The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-13
ldeas for duomen

Are you seizing your opportunity now
that the last roses of summer are with
us to lay in a little natural sachet ma
terial? Strong perfumes are generally
and justly tabooed; but the faint scents,
rose, violet and the like, clinging to a
woman's wardrobe are in vogue.
To insure a natural rose perfume it is
only necessary to pull to pieces a couple
of the full blown flowers and scatter
them among your efects-in close draw
ers or boxes. Some varieties OF summer
roses scattered in this way will keep a
bureau delieately scented for months.
A new and charming way with rose
leaves is the petal pillow, which is so
popular this year. Every woman should
make one or more of these delightful
cushions. They are placed in the long
chairs now used in every feminine
sdenn designed for afternoon siestas or
rest after wheeling trips.
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The means of preparing these pillows
is simple. The petals used are not those
which lave faded out In vases. but
come from blossoms secured fresh for
the purpose. The roses are taken apart
and ~dried-never in the sun but on a
large sheet of paper in a cool room.
When thoroughly dry they are mingled
with two teaspoonfuls of salt to absorb
the moisture.
A cover of any material desired may
be used in making the cushion, but an
inner covering of white muslin or cam
brio must always be used and soft silk
outside is preferred. Little packets of
heliotrope powder mingled with the
petals give added sweetness.
Sweet violets if used when fresh are
also delightful when scattered in the
bureau drawer. Lavender is well
known. This herb is so strongly scented
that a very little indeed is sufficient.
Sweet briar, if you chance to take a
country walk. is another excellent sug-
gestion. Besides its pungent sweetness
it has the virtue of novelty.
The possessor of ever so small a basket
of indian grass is in luck. Kept close
these little affairs will last for year
and give a Whit of summertime to your
belongings.
Citron aloe also is to be mentioned in
the list of delicious natural scents. Orris
root is well Known. Sachets OF TINS
powder should not be made too intense,
as its virtues are apt to come out little
by little and surprise you by their
strength.
Lemon or rose geranium makes a
pleasant. spicy aroma. A leaf OF TINS
carried around with you is worth con-
sidering.
For the bath a few drops of Florida
water is refreshing and pleasant
writer in The Gentleman" begins
th,s severely a diatribe on the manners
of his countrymen:-"It is obviously an
surd to discuss what does not exist aho'
therefore. those who have anything 10
saw on the subject of mems manners hao
better say it at once; for il matters pro-
gress at their present rate, men VIII SUM
have no manners at ALL Inc paper coh-
tinues. describing the almost incredible
lengths to which the young man OF the
present day will go in bad manners':-
I'm the first place, he has practically
ceased to answer invitations. So general
has the practice become that hostesses
always reckon upon it when giving a
hall. A very well known woman OF the
world recently sent out cards for a dance
She ask 50 women and 600 men. About
thirty of the 600 had the deeency to let
her know whether they Intended 10 ac-
cept her hospitality or not. OF the re-
naming SO some came and some stayed
away. Yet the legend R. s.. v. 2. was
in the corner of every card.
"A great many men who wrongly inn
apine themselves to be gentlemen, when
they receive a card for a ball. don't re-
ply to it; but when the night of 1t arrives
they go to the house a little after Twelve
deposit their coats and hats, ana make
straight for the supper room. There they
squat down, eat and drink till they are
satisfied, md, having done so, DEPART
without paying even a momentary visit
to the ball room, or having the oecehcy
to greet their host and hostess. In fact.
they use a private house merely as an
eating house, and go to it only for the
practical purpose of gorging.
ITO many this statement will seem well
nigh incredible. 1t is perfectly true,
nevertheless, and dozens of hostesses
could bear witness to it. When men do
condescend to shake hands with their en-
tertainers and SHOW" in the ball room,
they very often refuse to dance, and alb
solutely decline to be introduced to any
girls who want partners. They are, there
fore. only in the way, and deserve to be
carted ~incontinently into the street with
out further parley. Their ~fatuous faces
slay enjoyment in others. They squeeze
round the doors, making entrance and
egress almost impossible, ana their long
limbed Iassitude is a standing insult to
the girls who come to a ball to dance,
and not to make themselves ridiculous by
vanity and offensive by ill-breeding.
II wonder that hostesses have tolerated
the airs and graces of these deplorable
degenerates so long. Every one COM
plains of them, but everybody seems
afraid of them. Why? A sharp lesson
would do them all the good in the world.
Some woman in authority, some leader of
society. should decline to admit to her
house those who have not replied to her
invitations, and express herself frankly
to the men who come and refuse with
contempt to either dance or depart. A
few bold words would clear the air and
bring these impairment and badly be-
haved vulgarians to a more reasonable
and more desirable frame of mind."
It is not surprising that the housewife
looks with doubt and misgiving upon
the usual advice of placing the feather
beds out in a summer rain or on a crust
of snow in the winter for renovation.
Often it is the soiled ticking more
thar the feathers that needs ~renovating,
and it cannot be given the thorough
washing required without spelling the
feathers while the process OF emptying