The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-06

They have tucks and insertions running
all directions and criss-cross. and the
degree of this elaboration depends only
on the time or money one wishes to
spend. Morning gowns are simple
enough. One of brown bingham for a
girl of twelve has the skirt and blouse
covered with wild tucks running round
A belt of green satin ribbon is finished
with a rosette on the right side, and a
rosette ana long end on the left side Of
the front. 1t is a belt-finish. much used
for children.
HI first school gowns will be made in
BLU and green Scotch plaids, trimmed
with narrow blue satin or velvet ribbon.
A model has rows of velvet around the
bottom in graduated widths, and a box
plated blouse, with square epaulettes
covering the shoulders. trimmed to
match the skirt. Autumn jackets for
girls over ten will be cut with double
breasted square front and loose belted
back, like that described above for
adults. They will make also ~box-plaited
blouses of colored velveteen, for wear
with plaid wool or surah skirts. The
skirt, if trimmed, will have rows OF vel
| vet ribbon to match the blouse.
Little girls hats for autumn will have
wide brims of shirred velvet. The trim
ming is all massed ON the front, and is
simply a ribbon tied with large loops.
to which is added. when elaboration is
wanted, an ostrich feather that stands
straight up in front.
Is physical beauty worth cultivating?
Women say it Is.
And men say it is worth while for wom-
en- to cultivate it.
Men have lived, and there may be a
few living now, for whom beauty has no
charms.
However, it is not a question of taste,
but of health and vigor. Some delicate,
| sickly or nervous women are pretty, at
tractive and 1~oveable. but all healthy, Wig
| orous, active women are handsome and
command the attention of men.
Proper physical culture adds greatly to
the attractiveness of women; but this Is
| a small matter as compared with added
| usefulness. The land is becoming bur-
| dened with men and women who are
physically debilitated to such a degree
that they are incapable of usefulness to
the present, much less to coming genera
items.
II has long been conceded that school
children should receive physical as well
as mental culture, but it was thought
tina the former bore no sort of compare
son to the latter. Now the better class
of educators are coming to the conclusion
that in point of value they are much the
same.
Systematic exercise is good for grown
people, but it rarely overeomes the de-
fects that started in childhood and which
might have been easily prevented by
proper training while they were young.
You account for persons being defective
in intelligence by saying that they did
not receive proper or sufficient mental
training while they were young.
Many physical defects may be account
ed for in the same way.
And now that impaired health is gem
orally attributed to defective physical
development, the necessity for physical
culture appears all the more imperative.
Nor must we expect results too soon.
Children receiving culture give more or
less evidence of being benefited, but not
until they have become fully developed
will we be able to see the full benefits.
AS well expect to see the real benefits
arising from school education before the
Individual has arrived at maturity.
1t is being more and more generally
conceded that a healthy body is necessary
to a healthy mind:
There are ever so many women who
have numbers of charmingly built gowns,
but whos unfortunately, never look well
in any of them after the first or second
wearing. The trouble generally is the
lack of care of a froek after it Is finish
ed. A street costume should never be
worn in the house for any length of time,
the practical dressmaker assures us, for
the skirt that is sat in soon becomes
baggy and loose at the knees, loses its
graceful hang, and the lining canvas Is
certain to become wrinkled or creased.
An absent-fninded woman is sire to sit
on the folds or pleats In the back until
she has them all pulled to one side, and
no matter how careful she is, the front
breadth will show signs of wear or be-
come spotted In a very short space of
time.
It may seem an exertien at first to
change the dress the moment one enters
the house, but in a little while it will
become second nature, especially II the
pretty house waist and skirt are ready
10 the nanQ, ana lne street uT6SS Will
appear all the fresher and more stylish
for its rest.
Skirts should not be folded. II It can
possibly be avoided, after the stiffening
is put In them, and most certainly they
should never be folded across, for this
will leave an unsightly crease. Tape
loops should be sewed TO the belt at the
sides, and the skirt turned inside out and
hung up by these. A better plan even
than this is to have a sheet of unbieach-
ed muslin, which can be hung up over
the skirts ana dresses without turning
them; to keep off the dust. If the skirts
are kept In a long box or in one of those
most convenient box couches, they must
necessarily be folded lengthwise from
the belt to the hem. In doing this always
fold the sides of the skirt inward, so
that the front will not be creased. If
sheets Of tissue paper are laid beneath
the folds they will not crease to any
great extent. Packages Of orris root and
violet powder laid in the box give a
sweet; fir scent to the garments,
which Is much to be preferred to liquid
perfumes
Never put d skirt away that has not
been thoroughly brushed. especially along
the binding at the lower edge. The min
ute particles of sand and dirt will cut
and fray the material like so many tiny |
knives. De not NEEDLE with muddy spots
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