The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-11


A baby will be attracted for a time by
some fine toy that he can simply look
at, but he will spend ten times as long
in putting pegs into holes in a board con-
trived for the purpose or in taking out
one by one from a well filled basket arti-
cles. no matter ~what-spools, blocks,
clothespins, anything-so that they are
| sometimes changed, and he does not tire
of the monotony. Then the task OF put
| ting them back keeps him busy for a
| still longer time.
AS baby becomes more discerning ana
his fingers more nimble, a pleasing de-
| vice for his employment is a board with
variously shaped holes-round, square,
triangular. etc.-with blocks and spheres
to fit into the various places. Should
these be in bright colors, his love for col
or may also be gratifed and learning
these colors soon follows. Little tasks
of carrying articles from one portion OF
the room to another, or from room 10
room, will often keep a child busy and in
terested for hours.
Aften ten years of patient attention a
! Boston woman has acquired a scrap book
of fashions that is truly unique and anus
ing. In the early days of the Civil war
she began clipping plates and fashion par
agraphs from mode journals until her
proposed volume has now formed several
1t is wonderfully odd to review the fads
and fancies that flashed like SO many
meteors through the skies of the past
thirty-five or forty years. There are the
Grecian bend, the chignon, the waterfall,
| the pullback. the ~crinoline, the tiny BON
nets and the pokes, the large bustles,
hoops and the large sleeves. Only eN-
tremes of styles and oddities are used, or
the collection would swell beyond all pro-
| portion. As it is, it is the source of much
mirth whenever she brings it out as q
company trap
Writing of social Life in Americas
French city Harrydele Hallmark draws
this interesting pen picture of the famous
Creole beauty and social leader,
Mademoiselle Macarty, in the March
Ladies' Home Journal" :-"She always
dressed as they did in the time of Louis
XIV. and even in her old age, never either
in winter or summer. covered her arms.
which were very beautiful. Her most
intimate friend was Madame de Bore. and
the two made life interesting for New
Orleans. Mademoiselle Macarty owned a
chaise which had a closed front of glass
and which was unique in the colony. She
had no ceaehmen, but positions. When
she intended to make a visit from one
plantation to another her eortege swept
down the plantation roads with all the
grandeur of a Queens. Dressed as
Madame de Maintenon. sitting in her
closed chaise. her outriders in livery,
their black horses galloping along at a
goodly rate, she made a fascinating pic
ture. AT the head of all this procession
her favorite position rode. He was very
black. was always dressed in scarlet, and
tapped his arms p~rodigiously. AS the
procession came through the great pecan
trees of the neighboring plantation, the
little position. who looked more like a
monkey than a man. g~alloped his horses
furiously ahead. and excitedly shouted,
Madenoise1le Macarty is coming The
outriders would twirl their horses into
the great avenue of trees; the colored
children would get out of the way as
speedily as possible, each one repeating
, the call of the little position in the lead
/ With a glorious and skillful turn the
horses would be brought up beside the
spacious piazza. of the ante-bellum plan
tation. the master of the house would
come out to assist the lady from her car
rage. and then would walk at arms
length with a minuet step through the
! hall, where each would drop the lowest
courtesy to the other and then pass into
the drawing-room.'
A new black fabric for Lenten gowns
resembles mohair interviewer with silk. 1t
is called .poil de chevre." 1t comes in
brown and delicate shades of grey, and is
made up into gowns rather more elaborate
in style tina the conventional tailor dress.
1T is not unlike Henrietta cloth, and makes
effective plated frills and graduated
hounces. 1t clings to the figure in a most
desirable manner, and its sheen is ex-
auisfte, but alasl it has one sad fault, like
most silk wrap textile-its propensity to
wrinkle easily is acknowledged, even by
the merchants who offer it for sale.
Helen Watterson Moody believes thai
the husband who can be managed is not
worth managing, 'and there is nc better
principle" she adds, in the March La
dies Home Journal sfor both husband
and wife to adopt in adjusting them
! selves to the new relation than that OF
trying to do each by the other what men
are accustomed to call the square thing
Many a woman understands managing
a husband better than she does doing the
square thing by him, and many a man
understands and practices doing the
square thing by other men who would be
affronted if he were to be told that. judg-
ed by his own busines standards, ne
hahitually dealt unfairly with his own
wife"
Added to the fine Venetian, Flemish,
real Renaissance, rose point and other
laces frequently alluded to, there Is a re-
yival of the use of the old Chantilly pat
terms, both in nets, aouncings and inser-
lions. New designs in inely-jetted bands,
applique pieces and nets show thread and
rose-point devices beautifully interviewer.
White founcing laces nave net tops as
soft and delicate as crepe lisse, with in
termixed patterns of Chantilly and old
Pompadour devices. Spanish Chantilly or
yandyke laces, as the importers call them,
are brought out in more beautiful qualities
than ever. The meshes and designs are
very choice, and are far superior to any
of the kinsd heretofore exhibited. One
scanop shows fine tracerys with a central
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