The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-11

|, can be of the cheapest, or may be velvet
| and satin. according to preference. but
| the work is intended to be effective more
than elegant, just as posters are a cheap
| form of good art. Poster pillows are good
for students rooms. for yachts and coun-
| try houses, and make appropriate pre-
| sents for men.-Harper's Bazaar.
49,
There's such d charming idea out in
/ fancy work. Have you seen them? Those
story book quilts for the children's
hospitals? Happy the feverish little bed
Boosting one of these fairy coverlets.
| Lucky the wee invalid tucked away in its
enchanting folds.
The quilts are formed of stout white
linen. embroidered in bright scarlet cot
| ton. The plan is much like that of a
| patchwork quilt being divided into large
| squares, afterward to be overhanded. The
square. All other pieces six inches
1 square.
One piece is allotted to each needle
woman. On it she embroiders cleverly a
scene from the old legends of fairy land.
1t may be Cinderella or the Sleeping
Beauty, Red Riding Hood or Jack and his
oSdIStdihs al 1diy HChoSo otA0
are players. All play their delightful
roles over the surface of the wondrous
covering.
Again, there's the nursery rhmye idea.
Here each square shows a bit of Mother
Goose. 1t may follow the fortunes of
Jack and Jill, or Miss Muffet. Simple
Simon and D-affydowndiIly. There's no
| end to the interesting folk who may ap-
pear. And like a good book your won
der quilt is better for each reading.
1 know of one wonder quilt being built
which shows al tine alphabet in letters
bigger and brighter than any spelling
book could show.
Still another has numerical figures-tall
ones. twos, three and the rest of them.
If you have a spare morning hour now
and then begin one of these story quilts.
Some wearisome, wee sickbed is waiting
for it.
The latest lucubration by a Babo is
| the booklet, sLondon and Paris Through
Indian spectacles," by c. P. Pillai, B. A.,
of Madras, says the London News" At
ter the proper observations on our streets,
our drink, our polite treatment of the ma
tive, and the virtues of the London police
Ildu, lit dullOi COlnCc u lie SiNot
woman question, and, of course, in his
own way. His visit to this country in-j
| creased his respect for women a hun-
dredfold. In England you have to talk
up to the woman; in India it is all talk
ing down. But the privilege has its en-
barrassments for the native. His lifelong
training in the idea of the seclusion OF
! the sex at first made Mr.. Pillai's life a
burden to him in London. His emoarrass-
ments on his reaching the drawing room,
and entering the presence of his friends
mother" are awful. She drops her hand
kerchief. What is he to do? Is it the
proper thing to pick it up? At home you
dare not dc that. Then, in comes your
friends sister, and her "eagnerness to
| shake hands with you sends a thrill
through your whole frame! Fancy your
| friends sister being introduced to you at
home in India! Can anything be more
atrocious? But it is the custom in Eng
land"
He is still far from the end of his
troubles
And then, the time for dinner arrives.
And as the chief guest of the evening,
you are asked to lead the LADY of the
house, your friends mother, to the din
ing room You are more perplexed thar
everl The idea of giving your arm to
a lady whom you respect as your own
i mother! You never touched your own
mother-at least not after you became a
| man. And how could you now touch
| your friends mother? Secondly, what is
the proper thing to do? Are you to give
your right arm or your left arm to your
| friends mother? But hardly have you
l.time to reflect on these things when you
are led away by the mother into the
!, dining room, followed by all Others. And
at the dining table YOU perplexities null
tiply still further. You are placed to the
right of your friends mother. That is
bad enough. But what is worse, to your
right you find your friend sister"
The only set-off to all this is the shock
ing taste of your friends sisters hat.
These decorative vegetables and plants
are all very well, but they had better be
grown in the kitchen garden-not on your
friends sisters head
80
More latitude in dress is permitted to
the golfing girl than to her sister, who
simply rides a wheel. A great deal of
brilliant red (much of it is trying to the
complexion) is seen on the links, but the
latest importation from Scotland 1.-THE true
native heath of ala golfers) is an Access
j sorry for a girls tofet. This article goes
/ by the mysterious name of "cathcloth
~breachans." 1t is a tartan body, sash or
scarf. 1t fastens with a buckle on the
left shoulder, falls in folds over the body
to the waist at the right side, and neatly
/ fastens invisibly after spanning the waist.
| 1t is very pretty and a Caledonian touch
| of plaid is not amiss on the links. This
/ is really a more satisfactory way Of wear
ing bright colors than to have it incor-
| porated with the golfing gown itself.
The separate bodice, to The delight of all
women, not only maintains its sway, but
| has grown more elegant and. consequent
ly. more feminine looking. says the La
dies Home Journal" While the skirt
| worn with it should not match it, care is
f, taken not to make the contrast too great.
The wash materials, especially pique, silk
linen lawn and dotted muslin, continue in
| vogue, but these are apt either to be
| made very simply, or else they are decor
| ated with narrow frills of lace. For the
| more elaborate bodice for summer wear,
| which appears in every woman's ward
! robe, the changeable taffetas and the fig
( ured silks are given the preference; plain
| satin, Liberty silk and satin, foulard and
! fine. soft woods are also used.