The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-05
for dMomen

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Uncle Sam has captured the May-day
girl heart and soul, and not cniy the
May-day girl but her mother and grand
mother as we'll. In the breast of the
Oldest as well as the youngest the Iires oil
patriotism burn fiercedy. We delight i'll
our marital. spirit, and there is no e1-
travaganee we hesitate To. resort TO in
order to show our intense fervor for the
Stars and Stripes.
OF course the fairest and freshest OF
women are our leaders, because youth
and beauty can afford to wear red. white
and blue in any guise without regard to
trying effects. This is why we are run
ming across whole costumes cuEnirgly
managed. that there may be no mistake
about the wearer's Intentions She is
clothed in the naticrai emblems, and so
delightfully."- that the three tones melt into
each other. There is not the slightest Jar.
Swelldom has set its seal on the shirt OF
three tones. Then there silken bits in red.
white and blue. futtering from jacket
pocket, from jacket front. or anywhere
they can be tucked.
Not to own an Uncle Sam handkerchief
is 10 be out of the patriotic swim.
Great is the demand Cor military and
naval buttons. and nobody who is any
body hesitates 10 buy real gold braid,
nautical and military. There are nat
bands n hat bands; some of them come
of them come straight from headquarters
and loudly crows the girl over all other
girls who can secure the greatest number
from her friends in the navy.
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There Is not a famous battleship Or the
seas that is not represented if the collec-
ton is in good form. ard it viii be if the
society bud has her way. For once she
does rot hesitate to beg. Pretty and
pathetic are her appeals to masculine
friends in the navy department for a full
quota of these bands.
When her sailor hats are filled out she
starts with great glee to arrange in all
sorts of ways the bands still left. They
give one more touch of unicueness to
the boudoir, or den, or study or sleeping
apartment already swanped in red, white
and blue.
There is a perfect stampede by Uncle
Sans girls for buttons and badges. They
can havu their favorite hero buttoned
and badged. OF course the hero of heroes
in these young women's minds is the
man" of men wearing a uniform.
He it is who pens letters from the front,
such letters as were never before written
by warrior bold. Uncle Sam and Cupid
fight it out together. Cupid comes off
victorious, of course.
And after each letter the one receiving
it scurries about for one more means OF
displaying devotion to her country. She
nnds a corner which car still hold a flag
or a place in her wardrobe tina needs one
more touch of the Yankee stars and bars.
This enthusiasm bursts. forth in most
unexpected fashion. Who would think,
for Instance. CT seeing a petticoat frilied
with flags. | saw one the other morning
and it was very charming. 1t was worn
with a lourging robe, and every time the
robe gave a swing open there appeared
just the giddiest set of nounces L have
ever been permitted 10 gaze upon. They
were Lovely.
Several house petticoats are rapidly be-
ing completed with frills of the Union
Jack. All, we ~woInen-how closely We
hug all our enthusiasms TO our hearts.
When once we are interested we cannot
do too much for the cause that is ours.
Great is our delight in buckle and belt
clasps. We are trying to get them
straight from governmental stores. When
we fail in this we buy a sword belt
buckle or a belt clasp and do a little
genteel lying as to its origin
BY ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain we secure our war clothes, and
then when we feel hat we are dressed
light up to our feelings We attempt to
talk up to our clothes. Some of us are
worth listening to, others of US are mex
pressibly tiresome, and all of US are per-
fectly daft to nave our say. If young and
pretty and gotten UP in United States
tcgs we are bound to find a congenial
spirit who thinks each word that drops
from our lips a pearl of wisdom.
Certainly Uncle Sans girls can always
command an audience. All the better if
an audience of one. and that one, t h
man who thinks there never was in the
annals of history a maid half so bright
as this maid, bubbling over with opinions
Of Cuba, Spain and America. and in the
bewitching colors of her country.
at may be that your mothers. who
have always used the old-fashioned
method of cooking cabbage, will be
skeptical, but / am sure your first trial
will convert them to the newer way
writes Sallie JOY White prefacing a
chapter on cooking vegetables IN COOKERY
For Gi-9s' in the May "Woman's Home
Companion" Have plenty of boiling,
saltedv water, in which a teaspoonful OF
soda has been dissolved; plunge the cab
bage in. top downward, leave it un-
covered and let it boil until tender, which
will be in about half an hour. as you will
sec by consulting the table which / CAV
you in the last paper. It MAJ vary a
few minutes from the half hour but it viii
be a slight variation only. Take it out
into a colander, drain well, put it into a
hot dish, season with bits of butter, salt
and pepper. and serve at once Cooked
in this way. cabbage will be as delicate
as caulifower. the color will be retained
instead of being turned into that Witty
brown tint that is SO indissolusbly con-
nected with boiled cabbage as it has been
known in the past, and there will not be
such a strong odor penetrating every cor
ner of the house, such as is usually as
ISOLATED with this vegetable. Another
advantage OF serving it cooked by this
rule is that persons who cannot eat 1t
when boiled in the old-fashioned way find
that they can partake Of it without any
III effects"
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