The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-15

null, embroidered in silk of different
colors. These serve no purpose save
to add a touch of color to some dainty
girlish costume .-NeaCdTb Daily A6-
0e3tiSeT.
The Prince of Doctors.
II have met the prince of doctors, y
said a viyacious woman just home
from a year of European travel, land
! found him In I~nterlachen. HAD been
i'll for several days with a digestive
disorder, but kept up until, after
twenty-four hours of continuous
journeying, during which time l
dared not taste so much as q sip of
water for fear of increasing my dis
tress, / reached that lovely Swiss town
and sought the refuge OF a hotel.
Here l tuInbled into bed, bidding the
landlord send a doctor to me. | was
too wretched to care who or what
he was, and when a small, dapper,
blond man, with spectacles and
slightly bald, sat down by my bed |
had scarcely the interest to give him
a second look. But presently his
questions aroused my curiosity. he
began with my infancy. | think he
asked me when | cut my first teeth,
and continued making a most care
full enquiry into my habits, previous
illness, constitutional tendencies, and,
indeed, all the physical minutes OF
my career up to the moment OF meet
ing him. Then he carefully looked
Inc over, feeling my pulse, taking my
temperature, looking in my throat,
ETC., and then he wrote a prescrip-
ton and rang for the landlord.
THE prescription was to be filled
and he would would wait for it's re-
turn, and ON the spot the landlord re-
ceived a written memorandum of my
diet for the day. Beef tea plain, beef
tea with zwieback, and biscuits
these came at intervals after he had
himself administered a potion and a
powder. The next day and through
out my illness, which | prolonged to
the last possible limit, he exercised
the same espionage over my meals,
and | must say the landlord was as
Jealous as himself. | never was more
agreeably sick. Besides being so
carefully attentive, the doctor was
the most CHEEKY and sympa-
thetic of visitors, and his
were the perfection of delicate court
esy. When | asked for my bill / found
that for this model treatment l had
only to pay a few cents I'VE 81 a
visit. "-NeW York Sun.
The Flannel Petticoat.
The day of the flannel petticoat is
at hand. 1t would seem as if this
article of use had always been in
vogue, and SO it has, but it lacked
the sweetness and light that charac-
terizes it just now. The flannel pet
ticoat of old, which does not neces-
sarily NEAR the old flannel petticoat,
was bought without any thought of
beauty or sweetness, but from the
stern standpoint of comfort. If we
did not know we were 1.-THE most pro-
gressive people in the world, the
apotheosis of the flannel ~petticoat
would prove it. In the beginning it
was of white flannel gathered around
a muslin band, with a big button at
the back, that always showed, by it's
strong imprint through your bodice,
that it was there; the skirt proper
usually had q cluster of heavy tucks
and a hem, unless, indeed, you were
going to get married or expected a
fire in the house, and then it was em-
broidered with white floss.
An investigation proves that the
favored design was one of punches of
grapes-if you have an analytical
mind you can devote it to this ques-
tion:-Why grapes on flannel petit
coats? 1t will be a much safer study
for you than that of labor, or strikes,
or the status of the working women,
and a thousand times more difficult
to solve. The flannel petticoat of to-
day is of two colors. differing in that
respect from the famous coat belong
to Joseph. You are out OF the swim,
from the standpoint of the lingerie.
unless your flannel is of a glowing
scarle5, or a sombre black. 1t is of
flannel finished as finely as broad
cloth and is mounted on a yoke of
silk, faced with ribbon of satin and
edged with a full pleating or frill of
lace. The black is all black, or, as
the shopkeeper will tell you,
s'monochromatic." The red forms a
diabolic combination by its facings OF
black satin and its frivols Of black
lace.
"Diabolic' is not meant to be in
any sense derogatory to the dignity
OF the flannel petticoat, but it is used
simply as a comparison, because if
any mar in the world has good taste
it is his Satanic Majesty, and he pre-
fers black and red. With black stays,
black silk petticoat and black silk
stockings, or the black and red COM
bination the average woman looks
like an amateur fireman or an ideal
lied roulette board, but at least she
isn't wearing rye petticoat of We
olden tyme.r-W omGqa's Journal.