The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-25
Il IDEAS for dMonnen.

Some people are apt to class the really
enthusiastic woman who loves every
thing and everybody and who often gets
more pleasure out OF life than the ma
jcrity Of mortals. IN the sans category,
with the Dragging feminine who is a
very different Individual.
1t Is remarkable how many women in
America do brag to ar unpleasant ex-
tent. Enthusiasm every living creature
that is built in rhe orthodox way with
precsates.
1t is remarkable, too, to notice what
women find TO brag about. One fav-
orite subject is undoubtedly the bargain
counter. When the girl you know slight
ly rushes in to confide to you that she
has just spent SIS on her Summer hat
it is bad enough, especially when YOU
know that she knows that seldom, il
ever, have you been able to spend more
han s. O one yourself. while your
usual expenditure is about one-half that
sum.
The case is worse still when she tells
you, as she probably does, that there
is absolutely nothing in the shops that
is decent to any decree or that possesses
any style for less than fifty-five; even
when your own ~millinery-a very pretty
CONNECTION o fancy-is at present on
its way home from the shops.
This is one of the worst and most ag-
g~ravating types of the Dragging woman,
but the bargain fiend is equally fatigu-
ing. Her whole talk is about reduced
ribbons and shop worn silks. When
ever she sees you with an unusually be-
coming own h is quite likely to ask
the price of the material per yard. She
then in a whisper informs you that they
were selling the same stuff of a better
quality at Blinkum Blankum's dry goods
establishment at half that outrageous
price which you have just paid.
The enthusiastic individual whose en-
thasiasm is genuine is generally sought
after and, as general thing, if she
is working for success She succeeds, but
who hasn't known the woman who Is
capable of buying the little silk hat
and which come from the most ex-
pensive establishments n binding it
inside of a home made CONNECTION? Or
the silk band with The insignia of a
we'll known tailor, to place within her
own modest costume. And afterward
passing off the ordinary affairs for cost
1y mes.
Women do this every week. 1t is one
type of the Dragging woman and n
form in which she betrays herself.
Not long ago a w~ell-known society
woman told me, Laughing, about a u
Philadelphian of her acquaintance who
really had a very pretty gown made by
a colored dressmaker in the little sew
ing room of her own home. She her
stress in order to finish 1T in the time for
a certain function.
Afterward at the bail the young wom-
ar announced that the costume had been
purchased in Paris for a wicked sum-
A young gin, too, was quoted by my
friend while we were on the subject of
Dragging as saying that it was only by
Dragging and exaggerating that a girl
in business could possibly succeed.
She. of course" said my friend smil-
ing, "mistook enthusiasm fer Dragging.
1t often happens that enthusiasm does
carry its point" She continued, because
the enthusiastic person often has some
Butyour Dragging individual unually has
nothing. and nothing is soon found out"
And again it is. possible to be enthusi-
astic without sacrificing the truth in the
slightestsjot or 1.-THE.
But then there is stin another type of
the fair bragger. She who brags about
the hopeless struggles Of her existence.
her utter despair concerning it.
Or the h~ousekeeper who is constantly,
according to her own account, at the
mercy of cheating tradesmen.s
Who is always losing great sums of
money through the treachery of others
evilly disposed.
In fact so manifold are the types of the
Dragging woman that some victims of
her fortunes Will feel like adding to their
7itanies the petition, From the Dragging
woman in all her types, deliver u.s."
Fashion, or course, changes rapidly,
but stiM there are some parts of a dress
which a he ready-worked and not
up until the time has come for
doing SO. Now linen braid, which you
can buy in most fancy shops, is about
as pretty a thing for decorating colored
linen dresses as anything which you
ind.
It looks well, is very strong, washes
well and VI sewn carefully on wears very
satisfactorily.
For Summer wear a dress with yoke
and cuffs, if not the actual bodice, so
trimmed would be very pretty indeed
Lay you lace on, turning and crossing
1t SO as to get it into the shape Of the
Sew 1T down near the edge with
fine. strong cotton. Unless you do this
carefully the edges turn UP and look
ugly. Next take some blu fax thread,
ecru If you prefer it, of rather a
coarse number and work the wheels and
loops.
Go with long stitches from one point
to the next, crossing your stitches four
Next bring your needle up right into
the center and put it under two spokes
Of the wheel. Then put It under the last
one you came under n under the next
Go on doing this, always taking
one spoke bacBa and YOU will have. a firm
little center pef yotpfowheett eeY6ue Wllr
understand that the needle does not go
through the material at all until you
Ion your center and wish to finish
off at the back
Make one loop as if you were going to