The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-22
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Ii is no secret that the dwellers on the
''Continong" and even In her MaJestys
own domain are not above appropriating
American fashions. If we do something
ADMIRABLE they say "Aha." and adopt It
stra,gbtwav. The tale of a coat is a
story in this wise. An American just re-
f,rnad from abroad says that the new
short Jacket (Which is a variation of the
swaqeer eamless English box coat. and
has the suggestion of adjustment by
means Of a middleback and under-arm
seams,. though designed for the fair
Americans who never would adopt the
original shapeless English garment, was
bounced upon and adopted by our hand
some British cousins before we even saw
Il Now. there's a case in which those
whom Dame Fashion keeps on the look
out did better than the old MAXIM When
YOU'RE in Rome do as the Romans DO
1t will have to be up to date IN THIS WISE.
When you're in Rome do as the Romans
do. if you can't do better.
Shame, isn't il, that an the really spien-
did summer schemes are evolved only as
the dog days are on the eve OF melting
into autumn Now, the great majority
of felnininity has had her neck swatneo
in heavy silk or even velvet 1oids an
summer, no matter how little she wore
over her shoulders and arms. And per
haps this very fact set some clever one
thinking. At any rate a most Deautllul
little scheme, which is new, Is to nave
q lace stock also. If it's run with che-
nile or embroidered baby ribbon, so much
the better: but the point is that 1t must
be unlined, retaining its form by means
of line but cleveriy inserted wires. In
this way ones neck may be at a tenn
narature corresponding with that OF the
rest Of the body, instead of in a perpet-
uai, shriveling. dark Turkish bath.
Speaking Of summer. the hehu has been
and is a most favored little arrangement
and it will not De surprising If we keep
+icht on reveIing in it. 1t is always ele-
CANT. 1t is quaint. It is fetching. 1t
gives the demurest little air of mischiev-
Gus little shoulders and forms an incom-
parable setting for either the bare, glow
ing flesh or the upper part of the bodice
And the new goods are just suited to 1t,
soft and plia5le and elinging. exquisite
textures which suggest most graceful
draparies even in the piece. Wait unrl
Beauty gets her sylph-iike proportions IN
side themi
And the ichu reminds onei Are we com
ing to those girdle-high bodices affected
by the picturesque peasanfry2 AT any
rate SO many fair ones are becoming VIC
TINS of the fchu craze. TO the extent OF
having most any sort of bodice cut low
or half low, that the effect is likely 20 pc
startling. IT is less trouble and costs less
to have a bodice. not only without neck
tixings. but without even a top to it. ANY
one of our stock Of ichus may finish IL
out; plain null for the morning, knotted
at the breast, with the ends hanging or
tucked into the belt. and the folds drawn
primly high round the neck, of course; for
tea these folds COR those Of some gayer
materiaD might be arranged a bit loweri
and fol-. ~evening-well, all there's to do Is
to drop it still lower. Though some people
persist In thinking 1t complicated, there's
nothing more simple than the sartorial
clock.
worry wears out more people than
work does, and fretting causes more un-
happiness in families than either sickness
or poverty" writes Mrs. Moses F. Handy
in the October "Woman's Home Compan-
ion Indeed. the secret of happiness
may also be said to be making the best OF
everything, and good hurner under all
circumstances the most useful virtue
which man. and more especially woman,
can possess. There are good women VINO
today would peril life and limb for hus-
band and children. yet who daily render
their dear ones uncomfortable by going
forth to meet trouble half way, and by
grieving over thai which is past and ir-
remediabIe. II a thing can be helped by
any effort of yours, go to work promptly
and help It; If not, waste no time In vain
repinfng. When you husband has made
a mistake in business and times are hard
do not wall over the mistake Gather up
the fragments and stand by to help him.
II you can do nothing else you can at
least pretend that you do not mind; can
show him that you believe in him still,
and prophesy that better times are COM
ing. Nothing so chills a mans courage
as the damp spray of a wife's tears. Did
you never try to run your sewing machine
without oiI7 Don't you know how the
surfaces grind upon each other, and how
hard the work ISL Well, just as one
hour Of that scraping will injure the ma
chinery more than a whole days use
would if properly oiled, just so one days
worry will dig more wrinkles in your face
and sprinkle more gray in your hair
than will months of patient, trusting Ia
Dor. Worrying is an essentially feminin
failing. and there are women who do 1t
In spite of themselves. If you chance to
be such a one, fret all to yourselves in
the privacy Of your chamber, provided
you have any privacy. But under any
circumstances do not empty your basin
of cold water-or worse, your bottle OF
tears-over the sitting-room fire."
There are a dozen different delightful
ways. of using alcohol as a toilet acces-
sorry, says the London Mail" and every
well-itted-up toilet table nowadays has
its pretty glass bottles of this liquid, pure
or diluted, as preferred.
For an oily skin there is nothing better
than to battle it at night with alcohol
and when dry to dust lightly with shaw
ing magnesfa. This same treatment Is
excellent for blind boils or blackheads.
Alcohol diluted one-half is a most re.
freshing wash for the scalp that is in
clined to itch, because Of heat, nervous
ness or dandruff.
Rubbing the neck and lungs with a5co
hol after the cold plunge is the best pos
sible preventive Of cold, and is a fal
better treatment after a cold has beer