The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-12

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Cords with tasssls III the centre are
used two to one, compared with any
thing else. for fastening back curtains.
Ribbon Is still used somewhat and a
few ruffled Swiss curtains are seen
fastened with q piece of ruffling to
match that on the edge.
Normandy dimities are very swell and
very pretty for bedroom ~draperies. Have
window curtains, bed furnishings and
canopy screen, toilet table hangfngs and
even the wall covering made Of it to
match. 1t needs no lining and can be
washed very nicely.
Very thin ~curtainsa should not be
pinned to rings or q pole; they should
rave a beading and a small rod run
through. If they are about nine inches
too long 1t is pretty to let the extra
length hang down on the right side
and tuck it up In the centre butterfly
ashton.
Bagdads are considered the incest por-
there for any room, except a very hand
some parlor, with white, brocaded furni-
library, sitting-room or living-room, or
where YOU aim to give your parlor the
look of being used n not retained just
for use.
9" ; Our life study of each other, our
isfe responsibility for each other. is. just
this tender watchfulness to learn and to
be each Others need and Its fulfllment, =
writes Mrs. "A. D. T. Whitney in the No
yember Ladies' Home Journal" discuss
ing ''The Truth About Marriage" And
against all willful error at the start
there is, think, an Instinct of posi-
bslity or dmpossibiiity in the personal duty
and relation. Would you desire, or evo
from becoming what the man with whom
0 are choosing to try this tremendous
experiment would most appreciate, would
best be satisfied with, in you? Would
you delight to shape your life, to mould
your spirit, to his ideal? Is he you
feel Zoe would really make to you the
immediate giver of the best He has for
you? And would you be lifted nearer to
God and to the life of Heaven by striv-
ing to give this man his own best imagin-
Ing Of good? Is It real, best good you are
both wanting, or only some common, cir
cumstantial content and enjoyment? Will
your wedding day be a show and a festiv-
ity, 500 over, and Kept afterward in
mere anniversaries-of wood, and tin, and
glass, and silver, and the things of exist
ence-or will 1T be all the long, faithful,
glad or suffering. shared and mutual full
filling Of the years? Will your Joined life
be the deepest fact of life, or only an ac-
ces~sory-perhaps IN many things a hin
drance-to your separate s~elishness? One
who has grown to be a woman and make
a woman's choice, can surely answer
these questions to herself. If she cannot
she had better decide that she is not
grown enough. There are widely different
dates of such maturity.+ ~
A novel way of cooking oysters that
those who like it like very much is to
wash and dry large oysters, dip them
in beaten egg, roll in freshly grated Par
mesan cheese and then in fine dry bread
crumbs. After rolling in the cheese,
stand aside ten minutes and dip the sec
ond time In the egg before rolling in the
crumbs. Fry in deep fat and drain.
Serve celery with the oysters.
Minced dried beef n scrambled eggs
are delicious on a cold morning. If the
beef is very salt, f~resfen 1t by letting it
come to a boil in clear water; remove and
lay on a cloth to dry. Mince, and turn
into the eggs in the frying pan. and stir
all together. Do not salt the eggs.
Never leave your canary birds in a
room that has been newly painted. 1t is
almost sure TO make them Sick and
sometimes kills them.