The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-02

better IN q mule tie imam a net one, anu
for this reason are oftener seen.
The price of chiffon ties is almost al
|wayss in the n~eighborhood of 800, and va
ries very little.
Charming chiffon articles have wide
frills of accordion pleated chiffon at the
ends, while the rest of the tie is plain.
Others, in liberty silk, are trimmed at
the ends. A pretty one is formed of a
knife pleating of the silk, fastened across
the tie about three inches from the bot
tom. An accordion pleating comes below
this.
Another very pretty material in high
is sewing silk net. A tie made in
this will cost you about $3.50.
These affairs are not always in white.
They come often in black net and trim
med with white lace. Now and then a
narrow border of the lace is brought
around both edges of the tie with bands
of white insertion in the ends.
1t is not economical as a general thing
to spend time and work in the making of
these ties at home when they can be
bought so reasonably in the shops. But
if one has bits of real or old lace not in
use, one can put them in no better place
than on these dainty and feminine trap
pings.
All evening gowns, whether dinner or
ball gowns. are now made long, with as
| graceful a train as possible. says Harper's
Bazaar" There are several styles of
skirt-the gored and the circular. and
some with almost straight b%readths; some
are ruffled and founced, others are en-
hrnidarad and SfiIl AGAIN soma are nlaip
The plain ones are generally of the hand
soonest material. AS to the waists, there is
also a great variety of design. The French
waist, with its bias sidepieces and long
point. is seen again and made with only
a bertha or folds of the material draped
across, Others have loose blouse fronts,
either of the material or of some figured
net. The sleeves are very small, often
only a band, again made to fall back
from either side of the arm like a cape.
There are others again that are puffed,
and some nave little ruffles and capped
sleeves which are really full. The great
big single or double pulled sleeves are,
however, absolutely out of style. Last
winters waists can easily be remodelled
to look quite in the present style if the
sleeves and trimming are different.
Several of the great educational insti-
buttons for girls announced this fall, for
the first time in their history, classes for
sewing as one of their chief attractions"
writes Edward w. Box in the November
Ladies Home Journal The girls of the
fashionable world are joining sewing af-
%ternoons,' as they are called. Common
sense has come to the rescue in pointing
out to girls that sewing is an art, n one
of the finest of accomplishments. In olden
times the needle was the pride of the
clever maid; none was prouder than she
who, with her own hands, could fashion
her own dainty lingerie.
1.-The modern girl, in taking up her sew
ing, only comes back to first principles.
But they are sturdy principles to which
she is returning, and she will find them
so. 1t is a small thing which sometimes
causes a revolution, and the needle, small
as it is, by a general adoption can dc
much to elevate American girlhood to a
pinnacle of usefulness which will win for
her admiration the world over. So essen
TALLY feminine an art should never be al
lowed to die out. and when its POSSIBLE
tiles, artistic and useful, are better I'M
UerStOOu Dy Ouf SlFiS, Their OWu pTQle
will keep it in its proper place; among
woman's highest arts and truest accom-
plishments."
A pretty new salad is styled the
Daisy 1t originated at a smart lunch-
con given by a Philadelphia maid some
weeks since. Here is the scheme. On
Individual salad dishes were arranged
small leaves of the vegetable taken from
the center of the head. On these strips
were placed strips of the white of a hard
boiled egg. These were displayed to re-
present the petals of a daisy. The yolk of
egg, when it had been passed through a
s~trainer, was heaped in the center of a
daisy and covered with m~ayonnaise, thus
forming the pellow portion of the flower.
The idea is charming and well worth
holding in mind, since daisy luncheons
with the dollhouse blossom as decoration
are to be very popular this coming
winter.
Dainty bonbon boxes for a luncheon or
dinner may be readily made at home.
Have a variety of cardboard boxes and
cover them with art muslins or China
silks I0dL nave CREAM STOuluS UPON lueiI.
Cover boxes neatly on the outside and
line inside with a plain color and tie them
with ribbons the color of the flower.
When one is clever at using the brush,
cover odd shaped little boxes with white
linen or silk and paint them with differ
ent flowers. Put the guests name across
one corner. Such boxes are much pref
tier for a table and more highly priced
than any that can be bought.
Christmas is already heralded in the
quadntest of Christmas cards. They nave
an oblong, the size of a visiting card,
stamped on them, leaving a border an
inch wide surrounding it. In the left
hand corner a spray of holly an mistle-
toe is painted with a narrow ribbon of
red running through it and bearing the
legend: "A Merry Christmas and a bright
New Year" The name of the sender of
the Christmas wishes is engraved from
her card plate upon the space that is left
for it.
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