The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-18


The ladies appear in their p~rettiest tea
gowns. the conversation is usually in
teresting and spirited. the hour is that
charming one between the dark and the
daylight, and everything tends to make
the participants linger long around the
table.
The meal partakes of the nature of
breakfast. luncheon and dinner, without
being too nearly like any Of them. Tea.
of course. is served. and is made at the
table by the hostess. being kept warm
under a dainty cosy.
Claret. and even beer, are allowable for
the tired and thirsty sportsmen, though
the latter is rarely asked for. The table
IS well furnished with substantial eata-
Dles for the men and with dainties for
the ladies.
A Geld boiled Yorkshire ham is often in
evidence. IT appears on the able in a
dress suit. as if were. highly glazed and
ornamented. After it has been we'll
boiled. skinned and thoroughly cooled, it
Is treated to two or three coats of melted
glace, which gives it a dark and shining
appearance. Then 1t is with
butter. which has been worked with a
fork till soft. but not oily. 1t is applied
SO as to outline a pattern on the glace
with a small white paper funnel. The
shank of the ham has a frill of paper or
a fringed dolly arranged around it, and
a little fresh parsley garnishes the
whole
A clever New York dressmaker has
lone away with the ordeal of trying
on and the gowns tina come from her
establishment are no longer a WEAKNESS
OF the flesh or spirit to the woman who
orders them. for they fit without being
-ntted,' and there is no system Of
measure and tape about the matter
whatsoever. 1t is merely an ingenious de-
vice patented by this same clever woman
OF the needle whereby any clients figure
can be copied from a perfect-htting
waist-lining or waist, and expanded into
an exact mold of every curve, every an
gle. every popularity of The original flesh
and blood form, says Jennes Miller.
This woman discovered tina dressmak-
ers systems and trying-on were the
trials of ~womankind. She forthwith rea-
soned that the lay figure had not been
useful except for skirt draping, because
of the manifest inaccuracy of it as APP
piled to any and every figure. Some
women with a twenty-four inch waist
had a thirty-four inch bust measure, ami
a length of side seams out of all proper
ton. Other little women were short
wasted and broad backed. Still Others
We're higher in one shoulder than the
other. and had unaccountable hills and
hoiiows in their anatomy. 1t was mani
testify impossible that a conventional ma
chine lay figure should be able to assume
all the shape of all the women. No. each
wnmaD rnilct n we q -n1l5 - -
and an exact mold, over which bodices
could be as perfectly fitted as on the
flesh and blood woman.
The invention consists of an artistic
and perfectly-ftted waist lining of can.
vas. strong and flexible. and shaped to
every line of the bodice. Into this lin
ing is inserted a cunning device which
expands 1t into the exact shape 1t was
while upon the woman-just as rigid.
just as solid as if there was the real
anatomy inside of it, a true reproduction
OF the figure.
The wise modern mother, to Thoroughly
educate her daughter spares nothing to
awaken in her the appreciation of what
is most latent in her nature. She is bound
to work out her natural bent herself. If
she is naturally a bookworm her course
In sports" is severe and systematic.
II she has no ear for music, she is at
least thoroughly grounded in the meaning
OF music. hears all there is and does not
herself leave the piano until she has at
least some realization of the works of the
masters. and their methods
Her study of the art of painting and
sculpturing is equally thorough, as far as
a knowledge of the principal schools and
of the best work goes. 1t is not what they
can accomplish in the way of picture
making, musical performance. or golf
drives-they all may be markedly mediocre
even inferior.
But it is the critical and intellectual
view of life that they acquire, that is
the habit of all cultured men and women
Of the world. A dflettante is always
charming to know, however impractically
OF use in the world she may be.
The apron has never been a ~favorite
article of apparel with American girls.
asst savofs too much of the nursery or
the femme de chambre. English women
have always had a %penchant for this
useful garment, and an elaborate one
has just been evolved. It is of thin Swiss
muslin or Irish linen tucked, berufhed
and lace trimmed, the skirt being long
and full and set ON a fitted yoke. The
gathered hem is met by fiat slender
pieces, which extend into an x at the
back. and disappear beneath the faunt-
ing bow and ends.
A quantity pretty TIA gown of pale
yellow silk had a box-pleated front and
a handsome bordering OF the demi-trafn.
The long angel sleeves Of yellow silk
extend to the bottom of the gown. and
are fastened to the train with white
satin ribbon bows and loops, while the
under sleeves are of white satin with
ermine cuffs The bodice part Of the
gown is trimmed with bands of white
six edged with steel embroidery. while
around the neck Is a collar of ermine.
This is altogether a very and
becoming gown.
Nothing is more lovely for a centre
piece than a vase Of tulips, especially at
this bleak season, when their ~Spring-iike
cups seem to promise of the good time
coming. They are particularly beautiful
and delicate, in pale tints, as delicious
pink and yellowish white. These care
lessly arranged in a large bowl of dull
green glass, are the thing Of beauty
which is, in memory. a joy forever.
III