The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-15
Ideas for dMomen.

How many women choose their wall
papers with sublime disregard of the rooms
the papers are to cover and the lights
which will shine upon them? Every
builder and Landlord is conceded the proud
privilege of covering walls with dyspep-
tic looking yellows and greens, designed
to make sweet sixteen herself look bag
gard. but it is to be feared that many
women who select their own hangings are
almost equally negligent. In dimly light
ed rooms the colors must be brighter to
atone for the lack of sunshine. Fellows
and some warm shades of red and reddish
brown give a cheerful aspect, ever to
damly lighted rooms. Blues, grays, and
greens are cool and give the effect of great
size. Some of the prettiest wall coverings
are not of paper, but of burlaps. This is
particularly charming in summer cot
tages. An artistic example Of the use of
hurlaps is seen in a newly-built house,
where one room is hung in the creamy
brown fabric below a deep frieze of
brown, stenciled in gold.
Curtains and portieres should bear at
least a faint family likeness to each other
when they are hung in the same room,
and they should both have their colorings
determined by the wall paper. OF course,
silk or chenille portieres are not expected
to resemble dimity or muslin curtains, but
when the windows are draped with thick
materials they should pe practically the
same hues as the doorway draperies. The
vivid Easterns fabrics which show weird
but not unattractive figures on red. blue
and green backgrounds, are admirably
adapted for summer hangings. They are
bright in color without being .stuffy,''
which is a contamination seldom attained.
There are settees shown at the uphol-
sterers' which almost tempt the woman
whose domain is a small boarding house
room to buy them. They are of oak some
times, and often they are stained thai
cool and pleasing shade known as forest
green. Sometimes the backs and sides are
of bamboo and the seats of rattan or of
Indian mating, and this is positively the
most summer-like combination the manu-
f~aeturer of furniture has devised. Chairs,
ordinary lounges and the regulation ar
ticles of furniture come in 1t. Sometimes
the mating is plain. Sometimes it is
striped or plaided.
Denim covers sofas, chairs and tables
III lIlSS6 Jays. Ii SOOQ, Old-ldSulOiACA
blu variety is the f~avorite, though the
aesthetic green has its admirers also.
Empire wreaths and bow knots are en-
embroidered in white upon the goods. and
the effect is quite decorative. This can
not be said of the gorgeous red, BAN
danna-like furniture shown in some places.
Chairs and sofas covered with gaudy fabric
in bandanna hue and pattern are, how
1.ror 4hn naxra1+ipS nf the season.
Making the roof of o house into a
roof garden, for the benefit of the girls
and men who are obliged to be in town
off and on during the summer, has long
been advocated by all who have the means
and proper place for 50 doing, and it is a
capital idea, says "Harper's Bazaar" On
the roofs of some of the large apartment
houses in town there are very nice roof
gardens, and many a jolly party goes there
to spend warm evenings when lamps and
small rooms seem unbearable. But the
best private roof garden yet heard of is
at a private house on the west side of the
city. Two young girls, sisters. set to work
about a month ago to arrange their roof
garden, and it has turned out to be d great
success. They had an Opening night the
other evening, and it was so cool they
had to provide shawls and wraps for their
guests. The skylight of the house opens
into a large garnet, which some time ago
the girls had fitted up as their den. There
they nave their piano, writing desks, work
baskets, coy chairs and divans, and in
winter often gave small informal teas,
ETC, up there. One day the bright idea
struck them of going up one flight higher,
and with their fathers consent they soon
had made arrangements for what has
turned out to be a most charming roof
garden. Boxes filled with lowers and a
treilis-work of ivy surrouNd the roof.
There are plenty of can chairs, wooden
benches, and small tables. and there is a
hammock swung across one corner. Ii
anyone in the household misses one of
the daughters, the answer invariably
comes, She must be up on the roof" On
the Opening night" already spoken of,
they were allowed to nave their friends,
and give them ices, cakes, lemonade, ETC.,
provided they gave the servants no trouble
to carry the collation. up 50 man flights
of stairs. So, nothing daunted, these two
enterprising young women laid in their
store of provisions, set their table, and
had everything ready to serve long before
their friends arrived. With the assistance
of one maid they got along ~splendfdly,
and had no end Of fun. They sang, they
talked, the men Smoked, and it was all
so jolly. What will the girls do next?
/. Never wear a shoe that will not allow
the great foe to lie in a straight line.
2. Never wear a shoe with a sole mar
rover than the outline of the foot traced
with a pencil close unde the rounding
edge,
3. Never wear a shoe tina pinches the
heel.
4. Never wear a shoe or boo 50 large
in the heel that the foot is NJ kept in
place.
5. Never wear a shoe or boot tight any
where.
G. Never wear a shoe or boot that has
Expressions in any part of the sole to drop
any joint or bearing below the level plane.
Z. Never wear a shoe with a sole turn
ing up very much at the toes, as thds
causes the cords on the upper part of the
foot to contract.
s. Never wear a shoe that presses up into
the hollow Of the foot.
9. Never nave the top of the boots tight
as 1t interferes with the action Of the
calf muscles. makes one wark badly, and
spoils the shape of the ankle
10. Never come from high heels to low
heels at one jump.
II Never wear ono nair of shoes all fhe