The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-04

of shirks. Resides. there is another thing
to be thought Of. IT would be unpleasant
for us if they altogether forgot how 10
work by the time we are ready TO give
something MP for them 10 do
For a comparatively inexpensive we'd
ding present nothing could possibly be
more acceptable to a bride thar a num-
Der of well-cushioned coat forms. Pro-
cure. say. half a dozen strong wire forms.
Make dainty silk bags of a suitable size
10 cover the arms; linc these well with
| cotton batting sprinkled literally with
sachet powder.
Insert the arms of the form and draw
the bags up tightly around the hook;
finish with q generous bow of ribbon OF
the same shade as the silk.
A bride who recently received six of
these useful articles, all in ravishing pink,
used them in packing her bodices, and
proclains that never before did her gowns
/ emerge fre.n her trunk in so perfect a
condition.
A word to the maker Basic your cot
ton batting right up with the seam OF the
bag and stitch all together.
If you wish to add to this gift another
newly devised n suitable brida offer
ing, make a few pretty trunk tray cloths
of linen simply bound. embroidered with
a monogram and with ribbons attached.
to take the place of inside trunk straps.
Smaller. oblongs of the linen made to ex-
actly match the tray cloths are of the
greatest service in packing shoes and slip
pers.
A bride so lucky as to have forms, tray
cloths and shoe cases all in the same
pretty shade, has small excuse If her
trunk is not a model of order and pref
tiness.
In this severe weather it is more than
ever necessary to remind young mothers
and sociable nurses that the window is
not the place to hold a young baby. The
nurse seizes upon the window seat that
commands the street in order that she
may see what is going on, and she often
! considers that the moving panorama of
trolley ears. pedestrians, sleighs, business
wagons, boys on sleds, school girls or
beautifully dressed ladies entertains the
child more easily than picture book and
rattle would. Many a sudden Hinex-
| plicable'' attack of bronchitis is due to
the baby's presence at the ice-cold Win
dow pane Even if Memberships are
provided for the sash cold streams of air
flow in. we know not how, and the frigid
pan of glass is not the proper place for
the baby's fingers or face to be pressed
against
1t seems a pity to expose the tender in
FAINT to his unnecessary risk, more dan
gerous than outside blasts, for against
them the cold would be protected by
wraps, mittens. veil and furs or blankets
A child's house dress of finest cobweb
nainsook is of slight protection against
the severe weather which makes Febru-
airy a more trying month than March in
this city. Even if the baby's mother is
sensible enough to dress her child in
merinos and wash fannels she will be yet
more sensible if she orders the nurse to
keep Master Baby away from the Win
dows until warm spring weather visits
those attitudes. In this respect an ounce
of prevention is well worth its pound of
cure. The nursery may have a comfort
able temperature, but at the window a
change of atmosphere is usually notice
able.
A famous evangelist now in town told
this story of a woTnan's way of keeping
accounts the other day They had been
married but a few months and had begun
in the right way, determined to keep track
of every penny and to save a little if pos
sible. He bought her an expense book
and told her how to keep it, and she
faithfully scrawled her accounts every
evening like the thrifty housewife h a
she was. One evening the young husband
asked 10 see the book. His wife beamed
with pride as he glanced at the red lines
and the neat array of figures. Every
few days this cabalistie sign appeared.
"G. K. w. Is cents" or &c. K. w, ST."
or &C. X. w, So" The sums varied, but
the initials were always the same and they
appeared with astonishing regularity.
The young husband was disturbed. My
| dear" he asked, who is this G. K. W.
and why do you give him or her SO much
money! The bride laughed. why,
that isn't anyone, Tom" she said. You
see at the end of every week there is al
ways a certain sum for which / can't
account. so l put down C. K. W.'-good-
ness knows what, don't you see?"
Another bride, who began keeping ae-
counts soon after her marriage. made the
following entries in her account book
January 2. Received from BERTHE, sS5.
January I. Spent it ALL"
80
81 like the way the French take their
| amusements.' writes Miss Lillian Bell, in
a letter from Paris to the February
| Ladies' Home Journal "At the theatre
they laugh and applaud the wit of the
| hero and hiss the villain. They shout
their approval of a duel and weep aloud
/ over the death of the aged mother. When
they drive in the Bots they smile and have
an air of enjoyment quite at variance
with the bored expression of English and
Americans who have enough money to
j own carriages. We drove in Hyde Park
in London the day before we came to
| Paris, and nearly wept with sympathy
| for the unspoken grief in the faces of the
unfortunate rich who We're at such pains
/ to enjoy themselves. [ never saw such
| handsome men as / saw in London. /
| never saw such beautiful women as 1 see
| in Paris. French men are Insignificant as
| a rule, and English women are beefy
| and dress like ~rag-bags.g'
$50
Old fashioned sandal wood is revived as
| d pungent in Paris. The fair DANES are
| hunting up the sandal wood fans, curious
| IN carved tokens of a long past genera
lions fondness for this East Indian wood.
! The fragrance is semi-spicy, and just now