The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-18

ders and down the front of the gown are
suitable for this style.
For a. wedding to be celebrated in the
middle of June a most dainty toilette is
made Of fine white organdie over white
taffeta. The skirt is a mass of white
kValenciennes insertion and lace. as is
also the waist. and the veil Is of tulle
edged with lace. Sprays of orange bles-
SONS are put at regular intervals through
the heading of the hounce and on the
waist. and a graceful spray starts at one
shoulder, crosses diagonally, ana falls far
down on the skirt. The skirt is long,
and a broad sash of white taffeta is
trimmed all around with valenciennes
lace.
TO many women the inadequate provis-
ION as to closet room in the average coun-
Try house Is a serious trial when they
pay their summer visits. The mere mat
ter of hats this year means an extra
trunk If you are to do your hostess credit
and be quite "it' in the detail of your
toilette. AS for chiffons, those dainty
little triles of ones summer wardrobe
become torment of soul and bewilderment
or brain when one is ushered into a pref.
tily furnished 10 by u bedroom. with
every toilet convenience possible, writing
table and the latest novels, but a row of
hooks behind the door or at best a cor
ner cupboard just about capacious
enough for the years preserves. Unpre-
t~entious country houses are too freduent-
~ a tumble Of the owners inexperience
and a rural carpentering talent. with
possibly Just enough aid from a real
architect to make the walls stand up.
| one is lucky fgn6ap cf.ab ;,oAx,,&ouzo- .e
the route from the kitchen to the front
door is not round the outside of the
mouse, nor the ascent to the second story
a well nigh impossible problem.
A practical young matron recently
found herself confronted in the evolution
OF her country home by the ugly slant
IN the bed room walls made by a gam
prel roof. The bedroom had no lath or
plaster on the walls-sirnpiy rafters and
ciappoards-and to place a bureau, or,
indeed. any piece of furniture against
thls inclined plane of ugliness was to
make an awkward effect at once. Calling
upon a carpenter she ordered him to put
IN bureau drawers across the whole side
OF the room under the ganbrel. carrying
them up to about half the distance be-
tween floor and ceiling. The lowest
drawers were, of course, very deep. ex-
tending far in under the caves: thew
were delightful depths in which YOU
could lay the skirt of a dress folded once.
Each drawer above decreased gradually
in size until the last were small recepta-
eles for handkerchiefs and gloves-the
little things which make a glory hole''
OF most top drawers.
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A ten-inch shelf, neatly beveled along
the edge and made prettily neat with
frilled muslin covers, afforded more space
than is usual for the necessary toilet.
silver cut-glass bottles and powder box.
Ihe one broad window on that side of
the room, with a Gretchen latticed case
ment looking out upon the water. imme-
dlately became a fascinating window re-
cess by reason of the building out of
these deep bureau drawers. With an
upholstered platform seat and pillows it |
is a haven not only of rest, but a thing !
of picturesque effect.
To cover the floor with a white mat |
ling and a couple of blue and white JAP
anese rugs; to give the whole room 0n-
Guiding the high post single bed turned
out Tor ~ at the planning mild, a coat
OF blue paint: to hang blue and white
cotton Japanese drapery at the windows
and as valances round the bed and wash
stand; to cover the bedroom screen and
friil the little chair pillows with this same
cool, washable material which retails for
a song-aH this was to give the freshest, |
most summer like aspect to a room
whose decorative possibilities at one time
seemed well-nigh hopeless.
The early aesthetics in p~re-Raphaelite |
DAYS, used to be much jeered at for using
the word sincere regarding DECORATIONS.
l can wen remember the peals of laugh
ter It's practical application evoked. Fol
instance, a lambrequin was not s.sincere.',
1t was neither curtain, shade, blind, nor
drapery-it was a sham, a substitute. a
make-believe. I am a convert. Usage has
shown us that it is vulgar because of it's
"insincerity," and hotels and steamboats,
and the proscenium boxes of theatres ere
now the abiding places of the whole race
of lambrequins.
The value of this once ridiculous appli-
cation of the word came forcibly to my
mind not long ago when 1 saw a fire.
place, whose dear ~dinginess, dark with
memories of cozy wintry evenings when
the flame had gone roaring up the chin
ney, had been whitewashed into glisten-
ing cleanliness, and the fre-irons held
sturdy hickory logs tied together with a
broad blue ribbon.
Fashions in Paris are entirely meal |
culable, and when a fad once takes hold
1t is sometimes difficult to supply all
those who want the new article. At the |
present moment, for instance, some Pa
risian ladies of the swell set are wearing |
on golden chains a little animal not
much larger than a beetle, but looking
like a turtle. 1t is the Japanese dwarf
terrapin, which heretofore was consider
ed only valuabl from a culinary stand |
point. but which has suddenly been torn
from its peaceful and unnoticed place by
the fad of several Partisan ladies, who
attach a golden BAND and chain around
its shell and allow the harmless animal
to crawl around the neck and shoulders
of their dresses. The sight of the diminu-
tive turtle roaming freely on the ladies'
shoulders is anything but attractive, and |
it is questionable which is to be pitied
more, the poor turtles or the ladies who
wear them.
There are many and lovely shades of
brown in the cheviots this spring. BY |
brown is not meant the hot-looking Gin
namons or tan or gravel colors tinting to
red or yellow, but soft tones of wood
color, with a little suggestion of dull pink
or rnauve in them. These are cool tints |