The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-03
IYALY'S LOVELY QUEEN.
A Charming Woman Noted
For Her Taste in Dress
and Adjournment.
FASHION, THE TYRANT.
THE TYRANT.
Toasts At Temperance Dinners
Healthful Value of Oranges
Care of Pet Dogs.

The Queen of Italy, like the Prin-
cess of Wales, is remarkable for
her taste in dress-but wiltshire
Princess inclines to the severe and
simple in style, to 'tailor-mades,
and plainly built tweeds and serges,
Her Majesty of Italy elects to wear
brocades, velvets and furs, which re-
call in their ma~gnitcence of color and
richness of texture the apparel OF the
ladies who figured in the pictures of
Titan, Paola, Veronese and Giorg-
lone. Queen Margherita's mantles
are works of art as regards delicate
passementerie and rich embroideries,
but her evening gowns are trlumplis
Of the embroiderer's skill. Not only
silks of all shades and seed pearls and
gold and silver threads are employed
in the adornment of these dresses.
but often jewels. whilst her rare lace
is w~orld-famed for its beauty.
No one has done more in Italy to
the revival of lace making
than the Queen. Apropos of this, a
story is told of N particular stitchln
guipure which vas almost lost to the
world during the time that the lace
making industry fell into a state of
decay. 1t was suddenly discovered
that no one knew how to compass it,
until a b~ed-ridden old woman was un-
eartlied at Burano, and by dint of
good food and wine coaxed back to
life sufficiently long to enable her to
impart her precious secret to the
Young lace makers of the newly estab-
lished schoolat Venice.
The Queen of Italy seldom appears
in a hat, and her bonnets are small
and closefitting, Her earrings are
usually pearls of enormous size, with
diamond tops. For evening wear she
generally chooses the famous pearl
necklace. the most beautiful and won
derful in the world. a string OF which
the King gives her on the anniversary
of each birthday. Her Majesty is al
WAYS bien coiffe and chaussee and
gantee. as becomes a Queen. Her
neck and arms are remarkably beau
tifuI in form and color, and her com
plexion is singularly fine, and of that
delicate, hue which is so rare
and so lovely. In stature the Queen
is too short for beauty, but in carriage
she ouveys the impression OF tall
u She speaks French. German,
italian and English with perfect ease
and accuracy, but her favorite litera-
ture is English. -CjncinnGH Com
megciGL Gazette.
Fashion the Tyrant.
1t is easy to see that for the last iii
teen years, women who are qualified
to lead have more and more refused
to submit themselves to the tyrannl-
cal influence of a reigning fashion.
They all go forward, the crowd fol-
lows; but the vanguard uses its own
inspiration, and borrows only OF it.
self Or of whaInay be called the Gre
ating dressmakers. Simplicity alone
dominates everything today, and re-
mains the mark OF good style, of dis
tinction, and of the real aristocracy
of taste. In any case, fashion is only
ridiculous when it begins or when it
finishes. Who a say what our chill
dren will think of Jul costumes in
1910 or 1920g-OctGUe Uza1ne, IN the
April Scgi6ner.
Toasts at Temperance Meetings.
Dinners are much too serious any
way, particularly for the speakers.
In Boston, in the week ending March
Is, two men dropped dead at public
dinners. One of the feasts thus Wis
tied was a Talnmany Club dinner on
St. Patrick's day, and the fatal vista
ton did not come until four O'Clock
in the morning. That case may have
been simply one of exhausted nature,
but about the other there was some
thing almost suggestive of a judg-
lnent. For it happened at the annual
supper of a Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and the brother vino
fell was a Presbyterian clergyman
who had just arisen to respond
to the toast, THE Temperance
Outlook" Is there not something
perverse and contrary to nature about |
having toasts at temperance banquets,
and drinking them in water out of
goblets2 Water is unquestionably |
the best drink in the world, but not
for toasts. 1t is right and proper that
our temperance friends should eat to-
gether, and that their souls should
flow, but they ought to get up a new
apparatus for the exploitation of their
after-dinner remarks. The livery of
Siienus is not adapted to the service |
of Lady Henry Somerset and Miss
Francis Willard. Twist or turn it as
you will, it does not ft.-Hd7pe1's
Weekly.
Healthfa1 Value of Oranges.
While the orange was SO highly es-
xo,.o5 49, 49, ,1n;o,fo for SIC NADIA