The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-31

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dish of gossip served up with w~ell-spiced
English.
The woman who rattles on and spares.
neither foe nor friend is raxely without
an interested audience. Even those who
do not approve lend an ear to her little
hafangues.
She who dares to make the most start
ling tatements is the one who apparently
fascinates her hearers.
It is this power of fascination that en-
courages a great deal Of the talk' going
on among women. Many of us who
would dearly love to avoid actual gossip
ing are led into mischief by our intense
desire to be considered entertaining.
Women may talk a great deal about
fetching and carrying tales. The truth is
we egg each other on by the pronounced
success, socially. of the real gossip. the
being who would consider life stale, fiat
and Improbable were one gibe the less
uttered, were one i~nsinuation the less
sent on its rounGs
In our letter writing, says the "Wom-
ans Home Companion how often we
fail to consider as we should the rights
and needs of those at the other end Of
the correspondence. We dash off a page
in an hour of restlessness or of disap-
pointment that speaks of our unhappy
condition, and are careless of the effect
upon the one who receives it, ignoring the
possibility of the want Of help at the
other end OF the line, and go on our way
satisfying ourselves with the fact that
we nave given letter for letter. Some of
the NOSE promising friendships have been
killed through thoughtlessness and self
ishness in correspondence. for the written
characters will reveal the purpose of the
one who penned them, and a sensitive
soul will receive a chill through the page
read by the heart as well as through the
eyes. We need to be very careful of the
form of our written messages, for the one
to whom they are sent must interpret
them without the help or explanation of
personal expression. And then, If we
would save a friendship through the
years, let US be careful to keep up a
reasonable regularity in our c~orrespon-
dence with the friend whom we prize.
There was a hiatus of many weeks in
the reign of the sash, bat now that sweet
frippery has come up to line with a new
method in its wearing. Ever SO many
lovely girlish gowns show two broad
bands of the heaviest Russian lace or
spangled ribbon edged with tiny muslin
f~ounces, which in turn are edged with
narrow dark velvet ribbon. The two broad
bands are caught in at the shoulder seam.
run down to meet at the waist line and
then flow out to the hem of the skirt.
This is done usually at the rear Of the
gown. and on evening and house toilettes
Independently. 1t IS a very good sugges-
ton to follow in the renovation Of an old
black silk dress for instance. The charm
of the invention is, however, that the
arrangement is just as effectively applied
in front if you are slim enough TO
stand it.
With a laudable desire to conquer that
feminine weakness for writing a note
any way but the way the sheets naturally
turn, quires of single leaf paper have
been introduced, and, strange to say, the
women like it. You can buy a box of
small single note leaves or large single
letter leaves of the thinnest bank note
paper, since that is particularly good
taste for letters, and you are expected to
write only on one side of the sheet. AT
the top of every leaf, on the side on
which you write. is your address, in tiny
black Roman numerals, and good taste
now exacts that you number your sheets
at the top as you go along.
A dist of English design for the serving
of honey is very appropriately made in
the shape of a large bee. An amber coli
ored glass body holds the honey; this
! fits in a framework OF silver, which is so
shaped as to form the feet and a standard
for the dish, while the cover is made Of
two pretty chased silver wings on little
hinges, which opens in the middle by a
wing turning back on each side. The
head is also OF silver. and the attractive
creature ha ruby eyes. The glass body
is movable and can be lifted from the
frame.
a writer who does not think has gone
to the extent of criticising afternoon tea
so severely as to lose her temper over 1t.
says What to Eat This. in a current
number of a monthly magazine. Waile
it is true that tea among the faddists and
their friends furnished a good deal of
amusement to the silent one looking on
who knew a thing or two (and Just be-
cause it is an affectation painfully new,
forced and perfunctoTy), it is a pity that
she is unaware that tea in America, as
well as in Europe, is taken as early as
three O'Clock, and seldom, except TO a
guest, furnished later than four; and that
In some old-fashioned houses in the Unit
ed States the tea in the afternoon las
been a rejection of the family more than
seven generations.
A bright woman who gave a birthday
party the other day for her little daugh-
ter gave much thought to making it
ss bright and original as possible. There
were any number of pretty games and
surprises, and the most delightful one of
all was the pie of the nursery rhyme
in which four and twenty ~blackbirds
were baked. In this reproduction OF the
famous culinary feat there was an enor-
nous pie which cast the original entirely
in the shade, for there were not four and
and twenty ~blackbirds in 1t to begin to
sing when the pie was opened, but sixty
goldfnches. each In its small wicker
cage. one for each little guest to take
home.
The new ribbons are a leigh to the
eye with their pretty soft colors spotted
with black satin and chenille dots and
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