The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-19

can ARRANGE iuy t'pWSiS H4ttf
and artistic. effect.
THE wire frafao is very easily $on-
trived.
with a pair Of pincers bend a ring OF
, wire the size of the edge Of the BOWL
hooking the ends Of the circle together.
.Then across this ring stretch lengths
| of wire. allowing about half an incn
! over the diameter. the circle to bend
down and fit over The edge Of the bowl.
Twist the wires together where they
cross each other, and give a firm twist
around the circle Of wire. and that is all.
s@where the wires bend over the edge
OF the BOWL they are entirely hidden by
the leaves and flowers. and the whole
thing can be removed for cleaning.
When arranging flowers with this
frame / first mako a light foundation with
sprays of green TO conceal the frame
Common garden asparagus is delightful
when filling jars with sweet peas and
many other blossoms.
eNasturtiums | use with their own foli-
age. often sticking the flower stems right
through the leaves.
~On this foundation flowers throw them
selves into the most fascinating attitudes
without any constraint or unnatural
heavy massing.
stAnd you can hardly avoid making them
look light and graceful. Any one who has
once utilized this simple device will never
be willing to struggle with the arrange
ment of flowers in the old way"
80
President Eliot. in a recent address be-
fore the Dorchester (Mass.) Woman's
Club. discussed the happy marriage. and
gave it what free and easy writer's cah
a first class notice says Harper's
weekly A very brief extract from his
address credits him with saying that the
idealizing devotion which the happy mar
IMAGE begins is the most admirable thing
in human nature.
He dees not seem to favor the idea that
the CORNERSTONE of happiness in MARRIAGE
is a sufficient income secured against the
CHARGES Of fortune. On the contrary, he
declares that the young woman who mar
ries for money or position is sacrificing
the best of life which marriage affords
The chief conditions of a happy marriage,
as he finds them. are health. common IN
4euectual interests. and a religious belief
held in common between husband and
wife. NO doubt he enlarged upon these
conditions. and qualified the idea of the
superlative Importance of the latter two
by taking large views of them.
We often see. for example, people very
happily married whose minds are so DIFF
ferently constituted that it seems impos-
sible that they should have more than a
limited number of.intellectual interests in
common. But there are differert kinds of
good minds, and minds that supplement
one another seem quite as we'll suited to
harmonious associations as those that run
in parallel grooves.
So as to a common religious belief That
must mean agreement in the great es-
s~entials. the roots of which lie deep in
character. and which really determine
standards and shape conduct. The exist
ence of practical agreement of this sort is
not necessarily inconsistert with much
variation in details of belief which are
important, but not really vital. A mar
rage between a Protestant and a Catho-
lie may b. happy. though such alliances
are highly inconvenient. The marriage
which may be expected to fail is one be-
tween persons who are not likely to agree
as to what is right and what is wrong.
The possibilities in a woman's Summer
neck gear are infinite, says the Philadel-
phia Press"
If she foregoes the negligee collar, which
means summer to masculine minds. she
does it from her superior sense of beauty
and not from any limitation of her pow
ers. Negligee collars may be cool. but
they are generally unbecoming. Hence
they are not included in the summer girls
repertoire of neck fxings.
Instead, she uses many ingenious and
pretty devices.
Simplest of all is the ribbon collar that
consists of a double piece of taffeta ribbon
hooked in the back and finished with
dainty white turnover pieces of fine hem
stitched lawn.
This, for the shirt waist girl, is most
convenient. The fashion of bringing the
ends around and tying them four in hand
is obsolete.
But the shirt waist girl has nowadays
developed the trick of wanting a tie of the
same material from which her waist is
made. and she fashions Il thus
She fits herself with a white pique stock
for a foundation. Then. high up in the
back of this she starts two broad. hem
med pieces of her shirt waist stuff, brings
them around and ties them in front like
an Ascot tie.
If she does not want the long ends of an
Ascot Tapping about her on a hot day,
she wears a Lydia stock" That is, a
white pidue collar with narrow bits Of
satin ribbon brought around from the
hooking place in the back. n a small.
fluffy, accordion-pleated bow of the satin
in front.
These stocks are very dainty If the
bows are of pale pink or blue or lilac
against the white collar.
A yard and a quarter of taffeta ribbon
will make another sort of collar thar is
becoming and simple. The ribbon goes
once around the neck, crosses. comes
again to the front and can then be tied
in a bow with long ends or in a simple
f~our-in-hand.
Any one of these styles is serviceable
for summer, and economical, too.
Strictly in the accessory class are belts,
which are in many sorts. MORE
leather, finished TO look like ribbon, is
shown iii all eolors and is prettiest in
white. The inch belt is correct, and if
cf leather is divided into several sections
by metal clasps or rings. Til half inch
d,eIt is savarper. and III. very heavy natent