The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-05

has dt last ulctated a substitute for these
troublesome day coverings of sleep
rumpled pillows.
Get two yards and a half of silkoline
to suit the color of the room. AS it
comes in two widths 1t may be safest to
say buy the wild It may be had for
nfteen or twenty cents a yard. Turn
each end with a hem three or four inches
deep and the cover is made. Rest the pill
lows in a slightly sloping position against
the head-board and throw the cover over
them, allowing the ends to hang loose.
DO not draw smoothly over the pillows,
put after giving a little lap on to the bed
push the rest of the fu1lness in irregular
Ioids over the pillows. This is why silk
oiine is preferable to china silk, it being
wider allows more material for these
loose plaits. Otherwise the appearance
IS about the same. This covering will not
slip out of place, because the material is
50 clinging. 1t takes but a moment to
adjust and the effect is very pleasing,
while the simplicity of its makeup and
the lessening labor of laundering will be
appreciated by every thoughtful house
keeper.
Large tints of silkoline look well with
white bedspreads, but, as is often the
SoSS, bCOSpIcddS 70 mdtcu the p1lfOW
covers are used. For his article get eight
yards of wide silkoline, sew together W
widths the length of the bed, hemming
each end. Let this fall over the sides of
the bed until it reaches the rail, then
hem under the extra width, ON his hem
sew a gathered founce of the material,
letting it just escape the floor about two
inches. If the. bedstead is of brass or
enamel there will be room between the
mattress and the footboard to let a
founce slip down at the foot. Other beds
will only permit of the sides being
hounced.
Where one prefers pure white in their
bed rooms this same arrangement can be
carried out in any of white figured ma
terials in cheap muslin.
The hemstitched hens on sheets this
season are somewhat narrower and many
of the newest have the two sides and the
foot b~uttonholed in medium sized scalops
in some instances the scallops being
worked on the bottom of the hemstitched
hem On linen sheets, of course. this
work is done in linen floss. while on cot
ton and cotton sheets the work is in soft
cotton thread.
This embroidery is generally done in
white, as the prejudice seems to be
against color in bed linen, but where the
color scheme of the room is carried out
any or all colored fosses, both linen or
cotton, can be had, though slightly more
expensive than the white. AS a rule
when this is carried out in color the pill
low and bolster covers, as we'll as the
towels, spiasher and bureau covers, are
all embroidered with the same design
and color.
On OF the italian officers who lately
returned from captivity in Abyssinia has
published a book. in which he describes
the kindness of the Abyssinian women
with the deepest gratitude. It is pleasant
to nave this testimony. Those who re-
member Bruce's travels nave found it
more and more difficult to reconcile the
enthusiastic account which he gives with
the report of modern explorers. In the
first place, all the ladies' whom he mem
lions with any detail appear to nave been
lovely, if young. Some of them he
sketches with an enthusiasm sufficient for
Venus herself.
The criticism of Major Cameras book
does not refer to this point, but Bruce
represents the goodness of his heroines
as equal to their beauty, and here the
Italian bears him out to the fullest. The
very first Abyssinian woman whom Major
Camera met after the battle was a slave.
He had no shoes and he suffered terribly.
The slave girl took off her headdress of
white linen, cut it in two and bandaged
his wounded feet-it was no small sacri-
fee to humanity, for white linen is a
treasure in those parts.
There was one woman, old and ugly,
who devoted herself to the group of pris-
'oners among whom the author was num-
bered. She not only nursed and tended
them, but did her best to cheer them up
by shouting Agari, Agar, in their ears
when they seemed unusually Respondent.
Agari is Abyssinian for Italy. 1t was an
artless form of consolation, but good
will is everything in such a case. We
hear without surprise that these kindly
and estimable women are badly treated
by their male kind-if is in suffering that
they have learned compassion. At the
same time. Bruce gives us the idea that
they are not SO angelic as to refrain from
~avenging themselves Upon their brutal
husbands.
A window box, says the Ladies' Home
Journal may beSa very cheap or a very
expensive affair. but a cheap one. made
out Of a p~acking-box, will grow flowers
just as well as a costly one made of tiles.
All that is necessary is something that
will hold soil.
It is not enough to simply nail window
boxes to the wall; a brace should run
lengthwise of the box, and be strongly
bracketed at each end to furnish support