The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-18

usually considered proof against attack
1t is, however, of little avail If the moth
eggs have been deposited in an article
previous to its packing away. Beating
ruins fur and does comparatively LITTLE
toward removing the eggs. which are laid
at the root of the hair. where the natura
grease of the animal is most abundant.
Hot, dry air is the most effective means
of destroying moth eggs. Materials to be
treated should be hung on chairs in
small room heated by furnace or steam
Windows and doors being closed the
drafts are turned on fun force. From
twenty-four to forty-eight hours of this
treatment will be necessary, according
to tho Temperature and dryness Of the
air. BY the end of that time embryo in
sects will be dead. The eggs may then be
removed by brushing. If cedar chests are
available. the furs must be sprinkled
with borax. wrapped in newspaper and
packed in a tight trunk or box. which
should not be opened again until all its
contents can be removed.
Nothing is more remarkable than the
growth of the flower industries in Lois-
oSh W. tldlS ySGtS dSC IOnttS 6rtC
expensive iuxuries, only to be obtained
in early spring by those who could ar
ford TO pay fancy prices: now any one
may purchase in the streets for a penny
the most lovely flowers from the Scilly
Islands, Holland and the South CT France.
Every flower has its allotted week or
fortnight while the rush is on, the jon
quils. the hyacinths, and the violets. Just
now violets are In full swing. and every
day three trains leave the south Of France
for Paris laden with than. The train
which reaches Paris at FIVE o'clock III
the morning is the one which supplies
the French capital: the burden of the
other two trains is dispersed all over
Europe. but more especially to England.
The violets are collected an along the
Mediterranean shores, are packed in
wicker work baskets and sent off by
express trains.
The cost of transport is at the rate of
a penny a pound, and each truck contains
between four and five tons of violets. In
London the flower girls sell them in the
streets from their baskets. but in Paris
they are sold from little carts at a penny
a bouquet, and everybody buys them.
needless of the fact that they are the
n A4SA1AA lCN SCdLe aSO
any one who wore a b%uttonhole of violets
would have been put down as an enemy
of the Republic, but it shows how dead
the idea of a Napoleonic revival is in
France when every man in the streets
wears its badge without any thought of
the pretender across the frontier. Other
wise the utter dislocaticn into which
parliamentary government has fallen in
INro .. xafoIf &1-r111z ria. A. --.1 IL
of the violet, have given rise to hopes
for the restoration of the Empire.
Ella Hepworth Dixon writes from Lon
don:-ungallant suspicious have been SO
frequently cast upon the social do
nestle capacities of the writing woman
that ever a m~isogynist might have re-
joiced to see how John Oliver Hobbs
and the Society of Woman Journalists
refuted such calumnies by giving one Of
the prettiest parties of the season al
Stafford House. 1t is obvious that,
whatever may be her other shortcomings,
the writing woman is not ignorant of
the art of entertaining. She was for
turlate, to begin with, in securing, from a
fellow journalist. so imposing a palazzo
as Stafford House. The pretty young
Duchess of Sutherland is a bit of a blue
stocking. She commenced author" In
deed, at the ripe age of Is, and, as Mar
chioness of Stafford, published a volume
of travels. Since then she has frequently
contributed stories TO the newspapers and
magazines under a nom de guerre, so
she must have felt quite at ease with all
that army of folks with s~tylographie pens
in their pockets. One lady, by the bye.
kindly wore a white quill pen in her hair,
so that no one should be at a loss to guess
at her avocation.
Questioning the Marquis Ito recently
as to the new woman in Japan, a London
interviewer received the following reply
"Do you know" he whispered, 'swe nearly
had her. and I should have been respon-
sible? l was very anxious to raise the
status of my countrywomen. and the En-
press and I established schools in which
we employed English ladies' as teachers.
But they were not a success. The young
ladies became like their brothers at col
lege-very rough and noisy. and they
learned European dancing, which is quite
contrary TO all our IDEAS of what is due
to a woman's modesty. / soon found thai.
if a woman lost her old conventions there
was no knowing when or where she would
stop
There is one great Turkish lady-or,
rather, the wife of a great Turk-in whom
seclusion and Imprisonment nave not killed
a natural faculty for humor. She is the
wife Of one of the Suitan's principal Min
listers. Talking the other day with a Eu-
ropean lady visitor, she said:-"Weil, WI
are happier than you. for our husbands
may fancy one Of our slaves whom we
know, but YOU husbands go about with
French actresses whom you don't know
The lady addressed was the wife cf Pro-
fessor Max Muller, who tells the tale in
Longnan's.
The Godet skirt has lived as they say
in Paris. The present rancy is for plain
skirts, tightly fitting at the hips and made
with the many seams of long ago. It is
finished at the back with two fiat pleats.
These skirts are made in pique, plain
or figured, with dots and stripes. or with
floral designs a la Louis XVI; or in me-
hair, or serge, or gross lawn. For trans
parent materials q silk foundation is re-
ouired, but this lining is made entirely
Independent of the skirt proper, and can
be worn with various materials, always
supposing that the cut is exactly the same.
Piaues. on the other hand. do not need