The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-06

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your night dresses, be careful 70 select
q simple pattern. that will not be injured
by frequent laundering. Two or three
handsome gowns vii suffice. The Others
should be made BY the French pattern, ir
which the tucks are run in the muslin
and the cow then cut from the piece
Experience has taught that ruffles anc
tucks, frills and furbelows. large collars
and flowing sleeves are decidedly uncom-
Portable for steady wear.
1t is a good plan to make half q dozen
night dresses of muslin for winter wear
and q half dozen of Lonsdale cambria
for summer use. A little yalenciennes
lace used as a finish at throat and wrists
Will give a vast amount of wear. 1t is
astonishing how much wear such frail-
looking material will stand, and so far
as daiatiness goes it cannot be surpassed.
Provide at least two warm dark skirts
for extreme weather. and, if possible,
two of lighter weight for moderate
weather. or for shopping, for of all things
nothing can be more untidy than a be-
~draggled white skirt or a mud-stained
lace-betrimmed ruffle on a once handsome
silk skirt. There is one idea that I wish
all girls would grasp; that the quality of
the material and the trimming should be
of the first consideration, and hat it is
better far to have every garment perfect
ly plain and beautifully neat than to
lave an overabundance of cheap trim
ming, carelessly sewed.
1t has been conceded that the degree of
civilization a people has reached may be
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some one has said that '.the American
feeds, the Engiishman devours, the
Frenchman dines.'' In view of this state
ment one wonders what the English have
been doing through the centuries to have
advanced so little. We do not pretend to
answer for them, but would say for our
selves, we have been hewing our way
through forests. pioneering in every direc-
ton, in every sense-ample apology for
feeding instead of dining, says the
.Woman's Home Companion"
But of course, it was a Frenchman h
made the declaration,A and, of course, he
made it long ago, when, notifying
though it be, honesty compels US to
acknowledge that we may have been
guilty. Times. however, and conditions
have changed. and not even the most
.bigoted Frenchman will refuse to admit
that when the American has reached the
dining-point he will v more to dine
upon than any other man in the world.
The culture of man in America will
demand all the art in his cuisine that
France by study has evolved, with the
added merit OF honesty in his food, the
DISCUSSES incident to poverty of material
not being necessary. There is no depart
ment of supply in which we have not the
advantage. and we are learning to use our
materials as rapidly as we have been
obliged to learn all other things.
Only the woman with aesthetic ten
denotes fully realizes the value of the
screen, which is not only unitarian, put
artistic as well. For example the long
rectangular-shaped parlor of the average
old Philadelphia house takes on a totally
new aspect by the judicious placing OF a
large four-fold screen, or the objection
able kitchen door, opening into the lining
room, or prosaic dumb waiter may be hid
den from too-curious eyes by the same
means.
And a really artistic screen is by no
means an expensive luxury, as pretty
three-fold Japanese or dinner screens may
be bought as low as $50, or the pretty
ambo frame, at s1.25, can be successful
1y upholstered by miiady's own skillful
and the cost materially lessened.
A new idea in these pretty furnishings
was seen at one of the big, department
stores a day or two age The frame
" ork, which. stood just five feet highswas
entirely screened with the material used
to uphoIster the whole, and that of Delft
blue linen was decorated at the top of the
three folds with three characteristic
sketches in water colors of Holland life;
a boat just leaving the boompjes, a wind
mill. eminently squatty and Dutch, and
last a peasant maid in cap and sabots.
Another characteristic screen for hall
or library was of green %velours, with four
highly celored hunting panels under glass
set in the four panels.
For the drawing room he light and
dainty screen, ornamented with an ir-
regular panel of fret work at the top and
covered with a pale colored striped Marie
brocade, is most effective, or
if a heavier background is desired nothing
is richer than black velvet hand painted
in a conventional design in gold, and
mounted III eDoLy VI SHUcu Wooo.
A handsome screen ordered for a eoun-
try house, h chief ornament is an
enormous fire place in the hall, was of
tapestry worked in spirited scenes of
medieval life, mounted on a heavy ma
hogany frame richly carved. The back of
this work of art was of vivid scarlet
morocco, finished with a decoration of
brass nails in antique design.
A dainty little affair for milady's bou-
doir is the small two-fold sewing screen,
just three fet high. of bird-eye maple,
covered with China silk and fitted with a
three-inch shelf and half a dozen pockets
designed to do duty as a substitute for
the work basket.
Mrs. S. 7. Rorer gives her receipt for
making cup caramel custard in the Octo-
Der Ladies Home Journal 1t is this:
Melt four tablespoonfuls of sugar until
a light brown. pour it into-six custard
cups. n shake them quickly so that the
earame will line them. Beat three eggs
without separating; add to them three
tahlespoonfuIs Of sugar. and then a cup
and a half of cream, mix thoroughly; add
a tablespoonful OF vanilla, and pour the
in the cups on top of the carameI.
Stand them IN a baking par of hot water
and bake in the oven ten or fifteen min
utes. until they are set Ia the centre. Turn
out while hot on individual dishes, and
aside TO cool. Serve very cold.1
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