The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-26

pduQeu naIHlnefS OIL Ieit generally come
from. Paris. and are. with all the rest Of
the mechanism, very expensive. Another
fact which adds to the costliness is that
no machinery Is employed in a piano fac
tory, for everything must be dom by a
skilled eye, a trained nsnd and careful
fingers. The few hints given above will
contribute greatly toward keeping this
representative of labor and money In
good condition.
Among the newest shapes in h~eadgear-
is the semblance of a Russian crown
Thousands of hats and bonnets of every
imaginable shape are being made IN
vegetable silk, but there is no doubt that
we shall wear more bonnets than we
have done Of late, and that they will be
considered far better style than the large
hats.
The manufacturers call these bonnets
toques. but the world in general asso-
ciates this term with a soft round form,
which the new bonnets are not. They
have crowns of some sort, some of them
pinnacle shaped, some jampot, and many
have a pleated straw brIm, the ruche
brim being introduced also on the hats
The Java and the Japanese straws and
the vegetable silk are all light and per-
treated in altogether different ways from
the old-fashioned straws.
In the hats which are not sailors, and
of these there is an enormous range. the
crowns are generally sunk in and AVE
a point in the centre like the tuft of
the Prophet. Nearly all the crowns wild
en- toward the top and diminish where
they join the brim, and Switzerland is
contributing many of the straws which
are used to make them. Both toques and
hats alike fit closely to the head, and we
have by no means forgotten the comfort
able boat shape, while in hats the jam
pot crown is quite a feature; so also is
another class of hat with a wider brim
and the Mother Shipton crown, very high
and pointed.
When trimmed this is generally rem
dered almost invisible by the punches of
black feather which are placed on either
side of them. Many of the hats have a
double brim, this underneath is often of
contrasting color to the exterior. Colored
chips are in fashion and are frequently
US : for the crown or for the brims.
$50
Few lunch dishes are as paIatable OF so
easily prepared as the individual portions
of scalloped fish, each served in its own
little mold in which it has been cooked,
In this way one may secure more crumb
and browning than when the mold is
larger. Schools Of little porcelain re
ceavers, nodded in fishy shape, witt eau
DIAL fms raised like stiff little rudders,
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ed preparation of fish and thrust into
the oven.
If the housekeeper does not. possess a
fleet of little fshboats h can make use
of good sized clam shells. These are de-
lightful baking dishes. They can be
washed and used asain and again. and
they always seem to bring an ocean
breeze with them. If the children have
not collected any for nursery games We
can easily get them from oyster dealers
or from some of the more enterprising
house furnishing shops, which are begin
ming to keep well shaped and smooth
clam shells in stock, for use as Individual
fish molds.
The windows of these establishments
also display moids of large fishes intend
ed to serve the family. The molds are
cunningly modelled in tin to show the soft
anatomy of the fish, and in many cases
the scales are reproduced. The fishes are
represented in the curves the assume in
darling through the water.
Some of the porcelain fish molds in blue
and white are almost circular in shape.
The last mentioned dishes are also nice
to serve picked-up or creamed fish.
Dc you know the correct name for
those charming flower vases which are
so popular just now? I mean those which
are shaped a good deal on the
plan of the champagne glass used for
merly? Some people call these rose
glasses and various other names. To
be absolutely correct o must say
"-chrysanthemum glass"
These are especially beautiful in rich
cut glass. But as no boudoi7 is really
perfect nowadays without one, the woan-
an who cannot afford an expensive art
glass, which comes at so reasonable a
figure. In these are found plain white,
pink, blue and yellow effects.
Especially lovely and costly affairs are
those of Venetian glass with gold deco
FdllOu ana TdlSed JeWet pedulIS.
These tall glasses are. of course, an
| outgrowth OF the popular rage for long
stemmed chrysanthemums. AS the flower
seems to Increase each year in popular
ity the woman who buys ch~rysanthe-
mum glass will have something to re-
main long in vogue.
Escaaloped calf's head, says Mrs. Rorer
in the Ladies Home Journal" may be
made from the pieces of meat left over
from calf's head soup. Place a layer in
the bottom of the baking dish, then a
layer of tomato, then a sprinkling of
breadcrumbs, half a ~teaspoonful of celery
| seed, a layer of chopped parsley, and a
busting of pepper; then another layer Of
meat, tomato, breadcrumbs, and SO on I'M
til the dish is filed, having the last layer
breadcrumbs. Put over the top a able
spoonful of butter cut in bits; bake in a
moderate oven thirty minutes.
Flower bodices are coming into fashion,
some of the berths being entirely conn
posed of them; but one of the latest in
reductions from Paris is a low bodice,
formed of some seven perpendicular rows
OF roses for the front, and seven for the
back, sewn on to strips of silk, united by
a row of roses round the neck, drawn
close together at the waist, falling, below