The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-09

sweet tactful things for people of little
Importance just because she was a good
gentiewoman at heart who loved to make
those about her happy.
No writer discovered those interesting,
unselfsh spots In her life, so far as the
outside world was concerned. which had
been so prominent before.
A snobbish woman. In speaking of this,
SAID ~o4 well, you see, she is so I'M
menseay lrach now that suppose she
FEELS It necessary to make herself agree
able!s
MY heart sank with q disappointed thud
as wondered If this really could be the
reason; for If it was, all the worship that
nad been hers for the gentle gea1tlewomen
rhat we thought her to be seemed pitifully
wasted. 1t seemed sad. indeed, that she
should only care to be cordial and kin
as long as policy made 1t necessary, and
That just as soon as she found that the
nigh place was hers for the last time she
should think 1t unnecessary to fill 1t as
sne did at first.
We women who really believe in each
other much more than men give ms credit
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rather think her husbands jealousy mili-
tated against her developing that charm
which made her as a bride the first lady
OF her land in all loyal actualtty, or almost
any other reason than the one given. The
fact, . however, that SO far as the out
sid world is concerned Mrs. Cleveland
has very effectually dropped from view.
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Embossed velvet is one of the novelties
of the season, and will be worn for very
handsome trained gowns, and for elaborate
wraps. 1t is a quite different stuff from
the old-fashioned stiff and ugly emboss
ed ~velvets, whose patterns were usually
large, unnatural palm leaves and queer
geometrical designs.
The new ones have lnoire or satin
grounds in all the delicate colors, as
well as in black, the embossed velvet
design being in one or more colors, and
in a fine graceful trail of vines and bios
! SONS.
A white maire, delicately traced over
with the embossed velvet, in wood
browns and greens, is charming, as is
pompadour bouquets, in coaors, and Their
striped with narrow bars of embossed
claret colored velvet.
Moire grounds in all the shades of
the ultr~a-fashaonahle gray are emboss-
ed with black velvet figures and plaided
taffeta silks are splashed with broken
lines of embossed black velvet very eff
feotiveiy.
The handsomest of the brocaded moire
silks for trains Is made more elaborate
with an embossed velvet flower or two
among its satin ones.
A black velvet skirt, edged with fur and
designed to be worm with a fuf mantle,
has a bodice of this plaided taffeta en-
bossed with black velvet, The sleeves very
small gigots, and the throat and waist
tightly banded with taffeta silk of the
shade most prominent in the plaid.
After a woman has been through the
hands of her d~ressmaker. It will be more
than ever difficult his year to determine
her physical proportions, or even to make
a reasonably accurate guess as to wheth-
er she is plump or scrawny. In the first
place, the new sleeves, tight almost to
the shoulder, cali for pretty good look
| ing arms inside of them or they have
about as much style as pump handles.
Some young girls have actually gone
Into physical culture for the sake de-
veioping their arms. BY the time they
have rounded them out, though, there
will probably be a complete change in
the cut Of sleeves.
I'm the meantime said fashion
| able dressmaker the other day, I'VE
pad. I have sent home but two waists
this month that have.t had the sleeves
plumply interlined to give q good out
line And then the princess gown that
| is coming back into favor looks a sight.
It's an art to pad up to the require
mants of this dress. The hip stope must
be perfect or the princess is ruined.
Yes, indeed. it's a year of figure padding,
| sure enough"
II asked what further quality is most
necessary, says a writer In the Ladies'
| Home Journal. and desirable for a fine
| singer Who has acquired her art with
| fine perfection the most tempting reply
Is versatility" It is not enough thai
an artist shall be able to sing perfectly
one style or kind of song the public de-
mand an infinite variety, n she must
De apie, therefore, TO appear TO ali tastes,
| please ali sorts and conditions of musi-
cal people Unfortunately, though. YER
satilfty Is rare even among artists. and
| far too i~nfrequent among amateurs. My
pleas is that more of our American vo-
cal students shall appreciate Its value,
and approaching it's Importance and de-
STABILITY as part OF the equipment of an
artistic singer, shall endeavor to secure
1T. It is unnecessary to say that before
versatility can be acquired the founda-
| lions of technique and a certain amount
! of style must be present. The singer
must know how to sing. must have ac-
| quired correct tone production. and vo-
cal technique. Then win come the more
specifically directed labor.
| The guests at a fashionable Buffalo
wedding were given, just before the bride
and groom departed, colored tissue paper
| packets tied with silver cord and filed
with rose leaves.
These were showered upon the bridal
| pair, who considered themselves fortu-
nate to escape with only this fowery
baptism. It is generally acceded now
that a good deal of danger attends the
| fhroUfpR of RHO of moddfppc Wary