature of this beautiful apart
ment, which is sure to attract the most
attention, is the display of fine oil
paintings. These almost cover the
walls. They are the works of eminent
artists, and some of them were painted
by the great masters. Opposite the
drawing room, with a bright, sunny
exposure and located in the pleas
ATTEST part of the house, is the
comfortable library. In this
the sun shines all day long,
frightening the heavy draperies and
massive mahogany book cases with it's
CHEEKY beams. a handsome tiled
hearth, with brass fender and andirons,
and an exquisite mahogany cabinet
above, filed with rare and costly brio
a-brac, give a bright and cheerful
effect. Large, easy reclining chairs of
leather are suggestive of luxurious
ease, and dainty chairs and divans of
plush, ornamented with many touches
of feminine work, are scattered about
in the hooks and recesses of the room.
A well equipped mahogany library
table, with all the requirements for
writing, occupies the centre of the
room
This is the most inviting room in the
house, and is naturally the III which
is most used by the family.
WHERE THEY EAT IN COMFORT.
Directly back of the library is the
diningroom. A dark velvet carpet and
heavy ebony furniture give a sombre,
cool and shaded look to the large
room. On the right stands a massive
| ebony sideboard of exquisite work
manship. On this is arranged the
family plate. Rich hangings of
chenille and silk drape the windows
and modulate the piercing light.
Above stairs the chambers are ar
ranged in the most perfect style and
excellent taste. Beautifully carved
antique oak, cherry, and walnut have
been used to make the furniture Of
these rooms, which, while they are
rich and expensive in appearance,
have a pleasant, homely look that is
the real charm of the whole house.
Mrs. Koonz rules her little world with
true womanly skill, and has combined
refinement of taste, elegance of style
and o true sense of comfort and luxury
in making her home truly beautiful.
Mrs. Sherman's Rosaries.
At her death Mrs. William I. Sher-
man left, among other souvenirs, a
beautiful palm-wood box, filled to the
lid with rosaries, medals and talisman-
ic emblems of religion, wrought in all
manner Of metal, crystal, wood and
decorative material, to be distributed
among her friends. These mementoes
were gifts from prelates, priests. pom
tificates and recluses from all parts of
the world. some of the beads in the ro-
saries having been carved centuries
ago by old monks consigned to voulen-
tary imprisonment. Besides these
beads, medals, crucifixes and pictures,
she left superb specimens of needle
work, hand-wrought by nuns from the
converts of France, Italy and America,
including bits of lace, handkerchiefs,
walls, embroidered gloves, caps, doy-
lies, house and tablelinen and cush-
ions, ~searfs,so tapestries, robes and
draperies. Since her death letters of
coincidence have poured in on her
family from all quarters Of the globe.
Her loss weighs heavily on the old sol
I dier, who has shut himself up in his
house, refusing all callers but inti-
mates and denying himself all manner
of entertainments. - Philadelphia
Times
A Montana Woman Physician.
Miss Maria M. Dean is a homeopa-