The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-01

IEc coat buttons over with a fly front
mas a green velvet collar, short tails
not a big button TO mar its smart
simplicity. With gray plaid skirts, sap.
pnire blue coats are The correct mode,
as care must be taken that with .
checked petticoat a jacket of solid-toned
goods is used. The skirts, by the way,
are just six yards around and absolutely
plain, not q strap nor a seam decorat ion
appearing.
All the well-informed women who are
shopping for their fine demi-season call
hg suits ask to see something in blue,
Blue in a variety of rich and glowing
shades IS the al~l-conquering spring color,
but this time not the blueste tone. Sap
phire anG Venetian blu are the right
colors, and they come in the new double
width materials and one and all have
bullion thread yun in the woof. This
gold and silver sheen, however, is rap
idly pushing to the front everywhere.
one sees it in the fancy straws. the rich
est ribbons and even on the daintiest
stockings. 1t promises to become an inn
portant feature in spring dressmaking.
The new straw hats look as if they
were woven of very brittle pastry or
nougat and trimmed with spun sugar.
They are mostly big, of a new fragile
Swiss straw and emmeshed in tulle,
which is unstable and unbecoming. The
little bonnets have flown out of sight
like withered leaves before November
gales, but there are some enchanting
rice straw toques and broad-brimmed
hats turned UP behind and trimmed with
the naW roca a 1oxva1.-A ,;-1r nF.l---..-.
with tufts of Russian heliotrope. The
Summer hats will be heaped entirely
with flowers and ribbon, save for strings.
is not in vogue.
There is a distant pang of grief to be
felt over the long anticipated shirt
waists. Here they are in organdy and
fine Scotch lappet, n pierced grass
linen and sheerest dimity. Poor substi-
tutes for our trusty bingham friends of
last year. Besides these new waists, with
their full soft bosoms and unstarched
cuffs are meant, many of them. to he
worn over colored silk corset covers,
and with stock collars of silk and satin.
The least of them nave their front plat.
where the studs fit; garnished with EN-
broidery, and many of dotted muslin
would not stand the strain of one wash,
ing.
Women who are buying these shirts
snatch up he blue ones eagerly, while
over at the glove counter and where the
brides and debutantes are shopping for.
Spring festivities, they ask for parch-
ment-colored silk and suede gloves. 'Tis
2 Ta re md do1fa.t - 4 -.
Paris. Examples of it are seen in the
very newest decorated silk waists that
are now all mad in the form of short
tailed Louis XVI coats with splendid
vests and gorgeous lace jabots. falling
from straight high milk-white satin col
lars. in place of the white linen eight
zenith century neckband.
There is every reason to believe that
W~ashington's married life was one of in
creasing happiness and satisfaction
writes General A w Greeley, u. s.. A.,
In April Ladies' Home Journal" "Un-
fortunately his letters to his wife were
destroyed by her. But there are sufficient
illusions in his general correspondence
to indicate that they were together with
declining years, and that both husband
and wife showed that consideration
toward and respect for each other which
are the soundest guarantees of marital
happiness. Since circumstances did not
permit frequent visits of his wife to her
relatives, we find Washington inviting her
mother to come to Mount Vernon as her
nome. 1t does not appear that this intro
duction added to the armon of the
household. or if it did, the admission of
other women, relatives of husband or of
wife, did not In this respect Washing
ton, writing later about his niece living
at Mount Vernon, speaks of his love for
her, but he says: I will never again have
two women in my house when I am there
myself Mrs. Washington proved an I'M
failing support to her husband in camp
or court, in peace or war, and Washing
ton had her happiness and comfort al
ways at heart. His field service was irk-
some only as entailing constant ilneasi-
ness on the part of his wife. OF the MANY
instances Of his tender solicitude for her
uncertain health there is none more
touching than that connected with his
fatal illness. Attacked suddenly and Sc
rsously after midnight, W~ashington's
malady was at least FASTENED by his I'M
willingness that his wife should incur
the risk of "a cold by rising during the
bitter winter might to relieve his suf-
fering.
The reason for the choice of the violin
as an instrument for women are MANY. n
IS not only the most perfect of all instru-