The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-26


The woman who has gone in for bright
stock collars and canvas bands all Win
ter is beginning to wonder how her throat
is going to look in the cotton shirt-waist
and the transparent mulls and organizes
which the summer promises as fashion,
able.
And say what you win. a yellow or a
scrawny neck is rot q dainty accessory
to a thin filmy frock and gauzy colored
ribbons.
After. SO long a season of high stock
collars and warm wraps the prettiest
neck is apt to be yellower than the face
and shoulders. The great warmth of big
wrap collars and close furs has had the
effect of thinning the column to a great
degree. In some cases exposure to the
fresh air and the removal of the close
collar tends to restore the whiteness and
~plumpness, but in cases where this is
not so a simple remedy should be APP
pl ed.
Before retiring at might battle the neck
in warm water with a good soap. While
still moist and warm g teaspoonful of
pure olive oil should be thoroughly rubbed
in. In the morning turn on the cold
water spigot and wash vigorously witr
pure cold water, using no soap. Dry gen
tIy, never rub'ng hard enough TO redden
the ~cuticle. as this makes the skin rough
to lock at, though not to the touch. Two
or three months of this treatment whitens
q yellow neck and plumpens a scrawny
one to a great degree.
In the arrangement of the hair the
beauty or defect OF the woman's neck
should be considered. A lovely neck
is a great beauty and a wonderful charm.
There is also as much character in a wom-
ans neck as in her face or hands. If 1t
is round, white ard perfectly shaped the
hair should be arranged to reveal it en-
I rely, but sometimes it is as much a
composite as the face. the front or throat
reveal ms a softness and r~oundness of con-
tour. but the back being dssigured by a
deep hollow at the base of the skull to
meet the vertebrae. This characteristic
denotes strength of physique. moral and
mental endurance; the deeper the cleft
The greater the degree of either quality.
But ere does not desire 60 display their
mental or moral qualities so publicly,
espee ally when the indication is so de-
fective to tina accepted standard of
beauty.
The woman who possesses the cleft
should dress her hair, or. if the knot of
hair is more becoming pinned high. a
saft puff can be pulled down at the nape
of the neck, breaking the severity of the
outline of the head and coneeahng the
hollow at the same time.
There is generally a soft fringe of hair
VIII ca. if trained. becomes very pretty
and ccquestish. but the cut bang about
the nsck is simply an expressive of dense
v~ulsa.fsy. The iron should not be al
lowed TO touch the hair near the ear or
about the neck. If a pretty ripple is de-
sired dampsu the hair slightly with good
bay rum, brush vigorously, and while still
Camp twist elosely in ropes. When dry
comb cut and a short ripple very glossy
and free from that ragged appearance is
the effect.
This treatment does not SINCE the hair
or destroy dts beauty. and has the APP
p~earanee of naturally ripping tresses.
There are a few radical changes in the
shape of shoes. OF course tina has moth
ing to do with the shape of 1eet-it never
has: the poor foot has nothing to do in
the matter. The new shoes are shaped
very much like Turkish slippers. with
pointed tees turned up inquiringly, as
much as to say, which way nexty'
Both high shoes and slippers are made
in this fashion. but they are not very
graceful, and it is doubtful whether they
will become popular.
Many people have discarded high shoes
altogether. and have taken to wearing
low ties with gaiter tops. This is re-
commended as a cure, or at least as a
preventive for corns and buhions.
In this way ties, which were once con-
fined to the limits of the summer sea-
son, lave come to be worn all the year
round.
A bronze tie-not a russell. but that
shiny leather that chiidren's shoes used
to be made of, when some of US were
the right age to wear them-makes a
comfortable shoe that is as soft as French
kid. Some of the new dancing slippers
are made Of bronze, beaded in the ap-
proved style.
A white satin dancing slipper follows
the Jewel fad in being covered with
large rhinestones, with a circlet of pearls
about each.
Buttoned shoes have cloth tops and
patent leather tips.
Stockings are all in at least two tints.
sSolid colors are all o~ld-fashIoned. Even
ing hose are very elaborate, with open
work or embroidered fronts, or with the
colors woven in fanciful patterns. Many
of the stockings are black half way up,
with light-eolored tops.
Plaid tops are very fashionable for both
men and women.
1t is a little hare to explain the pas
sion for dress which bursts out among
women at intervals. increases till it ex-
cites the horror of moralIsts, and then
temporarily disappears. sometimes from
a religious revival, sometimes from a So
cial catastrophe and sometimes from a
general failure of surplus means, such
as is now felt in England by the landed
class.
The usual explanation is the folly of
youth. or personal vanity; but very plain
women are often seized with the mania,
and the great spenders are seldom very
young. It - when beauty is just on the
turn, like a leaf in autumn, that women
believe most In the richness of dress, re-
lying on it as at once a eoncealment and
a defence. The reckless patrons of the
great diapers, especially IN France, are
not girls. but women about thirty-fve.
We fancy that female e-xtravagance is
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