The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-28

bow of ribbon to match the stock and
sash You are wearing that day. This
can be donc while dressing and will make
a change while another time it could be
allowed TO hang straight.
If YOU want to modernize the large
leg-o'mattcn sleeve Of last summers
gown tack the fu.iaess up to tie shout
der IN the center 10 form a butterfly puff
and finish witt. a rosette or bow of rib
bon or a strip of inserting pointed at
the end to hide the tacling. This added
decoration is only a little fancy touch
and is not a necessity as the tack can
be done SO neatly that it viii hardly
show.
"As all the world knows there is no
more perfect means of ventilation than
an open fire. writes Mrs. Burton Kings
land, telling how TO nurse the sick, i'll the
September Ladies' Home Journal. " 1T
is continuous and attended with no han
ger Of draught. A more equable tempera-
ture is obtained with wood than with
coal, and the thermometer should be fire.
quently consulted in a siek-room. AS fresh
air is the best tonic, it is said that a VIM
dow may be opened at the top on a sunny
day. no matter how i'll the patient be, if
in the opening of a wooden frame covered
with flannel is fitted. The air strained
through the wooden material is deprived
of all power to harm. An umbrella COW
cred with a shawl makes a good screen
when the windows are open, the patient
being sheltered under it as if in a tent,
A folding clothes-horse may also be util-
iZnd as q crrapn fr1 M Ac a narcap 1x,i,r
on his back is deprived of the protection
of his eyelids from the light, the blinds
and curtains should be adjusted with re-
gard to that fact. A room a little shaded
is more restful to a person in illness. but
If a patch of sunshine can beIet in some
where in the room it makes a CHEEKY spot
for him to turn to if so minded. The Ital-
ian proverb says. Where the sun does not
enter the doctor does.'"
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A pretty design for an embroidered
counterpart is of apple blossoms. In the
center is a large and heavy branch.
A smaller one is in each corner, with
sprays scattered lightly here and there.
These are all embroidered solidly with
Asiatic Caspian floss. The apple bios
SONS are worked with three or four
shades of pink, and white is used in the
high light on the flower petals; the
under parts of the flower which turn
over, are worked with a deeper pink, 10
contrast with the lighter tones used in
working the rest of the flowers.
The stamens are put in with two
shades OF yellow silk, and small French
knots give a raised appearance which
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is pinker than the lowers. Soft, pretty
shades of green are used to embroider
the leaves and stems.
The calyx, stems and young leaves are
worked with the lighter shades of silk,
while the darker shades of bronze or
apple green are used for the larger
leaves The branches are embroidered
with silk of a dull copper shade. If
finer embroidery is liked, Roman or flo
may be used. The foundation of the
counterpart should be butchers linen.
80.
Honiton lace braid makes fascinating
fancy work. This thread braid is easily
p~rocurable, is pretty and inexpensive,
while the stitches necessary are quickly
learned. A long chain stitch and two
kinds of b%uttonhole stitch are the sim
plest ones.
Thought must be expended in choosing
braid suitable to the design, but as a
rule one may safely depend on the adj
vice of the clerk of whom she buys the
design and braid. Some women become
so fascinated with this kind of fancy
work that they learn the stitches former
ly used in old point lace and apply these
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which they make. The plain edge is of
ten as effective as the more elaborate.
This modern Honiton is an imitation
of the real Honiton for which no braid
is used, it being entirely composed of
thread transformed into the most exquis-
lite designs by the coarse hands of the
peasant women. Very intricate pieces
are made of the modern work to- repre-
sent flower sprays, when the leaves, buds
and blossoms are made of separate oval
sections sewed on singly.
In this kind of Honiton, beside the
regular stitches, outlined stitches and the
French knot are also used. The founda-
ton material for modern Honifon work
is fine linen or silk.
At a club function in London the other
night the Countess of Jersey delivered
a lecture on The Ideal Woman and
said that there were four requisites in
her character-viz: patience, tact, fore
sight, unselfishness. She would be glad
to see women ideal as daughters, wives,
mothers and citizens. AS a citizen, the
ideal woman would bear her share-of
the corporate burdens, and would train
her children in the knowledge that they
were pa~rticipators in the life of the
community amid which they lived. Oul
country was already great, but if women
enunciated, this country must inevitably
grow greater and stronger.
Blanching a vegetable is accomplished
by giving it a boiling bath. 1t is com
mon process in French kitchens, where
| care in the preparation for the cooking
process is more minute than in others.
| A measure of spinach, after being care
| fully picked over and washed, is inn
mersed in & large wooden or earthen-
ware BOW filed with boiling sailed wa
| water is then poured off and cool water
ter. and left for five minutes. The salt
| turned over it. after which it is care
| fully dried. minced and cooked. to be
served with butter. salt and pepper and
a bit of boiled egg.
Small pieces of fine embroidered inser-