The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-09

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out of fashion in Rome. when Augusta
tried to encourage 1t by granting i'm
portant privileges to those who wers
married and had children. He notes thu
similarity between that and the excite
ment of the present time in Franc
where the NaNonal Alliance for the In
crease of the Population of France, al
the head of which is DR.. Bertiilon, has
suggested that the Government scholar
ships be given only to families having al
least three children living. and that Gov
eminent positions, as far aus possible. be
given only to fathers having more than
three children. In Argentina there is a
marriage law imposing a tax upon every
unmarried male between the ages of %
and 80. and that unmarried persons re-
fusing to marry when asked, shall pay
$500 for the benefit Of the young persons,
male and female, who have been re-
fused.
The relations of money to social life,
at the present time. Professor Moore
thinks similar to those of Rome in the
first century. Money then took the pre-
cedence Of high birth. office. character
and morals. No one stopped to ask
whence it came.
Another point of semblance that the
| lecturer mentioned. is the fashionable
woman of the day. 1.-THE Roman gentle
man. he says. gave nothing away. nor
bought nor sold anything without his.
wife's consent. He even regulated his
tastes, and shut his old friends but Of
doors to suit her pleasure
Nothing is more delicate and delicious
for luncheons and high teas than a cured
ham baked. Take a ham Weighing from
| seven to nine pounds and soak it over
night. In the morning scrape the outside
and rinse well, roll sssand it a bunch of
sweet hay; place it in a good-sized kettle
and cover it with cold water. Put the
kettle over the fire and when the water
| reaches the boiling point place it over the
cooler part of the fire where the ham will
just simmer for two hours. Then take 1t
from the fire and let the meat remain in
the kettle until the liquid is just luke
warm. Then take out the ham and peel
off the skin. Place the meat in a baking
pan and 4 in a moderate oven two
hours. using a cupful of wine, hard cider
or vinegar sweetened with brown sugar,
to haste it with. pouring on two table
%spoonfuls at a time, until the amount Is
used; then haste frequently with the drip
DlflSS from the pan. w neia Liz AidlAi 10
| baked. before it is removed from the oven,
take a cup of finely rolled stale bread
| crumbs and two te~aspoonfuls of brown
| sugar and one level teaspoonful of dry
mustard and moisten with a little cider
or wine to make a paste; spread this
over the ham and return it to the oven
long enough to have it a nice brown. A
sauce to serve with baked ham is made
thus:-Put into a saucepan over the fire
a heaping teaspoonful of butter and an
| equal amount of -four; stir them together
until they are Drowned, then gradually
add a cup of highly seasoned stock and
cook ten minutes; ada one cup of wine
or cider; stir until it is hot, then strain
and serve.
In telling of Lafayette's visit to Phila
| delphia Jean Fraley Hallowell gives an
interesting description of the costumes
worn by the fashionable women of that
day, in the April Ladies' Home Journal"
THE bonnets of the period she writes,
were silky Leghorns, fine Dunstable
| straws, and satiny Italian straws, sewed
into ~extravagant shapes. These were ac-
tually becoming to youthful faces. Ire
mendou was tho periphery, but the shape
| was subject to improvements to suit the
individual case. Some huge bonnets were
smartly roundeS off ats the ear, to dis
play a well-turned cheek. Ribbons were
profusely employed to match the color
of the silk lining. A large shape, lined
with rose pink, was trimmed with bows
of broad ribbon of two colors, white and
rose, with long streamers of the ribbon
floating over the shoulder. But all would
be lost-from a fashionable point of
view-if the streamers were of the same
color. An ~elegante would be careful to
wear one white and the other pink. Large
shapes of wire and net were often covered
with figured silk or velvet for colder
weather. Small hats of white crepe or
satin were worn on dress occasions, even
at evening parties. They generally show
ed a marabout plume or bird of para
disc
I'm English country homes" says. in
"Harper's Bazar,' a woman who has spent
a considerable time in one of them, there
is a 'children's hour as it is always call
ed. which, if 1T dates from Longfellow, is
more carefully observed in a foreign land
than in the poets country. It is right
| after 5 O'Clock tea in the drawing room
and schoolroom tea upstairs. 1t is cele-
| brate1 before the open fire in the day
nursery. whittier the mother of the family
| comes to meet her little flock. There are
stories, perhaps, and a game, and finally
a restful quarter of an hour, in which the
tender condolences of childhood are whis-
pered into loving, sympathetic ears-be
they a hurt of mind or body, a wall of
Encouragement, or a paean of secret am
b1tion. The beautiful system of an Eng
lish household makes this happy and help
full time possible in every days routine,
and it is never interfered with.
1t will be acceptable news to many who
admire them to hear that the rich, deep
yellow lace straws and other fancy braids
so popular two years ago are revived
among the other more startling modes fod
the dress season following Easter Trim
med with black lace AMI rulle, or velvet
ribbon and rich b1sc lace. they are seen
ait their best, but mdlliners nave now ar
irrepressible craze for color, mixed colon
of the most heterogeneous description, land
are not at all content with the effective
and elegant simplicity of a yellow straw
with its fine contrasting garniture OIL
black. with a handsome color-note In the
way of a deep damask rose cluster or {