The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-29

| girls. The danger to immaturity always
becomes greater as the danger to matrr-
ity grows less. This we should never
overlook. 1t is a blessed change that
things are safely possible to women which
were absolutely impossible a few years
ago. But progress is dangerous as well
as healthful. If parents interpret the
present changing conditions by allowing
greater freedom to their daughters they
will make a very sad mistake"
s
My own thought is that a good solution
of summer vacation work lies in the
graceful embroidery of small pieces of
household linen. and that this can be
done in WAYS which shall meet most of
the requirements of which we have spo-
ken: fer certainly fads and fancies of all
sorts can be impressed upon these house
hold pages, says "Harper's Bazar.'
Take. for instance, the most prosaic
form of it, the marking or embroider-
Ing of initials or monograms. There are
SO many ways of doing this which are
not only beautiful, but unhackneyed and
interesting, and there are so MANY inter-
esting people to do them for, besides that
most interesting of persons, ones self.
Think, for Instance of the delight of re-
ceiving at Christmas or birthday a set
of damask napkins with ones own ini-
tials curiously embroidered upon hem;
or of having a towel with a legend drop
ping down Upon one at some opportune
OCCASION; or of a centre cloth for a golf
breakfast or luncheon with golfing inci-
dents etched around the border-not to
speak of the innumerable tea-cloths
sprinkled with all the growths of nature
the inventions of mind
But think 1 like best the old initiating
and marking; to exercise ones good
stitchery and good judgment and fine
ingenuity upon that is field enough, l find,
for my own summer ambition. To en-
broider a w beautifully, and as it was
never done before, to have it appear with
unlooked-for variation twelve times on
twelve new and fine damask napkins,
quite satisfies my waning ambition.
There are so many ways of setting
one's seal upon the linen which belongs
to one, so many ways of saying this
thing cleaves to me in the general dis
tribution of world goods" and saying it
originally and attractively, that it ought
to satisfy one.
But many women will not be satisfied
with simple marking of domestic linen
during the holiday summer hours-I know
it. No matter how they are tempted with
arabesque and flourish, for them remains
the problem of suiting size TO color, and
achieving bits of decoration which shall
give scope to fancy and satisfy artistic
longings.
The fat has gone forth thai the bonnet
must so. Only quite elderly ladies are
wearing bonnets nowadays. Toques or
berets of pliable satin straw take the
| place of the capotes once SO much in IA
vcr. Of course strings may be put on the
smaller toques, and those take away the
youthful effect, so that ladies who wish
to be fashionable and yet not too juvenile
in appearance may compromise on black
velvet or tulle strings.
Some of the toques in the soft, gray
| shades are lovely, and may have white
tulle trimmings and strings with a bunch
of white or pearl gray ostrich tips. These
are quite appropriate for any but very old
ladies, and are almost universally becom-
ing.
Time was when colored kid shoes were
unknown, at least to fashion, and satin
was utilized entirely, in shades to match
the different costumes. Now, however,
kid shoes are made in SO many artistic
| cclorings that it is possible to lave a per-
feet match, and it is not to be denied that
soft, plfable kid is preferable in every
way to satin, except perhaps for evening
slippers.
A brand new idea is the Elsinore shoe.
| This has a band of gold leather turning
| down from the top and forming a square
across the instep. 1t is matched by a
gilt heel, and the gold part is punctured.
This is singularly effective and much
worn.
Gowns with guimpe yokes are much in
favor for afternoon wear. n eve swag-
ger women who do not have to economic
are not too proud to wear a yoked-top
| dress in the afternoon and the same dress
in the evening with the yoke out and the
pretty throat and upper neck showing.
Very low neck gowns are kept for evening
wear only, while it is considered the pref
ty thing to wear to a tea a gown cut out
| p~rettiiy at the neck. She whose neck
will stand the sunshine sometimes appears
in broad daylight with the neck of her
dress cut down. and with a great picture
| hat tue tilSCL 1S lNcAuclluOuSiy pSSoAA1iii6s
| but the throat exposed hus is very ike
ly to lose Its dazzling purity of color and
not look so well by gaslight.
| $50
Any good wholesome diet will build up
| the nerves, says the Ladies' Home Jour
\ nal" The food that nourishes the end of
| the little finger nourishes also the brain
| and the entire body Each part is but
a portion of a perfect whole. and we can
not select food to build especially one
| part of the human structure. Fatty foods
are supposed to be beneficial to the
nerves, as they cushion them and counter
| act the Irritating conditions. Starchy
| foods. fatty meats and ~over-eating ten
to the accumulation of fat.
MORE taffeta is the newest ribbon and
is not as expensive as things In their first
| season are apt to be. 1t can be bought
for the same price as the plain taffeta
and is considered more desirable.
Handkerchiefs were made fashionable
by the Empress Josephine, who had bad
| teeth, and held a handkerchief before her
mouth when she laughed.
"
Accessories of colored pique braided in
white are 1.-THE" thing for white pique
blouse and jacket suits.