The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-23

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| often stiff with embroidery in bullion
thread. One OF these gorgeous frocks has
| heavy embroidery in steel; another has
the waist composed Of Russian lace and
the skirt of silver MORE. A dalllia-colored
cloth has heavy embroidery OF dull gold
thread, and a costume of black velvet
has panels Of jet spangled embroidery.
Again, many black cloth gowns have
the skirt draped with special folds in or
der to display heavy scrolls of embroidery
in silvery cord. The scroll pattern is de-
cidedly the most handsome of the designs
yet suggested for skirt embroidery.
The brown velvet and fawn cloths re-
ceive the most of the gold embroidery,
while the silver is applied to gray, green
and black impartially. The violet and
mahogany cloths look best with applica-
tions of black embroideries, heavy knot
ted cords Of black silk, in which per-
hape a CLINT of gilt or steel is introduced.
Occasionally the waistcoat and skirt
panel are actually incrusted with APP
pliques of silvered embroidery.
Three large buttons of g~reenish crystal
are used to fasten the blouse front of a
green cloth costume. That is, they look
do II LlSy 1ootSA IL, PNN
colored glass are really used as orna-
ments, and are too large to be of use as
fastenings. The loops or buttonholes to
match would be too large to fulfil their
office without %disfguring the blouse.
A single row of buttons, balls of anne
thyst crystal, go in a straight row down
the middle of another blouse front. Some
times the crystal buttons are stitched to
<to joa1<ns ad0a~ ipsfaa6 Of down the
blouse front. The effect is a little too
theatrical and makes the wearer look as
if she had borrowed the jacket of a
| Mexican rnuleteer.
A great deal OF money may be spent on
crystal buttons. Sometimes they are made
of natural crystal, and sometimes of coli
ored glass.
The appearance of black walnuts at des-
sert reminds us that it hardly pays to buy
cracked walnuts or to let the provision
dealers boy crack them for you. A fine
| dish of shells will be the result. Crack
your black walnuts at home, and see that
your dealer gives you honestly this sea-
sons fall, and not the dried shells of last
autumn There are few kernels and no
juicy ones in last years nuts.
r. L IOIl d llillc-liOl1O1No
by immemorial precedent, the walnut
cracker of the family is stationed on the
stairs. his bowl on his knees and his ham
mer and fat-iron in hand.
The only hammer with which walnuts
may be cracked without unnecessary ham
mering of one's own fingers is that with a
| rough end. The smooth finished ammers
| slip over the rough coats of the walnuts,
- 1,4 WITH n mo nn6 does
its work with as little pain as the law al
lows to all but expert fingers. TIL walnut
| hammer may be bought very cheap, and
Is a handy article to have about the house.
-.
Neither a cross-cut nor a rip-saw has
| cut out the sharp points of cloth, of which
the points alone meet each other, on the
| sides of a cloth bodice. Tiny r~osettes of
velvet ribbon stud the join of the points.
The. cut-out spaces, which form diamond
shaped openings, display the velvet front
in some contrasting color. Toward the
ly pouched. The under part of a tight
" pouched. The under part of atight-
fitting sleeve is sometimes cut away in
| teeth. to show velvet beneath, but the
dress would be more snowy if the serrated
| edge only appeared on the bodice, and
there only In front.
A saw-tooth collar of velvet Is quite an
addition to a dull cloth frock, provided
a plisse of taffeta springs out between the
teeth.
Grow fragrant leaved plants in your
garden Slips of rose g~eraniums, planted
out in good, rich garden soil soon make
plants from which you can take branches
and not miss them. Lemon verbena IS
an old-time favorite. with fragrant foil
| age. Ambrosia, a very old, old plant that
has been masquerading as a novelty
(Which of course it is to those who do not
| remember their grandmother's garden),
has a refreshing fragrance. forcibly re-
| minding one of the fir and pine woods
when the sun is shining with noontide
heat or as it sometimes is after a shower.
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The round waist holds its place in fash
| ions ranks and is still very much favored
both on day and evening gowns for slen-
der women and young ladies. The inspir-
| ed ideas of French designers are p~articu-
1arly manifest among these graceful and
| remarkably chic models, with their pretty
belt ribbons or soft Directoire sashes
wound twice around the waist. There
also appear many pretty waists with cir
| cular basque effects, with postillion backs,
or Russian blouse backs and open jacket
fronts. English cutaways with fitted
waistcoats. elongated Etons with Fedora
vests. are also to be seen. and so ad libi-
tum.
The old-fashioned. pelerine is in vogue
again, and it is made Of Persian lamb and
sable. One very handsome one of lamb,
with a high faring collar, has very long
| ends decorated lavishly with marten tails.
The outlines of the figure and waist are
defined in front, and altogether it is a vast
Improvement on the long cape.
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Olive shaped buttons covered with gilt,
| silver, black and colored silks are one of
| the fancies in dress trimmings and, is an
| old fashion revived. One pretty example
| of their use is in a collar band of white
satin made in two narrow bands, with
| several rows of machine stitching for a
| finish, and put together with one row of
| little gold olives, not much more han
half an inch long and a little distance
| apart, forming an open insertion. This
| collar is shaped to fare out a little from
the neck, but is of the usual width and
not at all a high collar.