The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-02

lace. and though ~ - N QQd caprice ~
Is one that finds favor.
An ugly fashion of long ago is again
seen, but az yet has not become arDi-
trary, and that Is trimming the skirts
with bands of black velvet or black RIB
| bon put on in clusters and at stated in
teryals. This cuts the figure in about as
ugly q way as can well be devised, and
1 should only be attempted by tall. slender
women. Jet is again used on some of
the black gowns, also On the white ones;
but jebted net and jet ornaments are
used in preference to pasaementerle.
4 though that is not positively tanooed.
As trimming. II is always effective and
becoming, and never goes entirely out of
fashion. The INK used at present is
Of cut Jet, which is the most brilliant.
Something to be a cause for thankful
| ness is the reaction from the piano-lamp
craze, writes Hester NJ. Poole, in the
Household News Those who ncum
bered Ion, narrow rooms with a full half
| dozen of these awkward furnishings-and
many were guilty-had something to an
swer for in edueing soto Eoce profanity
from such enduring men. Not hat the
craze has subsided; it is only lessened.
One piano lamp is useful; but to multi
ply that and stand them about as if
they had walked out to take their places
In a waltz, or to see how many intrud-
ers into a ha1f-darkened room they could
trip ND in a day, is rather too much.
Then. their pagoda tops Of monstreus
gfrth deluged the room with boisterous
color and put everything else out OF
countenance. If anything, they are more
perverse and ungainly than the corner
easel.
The banquet lamp modestly rears its
light at the right place upon a table or
piano, and may be clothed in a manner
at once simple yet d~istingue. With a.
nda of japanese bronze or terra
Gotta, and a delicate shade, the banquet
lamp is beautiful. But a new horror
threatens us-that is a tall candlestick,
generally made of enameied wood and
profusely decorated in colors, often of the
Dresden style. It is made to stand either
ON the floor or the table
This Is as great q convenience as pre-
serves, the preparation of apples for
sauce not being always convenient for
the busy housekeeper, says the Ladies'
Home Journal Inferior apples may
be used in this way, and the wind
falls Of early autumn, when one is fortu-
nate enough to own an orchard, viii be
found quite available. They should be
peeled. cored and freed from every blem-
ish, then cut up in quite small pieces. A.
large earthen jar with q cover should be
rna7u fr rpopirra r1apo Tnfa 4hic mr.
first a liberal sprinkling of sugar, with
cinnamon TO taste, then a layer of ap-
pies, then more sugar and cinnamon, and
so on till the Jar is full. The sugar should
be regulated according to the tartness of
the apples, from a quarter to a half pound
for one pound of apples being the rule.
The jar should be placed at the back of
the range and the fruit kept covered and
gently simmering through the day. 1t
should then be set way to cool. and the
apples taken out only as they are needed
for sauce or desserts. Having no water
mixed with them, apples prepared in
this way are very paiatahle.
80
A Humber of the smartest Paris mod
istes assert that Grecian and Directory
waists viii be revived this winter and
that fashion will pass from the stiffness
and GREATNESS of silks and sitter Innings /
to the pltable and yielding soft satins.
The announcement that the waists worn
at h time of the Directory may return
will be gratefully received by all women
who are slender. Paris modistes say that
the change is due to the influence of the
women of the stage who have
held sway in The dramatic world for the
past three years, Bernhard, Duse, Had
ing. Terry. Nerthersole, Rehan, Janau-
schek and Modjeska. Nearly all of these
great stars have been strong advocates
of the Grecian waist and have worn 1t
wherever 1t was permissible. Its great
claim for support lies in the fact that II
requires classical figures and classical
practices. The strophlum takes the place
OF the stay. A dainty gown built on the
Directory lines is of ivory liberty satin. !
The front of the waist crosses Just below
the line OF the bust over an exquisite
corselet of lace embroidered with pearls.
"
Flies have become so acute that poison
paper no longer attracts them. A new
dish is now prepared for them which has
been very successful. Take a teaspoon
fui OF ground black pepper and mix it
with two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar. |
Moisten he compound with milk and
place where there are rays of light. The
flies will generally be quickly attracted
and eat greediiy. If they do it will be
their last meal, for the least taste of |
it is to a fly poison.
A pinch ofspowdered sugar and another
of cornstarch beaten in with the yolks
of eggs will keep an omelet from col
iapsfng. Beat the whites stiff and then
cut them into the yelks.
COURT ASTLEY's PICNIC.
The annual picnic of Court Ashley, No.