The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-27
for dMo1nen

Coonskin viii talks rank this winter
among fashionable iufs. Conspicuous in
a furrier's exhibit Of samples is a COON
skin loose fitting LONG coat, double
breasted and fastened With large pearl
buttons. 1t has an enormous storm collar
and a rich brocade lining. 1t reaches 10
the ground. This coat is put tor"aru
as the extreme novelty for carriage nss
and for travelling.
said q lady 10 whom the garment was
shown: mot any. il you please. I've
stumbled over stubhy. ring-taiied COON
skin rugs ever since | Was a child. Years
ago one of the boys went South hunting
and am home with as extraordinary
number of eoonskins, which he insisted
should be made into rugs as u lasting
testimony to his Kill as q sportsman
He never had been known TO hit a barn
door at short range. and symptoms OF
revolt appeared in the household. These
were smorhered promptly and all the
money on hand appropriated. Coon rugs
stared Us in the face till they reminded
me of the Multiplication table. In the
end the trutF came out that the hunters
deadly weapons were the long how and
dollar bills. Thank you, there's one FASH
ion in furs that I shan't follow"
The sudden popularity of The fur has
caused an advance in the price OF coon
skins; but for those unattracted by the
novelty sea@kin, mink and broadtail will
be as desirable as ever. Once more lace
is used TO contrast its cobwebby lowell
ness with the warm depths of fur, while
jeweled belts will zone the waists of all
those whose tastes-and p~urses-ailow
them to accept this pleasant edict of
Dame Fashion.
The leading fur his winter promises to
be sable, richest and most exquisite of
them all. A striking novelty in the way
of a short shoulder cape of sable is made
with an upright ruffle collar. with heads
tails and paws nesting in the fur all
around. A very full rufle of real lace,
as yellow as old ivory. is set inside the
fur collar, and ends in a double jabot un-
der the chin. The lining is an exquisite
pink brocaae. A longer cape reaches be-
low the waist line. 1t has a storm col
lar. to be turned up or down, and fastens
at the throat with a hook and eye in dia-
monds. It is edged all about with a
fringe OF DuSnS sadie 4ldiIS-
As a trimming for sealskin coats. sable
will be more highly valued than ever. 1t
will also trim and line cloth driving coats
and velvet and brocade evening mantles.
The Russian blouse. or 'moujik" jacket.
is as new as anything in sealskin. A few
days ago l saw of the handsomest
cloak models in New York try Oh a NUM-
Der of these usually becoming garments.
The 'smoujiks, jacket is pouehed back and
front and calls for a belt TO be worn just
above the short basques that ruffls about
the hips. The most effective of those dis
played was fastened by six large oxy-
diced silver buttons, set with turquoise,
and was finished at the waist by a tur-
aueise and silver belt drawn down to a
Bernhard point in front. There were
seven inches of basque to d warmth,
and there was a tabled collar. The blouse
fronts opened at will and were likely to
be kept open most of the time, since
when turned back they gave a pretty
point de yenise front liberty to appear
The glossy black broadtail is used for
mess jackets, for Russian blouse coats
and for long loose coats Always it is a
striking fur. In the blouse form an in
teresting example pouches slightly over
a black velvet belt, which is threaded
through glfttering steel circlefs and fas-
tened with a great crescent set with gray
pearls and emerslds. The little tabled
BASQUE Just suggests the presence of a
lining of gray silk shot with green. the
lovely eyaneseent color showing again at
the left side, where the coat fastens in
q series of tabs over pleated silk. which
rufrles into freedom where 1t gets an op-
p~ortunity.
There is a good deal of ehincfifia in
prospect, combined usually with sealskin,
with gray velvet sometimes.
The usual amount of mink is on the col
lar. with three mink tails hanging down
under the chin. I do not care for this
fashion particularly; it looks too much
as if one had swallowed the animal How
ever. the coat in question has wide bre-
telles OF mink that begin on the should
ers and taper to the jeweled belt. from
which dangle more sealps; more pink
tails. The skirts of this coat are quite
full. II is lined with q pinkish fawn silk,
and there is a picture hat to go with it
of brown felt. pink ribbons and black
ostrich plumes.
The stranger within YOU gates will
thank you if you remember:
That she can be over entertained yet
does not protest.
That if she be country-bred. she will
enjoy a change of diet. and not appre-
cfate your putting pies upon the break
fast table to please her
That a eandlestiek with pretty candle
n marches beside a guests bed will be
the right thing in thf right place, as we'll
as a thing of beauty.
That you will permit her to attend to
her own room. if she is used to house
wifeiy duties t home. thereby giving her
a feeling that sour servants. or maid of
all work win not be burdened addition
ally by her advent.
That If your evening gowns are very
elaborate. and hers very plain. o will
make the sacrifice of friendship and dress
to make her toilette less conspicuous, or
vice versa; to be u1der-aressed is bad,
but to be over-dressed in a strange house
is agony to assefsitive woman; therefore
advise her.
Moreover if--she- is aneultured in the
ways of ~fashibnabies folk and unlearned
especially intthe- etiquette of the table,
show rather 10y example. than precepts,