The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-21
ideas for uMnmen

Diaries and calendars may be covered
satisfactorily with turquoise blue hneh-
embroidered with a cluster Oh purple
pansies in one corner. and below, worked
in irregular lines, one or other OF the
following quotations.
TITS a Chronicle of Day by Day.
IN cah for Pen and Ink and write my
mind.
Fill up Chronicles for Time to Come.
lie tempe passe, ramitie reste.
C'est rneure de bien faire.
worked in stem stitch with silk OF the
deepest shade of purple, the capitals be-
ing accumulated with an outlining Of gold.
A notion for the cover of one OF the
all but Indispensable cycling record DOCKS
is to make it of stout, handwoven. gray
linen. and to border it with a row or
tiny wheels. carefully worked in black
filoselle, with gold thread for tires and
hubs.
MY Cycling Records is then en-
broidered in the center in black outlined
with gold, with or without a monogram
below. or, il the popular fancy for a
motto demands 1t, something appropriate,
such as "a Merry Heart Goes All the
Way" or ride On, Ride Fast, Ride
Merrily," may take the place Of the title.
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Reading cases for popular periodicals
are always acceptable presents. A
charming case, for example. might De
made of pale ecru hand-woven linen,
with the title at the top. the monogram
of the owner in the center and the quo
tation:-"Read Ger These Articles" be-
low. the whole being worked in pale
green outlined with gold, and encircled
by a wreath of roses, shamrocks and
thistles embroidered in what is known
as half solid style, in delicate shades of
their natural coloring.
Or the ground might be turquoise blue,
and the whole of the embroidery carried
out in two shades of sepia brown silk
and fine gold thread, the flower outlined
only.
Pale green linen, with the title of the
journal in tiny irfdescent green sequins
on a scroll outlined with gold thread,
makes an exceedingly pretty reading
case; or, il something more elaborate
is wanted, nothing is nicer than ivory
satin sheeting. on which the letters OF
the title are formed of tiny blue forget
me-nots in China ribbon embroidery, with
gold spangles for centres. and Louis XVI.
knots of blue ribbon occupying the four
corners.
On the other hand, a palmer,
cheaper, but effective cover may be made
OF cream twill cotton sheeting, on which
the title of the journal is outlined with
twisted chainstitch in deep yellow flax,
the background being either darned or
powdered with some tiny motif in a paler
shade.
Scraps of old brocades make delightful
bookcoyers of all kinds. especially if the
joins, edges, etc, are finished with anti
que gold and silver gallons; or, if these
are una~ttatnable with some of the adj
mirable modern limitations.
Soft feather. "pokered" or en-
bossed, is particularly well suited
for Bradshaw" and "a, B, CT cases,
and a way of o~rnamenting covers of
smooth linen which has some novelty
about it is to trace out the necessary
inscription In gesso paste, which is after
ward giided. g
The work is quickly done and is GER
tainly effective.
Painting was thought interesting when
her Majesty came to the throne, says a
writer in London Truth" 1t was con-
sidered proper for an engaged young
lady to swoon away if she received a let
ter containing the news of her lover hav-
ing sprained his leg. The Queen was
thought too insensible because her voice
did not falter when she announced to
the House of Commons her engagement
to Prince Albert ~Consumptive heroines
were best liked by novel readers. Girls
took pride in being in poor health. They
used to talk of their ailments as they
new talkaof the bike and golf.
Prince Albert, when skating on the
pond in Buckingham Palace Gardens
early in the %forties, slid into a hole in
the ice. The Queen did not faint, but
helped to pull him out. She thereby
greatly lost the esteem of romantic la
dies. They would AVE taken a far deeper
interest in her had she swooned away.
the Prince been drowned, and her Ma
jesty come forward after the funeral as
a young and forlorn widow. The men, 1
am sure, would have also liked her better.
They thought 1t all right for elderly
ladies to be sensible; but what they
most priced in young ladies was shipper
ing sensibility or sentinentality. Men
may have felt chivalrous devotion to
the lady with money behind her and fine
houses in which to receive her company;
but the struggling woman who had to
be courageous was no more priced or re-
spected by the other sex than the door
mat.
However, our athletic age cannot be
considered a new era. From the earliest
times the great woman of their day
sought a sound mind in sound body. And
the period when fainting was in vogue
was a mere episode and short lived at
that.
1t is easy to lay faults to the charge
of the new woman, but apparently no
one has thought it worth while to make
her responsible for the novelty in we'd
ding rings. The goldsmith will show
them to his customers. and the October
bride will unglove her left hand to dis
play one of these substitutes for the plain
gold band which has served the last two
generations of men and women. The new
tangled ring is engraved with ornamental