The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-03
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NFSN L0W 6PTlih3 kkdtSs !
would be Wild with Joy II I was only 8
years old and felt that 1t wou be my
lot to wear one of those fetching poke
bonnets that the mialanerss are bringing
out for children.
A poke was always a bewhtching af-
fair. Every one knows the charm Of a
lilac sunbonnet, but no girls, except the
Southern ones, dare go abroad in Stats
and Bingham during the heated season.
But the next best thing Is the poke,
Probably grown people will find FASH
ion debating our g~randmothers' favor
ties for their wear before long. but as
the present season stands. children are
to AVE the first show. as the boys
cay.
/ saw q half dozen beauties yesterday.
Some were of straw. some of silk and
chiffon. One was a deep poke, the brinl
of Leghorn faced with deep .shirrings of
white chiffon. The GROWN was of chiffon
pulled over pink silk A fall of pink
silk and white clinton served as a rufle
around the back and as strings.
Another had a crown of blue silk with
shur grass cloth over 1t, a rough yellow
brim. with fine autings of blue silk lining
the brian. About the brim on the out
side were rose ruchings of blue silk
caught with a few daisies here and
there. The strings were of thin blue
silk with wide lace rufies ending them.
A few of the broad-brimmed shade hats
for very little girls have these shirred
crowns of some fine material and the
brin of rough straw. Daisies are the
flowers to be used as trimming and pleat-
ings Of china silk and gauze and fine en-
broidery are plentiful.
Now a word to the clever, economical
mother. Why not make the baby a poke
yourself?
There must be broad-brimmed hats that
have seen service. forsif you are really
clever you keep a large box where you
put away all available MILLINERY after
pressing and taking threads out OF IT.
The brim of one Of your hats will do.
Cut the crown out, clean the straw if
it needs It. put a marrow. wire IN the
edge to bend the brim about the face.
Face with a shirr.ng of silk mullin OF a
knife plcating of gauze or net or silk in
some very light shade.
THIS pleating has been sold recently by
some SHtpS DIT LII II a. SSito
If it is thin, put 1t In double. and if
narrow, put several rows in to line the
broad brim. The fluffy effect is tcharm-
ing.
Do not catch these p~leatings down firm
Iy on the outer edge: just tack them
at intervals to keep them from falling and
showing the -brim.
Make your crown of silk under sheer
muslin or grass cloth over silk or Brus-
sell net over satin. / am sure you have
some OF the materials slowed away, or, if
not, the cost is slight
A ruffse at the back of the crown, like
the facing in the brfm, a pair of strings
md a few daisies or rosebuds If you
have them-and your baby has a FASH
enable poke"
The fashion of running bebe ribbons on
net ruffles is quite popular as trimming
for these hats 1t is a pretty, soft
fashion and goes well with babies
And let me give you that point for
adorning many OF baby's frocks and
coats for summer. These ruffles or
p.eat.ngs of white net with narrow rib
bon on them are exceedingly stylish on
everything.
You can make many of these pleatings
during dull evenings If you are thrifty,
and when the spring sewing comes ON
you will be ready with yards of TRIM
ming.
These ruffles are not good for little
frocks that are constantly IN the wash
tub. for say what you will about wash
ribbons they never hook quite as pretty
after constant .'drubbsng."
"WelI Pm just 30 now. and I've been
taking care of my complexion steadily
for ten years. and I Just wish you'd no
tice what a fright 1t u.s. broke in one of
the women at, lecture of taking care of
the skin I've tried tincture. of benzoin,
~g1ycerine and rose water. a face mask,
steaming and massage, and If there's a
tougher. ugiier. rougher. more shriveled-
looking face on any woman of my age
in this city, then she can have the blue
ribbon for downright homeliness."
You've doctored your complexion al
most to DEATH answered madame quiet
ly. Many women do. They use pre-
partitions, excellent in themselves often,
but not suited to their requirements.
Tincture of benzoin is very detrimental
to oily skins. The familiar rose water
and glyeerine in the majority Of instances
makes the complexion dry. yellow and
Ieathery.
Face masks are readful IN their eff
fects on not only the skin but the general
health, particularly those made Of rub
Der. They anake the face perspire, and
the impurities which exude from the pores
cling to the rubber for a while. and are
reabsorbed. Steaming the face robs the
skin OF its natural oil. causes wrinkles to
appear and makes one sensitive to
neuralgia. Uader the delusfve pretense of
facial massage many hundreds of women
have had the delicate tissues of their
faces pinched and slapped and rubbed
and twisted without any regard whatever
for the natural condition of the skim.
Disappointment generally follows the use
of all the things / have mentioned. and
also of the methods employed. All of
these remedies are enough to ruin a wom-
ms face.
Zone should be as careful about soaps
used on the skin as about diet. The best
soap in the world for the complexion is
. pure olive soap made In the south of
Spain from the fruit of trees that grow
near the creeks.
Tt takes six months to make this soap,
and 1T is expensive. but II Is economy to
a a good price for anything that goes
on the complexion woman cries cut
against paying 81 for "a. box of powder
She doesn't know that it win last twice.
as long as 81 worth OF cheap powder.
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