The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-22

ethan cloth, the skirt cut very close about
tho hips, being bordered with a band Of
Persian lamb, while the full ouch-shaped
bodice was edged with short basque
trimmed with the same fur. while across
the front was an effective design in
braid, which met she line OF fur at the
side, and was repeated in smaller pat
tern on the outside of the fiaring collar.
that was also lined with Persian lamb.
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Drap Razemir and poplines with rep ef-
fects fab into graceful rounded folds
which will last. Quite different in their
character are the hopsackings, thai have
come Il like soft basket work, in grays,
greens and reds, and the hopsack tartans
are likely to be exceedingly popular. and
SO are the pin stripes and checks on the
Amazon cloths. A charming ground with
the design in velourx frise is inexpensive.
considering the amount of effect it gives
With it's silk cords and black lines, a sort
of superstructure on the MORE ground.
Cheviots have been introduced with bor-
ders in seven different kinds, while col
ored knickerbocker effects appear in
others. Corduroys with silk checks upon
them are very effective. indeed, and so
are the long range of bengalines in ep-
ingle, broche and armure, terms that only
denote the groundwork; the color is al
ways rich and generally combined with
black.
Most of these are on old but improved
lines; NOT so the velours Russo. in which
black, blue, red and gold mingle, or the
broche reps, which ave rich conven-
tional designs on the corded ground. The
more expensive stuffs show great intri-
cacy in weaving, such as the melange
aims which have outstanding hairs on
t. highly ornate surface in such mix
lures as blue and gold, violet and green.
The terry velvet Bayadere stripes in
fancy cords and shot colorings are likely
TO last and look well to the very end; in
deed, like many of the other new wooden
materials, they appear to be composed of
far more silk than wool, and many OF the
designs in the brooches resemble cuttings,
the patterns being conventional floral.
Another cloth is entirely covered with a
black. frise design like lace, which, be-
sides, being new, is certainly charming.
Tartans of pretty we'll every plaid are
flooding our English markets and are po-
tent rivals to the Tyrolean stuffs with
their inch-wide selvedges, which are be-
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49,
Ripping the carpet up from the floor
and shaking, even beating it on the line
in the ordinary domestic fashion. does not
completely clean it and render it harm
! less, because these methods are not suffi-
GENTLY thorough. Nothing less than
| steam will serve the purpose of perfect
cleanliness.
Steam penetrates the very fibres of the
yarn of which carpet is composed. First
of all, The dust, microbes, moths and
larvae of every kind are driven out by
| compressed air, as it We're. driven by me-
| chanical means; then the steam does its
part: this, of course, in the high class
| carpet cleaning establishments.
The cost OF having ones carpets put
| into a sanitary condition is not high when
| results are considered. Among these
may be reckoned the purity attained. the
home labor saved, the freedom from the
/ dust and commotion connected with do
nestle carpet cleaning. At one OF the
best sort of these establishments one may
| get three-pIy ingrains beaten, brushed,
ventilated, ETC., for 3 cents a yard,
, stored for l cent a yard pei month and
| packed, moth proof, for 2 cents a yard.
Brussels of all grades cost a cent more
| per yard for cleaning than Ingram; that
is, 6 cents. Nelvets, wiltons and aubus-
| sons cost Z cents; moquette and axmin-
cter carpets, s cents per yard for clean
ing. The few dollars that it will cost to
rid you of your dirty, stuhy carpets, have
| them made pure and wholesome, stored
for the summer and brought back to you
in the autumn, will be money well spent.
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The new French r~edingotes of ladies'
cloth, rough Scotch checks, and English
| cheviors in various stylish patterns, will
| be worn all winter. These have cape col
lars decorated with braiding and edged
| with fur. Some of the redingotes open
| over skirts of a different material, others
nave closely fitted backs, and fronts in
| Russian blouse or double-breasted effects.
| English eorduroy enters into some OF the
fashionable day W of the season, and
is especially popular in moss-green and
| the familiar silky gray shades, combined
with brown cloth and trimmed with black
a~rabesaue passementeries and black Iur
| edgingsEa quaint arrangement Oh color
that rivals the popularity of green with
black. or of Suede color with green. A
| stylish imported redingote OF MORE vel
ours in tailor fashion is in dark green
with inserted pieces in the slashed skirt
of dark red cloth oyerlaid with rows OF
fine black braid. A tan-celored skirt
trimmed with blue soutache braid has a
redingote of Russian blue cloth, and a.
moss-green costume in coat and skirt
style has a vest, collar and cuffs of soft
suede cloth overlaid with green and gold
braid in horizontal rows from neck to
hem.
The handsomest capes in cloth are lined
in black satin or. satin rhadames, and the
outside is deliberately braided ioften in
three different varieties of Braid and
ornamented with silk or passementerie
designs. The edge of the skirt is I'M
trimmed; the collar is bordered with mar
row ~astrakhsn or lambs wool.
All skirts should open at the centre
back and fit closely around the hips. A
slightly stiff lining like silk or percaline.
is preferred. The best dressmakers face
a skirt with taffeta silk or alpaca, no mat
Ter. what the lining may he. The pleats
at the back are usually caught up about
twenty inches with a loose. elastic band.
The "Delineator' says that instead of
chiffon or mousseline de sole, both of