The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-09
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reasonable figure. Some nave daihry NJ
tie views engraved on the cara others
show miniature reproductions of famous
paintings, and still others nave q iuhhs
little legend. with a picture TO match.
These postals are supposed TO oe sent 10
the collector by his or her friends, and
are kept in little albums made especially
for this purpose. The albums often con-
tain -tiny etchings or photographers on
the clasps which hold the postals in place
Unfortunately the number of souvenir
postals that can be obtained here is Inn
tied to about twenty different designs,
while in Europe there are hundreds avail
able.
With a little patience and little cost any
one can make postals as pretty as any
that can be bought. First OF all II Is
necessary to procure q large number OF
stamps, the common one and two-ceht
stamps, the ten-cent and the two-eent
embossed envelope stamp being the most
servlceable for the purpose. These must
be soaked in water and detached from
the envelopes. A few plain postal cards
and a bottle of mucilage complete the
outfit.
The idea is to cut the stamps up and
arrange them in pretty designs on the
postals, leaving a small space for writ
ing. Any design may be chosen, the
same as for the stamp plates which were
in vogue some years ago and, OF course
considerable ingenuity and invention can
be exercised in designing new patterns.
One idea shows four-leaved clovers and
the pink clover flower. This design is
very effective. 1t may be made symbolic
ard poetic by inscribing the following 1T
tie verse on the postal, using red or green
ink so as not to disturb the harmony or
colors:-
One leaf is for Hope. and one is for Faith,
And one is for Love you know;
And God put another one there for Luck.
If you search you will find where they
grow.
The embossed green stamp is used for
the leaves in this design, each small leaf
and the stem being cut separately. The
flowers are made of the head of the two
cent. stamp. which is cut into rounded
strips, narrow at the ends and wide at
the middle.
Another of four-leaved clovers only
without any flowers, and, while less DAM
ty, is preferred by some for its simplicity.
The verse mentioned above may also be
inscribed On this postal, green ink being
used.
A third is the most difficult to make,
and perhaps the prettiest of the flower
designs. It is a palm in a pot. The leaves
may be cut from the ten-cent green stamp
which contains less white than the em-
bossed green envelope stamp. But if II
is not possible to secure a sufficient num-
Der of the ten-cent stamps, the two-cent
may be used by pasting a small piece of
green over the white head Great care
must be exercised in doing this, however,
as it is difficult to paste this evenly ard
neatly. The pot is made of two two-cent
stamps, carefully cut and matched so that
both heads are complete.
Attractive designs may be made by
cutting the one-cent stamps up into for
get-me-nets. One spray of these sweet
little flowers thrown negligently across
the postal makes as pretty a design as
any. In cutting the forget-me-nots, it is
best to first draw the design with pencil
on the wrong side mot with ink, which
blurs the postaD. trying to keep as near
the centre of the stamp as possible, as
this part is the lightest in color.
violets may also be cut from the three
cent stamp, and black-eyed Susans from
the yellow special delivery stamp or the
Canadian one-cent stamp. There are no
black stamps, and it is, therefore, neees-
sary in cutting the centre of the black
eyed Susans to use any stamp cancelled
in the old-fashioned blotchy way, which
is pretty close to the color of the centre.
Wild roses-the five-leaved kind-ean be
cut from the red twos.
There is another kind of postal which
any one can make, and which is far
simpler BY pasting pretty little views
or reproductions of paintings on postals
charming effects can be produced. The
views and illustrations can be obtained
in abundance from summer resort
guides. from illustrated catalogues, old
magazines, etc.
Politics and, fashion nave a close re-
1ationsnip. AS long as England and
France were the chief European powers
all of the styles h were imported came
from the capitals of those countries. The
Triple Alliance added Berlin n Vienna
to the list, and now that the Car has
become the most commanding figure upon
~ European horizon Russian styles are
all the rage. This winter offers no ex-
to the rule. as in addition to the
blouse and blouse effects the use
of furs for costumes and for
there are also hundreds of designs neat
and simple. Oriental and gorgeous, which
been taken from the designers of
ST. Petersburg and Moscow.
One of these d but pretty ere
ations is here described. The skirt
bodice are made of a rich cloth
in one of the new autumn colors, ST.
berian purple. The skirt is almost bell
Shaped, being closely gored at the front
and sides, but loose enough in the pack
to form a few delicate folds. AT the
1t is decorated with heavy LSrs
Of soutache braid arranged vertically in
groups of three. The upper part of each
terminates in a treble loop or clover
final. -
The waist is a blouse effect almost as
loose as the famous Moujik blouse. 1t
is caught at the belt by a combination
band of satin, cloth and backing, from
it falls in a trim peplum so as to
cover the Outline of the hips. The
blouse is also fastened at the neck.
the heck to the belt it is seemingly
the edges disclosing an apparent
vest front of the same material beneath,
covered with braid embroidery.
From the armhoies small shoulder-pieces
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