The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-22

or Brussels lace send It to the cleaners
and have it ready to utilize ON your
smartest bodice.
There will be a veritable craze for
handsome ~galloons and embroideries dur
ing the coming s~eason,xand when milady
buys her winter gowns it will not only be
a matter of material and silk lining, as
heretofore. but that of the trimmings as
well-a most important item in point
Of expenditure.
Only the woman who ~rejoiees in a
slender figure should venture to wear
q belt of pronounced color. The pretty
red ones, now SO popular, draw attention
to the waist line, and are anything but
charitable to one whose inches measure
more than-weM, say Just h proper
number.
Chemises are again In vogue and are
worn by women to whom an extra gar
ment is a matter of grave consideration.
The pretty style known as the Empire
does duty both as short skirt and corset
cover, and is a positive boon to those UNI
f~ortunates who deplore their '.too, too.
solid flesh"
Screens, small and large, round and
square. form a favored item of home
decoration. Indeed, no article of decora-
ton or furniture in the room combine
more decorative and useful purposes than
a handsome screen happily disposed.
A really handsome screen of five pam
els, used to break the monotony of an
awkward wall space, and to shut off,
when desired; the rear of a long hall, was
pabda NV q pbi1odoIDhfo n n f+a~
ideas conceived in her own clever brain.
The screen has a very rich appearance,
a costly piece of home furnishing. Five
panels were first made, fifteen inches
wide and four feet high. Each panel
was covered smoothly and very tightly
with a very coarse duck, tackled on with
carpet tacks-not the leather-head vari-
ETY., but small, bright ones without the
little leather hat. This part of the work
was done very neatly, as was the frame
work, the squares being neatly Joined
with tiny nails and a bit of glue. Then
the reverse side of the screen was COW
cred with cheap calico, odds and ends
that presented themselves to hand. Lit
tie ornamental feet were added, and a
very handsome grille placed across the
top of each panel. The grille was pre-
pared beforehand, being crochetted or
knotted out of a very coarse cord. then
tackled to a board and varnished until It
was very. stiff and stood upright The
grille and feet being fastened in place,
the panels and frame on the duck-cov-
cred side were treated to many thick
coats of common ~asphaltum varnish. This
material was laid on until no more would
be absorbed, then the real work of orna-
mentation began.
Feathers were chosen for the design,
and they were treated differently on each
panel. On the middle panel a peafowl
spread a very royal tail, glittering with
many eyes high up the panel. A quaint
ly-shaped old vase painted in vanishing
browns n filled with the same beauti-
full ill-omened things. finished a second,
and an irregular bunch of the same. tied
with a long looped bow-knot showed on
a third. A quaint little picture from
which the higher decoration arose was
painted across the foot Of each panel.
Thu remaining two squares were treated
Wit ostrich feathers. softly nodding,
plumy things in irridescent green, bricky
red, duh drab and vivid blue. Then
some very handsome brass-headed tacks
were put into the frame where they
would d. the most for appearance; the
cord grille was picked out with fecks of
gilt, and the outer side of the screen was
completed.
The reverse side was finished with a
very handsome wall paper in rich tones,
and the enterprising woman had a very
pretty and useful article at a small cost.
Very pretty bedroom screens can be
constructed at very little cost. Have a
carpenter make a very light frame. put
ting it together neatly at h corners,
and letting a small portion of the side
pieces project below the bottom rail for
feet. Let him join the panels with small
hinges, and then you work will begin.
Enamel the frame any color desired. and
fill in the panels with cretonne. silk, or
silkoline, as your purse will admit A
very dainty one made thus was enameled
sin pale blue, tiny daisies being scattered
over the frame. The centre panel was
of q suniower-yellow silk, and the two
outside ones were of blue silk sprigged
over with white. The silk was gathered
very thickly on small rods run into the
frame about three inches from the bottom
and top of the frame.
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When the skin. in spite of all precau-
lions, has become sunburnt TO excess,
there is nothing else to be done but to
apply cooling, e~vaporating lotions, put
ting them on with an old linen rag or
something very soft. and changing these
cloths es soon as they get warm.
At night a little sweet cream should be
gently applied. or, II this is not procur-
able, a simple Geld cream can be used.
The juice of a lemon squeezed into al
most mot quite) a quarter of a pint of
milk, or, still better. a little cream, If
thai is not considered too great a luxury,
is an excellent thing for keeping the kin
soft and white: it, should be used imme-
diately after the face has been washed.
If there is any ~roughened feeling of the
skin afterward there must be either less
lemon used or more milk or cream added
to it.
A simple and pretty cape to accompany
an autumn tailor costume is cut round-
ing In shape and all in one piece. It is
twenty-five inches long, and lined with
fridescent tafeta silk. 1t has a deep turn
over collar faced with velvet. 1t is fas-
tened with two very handsome buttons
IF large size and machine-Stftched cloth