The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-10

top arrange the vase or picture YOU like
pest Your calendar and your clock. Or
the top OF the table fasten down with
brass headed tacks a sheet Of blue blot
ting paper and arrange ON it your writ
ing service. the ink bottle, the pen rest,
q wnite candlestick with a blue candle
ana shade II you use wax for sealing,
and all the other things you need. Fiji
the pigeon holes with your stationery
and old letters, having one big compart-
menI TOT the commonplace books which
# the artistic and thrifty housewife
VIII save the coiored glass bottles that
them to use in the following amer, SHE
Will have something that will be a de-
light. Break the bottles into compare
lively small pieces, and then. if a certain
shape with a diamond pointed glass-cut-
ter.
Arrange these on a pane of plain white
glass the DESIRED size. using q little trans
parent cement to hold them in place.
ana q mixture of white cement and putty
g. imliate the lead that is used in ex-
pensive stained glasswork. The duh. rich
olive of the claret bottle. the deep amber
OF the sherry, the delicious sea water
green which is used for ginger ale and
the various shades Of red and blue that
one gets from the apotherary and the wine
merchant are revelations when cleansed
OF their contents and held in single thick
ness against the light.
When the cement is dry the window can
~ Pot III RidCS, anu as tn2 sunlight
strikes it she whnsa fingers have done
tns work will feel that it was well worth
the trouble.
A quaint offer of marriage, written
more than 100 years ago. is carefully pre-
served in the family of the young wooer's
descendants. 1t was addressed not to the
young woman herself, but most respect
fatiy an q d fSs Dp to ner parents The
ten daughters, and as he was a clergy
man for nifty years in a small New Eng
iand town, It may be surmised that his
affrm9tlve answer to spare his Seventh.
was as quickly asserting as it was final
The Wooer was also q clergyman, and he
and his Betsy passed their entire mar
RED ives IN the same pastorate. minis
lers or those days living and dying with
their hochs. Here il the lovers plea
Eoth reverend sir and worthy madam
Soft wedlock.s bands first was talked in
heaven;
When happy man in Eden dwelt alone.
The sinking God. a spouse did form of
That friendship might their joyful souls
And knit their hearts in a seraphic fire.
with wedloek chain | wish myself to
If from your lips the answer should prove
Betsy. your seventh, I wish you to i'm
part
That We may join our hands as well as
hearts,
And live in love and share each others
While fleeing time whirls on with rolling
years
Till grizzly death dissolves the silken
That we may rise and mingle souls again.
When our language grows a little richer.
It WI perhaps, supply itself with a name
for the hair In a condition of ord nary ar
rangeinent. Until then there seems no
way but to serve ourselves with the
French word "coiffure," which does not
assinilate with Engl sh at all.
The word headdress given by the die
sionariss Is an aosurdity: We have. no
We have not the thing. They say that
the carelesgness of American women
about arranging their hair is liable to
spoil the effect of the most successful
hat. I merely repeat what is said.
It ought not to be difficult to follow the
as it has been for some time; a loose
drawn into a small knot behind.
4 II falls over ethe ears and the extreme of
fashion covers the ear entirely. though
the ear. The hair is not worn high on
the head except with evening dress, when
a couture. nigh or low. is a matter Of
choice.
When the fastidions family appetite
wear,es of oranges for breakfast, and will
have none of grape fruit, it is sometimes
restored to is normal tone by breakfast
ing are an excellent tonic. Fresh lettuce.
dressed with oil and a dash of lemon Juice
is also good. Sometimes cereals are
served with a little tart jelly, and this
takes the place Of the mo%notonous break
fast fruits.
One Of the fancies of the day is to have
the 'leggins" worn by little girls made of
miroir velvet. for instance, hasa cape
trimmed with Venetian gu'pure-one of
the nice n1acnine-made varieties-with a
row of ermine between the lace-covered
cap and the border. and there are long
CATERS to match made of the velvet.
Green and violet seem to be the favor
lite colors for spring, but this is a natu-
raj imitation of nature
The new Partisan weaves come in ex-
qufsite shades Of rich violet. green. blu
and red. They are very soft and silky
in appearance.
These and the new cheviots are IA
vorite spring materials. The cheyiots
are speckled and checked in light fawns
and grays mixed with white.
Mixed goods have come out in the new
dresses and other endless suggestions for
variety in trimming. A material that has
red and black and pale green almost
equally distributed can be trimmed with
any of the three. One that / have seen
had d pale green velvet vest, with a
basque of the material p.ped with green.
There were broad cuffs of green velvet.
The lady who wore the dress carried 4
dainty kerchief over the sleeve and fall.
ing over her hand.
Fancy fronts are growing fancier. A
a row or two of valenciennes lace with
clumps of tiny white pearl buttons no big