The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-07

next to a brides trousseau there is moth
ing so interesting to w~omankind as an in
fant's OUTFIT There is nothing in all the
world so pure and beautiful as a sweet
baby in all its innocence and helplessness,
says the Home Queen It is by no means
the most expensive and elaborate outfits
that are the most artistic. Simplicity
should reign here, as everywhere else.
Choose the sneerest and finest Of MAJ
terial and have it daintily made by hand.
Let the trimming consist of hcmstitch-
ing, with narrow, fine lace for the neck,
sleeves and trimming of yoke. There is
nothing prettier han dimities and MAIN
sock for the little dresses.
There should be an abundance of little
| slips or nightgowns. A simple outfit for
the little a consists of six dresses,
six nightslips, three flanne day skirts,
three flannel night skirts, three knitted
shirts. three pairs of wool stockings for
day wear, three pairs for night wear,
four knitted or flannel bands. a flannel
| per ana two little sacques. The expense
Of such an outfit is slight if the gar
ments are fashioned at home.
A cunning bassinette, which is very
inexpensive, has for its foundation a long
clothes basket, covered neatly on the
outside with a pretty shade Of pink satine
| and padded inside with an old piece Of a
quilt, and over that the pink Saline.
The outside has a fun founce of white
dotted null, with a little heading of the
| same. The inside is neatly covered with
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A wire or wicker canopy can be had for
the top. and when draped with the mun
over Saline and finished with a large bow
of pink ribbon, the effect is most pleas
ing. A little mattress filled with curled
hair is less heating than down..
Tiny sheets, hemstitched, a little pillow
with a case of sheerest linen, embroi-
dered with an appropriate couplet, or
simply the word Baby with an under
case of Saline, a white blanket with pink
stripes at either end, and bound with
pink ribbons and a dainty spread of white
wash silk. or sheer linen, witt tiny pink
rosebuds embroidered on it in Asiatic flo
silk, complete the furnishings of this
tasteful bed. The standard is of ordinary
pine, enameled white, and the basket is
held in place by means of brass chains
fastened to hooks.
Women and watches seldom get on we'll
together. Charles Dudley Warner. dis
GUESSING this subject in the current Har-
per's, doubts if a fine watch has those
feminint qualities which make women
so attractive. The watch is nothing if it
is not methodical and regular. It is ex-
asperated by ftful and jerky treatment.
And this quality of steadfastness makes
it not loved of women as men Low it.
They like it as an ornament, as a decera-
ton, like the ring and the brooch, and it
is sometimes a convenience in order to
tell them about mot exactly what time
it is. Women do not, as a rule, except
in cases of entire emancipation, care
what time it is exactly. They can go
without a watch with no sense of in
completeness in their lives, whereas a
man feels lost without his faithful time
keeper. This relation of woman to the
watch, Mr.. Warner observes, needs to be
seriously, considered for the light it may
throw not only upon the differentiation
of the sexes. but upon their adaptation
for keeping the world going in its various
functions. It is possible that here is a
kind of touchstone which a be applied.
For instance, if a woman find that she
has the same feeling toward a watch
that a man has, is she not justified in
concluding that she has the qualities
needed for success in what are still called
masculine occupations? And In trying to
bring about the reform should not the
first effort be to put the sex into proper
relations with the watch?
with all the methods of today for
preserving and Identifying the complex
ion, by steam massage. milk or oatmeal
bathing, masks at night and the count
less other troublesome devices. 1 don't
see any such exquisite complex
ions as the girls used to lave in
my day. said a charming old woman to
a group of young women yesterday after
noon.
Ok? Well, the family Bible registers
her as ga. but. with her pretty pink and
White complexion, she doesn't look a day
more than so years.
And the whole secret of 1t isl she
went on, that you girls do too much
out-of-door athletic work, with your
faces always unprotected. You must
sacrifice one thing for another always
and in this it is a case of muscle VS.. COM
pIexion.
In my day the girls scarcely went
out of doors without a heavy veil or a
sunbonnet that protected not only the face
but the back of the neck as well. But
if you will tear around like a lot of boys,
you must expect to AVE compilations like
theirs and there is no use in trying to
doctor them up, ether
She added that she had never used any
thing on her face but pure white CASTLE
soap and cold water, and that her com
plexion is noticeable is shown in the fact
that a "face specialist" into whose Office
she recently went with a friend, asked
Der if she would mind telling what receipt
she had always used for her face
Learn after you have learned to speak,
20 listen. and to listen inteiligently."
writes Ruth Asnmore on how How to
be a Social Success in August Ladies'
| Home Journal" Express your interest
through your eyes, n when it is needed
say the encouraging word that, like hot
water on the tea, brings out the strength.
If a speaker mentions a wrong date do
not correct her, the world cares for the
interesting talk. not for whether the affair
described happened on Thursday or FRI