The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-27

A large tin bread box is a safe storage
place for chocolate. cereals IN paper pack
ages. and any dry foods liable to be at
tackled by mice. With proper receptacles
provided for all supplies there will be no
excuse for their remaining in paper bags,
which are most unsightly and unsuitable
for such use.
Never pile the various articles on top
of each other. as they are not only likely
to be battered. but much time is lost In
getting at them.
The material which stays in favor the
longest for bathing dresses is serge, says
Harper's Bazaar, There nave been a
great many innovations of late years. and
other materials are extensively used; but
serge seems to be the prime favorite. A
rough heavy serge tina does not retain
the moisture. will wear well for two or
three seasons without losing its color
or shrinking. 1t is not well to buy too ex-
pensive q one, for it does not seem to
wear as well as the coarser varieties, and
the fine twill is never as effective.
Some of the most effective bathing
suits seen this year are made of ticking
or canvas cloth. This material has its
excellent points, and also its very objec-
tionable ones. Its good points are that it
shed the water well, and also retains its
stiffness. and of course does not cling to
the figure as the others sometimes do.
When thoroughly wet it will look just
as smart as when it was perfectly dry.
1t comes in the different stripes we have
always been accustomed to see, and can
be made more effective by trimmings of
bright red. bright blue. or white.
Silk bathing dresses are a little con-
shed the water we'll. but require a great
deal of trimming. and then look overdone
and not quite appropriate. Black silk
and dark blue silk are the only possible
colors. and these are made and trimmed
just like the others that have been des-
cribed.
Mohair, silk. ticking. and all other ma
~terials, excepting serge and flannel. re-
quire to have the yoke lined with a light
flannel, as they are otherwise quite too
ennl-
In the July Ladies' Home Journal"
Mrs. s.. T. Rorer. writes of THE Best
Foods for Stout and Thin Women
sThe best meats for the obese" Stout,
she says, "are beef, mutton, venison and
game, and the best fish are soles. foun-
der, cod. rock. halibut and white fish.
The crustacea and the mollusk are not de-
sirable. The best vegetables are the cab
bage tribe, such as caulif1ower. broccoli
and Savoy, the ordinary cabbage, kale
and spinach. lettuce, endive, chicory. cell
cry, carefully cooked turnips without
sauce, artichokes, squash. cucumbers
cooked. cress. very young green peas ana
string beans. The best fruits are grapes,
rip peaches, raspberries, blackberries,
strained and made into mush, and an DC
c~asional baked apple. and the best nuts
are almonds and a few pignolias or pine
nuts. Nut cheese. madeAjnto a sandwich
with whole wheat bread, makes a desir-
able luncheon. Dry toast made from
whole wheat bread may form the basis Of
many delightful sandwiches for the noon
day meal. Where the habit is to nave a
midday dinner. and supper in the even
ing. these sandwiches. with a glass of
half milk and half barley water. may
form the supper. A glass Of cool water
may be taken on RETIRING
I sat down at a dinner party one of the
tiCtlSo isl q tAito WEN. OliC VI lily
handsomest women there wore a gown of
white chiffon over white silk. No ruffles.
no furbeIows-plain chiffon. But the con
trasting note was in shoulder straps and
girdle of cut jet, says the Philadelphia
Press
If you have any Jet now is the time to
bring it out. 1t is fashionable combined
with chiffons in any color. Rose pink is
charming with jet, but in some way the
white is the most effective.
Every careful woman has some jet laid
away somewhere. A decade ago it was
fashionable; the present season sees it so
again.
A visit to an English silversmith is al
ways interesting to the American house
keeper, and she is wise to bring away for
the use at her home board some ofsthe
useful dishes not often seen here. Among
these is the jam-pot, a low, circular bowl
of glass usually fitted with a silver-plated
lid through whose ~spoon-hoie a deep-boWl
oval spoon is thrust. Another pretty dish
common to English tables. and possibly
to be had of our W silyersmiths, is
is called a mince dish. the English
on a silver standard that elevates it a
few inches above the table and has a
spirit-lamp beneath to keep the contents
warm. 1t is provided with a silver plated
cover, and it is both useful and exceed
ingly ornamental. Something much less
needed is often seen on English dressing
tables. and that is the silver twine ball.
This is about the size of an orange, and
is made of two equal Darts and put to-
gether at the centre after the ball is in
closed. the end of the twine coming
through a hole in the top. The silver
ball rests on little feet
Men often assert thai the average man
is heater in his everyday appearance
than the average woman, white linen
collars and cuffs having procured this
reputation for man.
Take a man with a shabby suit of
clothes on his back and let him put on
he looks spick and span.
Pint eyer so cheap a ready-made dress
on a woman, with a white linen collar.
white wash tie. and snowy cuffs, and
she'll look Just as neat as her brother.
There's one nine out of ten
women have: though. when it comes to
cuffs and collars. They will think that
when a man would toss it into his laun-
dry bag.
Nothing gives one SO untidy ans ap-
pearance as soiled linen, and there is no
excuse for women economizing in this
particular.
Little night lamps are in the form of
houses. Shakespeare's Anne Hathaway's,
and Burns all figure in this way. Anne
Hathaway's cottage, a picturesque. vine
covered structure. is the most attractive.
The houses are of china. about the size of
a small N0ahss ark. There is an opening
at the back of each house, and a broad