The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-10
In WOman'S World.

ii SOlS lCinpldlhol ! IL
is expected to be accessory to tempting
masculinity later when the gentler half
shall have arrayed itself in the sheer,
shimmery. summary sea of daintiness
which already the shops have set forth.
And it behooves the fair ones who want
the pick of the showing to be out and
buying; if you'll believe it. the last OF the
figured Swiss which seemed the cream
of this years showing-it certainly had
beauty and style-was closed out day
before Yesterday. One really needn't feel
cast down, though. for there are any
number of beauties left, not to mention
the new arrivals which will be constantly
greeting one for some time TO come. one
eye-catcher (not in the umbrella class
has a sheer cream stripe three inches
wide. literally covered with embroidered
black polka dots, alternating with a
satiny yellow stripe, a good half-inch
wide. With the beautiful ~organdies,
veritable fields on which Flora has de-
posted group after group of her choicest
children, and the chic, narrow-striped
ginghams which make such adorable
frocks for summer mornings, femininity
is fairly kept awake o. nights. OF
course. mankind smiles. He never grasps
llO1O bShlS SdPASA1C
sort. and doesn't really understand that
evolving of a love of a get-up is almost
as much a boon to humanity as turning
out what may in time become IAN old
master"
Have YOU felt the thrill which comes
with the plucking of the first post-holi-
day bargain yet? No? But it GER
tainly isn't the fault of the shops, for
right under the very noses of the new
est, choicest importations the plebeian
.mark-down" has planted itself, and
there il intends to remain till ~kind-heart-
ed customers have come, seen and been
conquered to the extent of removing it
to more c%ongenial scenes. In the case
of some of the underwear this haven
would seem likely to be the washtub.
And isn't it rattle a pity that everybody
insists upon being as gay as anybody,
especially in the way of laces (too often
miserable limitations that will not stand
a single BATH and ribbons whose re-
moving and replacing again is such a
deyourer of time. Indeed, Lillian Bell,
in a Paris letter, hits the nail very
souarely with:-.An the lingerie has rib
bons in it. and sometimes I think they
are never Intended to be taken out"
Though cleanliness may be near enough
TO eodIiness when next to it, that isn't
near enough to it to get to femininity.
1t must permeate her whole being; be
herself. Not that this is a sermon
against buying mussed underwear, for
that very scheme is a good one for all
who are not suffering with too heavy
purses. since it must battle with soap
and water before being allowed to come
in contact with its new mistress.
If YOU allow small matters to annoy
Won Won have surely wasted a second or
SO lamenting the fact that they only re
duce, fetching blouses and frocks at a
time when one already has ones weather
eye open for garments for the next sea-
son. So one simply casts a sad lingering
glance an a taut little duck of a thing
that has been removed from the seventy
dollar class to enc many pegs below, and
goes on trying to peer into the future, and
makes out before time wherewithal one
shall be clothed.
To tell the truth, are you used to your
winter boots yet? And these boots. well,
they're the worst feature of the winter
They are SO disagreeably strong minded
and take matters so entirely in their own
hands-their mere weightiness carries one
Oh a foot or so beyond ones anticipated
stopping place. Besides, the foot seems
to nave no expression in it, but is driven
on blindly by pure brute force until you
would never recognize in 1t the sympatn-
etic, ~debonnaire extremity which serves
one so beautifully when clad in the ex-
quisitely flexible carriage boot, the house
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a delight, but the walking boot is too Of
ten something to flee roma well as in.
How do you like the slides so many
women are wearing on their ribbon neck
bands? Those set with diamonds or pink
pearls and worn on black velvet are GER
tainly fetching. Since pearls stand for
tears the number of women who evidently
enjoy themselves most when sad is quite
appalling. One sees neckbands of light
colors, too. Slides set with turquoises
are certainly effective.
A paper on .Ideas and their Value" re-
Gently read at the Current Events Club
of Norway, Me, suggested to the fertile
mind of Mrs. Harriet N. Rich a novel
manner of increasing her bank account.
The manner was to catch rabbits and ship
them to New York and Boston for pets.
She at once wrote to a friend in New
York asking if there was a market for the
pets. The answer received was salts
factory, and Mrs. Rich at once became
the rabbit dealer of Oxford county. She
had heard about the people in Belfast
raising coons and getting Sc for them in
the large cities, and the ideas of rabbits
as a possible merchandise became firmly
fixed in her brain. Many of her rabbits
are used for stocking purposes in the
parks, others are sold to private parties
and resold for pets. Rabbits are very
plentiful in the vicinity of Norway, and
all the small boys in the vicinity are en-
ployed by Mrs. Rich as trappers. The
rabbits are found in the cedar swamps
and second growth evergreen, and when
the first snow came the boys hurried to
the woods and set their traps and snares.
Twenty-Five cents is paid for a live rabbit
and as the season is a long onc for such
animals, the industry will be a paying one
for Mrs. Rich and also the boys.
Another clever woman has by her skill
ard courage won for herself the appoint
ment of warden on the staff of Game
Commissioner Swan of Colorado. Her
name is Miss Anna Metcalf. It is stated