The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-15

costume, backs of the gloves being stitch
ed in the same color. A bright red cuff
or a white glove, or even a dark green
or blue cuff gives an odd but llkeable eff
feet.
OF course some gloves are worn to
match exactly the color of street cos
tunes. But this fashion of matching
the colors of glove ana gown is gener-
ally relegated to the evening toilettes.
For these there are long affairs in all
the dainty shades of pale blue, yellow,
pink and lilac that come in dress fabrics.
Children's gloves are miniatures of
their elders. Like the ~'grown-up," they,
to. wear the Quaker gray this winter, and
are fastened up inside of tiny two-button
coverings.
The very latest, and in many respects
one of the most commendable, philan-
thropic pursuits hat have yet inter-
ested the benevolent hearts of upper
tendon, is being turned just now all in
the direction of the hitherto ignored and
despised domestic servant. 1t is no long
er considered either kind or proper to
have under your roof h~ousemaids or
cooks, laundresses or nurses, of whose
family and financial condition, spiritual
welfare or recreations, you are totally
ignorant. A league has been formed,
among one hundred society women, not
only to make the lives of their serving
women more prosperous and more hap
by and protected. The proposition Is to
women more prosperous. but more hap
Ply and protected. The proposition is to
opo n roaJipr on1 ,orraatia1 roam far
girls who have no friends in a big city,
no place to spend their free afternoons
and evenings, and who are assailed by
cruel temptations in a large city. The
club is to have dues and fees, well
it is to be fitted UP comfortably, sup
piled with piano, books and stationery,
plenty Of picture papers in all lam
guages, and a lavatory; and privileges
are given for any girl to entertain her
friends there.
Once a month a recreation evening will
be held, and one of the members of the
league of one hundred must be present;
music or magic lantern slides. with a
talk. games, a little play, or a reading
from some romance will provide the
amusement, and the evening will wind up
with ice cream, cake and hot chocolate.
Up to date the club has been established
in the basement parIor of a handsome
home belonging to one of the league mem
bers. An ever-increasing club list, how-
ever. has necessitated a large room, which
the league is going to fit up at its own ex-
pense, and in which a house-warming will
take place.
Tomato red is a charming new color in
yelveteen for bIouses. One made of it has
little zouave fronts with two narrow
lines of silk stitchery outlining them, and
a strap OF quaint rich Turkish embroid-
cry down the front.
A soft folded belt Of the velveteen fas-
tens at the left side, and the tight sleeve
has a cuff of the Turkish embroidery. A
pretty blouse of electric blue ~velveteen
has three tucks across the chest, a turn
over collar in front, and is fastened down
the back.
A very lovely blouse for dinner or thea
ire wear is of soft brocade in heliotrope
and gold. It is drawn across the chest,
has soft pulled sleeves and finely killed
frills of the brocade resting on the shout
ders and falling from the elbow sleeves.
A very charming style for morning
blouses in flannel or cashmere is to make
them with Follower collars and turn back
cuffs edged with soft frills of lighter silk.
Nothing simpler or prettier for young
girls could be desired.
-.
Have you, on your shopping tour, dis
covered the new pincushion-the '9S arti-
Gle? If you have, you probably locke at
1t twice to discover for what it was in
tended. It is SO fluffy and so puffy, so
be-ribboned and be-chiffoned that, at first
glance one takes it for something new in
neckwear or Some new idea in chem
~isettes. But careful inspection discloses
the bona-ide cushion beneath the furbe-
lows-a charming specimen was seen two
ago in one of the shops. Six-inch
wide chiffon ribbon, with satin edge,
formed the trimming. The centre of the
cushion vas hidden by a crown-lTke for
nation of this ribbon standing upright.
The same circular formation was repeated
at each corner and, completed, the cush-
ion resembled, as I said, a full-fbedged bit
of neckwear.
If an open fire is to be a comfort as
~ ~o & Sco OilC 1AQ0l In v
to build and tend one.
First pull the andirons three or four
inches towards the front and place a
large, heavy stick at the back-our
grandfathers would call it backlog"
Then kindle you fire. When the heavy
stick or backlog is well heated and
has commenced to burn, draw it for
ward and place another at the back.
In doing this most of the blaze is kept
on the front side and full benefit of the
wood burned received
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There is a sort of halo of romance
about a white wedding gown, SO every
girl naturally desires to have one, and as
she can wear it but once in her life it
seems the most fitting; besides, mousse
line de sole or organdy, over a silk slip. is
quite as CONNIE IL faut now as satin Ouch
esse, SO a white gown isn't beyond the
reach of as many as it used to be. If from
force of circumstances a white gown does
not seem expedient, then the cloth travel
ing gown, with hat and gloves to match.
is adopted.
Antique blue is certainly a piece of mis-
nomenclature. Nothing can benewer than
the particular tendc shade Of mauve blue,
seen at its best in velvet or in one of the
new short-piied pliable pushes that tempt
the most unwilling to take coin from
purse. These pushes will be especially
used for sleeves and Jokes, because thew