The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-06

All sEne QeSlSHS W9alU seem ~ Uc III
spired by the periods Of Louis XVI and
XVII The grounds are sometimes white,
sometimes gold, sometimes pink. but In
svariably showing great beauty in the
flowers, and fine weaving in the brocade.
Yet with all this 10. tempt US we are likely
to wear a great many plain silks, and to
meet the want there are some rich and
handsome peau de soies in such new col
ors as reed green, which assinnilates with
reseda and several new tones of hello
trope. But even these are secondary to
the moires, plain, brocaded and striped,
and the variety in the watering is almost
incredible. Rich brocades show tinsel in
them, as do the moires, and some of the
silks recall ancient tapestries.
A revival from the time of Marie An
~toinette is a light Nankeen-colored silk,
covered with one of the trailing patterns
in tiny flowers, which recall the wall pa
pers of the period. and the back of this
silk shows the variety of colored silks
employed in the weaving. Brocades are
thrown on the MORE; for example, in a
shot green and white MORE there are two
distinct patterns in the procade laid one
over the other. the one white and the
other green; but pletny of plain MORE
antique is to be worn, and many yelours
cisele designs, brocaded on to a chine
ground. Miroir velvet printed in white, as
though the color has been expunged, is
very beautiful in the deep light pinks, and
there is a liberal range of light striped
and dark striped velvets of two shades
watered on the stripes, which are intended
to be Worn for blouses and waistcoats,
some of them being particularly delight
full with a design of tiny flowers meander-
ing over them. Black stripes figure again
on light grounded silks, and black satin
stripes on moires, some of which are wa
tered after the semblance of cork, others
Ike a stalactite, while others appear to
be covered with tangled ribbon. There is
plenty of choice in the width Of the stripes
and colored satin stripes appear alike on
black and white.
White gowns are the most fashionable
for evening, and some beautiful brocades
have been brought out with large, bold
iris upon them, each pattern at least half
a yard in depth, and there are black
grounded brocades with colored arab
esques thrown upon them, while there APP
pears to be no end TO the variety of gem
pailettes which figure on the rich silks.
The soap bark, which In invaluable for
removing spots from mems and boys
Clothes, Is made as follows:-Pour upon
five cents worth Zone ounce of soap
bark, to be bought at any druggists, a
pint of boiling water. let it stand ~
night, strain through a fine sieve, add a
gill of alcohol and it is ready for use and
Will keep any length of time. If enough
of the liquid is needed to wash out the
breadths of a gown TO be made over the
proportion should be the same, but a larg-
er amount; the alcohol is to be dispensed
with when used at once or within a day
or. two.
Henrietta cloth or any soft all wool or
silk material washed in this way and
pressed white slightly damp looks every
whit as good as new, and is as clean as a
whistle.
Any house mother or "guid wife" who
desires to keep her husband and boy and
her own skirt spotless should never be
without a rubbit. II is made of rather
coarse, soft, all wool cloth Of a light color
that Will not leave lint or tattle of its use,
there should be two or three thicknesses
of this and it may be made like an iron
holder, or fitted into the wooden arrange
ment, with a sknobby,s handle at the
top, such as is used for plotting paper.
This should be kept with the bottle of
soap bark, and when the spring and fall
cleaning takes place a second fiat rubbit
shorld be at hand to lay under the spots
to absorb moisture when they are being
rubbed
A heavy hand is rusnous in cleaning
clothes, the rubbing must be brisk and
light; there must be no pressing down;
this gives the t~hreadbare, white look,
which once carelessly attained can never
be done away with. Where spots are pos
itively known TO be from grease French
chalk laid on over night never fails to
remove and will not injure the frailest
fabric.
When a piece of furniture is very much
soiled and requires to be LEANED and pol
ished, hrst wash it thoroughly with warm
soapy water, washing only a small sur
face at a time, and drying it quickly by
rubbing it hard with a flannel. Mix to-
gether one pin of linseed OIL and half a
pint Of Kerosene. wet a flannel with the
oil mixture, and rub the cleaned furni-
ture. Rest half an hour before taking a
fresh piece of flannel, end then by vigor-
Gus rubbing polish the wood until it
shines like glass. This will not inture
the incest woods and is an easy method
OF keeping furniture bright. The edor soon
disappears If the windows are left open.
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1t Is no wonder the bicycle girl and her
money are soon parted. There is appar-
emily no end to the bicycle glove In town.
It is two-toned in its coloring, and is
made OF silk, with e kid palm. Such odd
color combinations are seen as gray
gloves with terra Gotta palms and dark
blue silk gloves with the kid part in green.
But there are many of these two-toned
gloves in better taste.
The really honest man has long since
ceased to hold up his mother as a cri-
terion for mis- wife to follow in matters
domestic. The average fin d. steele wom-
an can cook as well as and do many other
things better than the f~eninines Of a past
generation
The Dowager Duchess of Newcastle
has taken up her residence in White
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