The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-24

or little image, which the EnGllSn
bakers used formerly to present at
this season to their customers.
How Actresses Dress.
People are at a loss, observes the ST.
Louis Republic, to explain how some
of our actresses are able to change
their costumes in so short a time as
that which elapses between the fall OF
the cnrtain on one act and it's almost
immediate rise on another, as often
takes place on the Paris stage. A
friend of mine who belongs to the
theatre, and who knows, gave me
the following explanation:-When a
rapid change of costume is in order
the dress is spread out on a chair in
side the actresses dressing-room at
the theatre. A popularity of the
dress is that all the bows and
are already fastened in place,
and the garment is open in front
from neck to hem, though so con-
trived that the junction will not be
visible when worn. By this arrange
ment the actress can make a COLL
plete change of costume in less than
five minutes. This is how my in
formant says she saw Judic do it at
the Bouffes Parisiens, where she was
once the queen of operetta singers
First, she picked up a pair of
gloves and began to put them
on. AT the same time her maid
unlocked her dress from top to bot.
tom with quick, deft fingers, and
stripped off the whole garment in a
twinkling. Judic sat down and ex-
tended her feet for the maid to take
off her shoes and stockings. The lat
ter being stripped down over the feet
in a jiffy disclosed clock silk hose, so
that the fresh pair were already on.
By the time the slippers were in place
the actress had got the last button of
her gloves into the buttonhole. A
minute and a half had elapsed. Then
the maid took off several puffs and a
bow from her mistress head-her hair
in the previous act having been SIM
ply dressed-and put on a more elab-
crate wig, fastened it in its place with
hair pins. Next the actress stood up,
and the maid swiftly put her into the
dress of satin and velvet
that had lain on the chair. Every
part of it fell admirably into place,
plentiful hooks and eyes holding all
together. Standing before a full
mirror, she finally surveyed
herself critically, at just three minutes
and a half from the start. Halt a
more was employed in putting
additional rouge and powder on the
face, and then she was ready to go on
the stage again.
The Art of Christmas Giving.
1t has been nearly two thousand
years ago since the first beautiful
Christmas gift came on earth, and it
received with gladness and joy
by shepherd and king alike. Today,
in memory of that, l give you some
tritie, because | love you, but l
give it SO ungraciously you scarcely
like to take it, writes Ruth Ash1nore
in the December LADIES' Home Jour-
nal. A pretty way to send a gift is to
it up in one of the colored tissue
papers, tie it with the extremely mar
ribbon that can be bought for a
few pennies, the whole twelve yards,
and so give your friend the pleasure of
untying the mysterious box, of remov-
ing the pretty ribbons and of coming
to the surprise at last, the something
for which she has longed for many a
day. | know a woman who has
wanted a pincushion ten years, who
in that time has gotten two diamond
bracelets and innumerable rings, but
the long-looked-for pincushion has
never come. She still hopes for it,
and believes that this year will GER
tainly bring it. You say, why not
buy it?' Well, now, who ever bought
a pincusion without the intention of
giving it to somebody else?
Give with q loving and full heart,
and never, under any circumstance
give that which you ~begrudge. Such
a gift will bear no fruit for you. not
even the honest fruit of thanks. You
can quote as many times as you want
that Unto him that hath shall be
given, and so it shall, because it is just
this way, my friend:-You possess the
gifts of gentleness and graciousness,
politeness and of goodness, and these
are gifts that call Others to them. If
people are cross and disagreeable
there istyery slight inclination to wish
them. A Merry Christmas; Ii they
cares whether they are blessed with a
Christmas present or not, but unto
her who hath the graces that | have
clteQ, Will Ccliaiuis WIN O. DutoACu
full of good gifts, Pressed down,
shaken together and running over"
How To Giye aud Receive.
From the receivers standpoint all
gifts may be divided into things that
we want, and things that We don't
want. 1t takes no particular skill or
grace to receive things that we want.
but as, in times OF general giving.
like Christmas, the larger part of the
gifts we get are things that we don't
want, that branch of receivership is
worth attention. The two ordinary
reasons for not wanting things are the
vulgar one that they do not strike us
as intrinsically desirable, and the
more complex reason that we don't
want to receive them from the parti-
culaI giver. A general remedy appli-
cable to reluctances due to either
of these causes is to keep strenuously
in the mind the happiness OF
the giver in giving. Remembering
that, you are delighted with a trifle
from some one you love, because it
makes you happy to have been even
passively instrumental in procuring
him the happiness of giving; applying
the same principle, you can accept
ever so costly a gift from someone for
whom you care little without any irk-
some sense of obligation, since OF
course the giVer had the best OF 1t