The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-13
for dMo1nen

This involves a new Supply OF letter Pa
per, visiting cards, etc, about twice :
year. to keep up with the times.
In wedding stationery, however, thers
is very little room for change, as moth
ing can be found to satisfy the requires
ments of elegance n simplicity ans
better than the ~time-honored vellum
chastely engraved with words which
convey the invitation or announce
ment in the simplest language.
Taste varies from season TO season
between three approved methods OF
wording the invitation. namely:-M MT
and Mrs. Johnson request the pleasure
of your company or Mr.. and Mrs
johnson request, the honor of your
presence'-and in this case you mus
pose as English and spell homo witt
a letter .u''- or, tsMr. and Mrs. johnson
invite you to be present"
Good taste generally declares for tbs
simplicity of the form last mentioned
and for the present season it will be
the one used by brides of the swell set
The invitations issued by Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Rockefeller for their daughter
Edith November, 1895. are correct models
for October bride this year, and those
who desire to have everything In the
wedding invitation exactly as 1t should
be cannot do better than cor the Rock
Teller arrangement.
The invitation is engraved, without
shading, on a double sheet of heavy
vellum, five and a quarter inches long
n six and a half inches wide when
folded double. This necessitates an OBJ
LONG envelope when the sheet is folded
again. The dimensions OF the envelope
are five and one-half by three and one
half inches.
Enclosed with every wedding invita-
ton is a card. exactly the size of a lady's
visiting card, with these words engraved
upon it,
please present this card at the First
Baptist Church on Tuesday. November the
twenty-sixth'-or whatever the place and
date happen to be.
For such a sare to be honored with in
vitations to the home reception a heavy
card, four and three quarters by three
inches, is enclosed, engraved like the
Rockefeller card
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller At
Home on Tuesday. November the twenty
sixth, at half after twelve o'clock. Four
West Fifty-fourth Street"
..At Home cards for the newly married
pair may be sent with the invitations if de-
sired. They are the same size as the re-
ception cards, and come at $3.50 for the
plate and first 100 cards.
Announcements of marriages are in the
same form as invitations, except that
the word ANNOUNCE takes the place OF
the words Invite you to be present at"
These are sent out the day after the mar
rage, and are often addressed at the sta
toner's. where a list of names and adj
dresses has been sent for the purpose,
There are a great many fancy articles
designed especially for the brides use,
and all are appropriately done in white.
The wedding cake boxes are white; the
newest are heart-shaped.
A case containing the marriage certifi-
cate done in illuminating lettering con-
sists of a MORE silk book-binding, about
ten inches long by eight wide.
A moires silk bound scrapabook about
fourteen inches long and eleven wide, in
scribed in gilt letters with the words,
1.-THE wedding gowns" contains blank
sheets upon which pieces of the different
dresses in tie trousseau may be fastened
and preserved.
Prayer book marks of narrow white
satin ribbon with three little silver we'd
ding bells are a new fancy of the season.
Three gold rings sometimes appear in
place of the bells.
The following is a scale of prices OBJ
tanned at a first rate stationer's:-
Wedding invitations, plate and one
hundred notes, one hundred inside en-
velopes, one hundred outside envelopes,
SIS. Each additional one hundred notes
and envelopes, 81.
Church admission, plate and one n
dred cards, S. Each additional one
hundred cards. SIPS.
Reception cards, same as brides cat
Home, cards, mentioned above.
Wedding announcements are slightly
cheaper than invitations. The first hun
dred notes, with inside and outside en-
yelopes, cost s14. Each additional hun
bred costs 81.
Thus, for thirty-1ve dollars, one can
send out two hundred invitations. contain
ing reception and church cards. Brides
"At Home cards will cost about ten
dollars more.
The hour is at hand when every house
keeper is echoing George Eliot's plaint:-
If only my curtains were up and my
carpets were DOWN. And wise is the
woman who makes of the old fashioned
housekeeping a new fashioned comfort
The chief discomfort in October is the
problem of proper heating, and here
many an otherwise successful matron
signally fails. There is truth in the old
proverb that sit takes a fool to make a
fire. only the wise man who originated
it should have added "but it needs a phil
osopher to regulate one When the first
cold snap comes the average housewife
(whose foresight has made her see to it
that sthe furnace is in disable condition.
starts her fires, and everybody is comfort
able: but in "a hours a warm wave comes
along and her family gasp indoors like
newly landed fish.
Here. then, is the chance for a season.
able hint to these thrifty managers:
When the first fire is lighted it is the fem
mime Solomon who HES herself to the
hardwa store or counter and there buys
as many thermometers as there are rooms
in her house.
With one of these hanging in proper
places. and with a few moments time
spent in looking at them. the tempera-
ture of any house in Christendom can be
kept at 40 degrees. the proper height for
health and comfort. Foreigners are
aghast at our American houses. with
their overheated rooms. and to breathe