The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-24
IDEAS for dWo1nen

of the table has made you irritated many
1 time for varying reasons.
You are a man and have wanted to have
a good look at the pretty face of the girl
opposite, but that -aggravating spray of
flowers blurs her eyes and yea lose her
lcoquettish smile as she swe her neigh
Dor.
Or, you are a woman and want to watch
the mans face opposite; he is the lion of
the evening and every play of expression
on his clever face is famous.
For a dozen reasons you have hated that
towering bouquet in the centre of your
hostess dinner table, and you have for
gotten and put one in the centre of yours,
and everyone has hated you,
Fashion has now gone in another diree-
ton, and the low mound of flowers is, the
thing. Such an arrangement may not give
any guest the chance to be so gallant as
the member of a recent dinner party.
Marvellous stories were going the rounds
IF the table. One of the debutantes told
brilliant one; impossible, but delightful.
Il yield to Miss Blank" exclaimed the
9Munehausen of that set. and, .springing
up, he lifted the great crystal epergne of
American beauty roses in the centre of
the table and presented them to her.
However, a man does this once in a life
time. and the high decoration has been
there upon one and all occasions. The
low mound has succeeded it. and this is a
matter for thanks.
At a brilliant private dinner given at
the Waldorf in New York the entire CEN
ire OF the round table was heaped in
green ivy and low-lying ferns; the latter
spread far out in points until they almost
reached the plates. The mound grew
higher toward the centre, as all we'll regu-
lated pounds do, and was formed of GRIM
son roses and vioiets.
At a small supper after the theatre last
week the table had a centre of asparagus
and Glove pinks.
They were arranged very artisticaily,
the design creeping far out in narrowing
lines.
The highest mound is vet far under the
chin of the guest opposite. and the free
dom it gives the eyes of the guests is one
of the delightful experiences of the win
ter.
A new gymnasium game which has
achieved great popularity this winter at
DR.. Savage's Institute is known as .scur-
tain-ball." 1t is played with a regular
basketball. and possesses much of the
vigor though not of the scientific points of
play of the older game. A curtain eight
feet high. suspended from a wire, is
stretched across the centre of the GYM
nasium. The players, divided evenly into
two sides ethere is no limit to the number
which may take part, except that suggest
ed by the size of the room. range them
selves on the opposite sides of this par
tision. The object of each side is to pro-
ject the ball over the curtain into the ter
ritory of it's opponents, a point being
scored every time it touches the ground,
in favor of those who threw it. It thus
becomes the constant endeavor of, each di-
vision to prevent the ball from landing on
its own ground. as well as to throw it into
the court of it's opponents, says "Harper's
Bazaar"
As the curtain renders the movements of
the players Invisible on opposite sides, the
interest and excitement are kept constant
" at the highest pitch. Nobody knows
from which quarter the leather sphere
say come flying over the PARTITION. and
Z /. o~equently all parts of the court must
Intpt adequately guarded. Until they
Jsoby experience the truth of this prin-
aLonhe players are very apt to mass to-
%a1u1 when the ball comes in sight. all
9oir ling at once in its direction. Then
Essts returned more quickly than usual.
,1hcio not a " time to separate and
.rWsr about before it flies over again,
time in an entirely different portion
the court Sometimes two balls are
used, greatly heightening the activity of
the game and making still more impera-
tive the necessity for covering the courts
well. Occasionally, when there is a large
number of players entered in the game, as
as three balls nave been kept going.
Then indeed there is a mao scramble. and
3 accompaniment of calling and laugh
which, together with the violent ex-
ereise, leave the girls GREATNESS
and tingling at the end of a
few minutes play. The umpire
for the game stands at one end of
the curtain. just as he does at the net in
tennis, from which point a view of both
courts is obtained. He is obliged to keep
a sharp lockout, for the set of players,
off as they are from sight of each
other, have no means of knowing when
the ball strikes ground in the opposite
court.
Children's parties weigh heavily these
days on the minds of pastry cooks, cater
ers and the busy housefnother.
The new ice molds are calculated to
satisfy this craving for novelty. They
represent Santa Claus in vanilla boots,
strawberry coat, chocolate gloves. fur
trimming. hair and long beard of lemon
ice. and carrying in his arms a pistache
tree hung with candied cherries. Klon-
dixie miners with picks and shovels and
bags of gold are evolved from multi
colored favors, while rabbits and birds.
flowers and fruits. though not new, are
as popular as ever. An amusing mold
for chocolate ice cream. represents a
group of savages on an island. The
island vegetation is illustrated in pistaehe
cream. while waves of lemon lee foam
around the shore.
The influence of French and German
nurses is shown in the popularity of
bbits, squirrels. wooden shoes and rose
sathed crowns. Wax babies swathed
1ace-paper and tied up with narrow
B seem to be great favorites with
.Qsmall girls. yet it is doubtful If many
q s9rican children ever saw a baby in
I Titan swaddling clothes.
Z clay pipes and tobacco pouches in
miniature, sugar cigarettes ising-glass
s~pectacles. boxes of chocolate cigars
and diminutive but ingenious shaving
sets are in demand for boys favors,
whi1a dainty hiph-hea1ed chino s1in,are