The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-25

to take away that fiat look lhat IS 50
irving to a slender child. They have the
bishop sleeve, butsquite small, with q stifl
cuff. The shirt waist should be made
with the buttons, not to wear with studs
A little linen collar can be worn, or a
stock; but the prettiest shirt-waists are
those which are worn with the soft silk
Windsor ties of different colorings as
mothers generally prefer.
The plain colored waists are the smart
est looking, but not the best. There IS q
kind of Madras with a white ground ana
narrow stripe of blu or pink that deiies
the attempt of the l~aundress to fade It
out. Then there are the linen, or wood
colors rather, that wear splendidly, and
look very well with the linen skirts, A
ribbon belt is better style than a leather
one for little girls to wear. It should pc
nut twice around the waist and fasten in
front with a bow. The watered ribbon
about a fingers width is the best to
use.
All white skirt waists look very cunning
with the white duck skirts, and most ap-
propriate for children, but they should be
elaborate in design. 1t is a mistake 70
make them in a severe style. The Roman
silk makes very pretty little shirt waists
for children, and the little fine checks also
look well to wear on cool days with serge
skirts. The Roman silks are very thin
taffetas. as a rule, and will not STAND
much hard wear; but they can be worn
as the season advances under Elton jack
cts or with REFERS. For present wear.
however the Madras, the ~ginghams, and
the percale waists are the best made on
the simple lines already described.
A year ago this fall a bright girl who
found herself suddenly thrown on her
own resources set to work to PROVIDE
lunches for private academy pupils, says
the Philadelphia Press She made a
success of it, both from a financial ana
a hygienic point Of view.
There are hundreds of women in this
city oday who are thinking up some
method of money making which does not
require long preliminary study.
Why not think about these lunches for
school children? There is certainly money
to be gained if they are cleverly done.
The requirements are a knowledge OF
good plain cooking and an ordinary
amount of business ability, in order to
carry on the financial side.
Usually the dishes are prepared at the
house of the caterer herself and forward
ed to the school. In other cases the
caterer may arrange to prepare her menu
in the kitchens of the establishment.
Both hot and cold luncheons are, as a
general thing. expected. It is wise, in
any case, to set out prepared TO furnish
these.
Here are a few Of the financial points
in the work: The hot lunches viii range
from 20 to 80 cents, according to the menu
selected by the school. The cold lunches
will cost from 10 to 20 cents.
Sandwiches made from chopped tongue
or beef. with homemade bread and fresh
butter, bring five cents. Croquettes of
potato and chicken. mixed with tw6slices
of bread and butter are sold at IS cents.
A pint bowl of soup comes, with two
good slices of bread. at 5 cents. Cold
roast of beef or mutton-one slice-and
bread and butter bring 10 cents.
Then there is pudding-plain, whole
some varieties. such as rice and tapioca.
at 3 to 5 cents a saucer. Baked apples
are served with cinnamon bun at 5 cents
per portion. Two good-sized wheat buns
and a fumbler of milk, 10 cents. Five
cents the bowl for any variety of cream
served this should be occasionally only.
The pie crust must be particularly light
and the cake of some simple. digestible
variety. Hard boiled eggs, olives, cheese,
good preserves. cookies. oatmeal and
graham crackers, ETC., are all useful as
relishes, and aid greatly in varying the
menu.
1t cannot be supposed that men make
no study of dress. A man cannot be we'll
dressed simply by going to a good tailor.
He must abet the efforts of the tailor
himself by exercising a careful choice of
all the adjuncts of his costume. And yet
men do not talk about dress-at least, in
public. No woman overhears men in
omnibuses and railway carriages discuss
ing their ideas for a frock coat or their
preferences in spats; whereas the public
ring with women's talk on
a cognate theme. you know my old
black satin. dear? Well. I've just a
one of the new founces put on, etc. We
are all familiar with this class of utter
ance. Why there is such a marked diff
ference between the sexes in his par
ticular is only explicable because It is
supposed to be wornanly to reveal interest
in the subject, but not manly. And yet
there are men who suffer the creates.
misgivings about their apparel, and who
yearn to know who is THEM well-dressed
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