The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-22
ideas for dWomeu

IS the shops are literally crowded with
Pretty as well as useful knicknaeks which
Gle may buy for less than one dollar!
Here is a list Of articles, Any one or
v hich costs a dollar or let:
A cut glass salve box with silver top.
A sterling silver buttonhook.
A Dresden china tea-strainer.
A Dresden china glove-mender.
A silver-topped emery bag.
A small snakeskin coin purse.
A hanging bamboo bookshelf.
A low bamboo stool
A bottle of eau de violette of best quail
~.
A notebook with Russian leather back
for the literary girl or her big brother.
A silver book mark in the shape of a
heart or dagger.
a pair of enameled silver sleeve links.
An address book with Russian leather
b7ck.
A silver-topped acorn of wax for the
S wing basket.
dainty Dresden cup and saucer for the
afternoon tea table.
A small medaIlon-shaped picture frame
Il gilded metal.
A Dresden china tea caddy for the tea
tsble.
A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo.
4 dainty china inkstand in violet pat
t.rn.
4 silver or Dresden china penholder.
A chamois penwiper, tipped with silver
A yearly subscription for one OF the
p lpular ten cent magazines.
4 half dozen set of finger bowl doylies.
4 long, slender crystal vase for milady's
desk.
A pretty china candlestick for milady's
toilet table.
4 dainty pair Of embroidery scissors for
tie work-bag.
4 small bottle of best quality extract.
A length of Roman striped ribbon, for
tie four-in-hand necktie affected by the
uo-to-date girl.
A really fine handkerchief, edged with
wide lace.
And a thousand of other things. both
suitable and attractive!
But the moral Is. but now. Don't
wait till the stores are crowded, the sales
people worn out and the best of every
thing picked out. Articles bought now
Hill be marked at once, packed in pretty
boxes and neatly tied. thus giving a
dsinty appearance which adds much to
tie simplest as well as the most ex-
pansive gifts.
And the glad shopper, with such bur-
d rs off her mind, will find that the
Christmas season is a veritable season
o peace and good will, instead of the
anxious scrimmage 1t is apt to be to the
b lated and hurried eleventh-hour seeker
a ter novelties.
This is the way we iron our clothes,
So early on Tuesday morning." SO sing
tie children in one of the old mimicking
games handed down from one generation
to another. The ironing of handkerchiefs
calls for no special knowledge, but a
clever laundress knows one or two things
o which she makes a speciality. Here is
ore of them:
If you watch one of the buds or older
belles gently using her handkerchief,
perchance to ieck away a particle of i'm
perceptible dust from her face, you may
note, If your eye is sensitive to color
fist, that the scrap of lawn and lace is
very becoming to a fair face; second.
tlat the aforesaid handkerchief isn't
white at all. 1t would not be so beeom-
ing if it were white. and this is what
uademoiselIe knows, as well as you do.
tie color is not derived from being
spotted with Strawberries" as was the
ca Sc in that fatefuI handkerchief which
Oshello had from his mother. 1t is de-
nserately tinted during the laundering.
The laundress who is eager to please
HIS taken pains to ~"pinken'' (f there be
S, en- a verb the handkerchief just as she
.1luesv some linens and cotton cloths
that might turn yellow by unlimited APP
plications of soap and water, so she has
impaired a rosy tinge to the mouchoir.
The laundress has a little cake of car
mine paint, one of the water-color rect
angles such as are sold in the cheap
lx-1c % naipfo 1+apda5 for cbif3raD'c
use. She colors the water perceptibly,
fer the handkerchief will not take up
TIE full depth of ~rosiness to which the
pfe paratory bath is stained. OF course
TIE handkerchief does not look really
pi TX, but it is Soff the white and very
pretty, especially when held to a fair
young face.
BY the way. it seems odd that We have
70 md no less cumbersome synonym for
tie useful article than a word meaning
So covering for the head. which is car
ried in the hand" the literal rendering
of handkerchief. The Latin form "suda-
RIM does not imply a pleasing gges
tien, and Schnupftuck shows that the
Germans nave prosaic Imagination In
default of knowing a pure Saxon equiva-
Leaf, the Spanish .panuelo" "a little
clathl or the French mouchoir, are
III IdSto dSOSpA@OAO Ito 80
kerchief."
little paint and polish, and a little
rus here and there, adds SO much to a
81 IS room when she comes back to town
af .er a summer spent in knocking about
fre one place to another. says 'Harper's
b Ear" 1t is astonishing what girls can
&c in the way of freshening up their
rooms themselves. There is one girl in
to N who has made her room look so
cosy and comfortable since she came
hcnael She had been very extravagant in
tn spring in regard to her summer out
fiji. She spent all she had, and all she
WIS allowed, on lowered muslins with
SILK slips. and Leghorn hats with waving
III mes. She had the choice given her be-
tw cen those luxuries and leaving her bed
RON at home Ito look shabby when she
ca re back" There was no winter in
Jaael But now she has come back" and
is. oh. so glad she can buy a quart OF
pa nit for thirty cents, and a brush for
twenty-five cents, and some turpentine for
tea cents! And with a big apron on, and
a pair of gloves to cover her fingers, she