The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-11
ideas tor 1Mo1nen

ANY one can go into a SHOP, PICK out a
valuable present and order it sent, but
these do not always give as much pleasure
as the gifts that nave been fashioned by
the donors hands.
If you have in mind a girl friend, par
t~icularly a very young one. just starting
to get together pretty trinkets for her own
room. a pretty pin cushion is always ac-
equitable. The very latest kind are as long
as the width of the bureau. and are in the
form of a Hat roll about four and a half
inches wide, designed to be placed across
the pack of the top of the bureau. They
are almost universally made of sheer
white linen lawn over China silk (of
course. you should match the wcolor.of the
recipients room, with a lace ruffle all
around over one of China. either pinked
or double. The lace ruffle is gathered to
heading, through which bebe satin rib
bon is run and allowed to hang at in
tervals in long, looped bows to the edge
of the ruffle.
A gentleman will appreciate in the cold
nights coming, when he is going out in
evening dress, a aress-suit shield, which
you can easily make yourself. These
shields are made of either plain or quilted
black satin, which can be obtained lined
with cotton or lambs wool; the latter is
a trifle more expensive, but is much light
er, warmer and less unwieldy to sew. The
white satin for the lining can also be
bought quilted, but if your outside is
quilted have the inside plain, or vice
versa; two quilted fabrics is tsp much.
Work the initials or monogram on one
end on the plain side.
For the prospective bride, who is busy
with her matrimonial trunk. a busy ma
tron who sews q great deal. or the fair
embroidery enthusiast. a chatelaine of
ribbon viii prove very acceptable. Take
Ne. Z satin ribbon of any desired shade.
and make as many strips of varying
lengths as the number of the articles you
desire to put on. finishing them with a
rosette or bow at the top. On each one of
these fasten scissors, wax, emery, needle
book. thimble bag, etc., made by turning
up the end of the ribbon on the right side
and forming a casing through which bebe
ribbon is run for a drawing string. Then
the things will always be together when
wanted, and there will be no danger of
dropping them when in use.
An ornamental n~eedle-book is another
pretty trife to AVE in mind in looking for
a small gift. Take seven brass rings, a
little larger than a penny and put cross
bars in them of tiny gold beads. crochet
the edges over with embroidery silk, group
them, one in the centre and the other six
in a circle around it. and fasten them to-
gether. Make two. one for the front and
one for the back. Cut two pieces of white
flannel the same size and shape, button
hole the edge with your silk, fasten them
inside between the two leaves, finish back
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will have an idea in this not new article
that is strictly new itself.
The list of things that are appropriate,
pretty n yet easily made could be
stretched out an infinitum, but just one
more-a travelling case which is every
body's friend. Get two pieces of one of
the colored linens so much in vogue, each
u by is inches, and a piece of Write gal
loon. One is the back, and this may be
plain or embroidered as desired. Cut
pockets the width of the case, but of vary
ing depth to suit the articles it is intended
to hold, such as for tooth brush and nail
brush.
For fifty years woman in this country
has owned her own property, so that now
there is no American, probably, who never
thinks of a woman as a human being
who parts with all her possessions at her
marriage. says "Harper's Weekly 1t is
true that she may often surrender her
spiritual possessions, and in some parts
of the country where a certain unwritten
law has been recently declared, she may
herself be so far considered as mere per-
sonalty that her consent, otherwise her
free will, plays no part in the issue which
her husband settles summarily, but her
visible possessions are her own; the
moneys and lands that she brings and all
that she earns belong to her. and the law
gives her all the protection against the
wrongs of husband as of others, of which
human crudity is capable. In England a
married woman's property act was passed
in 1882. The Danish woman has had the
right to collect and to dispose of the pro-
duct of her toll since 1880. The Swedish
woman since 1874. and the Norwegian
since 1888. have had the same property
right. Even the woman who is the sub
ject of the Gear is the mistress of her
own. But in France the woman of the
humber class who is married works for
the man. keeps her money only if he will,
and must give it to him if there is the
best of reasons why she should be per-
mitted to withhold it-as, for example,
if he be an idle %drunkard, spending for
his pleasure the earnings of the wife and
mother that are needed for the h~ouhehold.
Among the ~shopkeeping ~bourgeoisie the
woman works also alongside of the hus-
band, is often the real head ofsthe estab-l
lishment, especially in the little busi-
nesses whose prosperity depends Upon
good taste, patience, tact and unfailing
courtesy. And for the toll which knows
little rest the possible make of the fam
ily's prosperity receives what is granted
by the head of the house, whose temper
and Observation-Disclosures may possibly
prevent the wife's achievement of a still
great prosperity, involving a larger dot,
and therefore a more shining marriage
for the daughter.
Madame Sarah's chateau is a very prim-
tive affair; a plain, two-storied, oblong
building, with a parapet (once lined with
frowning guns. Some years ago it was a
genuine fort, occupied by forty men and a
few officers. There are Algerian SUCCESS
tions in the white stone wall and brown
brick facings of the edifice. In front of
the fort, which lies in a deep hollow near
the weather beaten, stormy Pointe des
Poulaine. stand, like twin sentinels, two
mighty porcelain storks. The waves rage
ceaselessly about the base of this strange