The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-09

cred. These can be purchased already
stamped and with the eyelets through
which to run ribbons for tying, neatly
worked. for twenty-five cents-a useful
and pretty Christmas gift where only a
small remembrance is required. For this
purpose. too. nothing could serve better
than the little oblong books arranged
for recipes and newspaper clippings.
The leaves of these books are long en-
velopes. specially lettered to designate
Their use. In the book for recipes, for:
instance, one finds separate envelopes for
cakes, puddings, pies, meats. ices, etc,
all ready to receive the many excellent
recipes that in these days may be
clipped from newspapers and period
icals.
The book for notes on current events
contains envelopes marked music"
art" society literature" etc. Pref
ty covers in linen and denim are stamped
in appropriate designs. ready for the
needle. The entire cost of these useful
little memoranda is about fifty cents.
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I'VE must not allow ourselves to forget
the true meaning of the Christmas spirit.
HtfttS W w. Dun Q1 Lie S4flSliitdS
That Lies Between in the December
Ladies' Home Journal 1T will bring hap
piness to US just in proportion as we bring
happiness to others. To some the day will
this year bring other than happy thoughts
or memories. Sorrows are harder to bear
on festal days than any other time. But
no sorrow should crush the Christmas
spirit from Jul hearts. 1t Is not in the
amount that we do, or are able to do, that
We shall find happiness for ourselves ant
for others. The simplest pleasures and
acts ofttimes make the hearts of others
overflowing with happiness. To fail to do
something because you feel that you can
not do much is wrong. What seems ever
so trihing to you may make some little
heart sing all day long, which but for you
might pass the day without a note OF hap
piness. Don't grow impatient of the
Christmas myth or legend. Keep it alive.
God knows that we have enough ideals in
these investigating days of ours. Let us
not disturb the Christmas traditions.
It is a duty of ourselves to keep this day
as unlike any other. And we can only do
this by tanning into flame the shoulder
ing embers of the Christmas spirit which
Is In every one of us. God implanted 1t
there. 1t was good that we should nave
it, or He would not have given 1t to us.
In childhood the fire burned brightly
enough within us; In old age h light of
Christmas will reflect in our faces and
our natures. But in the meantime we
must keep the spirit alive SO that it may
glow the warmer and softer in old age.
T 80 SO 1o,,o n - ala -t;-,. nnarrxr Cbricfu,o q
this year, a real, old-fashioned, happy one.
Let us make everybody forget that there
is anything In the world but good fellow
ship and happy laughter. To the sick let
US bring forgetfulness of pain; to the sor-
rowful. the sweet balm of a happy smile;
to the aged, loving thoughts of considera-
ton; to the poor, a suggestion of the
greater material blessings which are Guns.
Then, as we bring light to other eyes col
or to other cheeks, happiness to other
hearts, we shall be happy ourselves. The
Christmas spirit will keep alive within u.s.
Our years must be spanned, not with a
Christmas at either end, but with an I'M
broken bow of happy Yuletides, the CEN
tire brighter even than the beginning of
the end. Living memories must inter-
Irvine and link together the golden cur4
and the snowy lock. Then we live in the
full richness Of the Christmas that lies
between; the Yuletide of the present, the
Christ Day that IS now n here"
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Milady's evening frock, under its most
fashionable aspect, glitters with a hun
dred wga The iridescent bead, the
twinkling sequin, the gold thread, all dis
port themselves upon net or silk founda-
ions to make am up-to-date ball gown.
1t is quite usual now to embroider silk or
satin or watered foundations as well as
placing the embroideries pom Eight, finn
sy fabrics, such as net, and chiffon, and
herein can be found a new industry,
or, at least, a revived one. which should
bring grist to the mill of many a poor
embroideress. As a rule, the silken skirt
will be found traced will conventional
designs, such as stars, waved lines or
gold, or in diamond clous. The most
elaborate patterns are worked In dia-
monds upon black poult-de-soie, and, to
complete the skirt which shows such dec
Grafton, is designed a bodice with the
same pattern in diamonds worked upon
black net. On the whole, net is trying
very hard to GUST chiffon from our favor.
but yet finds its best complexion over the
influence of chiffon. If you moun a net
with this soft lining it will have a much
better effect than If o mount 1t plainly
over silk or satin.
No other article of dress takes en- the
individuality of a person as does a hat.
One that we nave seen often on its
owners head, wherever we note it,
whether lying on the table. in the area
entry. or hanging on the orthodox horns
in the front hall, will seem to be franz
ing the professors face in indelible
photography: How like Amy that
looks" or Uncle Samuel" or Miss
Smith,"-as the case may bets continu-
ally reiterated.
While we are all willing to concede
that any hat frequently worn will in
time get to look like US, we often neglect
to consider that there are certain head
coverings so unsuited to our style, that
when they become a part of US, per-
sonality seems to lave been pulled awry,
as It were. Only naturally natty girls
should wear distinctly jaunty hats.
Demure ones should affect those that
farther carry out the notion of quaint
simplicity, but they have nothing what