The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-11

are good-lSat ured, when they do not
crowd when they agree with DUR meas
ures, We feel 80 beaming and genial that
we almost fancy ourselves. seraphsc; but
walt untf1 things d. not go our way, and
the seraphim Is not there! Graciousness,
Ike beauty, grows from within. It can
not be put on as a garment, to be adj
justed at pleasure. It must be made part
Of US. It must be cultured. nour.shed
and given the best conditions of light and
heat before we will be that best creature
of Coda gracious woman.
For the average singer America offers
most excellent teachers; She can find all
she needs at home, writes Madame Mel
ba in an article on .sThe Vocal Student''
in the November Ladies' Home Journal"
For operate singers some foreign train
ing is practically necessary SO long as
.mpresarios consider Europe their mar
ket, and retired artists make 1t their
home. But no girl" she adds, stun-
less she has money to throw away-I
mean by his a large fortune to spend
should go abroad for vocal instruction un-
til She has been passed upon, musically,
by at least two or three a-rtists-people
who value the glory and fair nam of
their art. and the life. and perhaps the
honor Of the would-be singer too highly
to advise her to enter upon a career of
privation and hardship where there is
for her, by Natures fixed degree, no pos
sibilsty Of success. II possible. these ar
fists should be strangers to the singers
people who will not be moved or swayed
hu INV na1ra.al my 49,
fore, speak only truth. But only those
SO passed upon, and those others who
can afford to indulge a hobby, should
ever go abroad for Instruction.
Black Grape may be fresrened and made
to look almost equal to new if treated in
the following way.-Lay over the ironing
table a piece Of black cambric or cloth
of any kind, and pin the piece of Grape
smoothly through to the blanket, stretch
ing it out to its original size. Wiring
another piece of black cambria out of
water and lay 1t over the rape, patting
it dow with the palm of the hand. Now
take hot fatirons and pass them over
the wet cloth, letting them just touch
the cloth, but allowing no pressure to
come upon the GRAPE. When the cloth
has become dry from the heat of the
iron remove it, but let the Grape remain
pinned down until all the moisture has
ev%aporated and it is perfectly dry. The
Grape will now feel and look like new.
A long veil can be in this
way, making sure that the part redressed
comes under the edge Of the wet cloth.
$50
Round centrepieces varying from twelve
to sixteen inches in diameter are more
effective than the square designs. But-
terfies are very dainty worked entirely
in white, and are brilliant in effect when
embroidered in various shadings. A
novel centrepiece recently displayed was
round, about fourteen inches in diameter.
with a plain linen centre. The border con-
sisted of butterflies, wing touching wing.
the wings of each butterfly made with
medallion braid a~ppliqued with button
hole stitch In Asiatic Roman floss. The
lining was cut away underneath and the
bodies and heads of the butterflies were
worked soIdIy with Roman floss. Such
a centrepiece a an exquisite and ac-
ceptable Christmas gift.
So
Indian meal moistened with a little vim
egar or lemon juice is excellent for the
hands where the skin has been roughen-
ed by work or cold; it will heal and
soften them. Rub the hands thoroughly
with the mofstened meal, then wash
them in warm water and battle them
with glycerine lotion.
Skirt of plaid wool material, or shep-
herds plaids. worn with a short coat or
Elton jacket of velvet or cloth are very
good style, and a belt of some bright
colored silk looks particularly pretty with
the jacket, which displays the waist line.
It will be a long, long time before our
women at great centres, however PAM
pered, can begin to approach Europeans
in bodily opulence. says "Harper's Bazaar"
But they have transgressed their natural
boundaries In sufficient numbers to demon
strate that scrawuiness has ceased to be
their striking popularity. Many Of them
are broad enough and heavy enough TO
suggest transatlantic antecedents and
rearing; but they lack the material gross
ness and the purple shadings so frequent
ly blended with dowager duchesses and
representatives OF the ancient arlstocrdcy-
80
Odd feather pillows should be put on
the grass during the summer rain and
allowed to become thoroughly wet occas-
%ionally, then taken and fastened on the
clothesline. dried IN the wind and sun
and beaten with a small stick to stir up
the feathers. This seems to put new life
into the feathers and freshens them.
During the last, ten years the average
earnings of Madame Patti nave reached
the magnificent sum of s200, 600 per an
mum.
Iron bar 1900 Years OLD.
S. T. wellman, the metallurgist, of
Cleveland, has a portion of a round bar
of irol-and a few like pieces are held in