The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-21

begin to show autumnal change Of color.
The month is ideal at the shore. the bath
ing is generally good at this time, and
! the DAYS temperate enough to make it a
| pleasure to be out of doors nearly all day
| long. The weather it god for sight
| seeing and warm enough for out-of-door
| games which seem to flourish when a
| spectator would judge it to be too hot to
play.
The countryside is gay with golden rod,
| iron weed, Queen Anne's lace, the pink
| bells of false foxglove and black-eyed
Susans. while a few belated "sea pinks,"
paler in the cheek than their midsummer
| sisters. stand with their stems in the
damp of the salt meadows.
The gunners are busy in the marshes,
and at sunset the little sandpipers come
out to wade in the violet tinted foam
| which the clouds reflect upon the CLASSY
| sands. Cool breezes invite one to en-
| joy the autumn holiday. Goodbye, UNI
| mer. goodbye. We would not stay your
going; the glory of the year is with us
now.
The Chinese or Japanese maid SER
want is becoming fashionable on account
| of her picturesque possibilities. If she
wears her native dress she is as attrac-
tive as a 81, 500 vase or a rare piece of
bric-a-brac. so the fashionables assert.
Visitors like to look al her, and consc-
| uuently the prettier and more graceful
the girl the higher age she can COM
mand. Long, narrow eyes, thick black
brows and a clear complexion are the
things desired.
An Oriental girls hair Is always shiny
and well arranged, and everything about
her is invariably neat. A part of her
| duties is attendance at the door. After
the ring of the electric bell dies ava
there is a pattering of slippered feet or
| the clack of the little Japanese wooden
stills, and the door swings back, revealing
a small brilliant figure with a card tray
| concealed In the depths of her kimonc
| sleeve. 1t is all very fetching"
Another function that the maiden from
over the seas is expected to perform is
serving five o'clock tea. This is peculiar
ly appropriate and is supposed to lend an
additional aroma to the beverage.
The fad started in New York, and has
naturally reached its height in San Fran
cisco, where the missions are not able to
supply the people who call upon them.
So
The very latest fancy in napery is a
pure white luncheon cloth of round
thread damask. which, when skillfully
laundered, resembles a piece of heavy
satin. The white hem is topped by three
rows of Mexican drawnwork, and those
in turn by two more rows of the same.
which, lying upon the table and showing
the polished wood beneath, make a very
handsome border.
The serviettes to match are the size of
the English d'oyley, and are hemstitehed
and decorated with one row of Mexican
drawnwork, a tri1e narrower than hat
on the tablecloth.
It takes a clever dressmaker to 'crum-
ple'' ones sleeves without adding to the
apparent size of the shoulder. The sleeve
mi follow the line of the arm, but still
be full enough to "crumble" over the
wrist and hand. The proper way to pro-
| duce this effect is to cut the sleeve the
| same width as the lining, but very much
longer. Then the material is pushed up
or down. and without bullying sideways
gives the desired 'crumpled" look, which
is yet to be distinguished from shirring.
The epaulette is often a mass of plisses
massed on the shoulder seam.
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In various ways, both upon skirt and
bodiees, are used points of white nous
seine de sole that are decorated with
star-shaped medallions of cream lace
sprinkled with minute gold beads and
jet stones and beads. Other pointed
motifs of mousseline have leaf-shaped
appliques of cream lace and embroider-
les of green jet beads
Materials for tailor costumes and all
of similar make are to be comparatively
quiet in tone, with touches only of
bright color, and vigoreux twills, whip
cords, covert cloth, serge and Bedford
| cords in a number of varieties can be re-
lied upon as correct.
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Here is a mint, given by the "Woman's
Home Companion" for the woman who
is obliged to be econcmical:-When your
| corset seems to be losing it's shapeliness,
| steam it until the bones are soft and pill
| able, then over a fat-iron you can
restore them to their correct shape; this.
Of course. where whalebone is used.
Colonial styles in wall coverings seem
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homes, with the walls finished with an
unusually deep frieze, almost making the
lower part of a dado, and the ceiling deli
cately tinted. Old rose and silver, palsst
robins egg blue and white and pale yell
low seem to be the favorites.
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AS to the features of skirts, firstly.
they are not SO wide as they have been,
but they are longer. Then they are made
up with the lining and the outside sepa-
rate, or scanned together. The interim
ing or stiffening is from six to eight
inches deep.
For high collars and wide, fanciful
lapels rich velvet is. chosen; for plain
lapels and fat coat collars, preference
is given to MORE. These materials will
prevail until the temperature permits fur
collars and facings.