The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-27
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shades as the rainbow.
The American or English woman who
marries a Frenchman has a lifetime of lit
tie trials in the shape of customs and
points of view with which she can never
agree, but to which she must conform If
| she is a member of French society.
An American woman who has a French
husband was telling me Of some of the
difficulties recently. The pair are devoted
to one another, but a Frenchman who
loves his wife is horribly jealous of her
and exacting, in what to an American
mind seems the most peculiar way, in re-
gard to men.
/ This woman's American men friends are
a constant source of uneasiness to Mon
| sieur. They come and call on her in
! the freest fashion. as is the way with
Americans and ask her to go out walk
| ing with them without thinking of the
French husband.
They don't even dream that he'd mind
1t, but he does. and Madame can go no.
where without him. He is very harras-
sing some times because the husband
| CAM understand English very well, and
! if an Engish-speaking man calls at
afternoon tea and has a chat with Mad
anne, her husband is on thorns to heal
what it is all about. Recently the pair
took a sea voyage on an English steamer,
| and naturally Madame, being a very pref
ty and clever woman, was surrounded by
men. Her husband was in a fume.
Il don't think it respectful of all those
men to come and talk to my wife that
way he said impatiently, and then sus-
piciously-"why, they all look at you with
such admiration. They must have been
saying something they didn't want me to
hear"
Madame shook with a merriment. MY
dear" she said, I'VE were talking OF
bilge keels and Manila and shooting in
Africa"
But the husband is doubtful and re-
sentful till this day.
In a French drawing room, the CONVEX
sation of Madame's men friends must
be general. If any one devotes himself
to talking to her exclusively. the French
nature lifts its eyes and wonders if there
| is not some little intrigue going on.
,fIn yain,' said Madame" a / ex-
planned the Anglo-Saxon standpoint. My
husband says he understands it., but it
is against his nature to endure it without
opposition. His answer is, well, l know
but was not taught to look at things
| that way and i can't help my point of
view. 1t is the view of French society,
and it's my inheritance. and SO | just
cling to 1t intns lively
And SO the wife adjusts herself to
French surroundings and French tradi-
lions and thinks, "W4ll, he is lovely in
every way, and no man can make a wom-
! an entirely happy''-which. of course, is
fp..1 Nz ~ : uTo he made nnfirp1xy
happy anyway or anyhow.
A pretty afternoon dress of soft white
veiiing has the skirt fiaring considerably
at the bottom. For the depth of nine
inches the hem is decorated with row af-
ter row of machine stitching executed
in poppy red silk. The bodice is skilfully
fitted. being. in fact. a "draped" waist.
No waist which has the material and lin
ing cut and basted together can ever at
tain the neatness of the glova-fftting
draped waist A poppy red tafeta is used
for the empiscement of the bodice, OPEN
ing over a chemisette of fine white lawn,
neatly laid in diminutive tucks. Down
ward pointing cuffs of red taffeta dps
over the hands; the waist belt is of tat
feta. The shoulders exhibit small epau-
lettes of white yelling stitched with the
red silk. The sleeves are close fitting and
the yelling sheath is overlaid with row af-
ter row of red machine stitching from
wrist to shoulder. Great care must be
used in fitting the sleeve into the arm
hole, or the regularity of the rows of
stitching will be interfered with and the
| sleeve look crooked.
If you haven't gotten all your summer
| froeks out of the way, list to this, ladyt"
Many have hesitated about an overskirt
in duck, crash or pique because of the adj
ditionaI weight. Such frocks are heavy
enough anyhow. Here's a way of having
the desired overskirt effect without addi-
tiona1 weight. Simply cut out your over
skirt tthe open-up-the-front sort is best
because it may fasten at the side), and
face it to a depth of three inches. Then
cut out what amounts to a f1aring f7ounce
to fit round your overskirt, cutting three
| good inches wider at the top, and In one
with the long front gore. Lap the two
together three inches. and stitch at the
top of the three-inch facing. This one
stitching, you see, serves to catch the
supposed underskirt to the overskirt, as
well as to hold the facing in place. And,
as the stitching is three inches from the
edge, the rnderskirt has the appearance
of hanging separately The f1ounce is
faced to a depth of three or four inches,
also You'll find a facing will fit better
than a hem on these curved pieces.
49,.
Economy IS a very estiInabIe thing, of
course, but it does not make for good
| effect, and the abolition of the rushing
silk lining or underskirt that has been a
Fascinating feature of female dress for
two or three seasons is a notable example
of this fact. That pleasant "frou-frou''
of sfIken lined skirts has been achieved,
it is said, by the use of chemical in the
preparation of the silk, which have a
tendency to eat away the material.
Fashion has, therefore, decreed that
that women must no longer wear this
Kind of material, consequently the can no
longer rustic, and assuredly there is a
charm, a .~feminfnity'-to use a word that
alone expresses Just what one means
about that swish or frou-frou Of skirts
that appeals quite as much to the mascu-
line as to the feminine ear.
Picturesque hats in Tuscan straw, with
high crowns and turned-up brims, Dor
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