The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-17

COMBINATION Tor q christening ocSdStuH-
There's a pretty idea, too, which. ]
ought to mention in speaking OF the
really chic affair. l noticed that the happy
mamma received a number of sweet
smelling boxes from various florist estab-
lishments. A new suggestion and certainly
u charming one!
What more acceptable gift could be be-
slowed upon a young girl than a pocket
book of vivid scarlet leather. mounted
with a small silver-gilt clasp? Such a
purse costs but s1.75, and is as useful as
it is pretty.
Coin purses are no longer tiny little
affairs to be slipped into the pocket OF
the tailor-made jacket; instead, they are
of proportions, n are made
of some soft leather, dyed to match the
fashionable shades of dress goods.
A novelty in the leather line for the
library or a mans favorite den is a win
| dow transparency of parchment or vel
lum embossed and decorated in soft col
orings. and usually representing some
mediaeval scene, such as a lady with a
falcon on her wrist, or a knight armed
cap-a-pie riding forth from a many-tur-
reted castle. These transparencies are
handsomely, mounted, and have the fur
Their merit of being distinctly new.
For an in~corrigible traveller nothing is
more useful than a large Viennese leather
writing case, which is fitted with numer-
Gus pockets, lined with heavy silk and
decorated on the outside with an art
i~stically illuminated figure or group of
figures in bas-relief.
Engagement tablets are always a use
full present to the busy woman, and the
newest are quite large and divided into
| convenient sized squares, one for every
day in the week.
Take it coolly'' is the name of a dam
ty little shopping memorandum tablet,
which is of leather, and is fitted with
little adjustable slips of paper which can
be removed when their mission has been
fulfilled.
1t is the latest fad of miIady nowadays
to nave her handbag match her travel
ing costume; consequently, the up-to-date
shops now show a beautiful assortment
of leather Gags just large enough to old
the necessities of the toilette-de-nuit in
all the correct shades of purple, anne
thyst, violet, green, gray and tan.
And you can't go very far wrong if you
present a matron, old or young, grave or
gay, with a dainty little morocco shop
ping bag fitted with a silver-gilt vinai-
grette, a small coin purse n a tiny
pocket mirror.
On evening gowns velvet ribbon seems
to be put on in an endless quantity, yet
importers win Tell n that they do not
feel the movement yet, a the Dry
Goods Economist" A striped green and
back for afternoon wear has several tiny
f~ounces, each having a narrow ~trellis-
work of No. 2 green velvet ribbon.
Blouse with ~epaulette ruffies similarly
edged, a velvet belt and collar, and a
green jewels. Those net and lisse pieces
in black and white are exceedingly orna-
mental.
Black and white silk gowns must show
more white han black, and then they are
worn with a collar, belt and sash ends of
velvet, satin or taffeta and a vest covered
with lace ruffles of a yoke of the color
under guipure lace.
Black silks for matrons are lined in
every part that will show with a bright
color.
Black brocades are not counted in
among the novelties or very fashionable
goods. Black gros grain is very fashion
able again.
A black velvet ruffe, fifteen inches deep
finishes a satin-fgured black taffeta skirt;
collar, belt and long sash ends of green
velvet, the latter edged with lace. Blouse
front embroidered in green silk figures
centered with a jet spangle.
A black MORE velour made as a blouse
and slightly trained skirt has the low
neck. ~epaulette rufnes, wrists and skirt
edged with a pa-ssementerie of black net
embroidered with jet and steel; yoke and
collar of white satin covered with cream
lace.
Black velvet ribbon covers a blouse in
cross rows ending on the left with a steel
buckle at each row. The sleeves are COW
cred in a similar manner and the skirt
has five rows ending at the front seams;
collar and belt of velvet like the light
taffeta.
"Water is really our only true bever-
age,'' Mrs. S. T. Rorer writes in her
cooking lesson in the December Ladies
Home Journal" Forming, as it does,
-three-quarters of the weight of the hui
man body it is of the next Importance to
the air we breathe. Milk is a typical
food, not a beverage, and hould never be
used as SUCH. 1t is true hat it contains
a large amount of water, but only sufi-
cient for its digestion.
'sIn a very short time the non-water
drinker. becomes sallow, constipated and