The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-15

1t again Cor a summer 'veranda lunch
con-"
This time she means to cover old UNI
brella frames with the wire netting.
There Will be six small tables and over
each OF them one Of these umbrellas
covered in green sprays and starred
here and there with blossoms. Isn't il
an idea to copy!
There's no end OF effects which can
be arrived at by the use of this wire
netting. A flower centerpiece for the
table, a dais. an armchair. a bench
for private theatricals, door curtains and
fine screens in the case of a wedding
or Summer dance.
We had been talking perfumes. a sem
sibIe topic at this moment. soon the rose
world will delight our senses. soon the
earth win b. redolent with odors of
ambitions to rival the daintiest blossoms
in the array. say Dorothy Maddox, in
the Philadelphia Inquirer
Personal fragrance. we agreed in our
confab, we should demand from each
other as a right. The shoes on our feet
are not more necessary to our own COM
fort than flower laden environments
even though they must come from the
workshop of the chemist.
That subtle delight Of catching a fleet
ing perfume is part of a woman's being.
Sh keenly realizes the satisfaction she
takes In the wholesome perfumes worn
by the people about her.
Many an important affair of the heart
has had its elimination in a delicate
fragrance waited from a lacy drapery.
The lover undeclared, could not resist
the scorcery of a gown in whose hidden
folds nestled a cunningly treasured per-
fume.
such a statement
I'VE are standing" SO he told me,
lin the most prosaic of drawing rooms.
Suddenly some movement of my COM
panion brought to my senses an intan-
gible color. 1 ried to place it. My pla-
tonic friendship seemed in an instant to
drop away from me. l found myself hur-
riedly telling this girl that loved her.
"One day. in talking over, as sweet
hearts, this odd emotion, she confessed
that amongst the laces at her throat she
wore several sprigs of old-fashioned lem
on ye-bena.
ITO this end we cherish this plant. 1t
is one of our household fayorites and my
wife says that she has rechristened it.
What she calls it is her secret. Some
thing sentimental you may depend
Rather a pretty romance this. 1t does
not seem a strange one to me. l could
forgive my bitterest enemy a wrong if
forgiveness were asked in an atmosphere
perfumed by aromatic scents.
The Eastern perfumes exercise a charm
for some people little short of the black
art. There are biendings of sandal wood
and ~raspings of camphor wood and a
dozen other conceits known to the one
woh delights in aromas that own an effer-
| vesceEt charm.
The very flesh of some women is a
perfect joy to fastidious nostrils. I know
| women whom / leigh to kiss under
their chins, whom / delight to sit beside,
whom I esteem a blessing simply because
in passing them ones senses are STEPPED
in exquisitely expressed fragrance too
elusive to be given a name.
Thai this is an age of detail is nowhere
uOI cACi1iplillcu Iii III Lie uItSSiuS
room of a woman who prides herself on
the perfection of her toilet. The ac-
| cessories to the elaborate rite of dress
ing are voluminous and to the uninitiat-
ed would need a key. There are waist
hangers and skirt hangers, perfumed
med drawers for lingerie, a bust of her
self to keep her corsets in shape; her
hand, wrist and foot modelled in wood
to preserve the outlines of shoes and
| gloves, parasol sachets, hat wardrobes,
which are chiffoniers with deep shelves
instead of drawers. each shelf fitted with
a hat rest; veil sachets with a case for
each flmy cobweb; handkerchief boxes;
| capacious shirt waist drawers or boxes
sometimes that serve as window benches,
and If there is room in one side of the
dressing room is built a press with draw
ers fully five feet long, but shallow like
the tray of a trunk In these, which are
muslin lined and provided with a muslin
flap that folds over the contents, are laid
away at full length the ball gowns-all
this before one approaches the dressing
table, whose paraphernalia would fill a
column
my supreme social effort has been ac-
complished, and l am nothing but a
wrung out rag left to tell the tale,'' writes
"A abine Members Wife, in the June
Ladies' Home Journal in the last Of her
series of letters giving her experiences in
I Washington. Pm tired enough to go to
bed by the time breakfast is over. Dc
you suppose / am catching 1aziness? It's
in the air. BY the supreme I mean my
Cabinet dinner, the last one Of this sea
son, and the first State affair to follow
Lent and Easter. There Is no set time
nor rule governing these dinners. This
kyear the Cabinet ladies got together and
decided to divide the honor equally
among them, half of our number enter
tanning each year, -OnseQuently / viii
only give two abine dinners during the
Administration. Everything went off
smoothly owing to Lem and good cater
er. The truth is. Lyde, the servant
make or mar an Administration. Tariff
and currency are of Importance, but good
domestic service is a necessity. If / were
lobbying for a bill / would first feed well
the House and Senate
Never enter the water when overhead
ed; rest a little first. and cool off, but
not enough to feel cold. Bathers should
Ienter the water when the body is at a
glow. not when it is in active or violent
| perspiration. Never enter the water with
a headache; never do SO with a full
stomach. Nothing can be more danger
Gus to the system than to contravene
these rules. and many have lost their lives
by negleeting them. No one should enter
the water Immediately after dinner; none