The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-17

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IN the drawing room, or wherever a very
mild light is needed, these lanterns are
~delightful. The candles within them are
cheap, throw out q minimum of heat,
ana DO not attract insects, all of which
are high recommendations for service on
warm evenings. Attention and conse-
ouently vast Improvement has been given
70 the humble bedroom candle we are all
ADVISED to use in place of gas or lamps,
When the mercury climbs very high. and
instead OF turning on the gas one will
De enabled to read music at the piano 10y
cool candle light.
For the piano, too, light brackets
easily fastened to any instrument, put
out from either side the music rack, and
mold a candle each. Their shades are
made of silk on strong frames, and are
cut open on that side turned toward the
music sheet, but away from the musician.
Under the silk screen is also fastened
a small reflector. so distributing light and
shade where it is needed. The bedroom
canuies, which fasten into brackets at
either side the dressing table mirror, are
similarly equipped, throwing broad rays
on the looking glass, but shadows into
the room, and enabling one to dress COM
fortably, but in cool, ordorless air.
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There is no movement more interesting
in its development than the gradual in
crease of disposition on the part of edu-
Gated and refined women to engage in
the work of what is called interior deco
ration, but which is less imposing and
dlsquieting when spoken of as home deco
ration.
Ihe mural treatment and designing Of
furniture for public buildings will prop
erly remain in the hands of really COM
petent architects of taste, who may with
right claim that nothing shall be added
10 their structures which might tend
to Interfere with their original concep-
ton of the finished effect. but, as it Is
not a secret that the decoration and fur
nishing of the most successfully COM
pleted great houses of recent construc-
ton have been absolutely dictated and
supervised by the women most interest
ed, there seems no reason why the woman
decorator has not come to stay.
She is dotted in pairs of girl bachelors
among the larger cities of the country.
and, though the firm is apt to dissolve
after a more or less brief existence. it is
not due to lack of business. but rather to
the quick opportunity which seems to
offer for the formation of permanent
partnerships under a consolidated firm
name.
There are those, too, whom reverses
of fortune ave forced to use their tastes
and talents in this most womanly of oc-
equations. and these, having once found
the pleasure of self-help and independ-
ence, are the pillars of the profession.
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The latest thing in photography. says
the London Mail" is a system for bring
ing the features out in relief, an Ameri-
can invention, for which studios have
just been established in Dover street,
Piccadilly.
His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales was photographed by the new
process recently at the Marlborough
House. with a most life-like result. in a
fine large picture that hangs prominently
displayed in the luxurious new studios.
which have been decorated by Lady
Marcus Beresford.
In the new bas-relief photography the
sitter sees 10 difference from the old
style until the picture is finished. You
go into a large light room; a man tells
you to look pleasant, throws a dark
cloth over his head, and after hiding be-
hind a Calling gun sort of thing smil-
ingly says: THAT will do; thank YOU,
But a day or two later, when you see
with what surprising effect the negative
has been treated. and your photograph
is shown you with your features standing
out in clear relief, you will appreciate
what an improvement in the art it is.
$50
Some persons say that red is Satan's
color. If this be true Satan seems to
have marked most of his city's women
for his own this season. Never before
has there been such a craze for red in
every imaginable shade.
1t has extended to the women's pocket
books in more ways than one. Leather
merchants are bringing out a great va
riety of chatelaine bags, purses and card
cases of flaming hues, and are selling
them fast.
Some of the articles are plain, others
have plain silver or gilded trimmings.
Bright greens and puppies come next to
the reds in favor when it comes to
leather novelties.
Gray hats are seen in silk fibre straw.
These are trimmed with plumage OF
white birds, either wings projecting at
IAS oiOSS, viii d SILL 1dH OIL creamy lace
rising between them in the middle of the
crown, or trimmed with wild towers, a
scarf of pleated gauze or small bunch of
owls quilts. Pretty spring hats are
made of gray satin straw, sewed in
widths of nearly an inch wide, slightly
overlapping one another.
Feather beds should be taken to pieces
at least once a year.; preferably at the
time of the spring cleaning, and the tick
ing well shaken, beaten, soap and wax
ed. The feathers should be dressed, and
when the bed is made up again it will
seem quite as good as a new one.
In a new process for stiffening lace
and embroidery SO that it will retain its
form, wires are stretched across the
ground of an embroidery machine and
are completely covered during the process
of embroidery.
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