The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-22
4 IDEAS for 1Moamen

Here are some suggestions for those
who have mems stockings to fill at
Christmas
Something practical is an alcohol shay
ing cup. This is a neat continuance Tor
a man to use when travelling, or when
warm water is not easily procurabie.
Cup. lamp. brush, soap and q package
of papers all fold into a neat box, that
takes up no more space in a handbag
than a woman's patent curling iron
apparatus. There Is a square metal case
that holds alcohol, a wick, over which
a top screws when the contrivance is not
In use. a corrugated end on the alcohol
box, for striking matches, two supports
for holding the cup over ire flame, that
fold down fiat when the heat is turned
of and 8 vessel for water. made like a
travellers drinking cup in a series OF
sections that can be drawn out or fall
into one another. The shaving brush
that goes with this slips OF onetaalf its
handle to supply a cap that fits over the
bristle end, and along with it all goes
a little parchment bound book Of shaving
papers, in divers colors, made of Japanese
cotton. A box to hold this paraphernalia
is of leather, and for a mite the owners
INITIALS can. III gill, pc lIiiPItSocd SHCiSOh'
In the way of iewelry, there is an
appropriate gift in the form of a black
silk ribbon fob and silver or gold stick,
and if a watch, or cigarette case, screw
pencil. or handsome umbrella handle is
in contemplation as a mans Christmas
gift, it must be chosen in gun metal
rather h gold or silver. By way OF
a very handsome gift, nothing more
novel can be recommended for a man
than a cigar case of gun metal having
his initial on it in bright gold, not IN
imitation diamonds. as these little be-
Iongings are often decorated.
SIS
Something appropriate for a bachelors
Housekeeping. or for a family where
Welsh rarebits are favored is a good
cheer table. This double-deeked affair
of polished oak has all the fittings for
holding ginger ale and club soda bottles,
spaces for glasses, lemon squeezers, long
lemonade spoons. etc. and is a handsome,
useful piece of furniture to sit, when not
in use, in a dining room corner.
"Good cheer tables are given with
or without the paraphernalia of beer
glasses. long spoons, sugar tongs, cork
screws, etc, and are welcome gifts on the
afternoon of the great holiday, when the
time honored egg-negg is passed around
Pipe racks with places for five, six or
seven pipes are made of cherry wood
with the knots, bits of branches and
bark left on. The pipes are held in place
by bronze or china heads of pretty girls.
funny old monks, animals heads or finely
chiseled bronze lizards.
Leather cases for mems jewelry are
lined with suede and fitted with a tray
divided into several compartments.
There is a place for his watch, an elastic
baad to hold the scarf-pins in place, space
for cuff-links. shirt studs and ring and a
roomy receptacle for any other trinkets
with which the masculine peacock may
see fit to deck himself.
Card sets range from the modest pack
in a leather case, to the perfectly ap-
pointed box holding several packs, coun-
tiers, chips and all the requisites for
every game, from beziane- to euchre.
A card. cigarette. cigar and stamp case
combined, is very fiat and slim, in spite
of its m-ultitudinous uses.
A tobacco jar of cut glass with silver
top, of silver or of wood with the bark
left on and an Indian head carved on the
cover is a useful trifie appreciated by the
man who smokes.
A case for cigarette paper with the
recipients initials in enamel on the silver
cover can be carried in the waisteoat
pocket
A silver pocket knife containing file
and corkserew, or a cycle knife, con-
tanning a serewdriyer. valve plyers and
tire litter, as well as blade and cork
screw, makes a useful and novel present.
If oness particular Bachelor entertains
under his own roof-tree, a set of Doulton
ware in "Old Toby design would be a
quaint gift. The set might consist of
an ale jug and six mugs, ali decorated in
the peculiar way which gives the ware
its lame
A shaving case of pigskin contains sill
ver-steel razors, shaving paper, scissors,
court plaster and a chanleis book for
polishing razors-
An actress celebrated for her exquisite,
baby-like complexion assured the writer
that it has all been acquired during the
two last years. WhereHpon I begged the
secret raodus. Thereof, being a woman,
and initiative.
Steam and rubbing" she said turning
toward me, her pretty mouth filled with
a big narslmallow she was REDUCING to
its normal state.
Eyes. you see,'' she went on, 'I had a
complexion too horrible to think about
two years ago. I was quite miserable
about it, and my enforced use of make
up upon the stage / abhorred, so that I
determined not to become its slave during
the day.
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