The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-25
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1t is not everyone who loves children
who knows how to entertain them.
The restlessness 9of these bits of hu-
mainly often appalis their best friend.
What to do to interest and keep them
quiet is often more than the best adult
intelligence can devise.
Matching words IS an interesting game
that will keep a child employed for hours.
This consists in matching to a pictured
object. its printed name. Old picture
books and illustrated papers can be used
this way. Cut the pictures out carefully.
and its name word. Keep all the pictures
In one box and all the names In another,
and whenever the child puts the game
aside. see that they are put away in
this order.
Stick laying is another fascinating pas
time. Twenty-Five cents will buy a
pretty box of colored sticks.
A game which cultivates the budding
sense of color is sorting these sticks into
groups according to their tints. Pretty
designs can be made by little fingers with
these sticks. and such pretty combina-
lions of colors can be wrought out that
the variety of entertainment obtained is
almost without limit
So
If the dark watermelon. seeds are
saved, and white enes-they can give an
hour of great happiness. If a simple de-
sign is traced on a piece of paper the
little one finds great interest in laying
the seeds along these lines and SO form
ing a seed figure. Other seeds may be
used of different hue, for color adds a
great charm to things ina child's eye.
Making paper chains is no end of fun.
Cut paper into little rectangular slips and
show the child how to paste the ends
together neatly. The first piece Joined
this way makes a circle, the second piece
must be slipped through this circle and
then Joined. This begins a chain which
can be carried out as long as the ma
terial or the youngsters interest lasts.
Try using paper Of two or three colors
fpr this.
Then there is splint weaving. Little
colored splints or paper lamplighters
will do for this. Hold three splints form
ing a fan-shape, between the fingers of
the left hand. With the right hand take
a fourth splint and weave it under and
over these three. alternately. With a
fifth and sixth do the same until when
they are laid OF the table, they form
a little square of woven straw. Different
colors used in this make very attractive
designs. 4
These things are all very simple, as
you see, but try them once and you will
find that they yield a return altogether
out of proportion to the expenditure of
thought or money.
The woman who slouches about her
own house in a soiled wrapper and curl
papers, we have always with us. But the
feminine offender who makes her morn
ing sortie-who shops. actually shops
in a costume arranged from some dis
> carded evening dress, is a new arrival,
says the Philadelphia Press" May her
shadow grow less and her tribe know no
increase
While making some purchases on Chest
nut street, Monday last, at the shopping
hour. / encountered between six and q
dozen women rugged out" as the men
say. in this style.
The first wore a skirt of rough mixed
Eoods-a shade on the tam The skirt
sat well, and was natty and smart-look-
ing. But the bodiceI Well! That woman
had simply taken a soiled white silk af-
fair, trimmed with artificial violets, fit Cor
retAag but evening wear, and had dor-
ned it for street attire. The vioiets were
still very much in evidence, although
weather-beaten- Over this she had thrown
a small shoulder cape.
Even II she had nothing sean this
is hardly probable-why will a woman
wear a costume of this description. If 1t
isn't practicable to remove the flowers
and send the dress to a cleaners and keen
II for evening wear at home, why was
1t not dyed to some lark color. Dyes
are cheap. And in case of need, the dye
ing can be done at home. But she didn't
do either She left it light and dirty and
covered with b~edraggled lowers. And
she wore it ON Chestnut street.
$50
1 thought this gown was bad, but the
next was worse yet. 1t was of faded
pink crepe, with a trimming of we'll worn
chiffon. And as If this were not afro
cious enough a WORKOUT theatre toque
was added.
went ON this way until I could bare
" persuade myself that half the women
IN the city We're not perfect rights
Sometimes 1t was a bolero Jacket over a
Ridiculous looking reception waist. Some
times Q satin dancing skirt, with worn
and torn edges Sometimes a ceinture of
ribbon n lace which had long since
seen its best days. Sometimes evening
collafettes and neckwear. Sometimes
.yening gloves, out at the fingers, trans
formed from nearly white to a dirty gray.
But whether in big things or little things,
the habit was there and showed itself.
After making observations and taking
notes through a profession of twelve
such costumes, I began to say In my
heart. blessed is the shirt waist"
The woman who has least In the world
to spend upon dress can afford a couple
of shirt waists. For the winter season
these may be had in dark colors which
will look well n certainly clean, be-
meath a coat or jacket.
With a stiff, well starehed white linen
collar. the dark-colored shirt waist vii.
never be out of place. The colored coll
lars are long since a thing Of the past.
White linen only are worn by women
who lay any claim to o-bservances of
dress.
Some of the cheaper waists which come