The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-04
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ing peacocks that had been carefully
roasted with all their magnificent plum;
age. The colored lamps in the garden and
the gentle glow of six thousand wax can
dies in the ballroom shed light upon the
scene. But fifty young men with the quail
ications of good beaus, and dancing well;
fifty pretty girls Without money. but re-
spectacle, well-dressed. lively and charm
ing-these, accc ling to the hostess, were
always Indispensable and next to then.
the best music that could be had, and the
finest supper in the world"
Grace says a teacher of this desir-
able condition, lis not so much a heaven
born blessing as it is a matter of hard
work"
Constant attention to the little poses n
movements is the only real way of laying
a good, sure foundation upon which the
elegances and more difficult superstruc-
lures of exquisite manners are built.
To walk well is the earnest desire of
every woman's heart, but it should not be
forgotten that it requires a considerable
attention to sit and stand in graceful at
titudes. The modern girl of fashion is
trained to be graceful. Generally speaking
her dignified carriage and apparent in
born grace and manner are but the result
of long and faithful practice.
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1t goes without saying that the stout
woman always admires the styles created
for her taller and more slender sisters,
says the "Woman's Home Companion"
That's all right, but worship at a dis
lance. Don't pass the suitable long coat
and purchase the short jacket, which is
bound by the laws of dress to make you
look infinitely shorter. Trim your gowns,
both waists and skirts, in perpendicular
effects. Avoid anything in the way of
frilly or pouched effects that add breadth.
You may affect all pointed and v-shaped
arrangements with good results. In.
blouses. bodices or coats the more OBJ
scura the waist-line the more height is
given. Yokes are not intended for the
boiica of the short, stout woman, but
rather an unbroken line from waist to
shoulders, which gives length.
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These delicious sandwiches may be
made with fish, poultry, game or any
meat at hand. In this instance fish is
used: Free the fish from skin and bones,
mince it fine and season with salt AM
pepper; then place it in a deep dish with
two hard-boiled eggs finely chopped, some
chopped capers and sufficient m~ayonnaise
to mask the whole. Mix this well and
use it as filling for the sandwiches,
stamping them out in rounds, squares or
finger shapes; press them together and
butter the tops-the latter an unusual adj
dition. Sprinkle on half the sandwiches
a little finely chopped cress, If proeurable,
and the hard-boiled yolk of an egg rubbed |
through a line sieve, and the other half
the chopped cress and finely chopped
white of egg. Alternate the sandwiches
according to the filings.
Plaided writing paper is once more in !
favor, but the term now describes a fash
ionable novelty which has nothing in COM
mon with the old-fashioned c~hequered
weave of lighter and darker shades of
the same color. To begin with, the man
essays to copy one of the line
French ginghams used as dress material, i
and certainly he has achieved a striking
success. The colors shown are those of
one of the pale Madras g%inghams, in
which faint buff is crossed at intervals
by an interrupted stripe of invisible green
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has a lavender ground, on which
are narrow cross-bars of watered green
or shadowy brown. The aspect is that
of a faded bingham, and, strange to say, !
it is very pretty, and not nearly so !,
bizarre as one would suppose from the
title of plaid writing paper.
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An effective decoration adopted at al
recent small wedding was the use of a
heavy screen of palms, which entirely
screen palms, which entirely shut
off the pews occupied by the guests from
the empty ones behind. This did away
with the dismal effect of a small gather
ing in a large edifce. The altar and
chancel, as well as the pew bouquets.
were composed of clusters of white roses,
chyrsanthemums, and smflax, tied with
knots of white satin ribbon. The
path of the bridal party from the en-
trance to the fowef-decorated pews was
an aisle of palms, so that no
saw the empty pews either entering
Or leaving the church. Where the palm
path terminated a graceful arch, COM
posed of roses and smilax, sprang from
the opposite sides of the aisles, meeting
overhead in a shower of roses chrysanthe-
and smilax.
Persons in cramped boarding quarters
Turing their summer outing will find a
curtain strung on 81 rod or wire across the
hall door a considerable aid to comfort.
The curtain, which it will be we'll to carry
with one, though a few yards of chintz,
the country store will provide it,
should be uns about a foot below the
7oor Intel. The door may be kept open
hen almost constantly day and night, the
curtain i~rsuring privacy and ventilation.
N a summer hotel built without transoms
'uch curtains, Of solid color cotton fan
lei are useful.
To purify a room set a pitcher of water
n the apartment and in a few hours 1t
will have absorbed all the respired gases
n the room. The capacity for purifying
$ nearly doubled if the water is reduced
o the temperature of ice; hence, very
.old water that has stood in a room for
ONE little time is unfit to drink.
It is said that if the edges of carpets are
with alum water it will e~ffectu-
lily destroy moths. If the floor is unpaint.
d it is always well to take the precau-
ion of washing it up with a solution of
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