The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-16

We're, ana the more Sne nau " w, tuS
happier She was in dancing. They said
she was successful because she always
smiled. She smiled because she loved 1t.
49,
No doub the human race would con-
slider 1t little short of a universal tragedy
if there were no looking glasses, says a
writer in answers. Yet, in spite OF
their widespread use, it is an astonishing
fact that none of us have ever seen our
selves as others see us.
In, tho first place, the reflection In the
mirror does not portray our likeness with
any attempt at accuracy. The hair is
wrong in tone; the eyes are not correct
in color, and our complications are hope
lessly libeled by this specious household
decciver. 1t is certain that if the look
ing glasses spoke the truth the sale of
various complexion washes would de-
crease, to half, for any fair skin looks
gray and pallid in the glass, and numbers
of women who have splendid complications
ruin them by trying to improve them be-
cause they look bad in the mirror. You
may be certain that, however plain
your face seems, it is by no means so
plain as it appears in the telltale mirror.
Secondly, you cannot assume y~our-natur-
al expression while peering in the looking
glass. The eye must be in a certain
position before you can see at all, and
the eye, so far as expression is con-
cerned, governs the face. h conse-
quence is hat you car see only one of
your expressions in the glass, ard that
expression is one of attentive exarnina-
ton. All the other expressions by
which your friends know you, favorable
or unfayorable, you have never seen,
and never will see.
Lady Holland, in her memoir of her
father, Sydney Smith, gives an amusing
story. 1t happened nearly fifty years
ago, but it has not yet lost its point.
Have you never observed what a
dislike servants have to anything cheap?
They hate saving their masters money.
l tried this experiment with great sue
cess the other day. Finding we con-
sumed a great deal of soap, l sat down
in my thinking chat and took the SOAP
question into consideration, and | found
reason to suspect that we were using
a very expensive article, when a much
cheaper one would serve the purpose
better. I ordered half a dozen pounds
of both sorts, but took the precaution
of changing the papers on which the
prices were marked before giving them
into the hands of Betty.
"'Wen Betty, which soar do you find
washes best?' oh, please sir, the dear
est, In the blue paper; it makes a lather
as well again as the other We'll,
Betty, you shall always have it, then
And thus the unsuspecting Betty saved
me some pounds a year, and Washed the
clothes better"
A new departure in the silk industry Is
reported from Paris. This is the making
of silk tablecloths. At the start the styles
showed only an imitation of the designs
generally used in fine table linen, but they
soon developed a fashion of their own and
nave now reached a stage of highly artis-
tic beauty. They are being made either
with plain centres and deliberately de-
signed borders or covered all over with
Jacquard figures, the designs in each case
being in conformity with the elegant use
for which they are destined. There is no
established fashion yet for the style OF
designs, which show either flowers or
leaves or ornaments, according to the
taste of the designer. Not infrequently
large monograms, either embroidered or
woven, appear in the middle. The bor-
ders are either in white, the same as the
cloth. or colored, burt in these cases more
delicate tints are being used than is Gus
tomary with table linen, pink, lavender
or light green being among those best
favored. 1t is naturally only among the
rich that such a fashion can be intro
been more widely extended thar at first
would appear probable.
1t is said with great confidence that
sleeves will not reach perfect tightness
during the winter In almost every in
stance there will be some kind of trim
ming at the top of the sleeves in the
shape of caps, frills and puffs, says the
"Woman's Home Companion" Many of
the new gowns have sleeves trimmed just
at the elbow, and others are neatly trim
med at the wrists with twists of ribbon,
band of braid or velvet; and some of the
l.ghterweight materials show sleeves
rounded at the wrist revealing the arm at
the inside, n are finished with a putting
of the same material or chiffon, lace or
soft silk.
A model silk petticoat of a most fan
ciful design has an underdress of taf-
feta, pure white and decorated only with
narrow pink ruffles. Above it fits a blue
satin short skirt, cut in a series of long
leaf points, all edged with cream lace
eighteen inches deep. A bit of this lace
is laid over the yoke and with his is
worn a dressing sack of blue French
flannel, its pointed fullness edged with
under ruffles and blue silk, over which
falls white lace. The sleeves hang free,
but the full bach is caught and held in
by two sashes of silk brought round and
knotted in front.
Probably one Of the greatest secrets Of
to be beautiful lies in thoroughly
what type nature intended you
to be and then striving to be perfect as
in that particular line. 1t takes
all kinds of people to make up a world
and there is no more certain way of
courting failure than trying to warp your
self down or stretch yourself up to some
thing utterly -antagonistie to your nature.
70 remove mildew patches from linen,
stir a quarter pound Of chloride Of
lime in a gallon Of cold water. Let this
settle without disturbing the sediment, |
and SOAK the widowed articles in this
for two hours. Lastly, wash in the usual