The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-09

WOMAN'S WORLD.

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use for selfish married folks: They have
no right to shut themselves up IN their
shells and let the world wag as it will.
A married woman with home facilities
for entertaining can make herself beloved
in no time by her little kindness TO un-
married men and women
The matron who says his is a whole
souled creature, a woman still young and
as full of go and vim as a girl in her
teens. She dearly loves to get up nice
little surprises for her single fayorites-
They all adore her, and each day she
lives she is gaining a larger circle of adj
mIrers.
Leaving out women married but ham
pered by economy and many duties, there
is still a large number of matrons left
who draw within themselves and there
they stay year in and year out. The eff
fort to scatter sunshiny moments among
those of their friends unmarried is too
great to be considered by them for a sim
gle instant.
The impromptu supper which the chance
corners enjoy, the Invitation to do some
thing Bohemian, a sort of upon-the-spur-
of-the-moment affair, the clever grouping
lUBelfieT VI yOuAk ptOpAC lOdSt5
ested in zach other, they are part and
parcel of the scheme which madame in
her young or mature wifehood employs to
draw about her an interesting coterie.
A born matchmaker she is in her ele-
ment when upon hospitality intent. She
likes nothing better than to aid and abet
Cupid In his tricksomeness A heart to
heart affair blossoms Ike a rose under
her cunning manipulations.
To the shy girl and the bashful man
the matron Of many skillful social moves
is an a1l-around blessing. She gives the
feminine bachelors opportunities I'M
dreamed of for keeping up with the
social procession, and many's the mas
culine bachelor, considered a hopeless
case, who has been steered by this crafty
creature straight into the matrimonial
port.
A guiding star the unselfsh married
woman becomes, shining not only for the
people who can do something for her, but
for ~forlorn, neglected ones as well.
The young men swear by her, the young
women declare she Is a dear and her
marriS friends lacking her energy talk
her over as a wonde of wonders.
And she? Why, she, large of heart, is
never happier than when she is sinking
self completely in the interests of others.
She does not aspire to even mild firta-
lions with anybody; she has only pleas
ant thoughts about the women younger
and fairer han herself, nor does she
dream of her own fascinating personality.
So long as the fates allow she will be
known as the dearest of friends, the jol-
lest of acquaintance, the best of cronies
and If the time ever comes when the
good viii she feels toward others canno
be expressed as actively as now it is to be
hoped that her own little world will find
a very sunny spot in which she may bask.
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II white is for brides, it is also the
most fashionable decoration for dining ta-
bles, and all the lovers of fancy work,
who not long ago were covering yards of
linen with colored floss and flo silk. are
now giving their energy to the perfection
of swiss embroidery.
Plain white linen, embroidered only In
white, is the character of all the best
new tea cloths and centre pieces, though
white lace has not lost one whit of its
popularity. From the inexpensive renais-
sance to the most exquisite duchess and
rose point dinner tables are respondent,
and some of the point lace centre pieces
are splendid enough to serve as the bridal
handkerchief for royal princesses- They
are rather small and the lace is set fiat
on a round or scalloped center of the
finest French batiste that Is embroidered
In a wreath of white lowers.
In consequence of this lavish use of
lace nearly all the most formal din
ners of the past spring and of the present
Autumn have been served on bare boards.
The lace centre piece, accompanied by
plate. decanter and candelabra doilies. is
laid on the brilliantly polished naked ma
hogany or dull black oak In order to
achieve the best effect and show just how
beautiful your lace set Is. The same
scheme is followed where the board is
ornamented with a set of Mexican drawn
work, and though the rule is all for white,
some women gid refined gold by embroid-
cry, in colored floss, sprays and bouquets,
both on renaissance lace and drawn work.
The consequence is brilliant, certainly,
but scarcely so refined in appearance as
the pure white.
Luncheons, suppers and midday
breakfasts are now so universally served
on the boards, with doilies only. that the
handsomest damask table cloths are look
ing for jobs on bargain counters. and the
smartest little breakfast cloth one can use
informally and en- famille, is a large
square of hemstitched linen that is dam
asked all over, but not in figures. and
then richly wrought in white Swiss em-
broidery.
Great attention is given to the designs
lone In this new needlework. 1t would
require TOGO much space to describe the
Jacobean, Egyptian aud Henri Deux pat
terms tina are stamped on these squares
for working, and that emanate from able
artists in London and Paris. Quite as
highly esteemed as the beautiful Mexican
drawn work is that which comes from
Russia. 1t is different from the Mexican,
being done on heavy home woven linen
in the natural or half bleached tint of the
fax.
From Russia is brought over also the
almost forbotten art of doing cut work.
The patterns on the handspun linen
squares are first embroidered and then
cut out until the finished piece resembles
a sort of superb lace. With all these
articles the owners initials are worked in
one corner of the narrow hem.
Women who find pleasure in introducing
iaavelties in the ARRANGEMENT of their dim