The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-23
ideas for 1Momen


1t is going to cost every bit as much
to stay at home this summer as if we
went on our usual junketings, hut l have
an idc.t that we shall, la the long run,
get more for cur money, says Dorothy
Maddox in the PhilaGelphia Inquirer.
However. this will depend upon the
way that we manage. Cool. cooler, cool
est. We must reach the s~uperlative de-
greeiif possible. To do this we have
got to part with some cash for mattings
and linens and things. Warm weather fix
ings of all kinds are rather expensive.
Ghintzes are adorable for hiding stuffy
furniture and there are d~iaphanous fab
RIGS for draperies If draperies we must
have. ! do, think, however. we should
snatch this blessed chance for discard
ing them. Even the f~inlsiest are dust
holders. especially when windows and
doors are stretched a good part of the
time.
We are going to veil our pictures, not
because a single fly will bother them, for
we are to be thoroughly screened. but
that thee may look summary Looks
count much in hot weather. If we can
afford it we shall spread linens on the
floors. Nothing is so cool-looking as
linen. And we are sure to have plenty of
foliage about us for appearances sake.
Awnings that we have not needed for
years are going up as fast as dirty Win
dow laces are coming down. We shall
have this summer an ice box. if we can
not spend all the money we want on an
improved refrigerator. and we shall buy
fifty pounds of ice at a time mat our
ice box may be worthy its name.
The battered I'D lemonade set is to be
replaced with a tempting array of crys-
tai, cheap. but a pretty imitation of cut
glass. We are to have sherbet glasses
for this dainty. Frozen delfcacies are to
become part of our summer MENU
All the high and mighty sofa pillows in
their covers of elegant silks, velvets and
brocades are to be brought down TO the
practical level of summer furnishings
Each one will be cased in the coolest ma
terfal we can find. Then we are to cart
off useless trumpery that has stood about
as furnishings for the last six months. but
the house will not be stripped of anything
that win add to the beauty of a summer
residence in town
Such a clearing out as our closets will
have. hangers-on being promptly and
gleetN QlSCAIutQ- We AZ oCiASA4tCN cHNe
the garments, which for summers we have
not dared pack away on account of sea-
shore mists and mountain dews, cam be
chucked out of sight with the rest of our
thick clothing. We are going to scatter
lavender flowers anongs our bed linen
and campher on our shelves, the sweet
est, cleanest smelling thing in the world,
and we are determined TO be spendthrifts
in the matter of toilet waters and fine
soaps and cher delicious notions, which
we have in times past denied ourselves
that We might stay a season in some
body else's house. 8
Then out OF doors we go and look af-
ter our summer interests. The piazza may
be cooped up. No excuse of this sort
will suffice. It will have to come 10 time.
Rockers of ANTICIPATED pattern will be
dressed out in Turkey red calico cushions
and pads. and the new ones shall be nice.
,cezy affairs, generous of seat n broad
yof back and arms. We are TO have enough
of them, too, 50 that when our dear
friends gather for a porch frolic there
will net be a general hustle for seats.
Nothing is more annoyng than TO visit a
piazza where members of the family have
to perch like hens anywhere they can so
thai guests may sit down.
Every woman has a different porch
plan. All are good and embrace ferns,
and flowers, and hammocks, and Ian
terms, and swinging baskets. and good
ness knows how many other projects.
And then when the piazza has been
screened with Japanese mating, foliage
or awnings and has had all its comforts
duly arranged we shall be certain that we
have enough pretty frocks to do full
credit to o~ut-of-door environments. Most
of them will be white. White is the sweet
est dress in the world and looks its sweet
est in the twilight of a summer even
ing or under the dull glow of a swinging
l2ntern-
Plenty of crisp gowns and utility frocks
will keep our warm weather tempers
soothed as warm weather tempers should
be kept. Utility costumes are an imper-
alive necessity for many little jaunts are
taken and it is such a delightful sensa-
ton to feel we are prepared for any en-
Urgency
And if we rave a plot of ground that
is bigger than a pocket handkerchief We
Will convert it into a kitchen garden;
radishes that seem to come up in a night
and some tender heads of lettuce, with
parsley ana MINT IuckeO IHlO the SpdIt
corners. If there is a bit Of extra room.
we will plant flowers, and among the
posies all a-blow we shall have a bed
of sNasties,,, as an old country woman
calls them; brilliant hued nasturtiums
that give a rare touch Of beauty to the
summer breakfas table. And then-ohl
then we shall be quite content, for are
we not ready to laze away the summer
hours in charming fashion. just a little
work to keep us from ~stagnation, but as
much play as we can sandwich in be-
tween imperative calls to duty.
Patriotism seems to have taken COM
pIete hold of womankind, for she is even
doing her entertaining along patriotic
lines. The patriotic dinner or luncheon,
which shows a blaze of red, white and
blue in everything, and miniature bat
tleships at each plate for favofs or SOU
venirs, is the vogue OF the moment.
Several of these have been given sew
eral more are planned. These require
great ingenuity, but they bring forward
some delightful effects and have met with
great appreciation
Tho centrepieee was a bank of red
roses, surrounded by white flowers and
by blue flowers.
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