The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-14

In the coforing of these brown costumes,
end particularly becoming to women
with ciaer complications and chestnut
hair.
The new training school for domestic
services opened in Chicago win be
watched with interest. because it
claims to be founded ssupon Wisdom
gathered from past errors and failures OF
like Efforts"
The institution is Incorporated unde
State laws, with a house provided with
ample grounds for its extension if war
ranted by the success of the venture.
The first class consists of twenty-five
Young women who have the best refer
ence for fa3thfulneas in performing their
dutiess The instruction given will be
not only in cookery, but In all branches
that have to do with economy. comfort
and health and the proper maintenance Of
a house.
The best and most improved methods
will be taught. The pupils are received
free of charge, also without compensa-
Etion from the school for the first six
moths. Aster the probation So a week
will be given to each pupil until she
graduates. which will be at the end of
two years.
AT the end of that time a diploma
and the sum of 500 will be given. Special
courses of instruction will also be given
to those who desire to fit themselves
for a branch of work only; but only
after the preliminary six months train~
ing required as a basis for any kind of
service.
Negligee gowns were never so pretty
or so fascinating in style as they are
now.
They are made of fine cashmere, thin,
soft elk. and crepe de chine in all the
light, delicate colors, and deliberately
trimmed with lace and ribbon. Gne Of
the seasons models in pink crepe de
chine is made with a skirt with a Span
ish ~ffounce, headed by two rows of mar
row valenciennes insertion, set in above
to form a bow-knot in front and back,
and trimmed around the edge with a
lace frill.
The jacket is one of the loose, straight
styles so fashionable in street coats, and
is laid IN plaits below the yoke and
trimmed with the lace insertion, which
also stripes the bishop sleeves. Morning
gowns of cashmere made with a Wat
teau back, a pointed belt of velvet to
draw the fullness in 1t the waist in
front, and a velvet bolero and collar
edged with lace. and serviceable and
dressy as well.
The Jacket effect is in the front, and
a frill of lace falls over the short puff
at fhn ton of tho cloaryoc x
49,.
If there are evergreen growing about
the home, the boughs that are trimmed
off in the fall pruning will make an
ideal Winter protection fer the half
hardy plants in the outdoor garden
For the hardest plants only a covering
of these boughs will be required, aid on
rather loosely, but for tender roses,
ETC.. it is best to give a good covering
Of leaves, and then a thick layer of the
evergreen boughs, to keep the leaves in
place. This covering should not be plac-
ed about the plants too early in the sea-
SON; January will be early enough, after
the ground is frozen. The idea is not to
prevent the ground from freezing, but to
protect the roots of the plants from the
alternate thawing and freezing of the
changeable winter and early spring
weather. In removing the evergreen
boughs In the spring, after settled wealth
er, take off only the branches, and allow
the evergreen needles to remain on the
beds, 4and-they will serve as az simmer
mulch, ard be very beneficial in times of
drought, besides serving as a fertilizer to
a certain extent.
1t is a great mistake, says a writer
in the Ladies Home Journal" for any
young woman to Judge poetry by the
melodious tinkling of currelt verse, and
to say that she can't read poetry
Real poetry finds a nome in every wo-
mans heart. It's tenderness, its music,
the vagrant ~fancies, its vivid emotions
are more adapted to her nature than to
the masculine mind. If she does not
read the best poetry she is missing one
of h most refined and consoling in
fuences that car enter her life through
the medium of books. A woman who
has not read Keats Eve of St. Agnes"
Colerfdge's "-Christabel," Mrs. Browning's
Aurora Leigh" Shelley's "Adonais,"
Wordsworthss lode to Immortality"
TeHny60nS 1QylS Oh the hluS ana
Longfeiiow's *'Evangeline' has uncon-
sciously missed the greater part of her
emotional inheritance.
The Jackets this season are prettier
than ever. and it is difficult to choose
from the varied assortments put before |
one. However, you can always be suited,
whatever your taste nay be.
A very stunning French .jacquette," as
the French call it, is of heavy biscuit-col-
or cloth, trimmed en- hussard; that Is
straight aross. It fits closely and has
rather small sleeves. A black feather boa
looks very well with this and is good and
comfortable for frosty days. A little black
velvet hat, trimmed with a black tip, an
aigrette, and a little white lace, COM
plete a pretty outfit.
For facial neuralgia this is the very
best plan to secure quick relief: Heat
a freestone hot and roll up in a cloth,
wetting one side of it, and turning about
a teaspoonful of essence Of peppermint
on the wet surface. Lay the face against
this and cover the whole head up warm
1y with 1annel. 1t will give relief in
almost everv instance. Or heat a basin
of salt, very hot, put it in q bag Inc
apply to the face: there is something
about the salt that seems to relieve the
main where simply the heat will not help |