The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-17

! blouse, turning away from the vest, ana
finished with a large lingerie sailor collar
made of little tucks and Insertion like the
vest. The sailor collar may be finished
with an edge of black and white batiste,
or mauve and white. and the blu and
white foulard of which l spoke had a
p~leating of mauve t~affeta, over which
went . vine of heavy yellow guipure.
Mauve frills finished the back of the
collar.
These same lingerie collars are charm
ing on vcilings, and the same effect is
carried out in white satin, with frills of
yellow lace instead of insertion.
So
Very few people realize the Importance
of care in the selection of soap best suited
to the skin of the person for whose use it
is purchased.
Some soaps dry the skin, thus causing
chapping. frost splits and many kindred
troubles.
Castillo soap is too drying for many
skins, and should, contrary to the old
idea, never be used on the skin of an in
FAINT.
An old lady, who had been taught to be-
lieve that CASTLE soap was the only soap
pure. enough for toilet purposes, was all
ways. roubl during the cold weather
with she called frost splits. Finally
she was prevailed upon to use a fine grade
of oatmeal soap, and Immediately the
frost splits disappeared and troubled her.
no more.
Dandruf is frequently caused by the use
of CASTLE soap in s~hampooing. For this
purpose some soap especially prepared
should be used.
The hands of many persons cannot bear
the contact with suds made from soap
in the preparation of which rosin has been
used. 3
The old-time soap, made from home
made wood ash I've, is the best for tender
hands and laundry use. This soap may
occasionally be bought at old farm
houses, where dried out from age, and
mellow and ripe in consequence, it is one
of the unappreciated garnet treasures of
the household.
For a quiet supper of three people, try
having one dish apiece. More is not
wanted on a hot evening. Sweetbreads
in cream (the meat parboiled and then
chopped in small pieces and smothered
in a white creamy dressing) is served
in a plated silver dish at the foot of the
table.
Pineapple grated fine, which has been
ssugared down. not later than two
o'clock in the afternoon and set aside to
draw the juices out into a sweet per-
fumed yrup, is served in a pretty glass
bow at one sid of the table.
A plate of light biscuits smoking hot is
set on the other side, and kept replenish-
ed, with good strong coffee in the urn at
the head of the table, unapproaehable
Philadelphia butter, plenty of cream, and
sugar-here is a supper for a king.
The daintest implement is in use dur
ing the dessert course. 1t is in the
form of a minute spear of metal and
mother-of-pearl, and its use-to spear
brandied cherries. The fruit is prettily
harpooned on the point of the instru-
ment and conveyed in this way to the
lips.
The question of the correct mode of
eating melon is ever a disputed one,
and just at present season, the fruit
being SO fine this year it has come
again to the fore. A dainty spoon is
che of the best suggestions. But jew
elers now show a combination of knife
and fork. Again the knife and fork
proper are seen.
The fork is of the variety used for
entremets, and the knife has a decor
ated handle in silver or mother-of-pearl.
Fine articles that have become yellow
from lying away or from other causes
and require bleaching may be bleached
by being put in a large-mouthed glass
jar, where one should pour over them
lukewarm strong suds, made with fine
white soap. Stand the jar in a sunny
window, and occasionally shake the jar
and turn the other side to the sun. If
the article to be bleached is soiled the
should be turned off and clean
again poured over. After bleaching
rinse well to remove the soap suds.
So.
Belts pointed in front now have the
preference, and vests and jackets are
now being made longer wasted in front
than elsewhere. The newest ones are
made of silk gimp or jet jassementerie
forming openwork scrolls. with whale
bone at the back and front to keep them
in shape. These are very dressy and
far more becoming to most figures than
the straight round ones previously 50
worn.
Ideas for coming debutantes have be-
gun to make their appearance. One of
the newest relates to the bouquet for the
contingent function. This year these
charming adjuncts will contain no open
flowers, but will be composed entirely of
buds-the more minute the better. No
variety of blossom be used
it will appear in its state of bud.
How many women know how to raise
the skirt gracefully from a damp pave
ment or in a stairway? 1t is punched in
and "hiked'' in back or grasped
IN great handfuls on either side. A clever
woman suggests practieing the art before
a mirror as one way of attaining grace.
good idea. Try it!
STUDYING ASTRONOMY.