The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-22
for 1Moanen.
Red is running riot,

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and well dressed women.
Why this flaming shade should be de-
sired when the blaze of midsummer heat
IS upon us is a query that belongs to the
VINO was Junius' category? Red is
mere; 1t VIII be worm; it shows on every
tnlng; It Is the belle of shades; to be
on speaking acquaintance with it gives
one a cachet.
one can have 1t in degrees from a
JACK" rose In ones Panama hat to a
red straw toque banded in ~geraniums,
with a red canvas gown made over red
Six and a red parasol to match.
Inc wearer might not dare cross a
meadow alone, but she can walk the
boulevard at any summer resort or
rowde city street and not receive a
passing stare-unless she is simply stun
ning-then she would be looked at, for
that is Natures Law.
Red organizes are the latest innova-
ton among summer dresses; and some of
them are made up over pink silk, but the
majority over red silk dimity. These
trimmed with plaid taffeta ribbons and
Swiss knife pleatings are very dashing.
No material so ordinary but what
haunts itself in the chosen color. Red
and white striped pique, polka-dotted
duck, batiste, dimities, percales and mus
Inns galore answer to the call. Repped
piques in red and white are made up
with Elton jackets, trimmed with white
or black braid and worn over cotton
waists white muslin makes the prettiest
combination for a shirt waist.
I told you before tina old-fashioned
guimpes of lace. muslin and embroidery
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growing more popular.
In white they are especially attractive
with red organizes. 1 saw one yesterday
made of finely hand-tucked Swiss; the
red organdie blouse made over red silk
was cut round at the shoulders, a mar
row, ~stand-up frin finishing it in the old
fashioned way.
Dark red linens are cut with the loose
French blouse to show a guimpe of ac-
Gordon pleated ivory satin and finished
at the neck with, applied ~guipure. Bows
of ribbon on the shoulders nave returned
with the guimpes. These bows are made
with many loops and look like a rosette.
Another innovation is trimmed sashes.
Ribbon or muslin, they tie at the back
in a small bow. and the ends fall to the
hem of the gown.
Each side is trimmed with narrow lace
ruffles, or fine p~leatings of Swiss or mus
lin This is one of the prettiest fashions
of the season and will be rejoiced in by
youthful looking matrons.
american men are the best husbands
in the world" writes Lillian Bell in the
"Woman's Home Companion" IF these
dissatisfied American wives could only
know that an all-wise Providence had,
In the American man, given us the best
article in the market, and that when we
rebel at our lot we are simply prov
ing that we do not deserve our good
fortune, they would never even discuss
the subject of having any other nation
atty.
OF course, in every nation there is a
class of men who are as noble. as high
minded, as chivalrous as even the most
captious American girl could wish. But
l refer to the general run of men when
1 say that there is something about men
born outside of America, a native selfish
ness amounting to a sort of c-allousness;
a lack of perception regarding the fine
ness of womanhood, which summed up
in a few words, might be called mental
brutality, which well-nigh units them
fer close social contact with the super
$ensitive American woman.
y And just as surely as American women
persist in disregarding this subtle yet
unmistakable truth, just so surely will
they lay themselves open to these SOUL
bruises of which American men, as a
race, are incapable of inflicting. I say
they are incapable of inficting them,
because American men, in the face of
everything said n written to the con-
trary, are, in regard to women, the fin
est grained race of men in the world.
If at first you are inclined to question
the truth of that statement, consider
the men who a been educated abroad.
How much is left of their Americanism?
To be sure they are cultured. They
understand music and art, and always
wear gloves; but are gloves essential to
a happy home?
Now, this is all general. I beg that
the wayfaring man, though a fool, will
not imagine that these structures are
true to every man who is not an Ameri-
can, or that all American men are per-
feet. I hardly think, on the whole, thai
I need fear that I shall be thought to
consider all American men perfect. But
I do wish to state clearly and frankly my
admiration for American men as a race.
And when an American man is a gen
tleman, he is. to my mind, the most per-
feet gentleman that any race can boast,
because his good ann spring from
his heart, and there are a few of US old
fashioned enough to plead that polite
ness should go deeper than the skin"
Winter window roses are coveted by
every one, but they are not SO easily
achieved. My most successful undertake
ing of the sort was on this wise: A box
just tied to our deepest window sill was
found large enough to hold four roses.
leaving room for the branches to grow
during summer The varieties chosen
were Clothflde Soupert, Perle des Jardins,
Hermosa and Queens Scarlet. The plants
were nearly a foot high and well
branched. We ordered them Of a florist
in early April and planted them as soon
as they came. In the bottom of the box
was a layer of charcoal for drainage; the
soil above 1t was loan, sand and well
decayed fertilizer thoroughly mixed.
Through he summer we kept the soil as
light and soft about the roots as the
upper mat of them would allow, watered
them thoroughly when the earth seemed
dry, kept all buds picked off, all stray
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