The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-01

are the desirable finish.
A simple and pretty dress of spotted
foulard Is trimmed with ruchings of
lowered lace IN the skirt and sleeves
and bodice. where the trimming forms a
yoke, and the material is tucked between
the ruchings below.
The new piques are finer in texture and
more dainty in coloring than ever be-
fore. They are both striped and figured
but the plain colors in light t.nts OF blue,
pink and heliotrope. with satin finished
stripes, are quite the prettiest of all.
This material will be made up in the
coat and skirt style of gown A pref
~ model has two COWS of embroidered In
sertion on the skirt and one row on the
square revers of the coat, which has a
White silk vest tucked and trimmed
across with narrow lace frills.
The style of skirt with many cores is
best for the pique gowns, and the seams
may be outlined with narrow embroidered
insertion or trimmed with braid of var
Gus kinds. one of which Is like a cord
and gives the effect Of a piped seam.
The short, loose coat is ~prophesied as
one of the reigning models for piqne
gowns, and in the bolero form. just
reaching the belt, and PRETTY braided
with white. it will be very attractive over
the colored silk shirt waists, provided it
10 suited to the figure.
Women. says q woman writing from
Paris, here are rather dependent on those
tiny shopping bags that are attached to
the waist. Now that dresses are devoid
Of pockets and sleeves are too tight at
the wrists for a handkerchief to be
tucked away there, it is almost necessary
to resort to one of these useful little
bags.
One 1 saw worn with a dark brown
cloth costume was positively ornamental
and CAV a bright, pretty color note to
the sombre brown gown. 1t was made
of Turquoise blue morocco mounted on
gold clasps. A narrow gold belt with
Turquoise clasps supported the bag.
These little bags are made to esemble
pieces of jewelry, in fact. are such. You
see them displayed in the jewelers. win
dows. One that / saw was a gold mesh
with a clasp of ~olivines. those stones
that look like emeralds. On one side
was a cluster Of olivines put on in the
form of a leaf, with a bud of blue stones
attached. A small cluster Of flowers to
make a spray of something is quite a
common thing among the higher priced
belt bags. Others are less expensive.
The fancy for having one's monogram
upon one side of a bag and a miniature
set in the other side is another new idea.
1t is very pretty. and the miniature can
be inexpensively worked in silk.
If one were to pick out the absolute es-
sentiaI of a toilet a la mode one would
say the very tall collar, not the crush
or the ruff. but the Medicis. or some vari-
alton of it. The round high Medicis is
sometimes slashed. Again it is split in
the middle of the back; again it is high,
round, edged with fur and brilliantly
| lined.
Another essential Of the shopping gown
is the small Jacket. No woman Fixes to
shop In a fur coal. and, therefore. the
short, handy little bolero, the lined wrap.
the small b~road.oth cutaway, are fa-
yorites. They are. of course, deliberately
trimmed, until they become the beautiful
| little garments of the season. Almost
fussy, o would say, hearing about
them. but SO delightfully."- is the braiding
mingled with the fur. go skillfully the vel
vet appliques introduced, that the whole
is a delightful bit of mosaic which you
| cannot see without admiring.
THAT babies ought to cry OCCASION
| ally is a fact well known to doctors, but
| one which seems to be very much against
the creed of mothers and nurses says
Florence Hull Winterburn. in ''Woman's
Home Companion sThe model babies
who never cry are unnatural specimens.
Crying is the only exercise a young
baby gets; it expands the lungs, causes
I "a boftcr otro1,1offAp Of tho h10nd and
helps on muscular growth. OF course,
fretting when there is discomfort is to
be promptly attended to: and screaming
| (Which might cause rupture) must not
be allowed: but a really healthy little
cry. when nothing particular IS the mat
ter. save that baby needs that mode of
| expression for his pent-up f~eeiings-this
is not q thing to make everybody run and
| try to divert the little ones attention or
to stop him. or get him out of the way
| as if there was a fire or a runaway To-
| connective coming.
1.-THE noise is not pleasant, but If we
were once assured that it was a harmless
| pastime for baby. most of us could re-
| concile ourselves to it once In a while.
| Not at night. If there is one lesson
more important than another it is that
darkness and stiffness go together.
but although the idea may be a novel
one, there Is something to be said in favor
of little babies being allowed a small cry
ing spell-that is an exercise spell-dur.ng
the day. purely upon the grounds Of
health"
The white silk and satin bodice is a
pretty feature of the new cloth gowns,
which are made of clothing for calling
and theatre wear. 1t is neither full or
plain, with a short velvet bolero over it.
A pretty model In this sort of gowns is
of cloth in a pink shade of Violet, and the
bodice is of white poult de sole made
with a yoke deliberately embroidered in
gold thread and colored beads, while be-
low the yoke the silk is finely plated. A
band of the embroidery outlines the white
silk belt, which fastens with a bow on one
side. The sleeves of silk are closely fitted
to the arm. n frills Of lace fall over
the hand. The coat worn with this dress
should be in the form of a short sacque
made Of velvet and In a darker shade than
the skirt. or Of black, and trimmed round
with sable or ~chinchflla.
"Consomme should jelly from its owr
strength and richness" conides the man.
ager of one of New york's most famous
restaurants, but in point of fact it Is
rarely made to that degree of excellence