The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-26

I black and white RIBBON ana WnlIe gums
A pale blue cloth was made with a httlt
round yoke of Venetian lace, and worr
with a blue straw hat trimmed with choua
of blue mousseline de sole in seycra
shades, and black quilts.
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Women nave begun to understand thai
health as we'll as wealth trends upon the
| footsteps of outdoor work, says 'Womenfs
I, Home Companion" Several broken-dowr
| society leaders ina certain Western towJ
have had the courage to persist in a half
| days garden-work for a stated period
| The result is very much more in their ia
vor thar they had dared to imagine. I'm
proved circulation, rest and digestion have
| thrown themselves in the balance against
| dlsordered nerves, sleepless nights and the
hollow eyes and worn face attendant upon
prolonged social designations. and nature
has inserted her immortal rights before
| the paints and lotions and powders, the
| paraphernalia of the toilet table. The rosy
| health and wholesome strength of the av-
erage Englishwoman is the outcome OF
/, her outdoor health and exercise.
What is exceedingly new and very
grand, chic for full dress, are lace nit
tens made out of piece-lace and fitted to
both n and arm, says a foreign cor
respondent in Vogue" They are even
longer than the longest evening glove, and
are Joined to the shoulder decolletage,
with either short jeweled chains or rib
bon jeweled for the purpose. They afford
a delightful chance to show off ones
handsome rings, but for those who dance
gloves are far preferable and more desir-
able in every way.
Those having very thin arms and not
sufficient flesh on Their hands for beauty,
will welcome mittens of this kind for III
formal dinners and other functions wnere
a certain dressiness must be observed. For
afternoon summer dress lace mittens,
shortened to meet the elbow sleeves, so
much in vogue again, will prove most
welcome. Who can forget the effect of
very red md very coarse arms exposed
mercilessly to the full glare of the day.
light, when elbow sleeves were the craze
several years ago?
Made-up mittens are deserving of a wild
success. There is something far more
fetching, too, in having mittens fitted and
of the same lace as the rest of ones gown
lin white, in ecru, in butter color, or in
black. But these mittens rave not yet
been worn on this side. 1t remains for
some smart women to start them at New
port and make them the fashion.
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Rhubarb is a highly medicinal vegetable
which should be used as much as posi-
Bile during the season. Rhubarb sauce
should form a part of at least one meal
each day, and even this much criticised
pie need not be vetoed if it takes the
form of rhubarb pie. But new ways of
serving it are in demand, and it is not
only a valuable tonic, but a delicious dish
when made into a ''rhubarb charlotte
Butter a baking-dish thoroughly and cover
the bottom al inch deep with fine bread
crumbs, then with a layer of rhubarb that
has been peeled and cut into small, thin
pieces. Scatter the rhubarb thickly with
sugar, cover it with a second layer of
bread crumbs and over the crumbs put
bits of butter. Continue to fill up the
dish in this way to the top, having the
top layer of bread crumbs thickly sprink-
led with pieces of butter. Bake this pud-
ding in a slow owe for an hour, or until
the rhubarb is thoroughly cooked all
through, and the top is nicely Drowned.
There is a craze FOR "cut-work," as the
of perforated cloth is called.
This permits a frock to be trimmed with
bands of the same material, which are
pierced to display the so-called 't%ranspar-
ent" beneath. A fawn-colored cloth gown
has bands of cut work displaying white
~taffeta, embroidered with gold beads, be-
meath. Another dress of dove-grey dis
plays exquisite glimpses of Heavenly
blue satin underneath the pattern of cut
cloth. Considerable art is shown in de
vising good patterns for perforations. Cart
wheels, links, guipure lace patterns, geo
designs and arabesques are all
used. The lattice is a beautiful pattern,
and the regularity of this design does no.
become %fatiguing to the eye. Rose-pink,
green, black. straw-color, orange, auto
mobile red "a deep dark cherry, cer.se.
corn-1ower blue, brown and orange are all
used beneath the cut cloth. Velvet looks
rich beneath the perforations. Lace it
self is used when sufficiently heavy; the
lighter grades would not show.
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The "eel skirts are literally clinging
more and more fondly to womankin as
the days go by. Not long ago, at a mus
icale in Paris, it was a subject of remark
among the less pronounced devotees OF
that there seemed to be a strange
desire among the women present to stand
about, leaning against the pillars, door
a and chairbacks and almost any
thing in the line of a support. No matter
how cordially they were urged to sit
these women ~languidly declined and
to do the statuesque act until
peoples backs fairly ached from merely
at them. The truth finally came
out, however. 1t wasn't a case of standing
up just for the fun of it, but because the
new gowns fit so snugly around the hips
it is ruinous to sit down in them.
A pearl is not a gem which will stand
the impact of much hammering, but the
pearls much in vogue are not real but arti-
fetal. They are used for heads of hat pins,
and for studding the crown points of the
fashionable dress comb. Charles Martel
might have hammered the mighty
dents in some of the hat pins. These are
set in silver. But the smaller "hammereds
pearls are really works of art. They come
longer than a marrowfat pea, are COW
cred with little dents, the c~oncayity and