The Jersey City news., 1898-09-28

WOMAN'S WORLD.

This is the week Of millinery openings
From one shop to another go the women
ana they usually find all hats predicting
the same thing.
IN giving suggestions, those who have
not had a chance to go to these openings
about hats. II Is wiser TO choose the sai-
lent points of difference between this ano
last seasons styles, rather than describe
especial pieces of headEear
Lines and tendencies in hats as N
gowns are the important things, and IN
dividual taste can do the rest
The majority of hats show the tendency
: to flare aggressively in front. 1ne nal
over the nose seems TO have had us uas .
10 the broad-faced woman this IS a ue-
light. she has had to wear that big prim
over her eyebrows for year, making hei
face look more squat than usual.
The woman with the exceeding long
face complained too. She argued II mace
her face seem narrower and ner chin
sharper.
II was only the woman with the me-
dium type of face that said not a gfum-
bling word. If she was inclined to be sen
sational. she tipped the hat too Tar over
her face and ..looked a sight'--in the YER
nacular of the day.
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The larger hats are worn off the face by
turning the brim smartly up in front;
usually an owls breast or gull's wing is
put down near the hair and slants up
ward
# YOU have narrow face beware OF
mis- mode of trimming. you viii look
wofullv topheavy
But the new hats are designed to make
one look Just that way. One can't inpu'e
10 the designer such a motive, propapiy'
hut he turns Of fashion are evidently
nor always accountable to art
~ wonder if the brim turns up in front;
viii n do SO in the back" was a woman's
emery Tn some eases 1t does; IN others
not. The mode Of last year is still seen;
4hat Is aattening or cutting off the back
brirn and putting two choux or puncnes
of 1owers near the hair. In other hats
fhe brim straightens itself over the Knot.
Black velvet hats are to be especially
fashionable. even more so than during
last winter.
Those that turn up in front usually
show a broad steel buckle, from which
starts long ostrich feather that trans
over the back of the hat. Sometimes
there are two of these feathers ana tney'
are brought around the brim close to the
hair, This is a very pretty effect, for lhe
softness of the plumes blends INTO the
locks charmingly.
For ultra-dress hats-to wear at
matinee or afternoon tea-orehid or ger
anium velvet is made up with black trim
m!ngs.
one Of the new ideas is to supply SUI
perb designs Of yellow lace over this vel
vet to soften it. When well done the eff
feet is fine.
cut steel is on everything where one
can afford it: it is expensive and in our
damp climate 1t rusts in perfectly ma
licious way Whether ground pumice
stone ever takes this rust off depends up
on the temper of the '.elbow grease" OF
the one who is rubbing.
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Soft SILK plush is used to make up many
hats. touues and brim hats. but it is a
question whether it is pretty enough to
adept; then, plush does catch the dust so!
In all the multiplicity of hats seen
in the shops today violets as trimming
are not to be noticed. They haven't made
their appearance in the model hat; it is
difficult to predict what individual en-
deavor may do later on. for it certainly
seems that women are determined to
never relinquish violets.
For mourning bonnets and hats unglazed
silk is used in quantities. That thin quail
ity of crepe de chine is preferred to chif-
fon Plenty of 1t in colors is seen.
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....- --,ar a +i,,a xyI,ar, ohj1dran,s
hats were so lovely as now. most
fetching one was builded of pink silk
after the manner of Shakers bonnet On
the silk Is applied rough yellow lace
that gives the appearance of straw at a
distance. In front is a huge fat bow of
soft pink silk ribbon. The streamers are
of pink chiffon.
Velvet hats are also in demand for
children. They are very large and are
lined with knife pleatings of white gafize
or chiffon. All juvenile hats seem to de-
pend upon the trimming on the many
looped bow of taffeta ribbon placed in
front.
When receiving either invited or after
noon callers, says the Newark Evening
News, a hostess should never devote her
attention and conversation SO entirely to
one or two persons as to neglect the
Others. or even to allow them to think
that they have in any way been neglected.
It is, however not very easy for an in
experienced hostess to prevent this hap
pening occasionally, for when several Wis
itors call at the same time, it requires
both tact and management to draw them,
if strangers. into conversation with one
another. For this reason it is not ad-
visable for young wife to at once start
an SAT Home day on taking possession
@of her new home, especially if she is a
stranger to the neighborhood and it's
ways; for in some places people are very
s'cliquey." and given to sets, and when
this is the case. they are apt to both look
and hold a1oof from anyone who does not
move in their own little circle
When lady decides upon being at home
to visitors upon certain fixed days, and
let's her friends and acquaintances know
1t, they will, of course, call upon her on
those particular afternoons, and natural-
ly they will call at or about the same
hour and she viii have not only to re-
ceive and talk to them all. but also pour
out and herself distribute tea to them all
mot an easy matter to do we'll for per-
son who has not mixed much in society
or who is Of shy or retiring disposition,
and who has only just begun to perform
the duties Of hostess. Many ladies find
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