The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-15

suppianted py masses of lilac, Indian
pinks, sweet peas or roses, would all be
suitable, but only one kind of flower must
be used, and it should be grouped in
heavy masses.
lighting is the next important point in
festive decoration, and this applies to
every room and to the hall and staircase
as well. In the houses where the electric
light is laid on there is no end to the
beautiful devices designed for it's use.
For the hall and stairs nothing looks so
we'll as elegant bronze figures holding
lamps. and these can be half concealed
by a big palm or mass of pot flowers.
For sitting-rooms the light may spring
from metal foliage or be shaded by
dropping sprays of dried seaweed. A
miniature orange tree is lovely for the
centre of a table, the leaves of metal and
the golden glass fruit surrounding the
light.
But where electricity has not yet been
adopted pretty shades for lamps must be
acquired. The Empire designs are some
what new, being of drum shape and COW
cred with plain silk or brocade. Others in
plain silk are of melon shape, and both
are finished off by a ruche of silk top
and bottom. For the large umbrella
SiiduSS luduy ike pain WIlllS SILK, CulllOI
or muslin better than anything else, be-
cause when they have decided. what
flowers to use for decorations they adorn
the lamp shade with wreaths of the same,
only they are artificial instead of real.
| An ideal table for early summer or late
spring would have baskets of lilac at the
corners, and the lamp shade beauti1ed
bs wreaths of dropping lilac round. the
ION an1 ro-,r &h4 @l~1 M -,oIro T.
scheme perfect have lilac ribbon, two
inches wide, laid in fantastic folds on the
tablecloth, tied at intervals in eight Cor
FOUR true lovers knots, with a bunch of
lilac passed through them.
80
Here is an interesting view of Amerf-
can wheelwomen as seen by the Londo
Queen":-"All the women cyclists in
America seem to ride without mud
guards and gear cases, and wood rims
are almost universal.
1.-THE women wear much shorter skirts
than their English cousins, the costume
being very plain as a rule, with a leather
belt and high tan boots. Most Ameri-
cans of both sexes ride in boots. We do
not understand this taste, and the high.
boots worn by the women are especially
unsuitable for cycling.
zone is not surprised, therefore, to find
that very few of them use their ankles
properly, some, indeed, pointing their
toes downward all the time in a most
unsightly and absurd fashion. Many of
them, too, have their saddles too far for
ward and look most uncomfortable and
%ungainly. The skirts are not nearly so
well cut as in England.
They hang badly and easily ruck up
over the knees, knickerbockers, of course,
being worn beneath. The French cos
tune is much better than this and de-
cidedly more decent, but it does not seem
to have gained any favor in this city.
On the whole, we think that the English
and the French are decidedly ahead of
the Americans in cycle riding
"
Girl bachelors will find the present
bargains in bamboo a great help toward
making their rooms cozy and pretty.
Articles are selling so reasonably that
no girl need be without the long coveted
tea table, book case or seat.
Window seat ottoman like boxes of
bamboo and denim are new features of
upholstery sections.
Inlai tabourets are used in quantity
furnished halls for card tray stands.
Tabourets in sealing wax red and forest
green are among the novelties. Low
crickets and stools of all shapes are pop
ular. A strong milkmaid's stool in pink
and white enamel for 25 cents is one of
the present bargains.
Flemish dining room chairs are of lark
oak and red leather.
SO
The indispensable breakfast Jacket is
seen in ever so many charming designs,
not one of which is so distinctly .'un-
dress as to conflict with the canons of
good taste. One jacket is of reseda green
India silk, made semi-itting. A lovely
Vandyke collar of the silk is covered
with points of lace, with a deep frill fol-
lowing its pretty outlines to simulate a
shoulder cape. A sash of ribbon, that
ties at the bust-line in a graceful bow.
Grapes the loose fronts to the figure.
$50
An oyster cocktail, says the Ladies
Home Journal is made by putting into
a glass half a dozen tiny little oysters, to
which add a few drops of tobasco, a
pinch of salt. a teaspoonful of Worcester
shire sauce, a teaspoonful of tomato
ketchup and a tablespoonful of lemon
juice.
The newest necklaces are composed of
strings of colored stones cut round, after
the fashion of beads.
How He Judged.
Maria said John, you must be going to
have a ~fearfully big bird on your Easter bon
net.,'
why do you say that?' asked Maria.
81 Judged from the size of the bill.n said
John, q-uietly--Harper's Bazaar.
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