The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-06
the dancing loor is an determination to
great to. be- considered.

woman this season is 10 be Slenuef, SO
that all dress skirts are fitted with the
greatest care and are held close TO the
figure until the knees are reached, when
they may flare or hang easy, as one may
wish. In Paris women have discarded
taffeta silk as a lining to dress skirts and
are using either surah silk or old fash
ioned delaine instead. SO as to give the
soft clinging effect. Moreover, they have
given UP their pet petlicoat of rustling
taffeta and now wear surah or any silk
without rustic or stiffness.
In London the long walking skirt is the
correct thing, touching the ground all
around with a decided train in the back.
These skirts are made quite narrow and
are really intended for dressy promenade
wear. If the material is wide they are
cut circular, but if narrow are made gor-
ed. and are universally made severely
plain at the bottom. There are many va
riations Of the old bell skirt, but it is the
Paquin fiounee of aounces that stamp the
seal of smartness on the new gowns.
49,.
Every little while, says "Munsey's Mag
azine.' one sees a woman walking tri-
umphantly down the street, head up,
shoulders back, skirts swishing. grandiy
unconscious that some heartbreaking liz
tie calamity has befallen her gearing. It
may be that two white Wristbands, never
meant to show. are outlining themselves
against her dark tailor skirt; it may De
a gaping pocket, a dangling tape, a mis-
placed switch that Is ridiculing her proud
bearing, and reading the amused bystand-
ers a satire on human complacency.
Some humane being. wishing to short
en- the hour of her humiliation, draws
close to her with a low-toned, II beg
your pardon. but did you know that
your the rest being a tenderly word
ed account of the disaster
And the woman thanks her unknown
benefactor with grateful esfusion? Not
a bit of it. She gives her one
short glare, the seorehing, dangerous
look of a tiger whose young have been
threatened. and turns away without a
word. Her glance would translate into:
WORN of the dust. how dare you hint
that anything could be wrong with me?
What business is it of yours if I don't
choose to hook my waistband? You med
| ding, oficious-'' etc.. etc.
The luckless philanthropist shrinks back
| covered with modification, and the in
| L l oiA1 iilo
presently energies properly adjusted. She
has been saved blocks of humiliation by
some one whose act was entirely disinter-
ested. Why isn't she grateful?
The only explanation comes from that
never dying root of all evil, feminine van
ity. This insists that she shall seem
fawless in the worlds eyes, and is un-
consciously e~xulting in her completeness
49, +an ;r,noen+ cf11pnh1;uo block brings
her pride to earth. And some of US are
still undisciplined enough to kick the
thing we trip over. She has had a bad
tumble. and it hurts her so that she wants
to hurt back.
What is one to do? Let her make a
spectacle of herself, or save her in spite
of herself and accept ones snubbing phil
osophically?
Put one pint of four into a bowl; add
to it half a teaspoonful of salt and a tea
spoonful of baking powder; rub in care
fully a teaspoonful of butter, and add
sufficient milk to just moisten, says the
Ladies' Home Journal Knead lightly,
and roll out into a sheet about a sixteenth
of en- irch in thickness. Cut with a
large round cutter; put three Strawberries
in the centre of each round; fold over the
| Dough, rolling it carefully so that you can
not see the opening; stand in a creased.
baking pan. brush the top with milk, and
bake in a quick oven for fifteen minutes
Serve with strawberry butter, which may
be made by beating two tablespoonfuls OF
butter to a cream by adding gradually one
cup Of powdered sugar. Add one mashed
berry, beat thoroughly, then add another
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four good sized berries. Dish, and stand
aside TO harden as you would any hard
sauce.
People who are the victims of sensitive
teeth that crumble ard acquire cavities
readily may do much toward checking this
dental decay by the use of a simple rem
edy, says eHarper's Bazar." A bottle of
milk and ~magnesia should be kept ON the
w~ashstand. and each night after brushing
the teeth just before retiring, some of it
should be held in the mouth for a minute
that it may reach each side of every
tooth. BY this process a coating of the
magnesia is formed over the sensitive
enamel, which is thus protected from the
action of the-acids that form in the mouth
during sleep. The magnesia will remain
on the tGeIn IOi lHl6t VI lOui iiouio.
Washing the mouth with a solution OF
! bicarbonate of soda after eating sour
fruits or salads is also recommended by
dentists, as the soda. like the magnesia,
counterscts the injurious effect of the acid
upon the enamel.
The 1acing among French women is ira
| dftional. but k of lingerie assure me
that it is only a tradition, and in support
of their statements in a notable Instance
had a young woman of rather bad figure
conspicuousuly ~undeveioped. denude her
self so far as her pantalettes and under
shirt. First a corset was put upon her
and the usual skirts. with this important
difference-that whereas skirts in America
come to the waist-lile, 40 French CIR
| would so far misshape herself as to let the
skiruband come higher than the second
clasp of the corset. An inverted hook
catches ali skirtbands and the skirts are
tied at the waist-line in the back. One
of the pretty corset-covers shown In oul
Easter issue She then put on, and a tailor
cut gown followed. An American CIR
would have had to pinch and get red II
the face to make a like figure. but French
art had accomplished a better effect with
out in the least offending Dame Nature.
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