The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-18
WOMAN'S WORLD.
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/, Of refinement and daintiness simply be-
cause the snowy white damask INNER
cloth and napkins lend a charm that
nothing else can supply.
] A fastidious heusekeeper often has
4 trouble in getting them to suit her, es-
peciaily in the country. and it is ex-
pensive to rave to send them away The
4 country washerwoman will often not only
make them too blue, but have them as
stiff as a ~board-and think of opening q
napkin and have to pull it apart, it being
starched so stiff
The best way is this, and numbers OF
very dainty -housekeepers use this
, method: First. never allow tablecloths or
napkins to get very much soiled; do any
darning or nending necessary before
washing. If stained with tea or coffee,
fruit, etc. pour boiling water through
the linen where stained. Do this before
washing. Soak over night In clear water.
then boil the linens and rub wesl in hot
water. Make a lather of white soap and
rub the linen between the hands until
clean. Lift out of the boiler with a stick
and drop into a tub of cold water. Rinse
well and wiring tightly. Dip into a tub
of cold water. to which bluing has been
added until the water is sky blue. Wiring
again and hang out to dry. Starch lightly
and iron.
I always wash the small embroidered
pieces in my room in the wash bowl |
| never put soap directly in the goods, but
make a Iather of the soap and rinse in
warm water and iron while quite damp
on wrong side. and you can have an ele-
giant table for years If you persist in
laundering your linens by this rule.
1t is a great saving of handsome table
damasks to use the boiling water to re-
move tains as so much washing wears
them out. and to do this every day saves
time and money. It only takes a few
moments TO pour the boiling water
through the stains. and 1T will repay you
tenfold. The table is the drawing card
in a home; the whole family meet there
three times a day-the dining room should
be the prettiest and most attractive room
in the house.
When you see a girl these midsummer
days dragging along the streets a too-long
white pique skirt you are not to believe
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of the day for trained frocks. 1t is more
likely that the skirt is brand new and
that its festive wearer is letting it sweep
the ground until the laundry can reduce
it to a proper length. Three moves are
said to equal a fire. and three washfngs,
they tell me, are necessary to bring a
pique to the proper and subjective state
Of shrinkage. After that the material
changeth not, but before that it is liable
TO contract by the yard each time it is
dipped into the tub. Letting down is
of little avail; the only way to insure q
properly fitting pique skirt after its third
washing is to nave it made originally
about three times too large for you in all
directions. Never was there material
with such capacity for ~shrinkage. 1t has
often been suggested that the best way
to circumvent these difficulties would be
to have the pioue washed three times be-
fore making up, but for some reason or
other this has never been done
If you prefer to let the skirt drag while
it is new, why, do so. by all means; bat
If you happen to be one of those persons
that greatly dislikes the faintest suspicion.
of untidiness you will, before wearing the
skint. haste a hem on the under side Of
the facing. thus shortening the skirt to
the requisite walking length. Let down
this hem when the skirt goes to the laun-
dry and it will come home shrunken to
your usual dress skirt length.
So
The girl who Is always inventing some
new way to use up her old clothes, has
discovered how to make a cool morning
wrapper out of last summers organdy
dress skirt-the waist having suecumbed
to the heat in one season. 1t is intended
to wear when men are not expected,
though the girl looks extremely pretty In
II, and no doubt her admirers would pre-
fer TO see her in such a cool and beeom-
ing gown, but 1t might not be regarded as
conventional.
To make it, she first ripped the hem at
the bottom of the skirt, finishing the
edge with a band of ribbon. This is to
make it long enough when the band is
fastened up under the arms instead Of
around the waist. and for this. of course,
the band must be let ont a couple Of
inches.
The double founce which formed the
bertha on the waist is still in good con-
dition. and his is put around the neck
from front to back, being fastened TO
the skirt at the waist line, and the whole
secured to the blue lawn corset cover,
which makes a very good V plastron IN
the back.
The arms are thus left sleeveless, but the
bertha is wide enough to cov them
nearly TO tie elbow. It Is the absence Of
sleeves and the slightly low neck which
make this such a comfortable gown for a
hot day, and with a pretty corset cover
and dainty petticoat it IS surprising how
well one may be clothed witt merely a
skirt and a ruffle.
Some of the latest designs in the line of
boots and shoes are built expressly for
the feminine who is unfortunate in the
shape or size Of her feet, says the Phila-
delphia Press
Some Of the cleverest bootmakers have
been at work on this problem. They now
offer to make a pretty foot out sof a
homely one.
TITS merely a matter Of the s1oe.'is said
a clever bootmaker yesterday. Q
course there are naturally pretty feet
which look pretty in any shoe put on. But
even the naturally honeiy foot can be
rendered symmetrical and stylish by a
wise choice of boot. Leather. color, sole.
vamp and fastening. All these count and
all should be carefully considered before
purchasing.
For example,
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