The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-27

And when summer comes again. and
aweary with the social life of your city,
you dream of pastures green and daisy
bedight fields. then go seek that friend to
whom you offered golden hospitality. and
kindly deeds will be returned, methinks,
pressed down an hundredfold. For so
are women made.
"On every hand one hears of the neg
lect to say thank you,'" says Edward w.
Box on THE Saying of Thank YOU in
the November Ladies Home Journal
Il wonder sometimes if some people real
ly know how little of what comes to them
is their due and right. and how much OF
what comes to them is by favor and couf-
tesy. The vast majority of things which
come TO us. come by pure favor, by cour-
tesy. n we should recognize this. No
act of kindness. however slight. should go
unnoticed. A thank YOU is a simple thing
TO say; it requires but a few moments to
write it, but it often means much; it
means everything sometimes to the per-
faith in human nature in some cases. A
word of thanks is never lost. never was
ted. If ii sometimes seems to be lost
upon luS pcTSOn l AuOAi II - iSSt~
its expression has not been lost upon
someone else who has heard it. 1t is GER
tainly not lost upon ourselves. The most
of us are quick enough to thank some
one who does us great service. But the
small courtesy. just as great as the large
service in reality, We overlook. 1t doesn't
seem worth while to give thanks for small
things. And yet what would We be today,
and where would some. of Us be but for
the small courtesies of life? They are
what make life worth living.
$50 $ 1t is all very we'll to have the last
Thursday. of each November set apart as
a day of Thanksgiving. But it would be
far better If a great many of lis carried
the spirit of the day into all the other
days. Perhaps, if we did so we might
have more mercies to be thankful for on
Thanksgiving Day. ** Do not let the
spirit of thanks stop with nightfall on
Thanksgiving Day. Let us extend it to
all the other days of the year. to the peo-
pie whose lives touch ours. When we re-
ceive a favor at the hands of anyone, no
matter how small it may be, let us say
the words, Thank you If they should
be written let us write them. Let us not
delay them, but take advantage of the
instant when our heart is touched. Let
there be more thank yous' by everybody
thousands of them, And the world will
be a better, brighter and happier place
to live in because of them"
-.
A pretty suite of rooms consisting of a
drawing room, library and reception
room-all rather misnamed, by the way,
has been decorated at slight expense, but
with such artistic success that the most
unobserying of persons feels the charm
at once upon entering the apartments.
The hall bedroom was transformed
into avery dainty little study and re-
ception room by hanging the walls with
a cream white paper, striped with pale
blue and adorned by loose bouquets of
pale pink flowers. The floor is polished
and partly covered by a large white fur
rug.
The wood work is white enameled.
Portieres of cream-colored damask strewn
and curtains of soft point d'esprit
frilled with muslin are hung close to the
windows. A shelf has been built in
the window seat, and this is enameled
white, and cushioned with damask. A
Tiny Qcch vi While CfldHiciCQ WOoO, Il Siiii
and graceful sofa of white enameled
wood cushioned with damask, an odd
chair or two and a corner table holding |
a beautiful lamp comprise the furniture
of this little room. The desk is supplied
with fantastic candlesticks of Sevres por-
celain.,
The "parlor'' is also music and sitting
room and is done in sage green. The fur
niture is of mahogany with upholstery in
soft tones of terra Gotta. The pictures are
mostly framed in gilt frames.
The library is also study" den and
lounging room. Its walls are hung with
red paper, the wood work is dull ebony.
The floor is covered with an Oriental
rug. The book shelves are stained black
and the curtains which partly cover the
books are of a deep red silk. The lamps
and the eandlesticks are of dull wrought
iron, and red shades soften the glare of
the light to a studious, dim glow. A wide
couch is heaped with red and yellow pill
lows.
The lace collection of Mrs. Jesse Selig-
man, of New York, is remarkable for its
rare beauty. Mrs. Seligman had especi-
ally good taste in her selection of the
finest specimens.
She purchased a quantity of old Irish
points, point de Gene. Brussels and point
d. Alencon. The especial costliness of the
latter is owing to the fact that twelve
hands are required to produce
a single piece. The design is engraved
upon copper plate and is afterward print
ed npon slips of parchment ten inches
long.
The pattern is then traced with thread
upon d piece of linen attached to the
parchment. The ground netting of this
lace is first worked in. and it thus passes
from hand to hand until completed, when
it is cut from the pattern with a sharp
razor. A point d'Alma shawl has been
known to bring 81, 900.
"
Some of the newer dress materials have
conspicuous patterns TO simulate ribbon.
There is nothing novel, although much
that is pretty. in The ribben stripping, both
narrow and wide. But the braided effect
of lartice-work or ehecker-board is pro-
duced by ribbon stripes crossing each
other at right angles up and down, over
and under each other. The ribbon strip
ing is not in smooth satin bands, but in
softer. stripes of d shirred or crinkled
silk with a duller finish resembling the
silk crepe. The edges look puckered an
slightly drawn. Some lattice weaves are
simple. others are on the diagonal. They