The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-24

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ings and lace, as well as boleros and
c~orselet garnitures.s
Generally speaking there is an indica-
tion that all light and airy trimmings
VIII be In vogue. The laces will not
alone be preferred. but all their kindreds,
tuhe, gauze, etc. as well. This applies
especially to inserting and laces of mar
row linen tape worked upon white or
cream mousseline.
NoVeitles are passementeries with gold
and steel effects. Gallons of breadths
or hfteen to sixty millimeters have a sil>
yer or steel ground studded with beads
and stones.
ihere is an inordinate demand for en-
proideries. which are bought in incredible
quantities, chiefly in narrow ecru pat
terms, which will soon BIZ very scarce, ow-
ing TO the difficulty of manufacture.
IN broader articles. from forty to sixty
mlliimeters broad. garlands are principal
" bought; insertings cause little interest
EGru Is the principal color of this en-
0roldery, while the multi-colored does not
sell rapidly.
clasps and buckles are articles worthy
OF all attention, as they are used not
only Tor belts, but also in trimmings in
place OF buttons; all the sizes are used in
steel Jet, enamel. gold. oxide, pearl, etc.
Inc sales of ruches continues unabated.
especially the narrow kinds for black and
eolored costumes,
The demand for tulle laces is increasing.
ana quite extensive orders at advanced
prices were placed recently. This advance
bases upon the essentially higher price of
tune. mere is no tulle in stock, and de-
hvery IS placed at four weeks. Spachtel
l laCoS a1SO have hoo, -
rrlces are at the moment still the old
rates, but will not remain so long.
embroidery in lace patterns upon ecru
SIN gauze or upon thin liner has been or
uereu pientifully. 1t is of a similar kind,
as ehe piack-yellow gauze embroidery; no
Sehow thread is used, but white or white
Win oiack. The article is quite nice and
airy, and is well received by retailers.
bead tuiies, especially all black, are still
IN extensive request. The liking for de-
signs with stones is or the wane, how
ever: they are more or less heavy. and
therefore not well adapted as trimming;
parties are returning to the designs with
pangles, of which those with hollow
spangles or bell pendants are preferred.
beao insertings, also, are in good in
curry, for which stones are still pre-
ferred.
Pundita Ramabai is a r~emarkab1e Hin
doc woman. who is working hard for the
eieVatlon OF her native sisters in India.
She has just taken up temperance work
and was made national superintendent of
native work at a recent convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of India, held in Peona.
Punidta Pap,ah,j to ,oa.-..-.a
own country as the greatest Hindoo
woman that has ever lived. She is the
daughter of a Marathi priest and can
trace her Brahmin ancestry 1000 years.
Her father, having resolved, in defiance of
the laws of custom and conventionality.
to educate his wife, retired to a forest
home to carry out his ideas without
moiestation. There, in 1858. Ramabai
was born, and there, in entire seclusfon.
was educated by her parents. Orphaned
before she was sixteen, she traveled sew
eral years with her brother, a noble
young man, who -sympathized with her
in her determination to devote herself to
the elevation of her countrywomen. The
degree of S%arasvati was conferred upon
her by the university of Calcutta, she
being the first woman in the empire to
be thus honored.
Pundfta Ramabai married a Bengalese
gentleman, a lawyer, whom she freely
chose-this being an instance almost with
out precedent. He died within two years.
leaving her at t~wenty-four with an eight
months-old baby. She went to England,
was made professor of Sanskrit at Chel-
tenham College, and in 1886 came to
America to see her cousin graduate from
Tha WOnan'E Modiool CoIIo~o ~
delphia and to study our educational
methods.
During her stay in America she lee
tured in several of the cities, and by this
means raised money to open a school of
child-widows in India.
$50
The color combinations of the moment
are new and startling, the brightest of
reds with mauve, violet and purple. a
vivid green being constantly added
Cerise, a very bright shade is almost
as much in favor as Parma violet. and
the two are frequent blended. Blue
and green, though by no means a new
color arrangements, is still much worn.
Plaids are very fashionable, blues and
greens predominating. They make, in
silk, admirably blouses, as do the black
ana WHITE plaldS. These, worn with
black %canvass summer serge of grena-
din skirts, are in excellent taste.
A ribbon belt passed through a hand
some oblong buckle at the back of the
figure, the ribbons tied either at the side
or in front in a smart-looking Empire
bow. is still the popular finish to the waist
of demi-dress gowns. The most usual
method Of tying the ribbon is to form
somewhat long loops landing upwards.
with corresponding loops below the waist.
These look better when slightly irregular
In length. Attention to such details NAV
appear unnecessary, but in reality they
are not unimportant. Much more depends
on trifes of this sort in the general
effects Of a gown h a might be supposed.
Glass lawn seems to have taken a new
lease of life and bids fair to become a
greater favorite even than it proved last
summer 1t appears in so many beautiful
effects that it is certainly hard to pass by
in making a selection of summer textiles
Fine sheer grass lawn is to be worn over
dainty colored glace silks, many of which
are first accordion-pleated.
So.
Princess gowns crop up Just as per-
SiStently as poke bonnets n ;c ~