The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-29

some Eastwood family trunks. Their
heavy top trays need now never be lifted
out. for on unlocking the trunk, II Y i
desired to get at once to the bottom, q
tiny brass knob needs only to be pushed
! aside in the top of the lock.
This fastens the tray to the franks
top. while on pushing the knob back one
releases the tray and let's it lightly down
into place.
Another wonderful comfort is the Eng
fish collapsible trunk. 1t is bnils of
leather, with a stiff lid and wood bottom,
but sides and ends OF soft leather laid in
flutes, like the extension of a camera.
Into such a trunk as much or as little
can be packed, in the way of heavy
clothes, undergarments, etc, as one
wishes. When the trunk is empty It folds
! up neatly and occupies scarce any space
at all. which is no small convenience
| where a hotel guest wishes to economic
space in his or her room.
Steamer chairs are now so made of steel
frame work and canvas seats that fold
into compact parcels. TO be easily carried
in their owners shawl straps. while the
best of the new steamer rugs are water
! proof. These are almost Invaluable con-
fributions to travelling comfort when
every inch and every pound counts as
though it were ellis and hundred-weights.
When you have gathered all the grasses
and berries you wish, and dried them
thoroughly, YOU can either crystalline
them before forming them into a bouquet,
or make the bouquet first and crystalline
it afterward.
Pulverize a pound of the best alum,
and dissolve it over a slow fire in a
quart of pure, soft water.
Do not let it boil, and be very careful
to keep everything out of the solution
that can possibly stain it, for the beau
ty of the grasses depends on the pure
whiteness Of the crystals.
A new earthen bowl is the best dish
for the purpose.
When the alum is all dissolved. let the
solution cool down to a little more than
blood heat: meanwhile arrange your
grasses in a bow and pour the solution
over them cover up, and set away for
a few hours.
Take them out carefully, dry
them in the sun fou or five hours, and
J.ut them in a vase prepared for them.
Do not move them for several days
After a little practice the work can be
done to perfection. The time for the
grasses to remain in. and the warmth
of the solution are most important; if
they stay in too long. the coating will
be heavy.
The grasses should be removed where
sufficient alum is deposited upon them.
Small crystals look the best. and in
order to keep them so, the grass should
be often moved and turned about. The
CRYSTALS may be made of different colors
by using for blue a small piece OF lnd1-
go; for red use carmine or vermilion.
Crystaflized grasses, when mixed with
everlasting flowers, make beautiful win
ter bouquets.
roses, and asparagus branches covered
with their scarlet fruitage may be used
with fine effect.
Many bright colored berries may be
gathered from the swamps and fields to
snowy lustre of the alum crystals. OF
these, none are more snowy than clus-
tiers of bittersweet.
"a twelve o'clock sharp writes Mrs.
S. T.. Rorer in the July Ladies Home
Journal directing the stout woman how
to cure her obesity, 1.-THE first meal of The
day should be taken: Two well broilad
chops, or sweetbreads, or eggs in any
form, one slice of well baked whole wheat
breat, buttered and thoroughly masticat-
ed. and one green vegetable. Eat enough
to satisfy hunger, but of the more nitro
genous compound. For dessert a cup
custard, or fruit-grapes. peaches,
oranges or baked apple.
.-For the night meal rave a clear soup,
a red meat-in fact, any meat except pork
and veal-a succulent vegetable, like
spinach, cooked celery, a little lettuce,
new peas. string beans, a little raw cab-
bage or we'll cooked eauli1ower. All
meat must be boiled-not fried. A half
pound of meat may be eaten at this meal.
A piece of well toasted whole wheat
bread, without butter. a bit Of well rip
ened cheese, and a cup of clear coffee
may form the dessert. The success of this
treatment lies in doing without reakfas
The patient may eat sufficient to satisfy
hunger, but no more; in a few days she
Will find that the so called hunger is not
felt at the pit of the stomach, and in less
thar a week she will enjoy the two meals
a ay-the first at noon and the last at
five or six o'clock-better thar she has en-
joyed her three meals"
There is a curious fashion worth telling
about in the debutante bouquets. Maidens
who open the door into society this sum
mer at watering places will carry flowers
wrought into some particular form. AL
ready a number of Tune buds have car
ried at their presentation parties little
tulle and net baskets, founded, of course,
on silved wire frames. but filled with Wild
flowers. A pink tulle basket heapei with
dog roses and a green tulle one filled with
field daisies were among the first 10 be
used.
Another damsel, whose fresh complex
ion. simple ways and white muslin frock
charmed every guest. stood blushing be-
side her mother. with her Swiss skirts
caught up and filled with buttercups and
primroses. The abbreviation of the mus
lin skirt displayed a pair of irreproachabie
little feet in white open-worked silk stock
ings and white satin shoes; also a white
silk petticoat loaded with lovely lace
Hothouse flowers by the more sophisticat-
ed buds are worked on wire frames into
bouquets in heart and triangle shape, into
balls. pyramids, wreaths. the sem5lance
Of an open book, or the girls initials. and
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