The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-07

among the gowns built for cool spring
and summer days. Though black taffeta;
has had a run of several seasons as a
handsome gown, spring will see it as pop
ular. as Sever. &and the trimmings of lace
/ ana velvet ribbons represent a small for
tune in themselves. Cashmere. very thin
and light, poplin fabrics and soft light
serges are to be much worn, while can
vas-cloth in fancy weaves hourishes TN
der the new name of "Mouline matte.
Transparent fabrics are dazzlingly beau-
tiful, some being so woven as to have the
appearance of being tucked crosswise,
which in grenadines. mousseline-de-soie
and chiffon is charming, 0rgandies are
ever new and ever old, and as each spring
season rolls around they are placed in the
foremost ranks of thin fabrics. Black
crepe de chine gown are very much in
evidence. and are trimmed with narrow
ruffles of the same, edged with tiny edge
of black lace or a narrow ruche OF black
footing. The waists lose their somber
effect by using bands of open-wrought
insertion which show a bright-colored
lining. White lace at the neck and
wrists, too, adds to the brightness of
these bodices.
Watered silk, with large satin polka
dots. waved or pointed cross-stripes and
disks, are shown among the ewest black
goods.
Lace and net dresses are much worn
again, some showing a black lining,
while others are made over colored silks.
Some weeks ago, says the 'London
~ - .. - - - AFa,to o. rln
and found at the last moment that none
of her own gowns was worthy of appear
ing at that paradise of frocks. So she
wired late one evening to Worth, "The
day after tomorrow 1 am acting in The
Dame aux Camelias.' I have simply
nothing fit to wear. Can you let me
nave four dresses, one for each act?
Mind, they must be as beautiful as you
can possibly make them" This was
ather a large order, for the journey
from Paris to Monte, Carlo alone &C.
cupies 20 hours.
However, the great dressmaker set to
work. and the whole house Of Worth was
ransacked from cellar to garnet for its
choicest brocades and cloths-of-gold. He
created a marvellous ball dress of white
satin, incrusted with gold and pearl en-
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with a long train smothered with price
less point d'Alencon- His young women
sat up all through the night pucilering
and gathering into countless tucks and
folds more than a hundred yards of white
mousseiine-de-soie for the gown which
Marguerite Gautier was to wear in the
death scene. Probably poor Marguerite
has never before drawn her last breath
in such an ideal settingi And yet, in spite
of the delirious hurry, everything was
finished off as perfectly as if a month
had been given to its preparation. In
less than Is hours the four dresses were
safely packed away in their boxes and
dispatched to their fortunate owner.
Happy Dusei What envy, hatred and
malice must lave reigned in the hearts
of some of her fair hearers that night
No we'll regulated house should be
without a bootrack that will allow the
air to get at the soles of boots when not
in use. During these summer months
especially people are continually being
caught out in damp weather without the
protection of rubbers, and OIL removing
their boots at night allow them to stand
with the soles in contact with the floor.
In his position the air cannot get at the
wet portion of the boot, and they are
often still damp in the morning when one
puts them on again. A very simple and
entirely sufficient rack may be made at
very little cost. All that is needed is tow
| side brackets and three wooden rods. one
rod is placed a little higher than the
other two for the back of the boots to
rest against in order to prevent their
slipping backward. The other Two should
be so arrange as to well support the
boots, the heels being SO placed over the
back rod as to prevent any slipping for
ward.
In order to accommodate boots of diff
ferent sizes the rods may be fixed closer
together at one end than at the other. 1t
is a great and inexpensive home comfort.
So
To describe the coming Easter hats and
bornets must sorely try the pen of wen
so capable a writer on fashions as Isabel
A. Mallon. In the March Ladies Home
Journal she pictures the feminine head
dress that will have its first airing on
fashions great show day-Easter. The
united effort of pen and pencil bring the
conviction that the vogue gives the widest
range as to shape of ~headdress, and that
the plumage of almost every known bird
will be brought into requisition, beside
artistic duplicates of every flower Of the
dollhouse, garden and field will be called
upon to supply the characterization. The
velvets and ribbons may be as rich as
the purse can buy, and the woman can
select almost anything in the way of col
ors or combinations and yet be entirely
within the bounds of vogue."
Nearly all of the luxuries of grown-ups
and many of which that privileged class
does not dream are provided for the baby
Pof today. Quilted dressing gowns are in
demand for boys and girls from one
month to three years cid. They are of
soft China silk, in pink and blue, wadded
with cotton batting and quilted in soft
ripping lines like the japanese kimonas.
They are not short jackets, but volumin-
Gus affairs, which keep the baby
draught-proof when wrapped in their
soft folds. To be worn at the same time
as the dressing gown are bootees of
quilted satin edged around the top and
down the centre of the instep with a line
of white sw~ansdown. They are so pretty
that they would inspire the most back
ward baby to walk.
A dress which forms part of a Feb
ruarv BRIDES rousseau is of powder