The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-03
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s " sdtil overhaul with the lace, steel
spangied, and OF the outer side Of each
IS a row of finely-cut steel buttons. a
folded belt of white satin is about the
waist and is shaped so that it curves
over the hips and comes to a point at the
'front.' and back. At each side Of the front
Is a large cut steel button.v
Year by year the practice has been
growing in favor of the smarter circles
of society of giving dinner parties at GER
tain fashionable hotels and noted restau-
rants. This truly unhomelike arrange
ments. like so many other foolish fash
ions set and adopted by those who are in
a position to lay down social rules. IS
spreading to other circles. The little sup
per after the play, the dinner in town
previous to the theatre visit; the we'd
ding breakfast at this or that hotel: the
dance in the ~neighboring assembly hall.
are all modern methods Of shtrk-
ingt the duties of hospitality once regarded
by the British housewife as something all
most sacred.
Women who aspire to be fashionable
row carry pocketbooks made of monkey
skin. These pocketbooks are a light chloe
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surface. The newest are bound with gold
fastened to the cover.
A monkey skin pocketbook which has
been especially made for an Easter pres
ent has its cover adorned with three long
stemmed Easter lilies in white enamel.
Another has a spray of sweet peas in
white shading to violet as its floral deco
rafi0D Ma rrq>u- halfc IF ,n~lr- -1;~ ~-1
chatelaine bags to match are also a fad
of the hour.
head and a wicked red mouth, though her
hair was touched with silver.
Asked her secret of youth, she thought
a minute. then said smiling happily: IF
I have one it is that l never argue. New
er, under any provocation. You see, 1
don't hold any belief myself in a way
that needs confirmation. and Il found out
a long time ago that in argument your
self was the only person you could ever
succeed in convincing of the rightness of
your view.
Then there is the further fact that the
points most usually argued are those the
arguers know nothing whatever about.
f 0C4is - HE
people dogmatize over things whereof
their ignorance could be cut with a knife.
Nor do | ever exert myself to set them
right. Like Rachel of old. / sit upon the
secret and say nothing. 1 nave my reward
too-the people whose pet decisions 1 re-
spect. go about telling everybody that /
am one of the brightest and best informed
women they know
Miss Rehan's genius for costume is
shown finely in her new play in New
York. She wears a white satin Empire
gown besprinkled with tiny embroidered
lowers. which at the hem becomes an
embroidered garland lightly tracing, for
a short distance, the seams. The dis
t%inction, however. of this costume, is
its touches of black. Three tiny black
ostrich feathers are pinned just below
her bosom on the side, and on the white
tulle bandeau that confines her blond
hair stands upright a bunch of little
black ostrich tips
Very pretty borders are shown worked
in Italian stitch, now known as Holbein
embroidery, because Holbein has intro
duced it in some of his paintings in the
draperies. Holbein stitch is done on
canvas-weave fabrics, and it crosses the
mesh .diagonally, or runs with it up and
down or across as the design requires.
1t is a pretty and simple stitch, very
pleasing fer working borders on buffet
or sideboard covers.
.The coat intended for early spring
wear is marked by an air of jauntiness,,'
writes Isabel A. Mallon in March La
dies Home Journal. 1T is oftenest
smooth cloth, and beside the regulation
mode shades there is shown a dark blue.
a faint steel with a blue tone lowering
over it. dove-gray, lincoln green, and,
of course, dark blue and black"
A hat which on one person is charming,
on another is exactly the reverse. 1t
therefore behooves the interested party
to select that which suits her style and
general experimentation of Fashion.