The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-07
ideas for ddaonnen

Happy the stay-at-homo woman for
many causes. but thrice happy is she tor
the reason that on a hot morning she
may don a cool, loose garment for wear
at the breakfast table. without fear OF
from her own, or from the OPP
posite sex.
And no true woman will deny that
there is infinite comfort in a lawn dress
ing sacque or wrapper when the tner-
mometer is climbing the nimeties, and
when the locusts are trying their best
to split their throats in the needless Eff
fort to warn all hearers that 1t is going
to be a piping hot dayt
But don't for a moment imagine that
the wearing of wrapper or dressing
sacqie is any indication of careiessness
sor disregard for appearances on the part
Of the wearer, for this summer the name
of such pretty and becoming garments
is simply legion. and those that can pc
bought ready to wear are wonderluny
Inexpensive, and. better still, are OF desir-
able cut and finish.
A plain white lawn wrapper, cut with
tight-ftting back and a loose front whlch
is girdled with a ribbon run through the
side seams at the waist line, and finished
at the throat and wrists by a neatly
hemmed rufrle of lawn, maj be bought
for slips, and for twice that sum the
same style of garment is trimmed with
lace and bands of insertion and is dainty
enough to be worn at any breakfast
table in the land.
Pretty neglige gowns also come In
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and are frequently finished at throat and
wrists with wide bands of footing, edged
with narrow beading, which is run with
baby ribbon and tied in short loops and
ends.
For cool mornings a princesse gown OF
navy blue challie is both pretty and SER
viceable. and when trimmed with mar
row white ribbon is dressy enough for
home wear at breakfast or luncheon
table.
Many women. however. Who have a
rooted objection to wrappers, console
themselves with pretty and becoming
breakfast jackets, which, when worn
with an old silk skirt. are quite as cool
as the full-length neglige.
A pretty garmene of this kim is the
Japanese sacque. which. as its name inn
plies. is loose and roomy, guiltless of but
tons n b~uttonholes and crossing at the
breast, leaves the throat free, while the
sleeves are wide and flowing. Made of
white lawn and finished with a three
inch band Of china blue or rose pink
dimity such a sacque is ~eminently beeom-
ing and conveys no suggestion of the
utilitarian comblng Jacket.
Equally cool and pretty are the break
fast sacuues of China silk. and when
trimmed with lace and ribbon are as
dainty as the most fastidious woman
could desire. These, however, have TO
be sent to a professional cleaner to be
renovated. so wash silks are a more de-
sirable material, as no hot weather gar
ment fulflls its mission unless 1t can
be sent again and again to the laundry
without fear of fading or shrinking.
$50
After the first six months of mourning,
says the 'Woman's Home Companion"
a widow may put on the pretty turnover
cuffs ard collars Of white linen lawn which
can be worn by any one in
mourning. Most of mourning gowns are
now lined with soft materials, either in
silk or light weight wool, SO as to avoid
ING rustic. The p~lainest of black shoes
i gloves should always be worn with
the mourning costume. No suspicion of a
white petticoat should be seen with
mourning dress. Never be guilty of wear
ing a mourning veil with a shirt waist of
washable material. The white ruche in the
bonnet belongs distinctively to the
widows weeds, and should never be worn
by a woman who is wearing mourning
for any but her deceased husband; but
when once taken off the ruche must never
be put On again unless for a second hus-
band.
Allow the band of black on your sta
tionery and cards to correspond in width
to tho degree of mourning habiliments.
The extreme widths are in any case vul-
gar and ostentatious. If you attend the
theatre or any place of public amusement
while you arc in mourning-and that is
your prerogative-never wear a mourning
veil. Either go bareheaded or wear a
fancy bonnet made of mourning ma
~terlals. Women sometimes make the err
ror of wearing long crepe wells at the
theatre and other similar places. When
you feel you wish to dispense with the
wearing of mourning, be guarded and let
its retirement be slowly and gracefully
marked by quiet costumes.
A simple and inexpensive receptacle for
flowers is constructed from a Japanese
umbrella. The handle Is first removed
and this novel basket Is suspended by
means of four pale green ribbons tied in
a large bow at the top and finished with
a bow at each of the four ribbons, also
one at the bottom of the umbrella. A
tall glass which can be filled with water
is fastened inside the umbrella and fast
ened securely TO the reeds, says the Phil
adelphia Press"
Exquisite cut glass bowls for flowers
are now found in round, oval quare AMI
diamond shapes. When filed with a bed
of ferns or other greens with pansies
nesting thereon the effect is most pleas
ing.
These bowls are frequently used for
centre pieces for a dinner or lunch and
are placed on a fat. circular mirror
with smilax or other vines twined around
1t.
At a pretty little tea recently given the
dining room was decorated ropes Of sni-
lax and ivy. The round table HAD a
dainty cover of finest linen with e)m-
broidered ~rosebuds. The centre piece con-
efeted ~ 1au-grawinr u7aidents hair ferns