The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-16


full, awordlike blades of pale, tender
green. This is the scalamus's Of the
shapes hallowed by the traditions OF
many fair maidens who yearly gathered
It's sweet rootstalk and prepared from
them the excellent meeting candy-a
bonbon that whiled away the tedious
ness of those long sermons of genera
tions ago. There are many families that
still prepare this sweet flag candy in the
old New England Jway.IAa CT
The sweet flag must not be. confouud-
ed With the bluesfowe&s which biossoms
In every marshy -pface at this season OF
thes year rktfAe blue ifag4ts an iEsS with
a much shorter and darker blue-green
Leaf, the sweet nag is. angerum.~ot
It's miniature green flowers are easily
found in June, and this is the proper
season to gather the root. Scrape the
earth from the long roo stalks, and,
with a. sharp knife, cut them out of the
ground. to which they are held by numer-
GUS root fbers. Bring large roots home
and scrape them thoroughly, as you
would a parsnip or other root. to re-
move the skin. Cut the roots in the
thinnest slfces possible and boil them IN
water for an 0 or more. Remove
them from this water, then boil them
in another water.
fnrow off this blackish water and re-
peat the process a third time. when
the sweet flag is ready to CANDY. Pre-
pare a syrup of a cup Of water with a
pound of sugar Put in the cooked sl;ces
OF sweet flag. and boil them down ,lnttl
the syrup candies around them. Stir
them' and when the sugar becomes white
and the syrup seems to be absorbed
take up the candied slices with a skim
mer, SO as to drain them, and cool them
a little in the air.
Put them in a large pan and stir then,
repeatedly while drying.
In a day or two the CONNECTION will he
ready. It is a dry, snowy white candy
delicious in flavor, and was supnosed hv
our ancestors to posses powers of heal
ing vague humors of the blood"
NO more picturesque receptacle for this
candy could be imagined than a covered
b~onbonniere. painted with the swordlike
leaves and pale green spadix of calamus.
with, perhaps, also a spray of the water
arum or American Gala, which is of the
same family and habit as the calamus.
and one which often grows near it.
ne iAtesl ldu In the way of eccentric
dress is the wearing of jewels upon
various articles of clothing. This ex-
t~ravagance originated in gay Paris.
where the jewelers. are falling over one
another in their attempts to find some new
use to which to put gems.
There are now on the market as a
unique result of this attempt to find or
devise something new, gloves in the backs
/ 0f which O ra Sof oraoto.,o 49, 49,
rubies, pearls and emeralds, and, in fact,
any gem whose natural color harmonizes
or makes a pleasing contrast to the color
of the glove. Diamonds seem to be the
favorfte gems used for this purpose
The jewels are set in the back of the
glove, along the seam, and are held in
place by means of a small nut attach
ment Thus far only a few of the more
advanced women of the ultra fashionable
set have taken to wearing the diamond
ornamented gloves, but the fad is slowly
but surely spreading
The wearing Of gems, according to
jewellers, has never been so widespread
and extensive as at the present time.
While a year or two age 1t was considered
bad form to wear any but the plainest
jewels, the other extreme will be worn in
ways never before thought of.
White duck, white mohair, white can
vas are the gowns of the season for gen
eral outing use, especially If one is with
in a mile of the water. The coarse crash
gowns are often made up with wide
lapels, faced with white, and with white
stock collars. White mohair may be
made up with very long new sleeves, bell
muzzled at the wrists and with over
hanging capes. draped as to epaulettes
and bodice, with black applique lace. There
is a fichu gown that's odd-a black or
dark cloth, made plain, with a wide
spreading cravat bow of white chiffon at
the throat, fastened with a jeweled buckle
and streaming in long ends away below
the belt. There are other costumes en-
plpying the same quaint, white bow, but
stopping it short at the waist.
Charming dance wraps, in the shape of
long hemmed scarfs or shawls, may be
Of ordinary chiffon; these dainty tribes
being of a lightness not to harm fragile
gowns. yet providing when needed all
the protection necessary to bare throats
and shoulders. In the way Of making
there are two conspicuous departures in
the new evening gowns from the styles
of last season-the change in the fashion
of sleeves. which grow smaller and more
distinctive; then skirts are taking to
quaint little ~ruffles, draped founces and
a prim outlining of the cores. So that.
with her snug old sleeves, and the tiny
directoire fan she now affects, a girl in
her new evening dress often suggests a
faster. return to dead modes than the
world wots of.
A draped divan. or cosey corner, luxu-
rious with its multiplicity of soft pillows,
is always a desirable addition to a room.
but it must be adapted to its position and
surroundings, and look almost as If it
had grown there, otherwise it is simply a
store 1tment." and had better be left
out altogether.
Miss Margaret Cresswell, a postmistress
OF Gibraltar, receives the handsome sal
airy of $500 a year. She is superintendent
of the various offices On the North Afri-
can coast.
Beside the poke which bears the stamp
Of Partisan approval, there is a small.
close-ftting bonnet quaint in shape, and
madeNof rather coarse straw, or else of
the fancy braids, writes Mabel A. Mallon
in the Ladies' Home Journal These
bonrsets, though not unlike the Dutch
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