The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-09
Beautiful Necks.

Every woman likes to have a beautiful
neck. Andfevery woman who hasn't it
is looking around for a way to get it. A
neck may be slender, and, If it is white,
Will look well; but If the bones stand up
has if in opposition to their existence, a
of chiffon had better be drawn over
A neck that is tolerably well
Id by flesh may be improved by a
Eimple treatment.
lis consists of bathing it every night
warm water. so that the pores will
IN, drying it softly, and before it has
flme to thoroughly cool of giving it a
d gentle massage with cocoa butter. Now,
, most people think that cocoa butter is a
hard stuff that is solid in cakes, but IL
isn't. You have got to go to q drug store
10 get it. 1t is about the consistency and
LUtOr ef1ard, anu when it is In a warm
place it will melt so that it is as thin as
sweet oil. A good many actresses use i5
TO take their makeup of, and that is the
. Feritatle cocoa butter.
Speaking of beautiful necks always
suggests people who possess them. That
OF the Princess of Wales, which looks so
lovely in her pictures. is not really beauti-
bones, which the kindly photographer
spots out. show very perceptibly. The
Countess Of Dudley has an exquisite
neck and so has Lady de Gray. Mrs.
Langtry's neck and throat are absolutely
perfect. the poise of her head on her
shoulders aud the lines from her ears
down TO her shoulders being absolute
Greek. Jane Hading has a beautiful
neck, which, unlike that of most French
women, is not too suggestive of great
fullaess. The present Empress of Ger
many has a handsome neck and SO mas
Mime. Carnot. Nine. Adam has long
been celebrated for the beauty of her
neck u shoulders.
In this country it Is most noticeable.
especially in Washington, how much
hanasomer are the necks of Southern
women than are those of women from
the East or West. Southern women al
ways credit their fine necks to their eat
ing good food, so that it is likely in the
next generation the East and the West
will be equal with the South, for they
are learning the value. as far as personal
beauty is concerned. of good living.
Fanny Davenport has a beautiful neck,
white, firm and dimpled. Mrs. Potter's
is decidedly bony. Elsie De Wolfe's is
slender. but white. pretty and we'll
formed. George Drew Barrymore has a
magnificent throat and neck, that is es-
sentially that of a young woman; unlike
many women on the stage, she can wear
q low bodice without its ever being sug-
gestive or fmmodist.
Athletics do not tend to make beautiful
necks, so that the girl who goes in for
outdoor sports may be healthy and very
wise; still, as she grows muscular she
takes away from the feminine appear
ance of her neck, and is apt to give it 0
rather stringy look. However. if she is
healthy and wise perhaps she doesn't
care for a beautiful neck, and yet it is
the one feminine Bit of loneliness thai
poets. painters, sculptors, and even more
ordinary men have raved ever from time
immemorial. -NelUGrk Daily AdUeTtiser
Women's Judgment of Women.
The assertion that Women are hard up
on each other is almost without founda
ton. There are two classes of women
who are severe in their Judgment of their
sisters. To the first belong those who,
owing in part, perhaps, TO temperament
and part to force of environment, have
never come face with a genuine tempta
ton. and hence ind il impossible to I'm
derstand how another can be tempted. TX
the second class belong those VINO, goad.
ed by a consciousness of their shortcom-
ings, are always ON the alert to detect il
others evidence of similar weaknesses.
But while representatives of these Two
classes are 10 be found IN every commuu-
lily and in every grade of social life, they
[are, happily, III the minority.
I The world. thank God, is full of true
women tender, plying, mother-hesrsel