The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-20

| grade, and not capable OF SUCH exquisite
cutting. The large flesh pink n white
brooches are very much worn by richly
dressed women of fashion, n one smart
Austrian dame here has a whole cein-
ture made of large canoes, all set alike.
and clasped in front with a still larger
stone. Bracelets, too, made of small
canoes, are worn just as our blessed
grandmothers wore them, set in their
old gold. and fastened with q little deli
cate chain. %Stickpins. of course, are
made of canoes, and hatpins also come
in for a like attention.
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Sometimes 1t IS a very little thing that
win give the impression of a well-ordered
home and a systematic mistress. l was
calling at a house the other day, said a
society man recently, and as l found the
lady I wished to see out, and had a mes
sage to deliver, I asked the maid, after
| vainly fumbling in my pocket for a PEN
| Gil. II she would get me one.
I expected, from my experience on a
similar occasion, a wait of several min
utes, while she hunted it up; to my
surprise, however, she promptly presented
me with a neat little pad, to which a
sharply-pointed pencil was attached, and
| which was evidently kept on the hall
table for just such emergencies.
1t was a simple detail, if you will, but
| one which stamped that house forever
in my mind as being well regulated in
| every department, and presided over by
a thoughtful woman.
1 had occasion to notice the contrast
when stopping at another house to leave
fba 90 |, rnaSSla e Ir Was an invita- -iOn
from my sister for a little theatre party
she was organizing, when a similar need
presented itself. please wait a mo-
ment," said the Abigail, in answer to
my request. Il will look for one" and
leaving me in the hall she iarted into
the drawing room, fumbled at a smart
looking writing table, covered with silver
paraphernalia, and, after failing to find
what she wanted. she disappeared within
an inner room, evidently a library.
Emerging again. apparently unsuccessful,
and exclaiming apologetically, There
ought to be a pencil somewhere; I will go
and ask Miss Mary for one" she ran
upstairs.
In the meantime whispered voices, n
a rapidly withdrawn head over the balus-
tiers made tina wait in the hall most
disagreeable; and the whole gave a dis
tinctIy bad impression of the general
management of that home.
A girl should be early taught to pack
her belongings rapidly and closely; the
art is easily taught, and saves a world of
and worthy, for who does not
know the evaporation of a box which
nothing but sheer brute force will bring
to a fastening point, simply because the
owner pursues the simple CD plan Of
"chueking tn his dhis form is usually
masculine) or her belongings and then sit
ting violently On the lid, till the unfor-
tunate trunk is bulged out of all shape,
and the whols of it's contents bear the APP
p~earance of having been slept in!
There is, again, another packer almost
as trying, and this is the particular, not
to say faddy, person, who has a special
corner for everything, n would be
positively wretched If the slippers APP
peared from the right, instead of the left
hand corner, or If every portion CT her
wardrobe were not done up in little sill
yer paper curl papers! Character is read
by writing, the expression of the face
tells tales as to its owners characteristics
r many people aver that they can tell
a lady's nature from the appearance of
her drawing room.
Well, personally, I believe one can find
out all one wants to know from the per-
sonal luggage of any traveller, and that
the way they pack betrays more than the
cleverest palmist or the most experienced
thought-reader can evolve.
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It Is noticed that the sleeves of the
French dresses (which we all copy when
we get the opportunity are made to fit
like a glove over the shoulder. The
shoulder drapery is slight, yet it exists.
The proper way to apply 1t is to stitch it
ON two inches or more below the Shout
der seam, on the sleeve, and to turn it up
toward the shoulder, like an epaulette re-
versed. The old fashioned way fastened
the drapery with the slseve at the upper
part of the arm hole, with one seam. In
reversing the epaulettes the idea seems to
be, as usual, to get something as different
wearing. Indeed, the fashions Of one
season seem subtly designed to discredit
those of the previous season. For this
reason the woman who has one street
dress UP to date looks smarter thai her
GlSt6T VINO puTCLASSS Hall Il uOZeu al d
time and spends her strength in altering
sleeves and skirts.
Talk about men enjoying themselves
when their families are summering,'s
laughed a bright woman yesterday. "It's
all nonsense. That's what 1t is. We go
every year to the country or to resorts
which my husband can reach every even
ing. We tried the other plan one year
but it didn t work. BY the time we had
been a week absent, the head of the
house was writing sue home-sick letters.
utterly wretched. bitter letters, that it
ended in the whole family trotting back
to town. Last winter, too, my husband
was run down a little from over work,
and the doctor ordered him to the sea-
shore for two weeks. He left one day
and came back the next. No more of
that for me- he said. Two lays longer
and / should be as insane as they make
en-
Certainly we are outgrowing our SUI
perstttions. Have you noticed how many
women now wear opal rings? And pro-
fessfonaI ~ecoration are introducing pea
cock piumes into their creations. No
wonder that the opal is so much appre-
ciated. Besides It's lovely tints it has
over almost all gems. 1t cam
not be initiated with any degree of sue
cess. There is no reproducing those opa-
ts-. st-&. Dat ~1r- hrip1 tho- fx,o ,,-