The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-25

! show the guests to the front room
upstairs" not the first floor front" if
you please, to lay aside their hats.
Old-fashioned flowers should adorn
mantcls and tables, n any antiques
in the family possession should be
brought into the parlor where the guests
are to be entertained. II the women
invited enter into the spirit of the oc-
casion plain gowns will be worn and
dainty bits of hemstitching or ruffiing
to be hemmed will be brought in "reti-
cules.,'
But the tea" is, after all, the crown
ing glory of the afternoon. 1t must by
no means be served in courses, but be
placed on the table en- masse. Fried
chicken. ham and tongue cut thin. hot
biscuits, waffles, rolls, pickles of vari-
Gus kinds, preserves-not canned fruit,
but sweet meats put up pound for
pound:" country honey in the comb,
cookies and jumbles, with frosted cakes
served whole. fruit, pound. jelly roll,
gold and silver cakes. and last. but not
least, tea served throughout the meal.
make up a bill of fare that puts what
we are pleased to call a menu very
much to the blush. 1T also involves an
amount of labor which only our grand
mothers of heroic stuff were equal to.
Edward w. Box. writing on the theme
"On Being Old-Fashioned' in the Sep
TENDER Ladies Home Journal, contends
that much of the so-called progress of to>
day is not progressive; in fact, that odd
fashioned' women who follow well-beaten
paths, adhere to old customs and accept
well-established teachings, are the really
progressive ones, for the reason that
their efforts meet with no Interruptions,
nor is there possibility of collapse III
whatever engages their attention. In
domestic life the progressive woman
has had a very busy time" says Mr.. Box.
She began by upsetting the old sewing
basket. 1t was narrowing to a ona
she discovered one dark morning. Like
wise was cooking, and the care of chill
dren. A woman who stayed at home and
looked after the comfort of her husband
and children was .wishy-washy': she
cramped her life, dwarfed her intellect,
narrowed her horizon. Clubs by the score,
societies by the hundred, schemes and
plans by the thousand were started, or
ganized and devised to rid poor woman
of her 'thraldom.' And these progressive
women were SO busy for the elevation of
their sex! But there were a few hundred
thousand women who kept right on being
busy elevating their children, helping their
husbands, and believing that the sex in
general was perfectly able to take care
of itself. And these women are still busy
sewing, cooking and caring for their chill
dren. And, gradually. they have seen
ewing classes introduced in college and
seminary courses, domestic science
branches attached to nearly every educa-
tional institution which girls attend, while
the care of children has received the en-
dorsement of State and the specific at
tention of the National Government.
And what of the progressive woman?
Truly, the places that knew her once
know her~no more!'
If you are in search for a little gift for
a man, there is nothing more chic than
a goling or a yachting matchbox. The
matchbox is of silver, with an enameled
design on the lid, showing golfers max
ing various .strikes-a collection of these
boxes, with a golfer using the putter;
another where he Yields the lofter; still
another in which he is shown with the
mashie, and so on, would make a unique
gift or gifts, and an appropriate one if
the recipient happened to be a golf en-
thusiast.
Fol a yachting friend. more suitable
would be a matchbox with enameled de-
sigh representing a c-hronometer or a
yacht in full sail. Stamp boxes to hold
three differently priced stamps, and large
enough to contain a good number of
each, have accurate copies of the stamp
lone on the lid in enamel. The "smok-
er's gondolas would surely prove an ae-
ceptable present to any man who is fond
of the weed. The gondola, which is an
exact copy in miniature of a Venetian
a spirit lamp, cutter and dipper; it is
silver-gilt and nattily fashioned.
If you wish to get the full flavor of
your cantaloupes, do not fill them with
cracked ice. 1t gives a waterish taste
and in fact the melting ice washes the
fine flavor off from the ripe fruit. If you
wish to prepare them for breakfast, place
them on ice the night before, and in the
morning they will be chilled thoroughly.
Nothing further will be necessary than
to remove them from ice. just before
serving, to split them in half longitude
naHy, and empty out the sticky seeds and
enveloping fluid. The surface of the
fruit will then be firm and deliciously
chilly to the taste. The rough-skinned
cantaloupes have a spicy flavor not al
ways found in the smooth-skinned Jump
ki~n-looking melons.
The .Ecossias' or Scotch Jacket is
made up of heavy plaided material,
which is really reversible, having one side
of plain cord. These are made up for
the many occasions Of autumn travel,
driving, mountaineering or country ex-
cursions, when they prove w%ell-nigh in
dispensable. They are double-breasted,
fit we'll to the back and sides and hang
loose in front, so as not to crush any pos
sibIe daintiness beneath The mother
of the family has the plain solid-color
side out, the young girls indulge in
plaided effects, while the coquette man
ages to secure attention by having her
Jacket CHIEFLY Of the plain frieze, with
cuffs, collar and deeply-printed hood of
the gay-plaided surface.
Nantes and peleriines of silk poplin
and ottoman. silk, trimmed after the
style of our grandmotaer's day, are
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