The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-19

/ am tempted to write a fashion article,
says Dorothy Maddox In the "Philadel-
phia Inquirer" The longing does not
often possess my soul. 1t seems asshame
to breathe one word against the wonder
full creations that nave been prepared for
us.
How can we refuse to think them per-
feet when at a glance we can see the
earth has been ransacked to get together
the means fer their adjoining.
A milliner's domain should be a temple
of e~nchantmert. 1 prefer at present a
chamber of horrors in a musee. This
sounds like rank heresy. but truth will
out.
l have spent days searching for a quiet
hat. Another woman has done the same
and still another and another. We all
agree the quiet hat will never pc ours
unless we buckle down to plain facts ana
have some shape trimmed to suit our
taste. Even then I don't believe L Wouiu
dare leave the milliner long enough TO
herself to do the trimming. She woulo
try, the poor dear, to follow out my
wishes. but her figures would havo pc
come so accustomed to the pillng-oh
agony of the hour that my hat would go
the way of all others.
Poor women! What is any OF them pul
the beauty to do about this nat ques-
ton? "Sober SIDES in millinery SO called
are pert enough for sweet seventeen.
What are real matrons to do? What are
the women with faces like full moons TO
do and the aforementioned women and
the women with lines of care and nao
skins and straight locks?
This sounds frightfully discouraging. 1
am down in spirits when it comes to NAT
buving. If others are not equally blue
over the question it is because concert OF
beauty is buoying their hopes until a life
raft of some sort reaches them II II
comes won't it be laden with posies and
plumes. and gorgeous headed pins that
would have suited the Queen of Sheba.
Here and there, very far apart, l am
sorry to say. are exquisite pieces of work
The blondes and brunettes will take TO
Tuscan braids half buried beneath inky
feathers and finished with rare eheux OF
violets and roses.
One thing in favor Of this deeply-tinted
straw is its kindness to the skin 1t does
not clamo., as the lighter tints do, for
peaches and cream ~prettiness. 1t will even
put up with a ~jaundiee effect in complex
ions. There is a drawback, however, for
mOSJ OIL Tue l4OQcS 11 SAbo
aunty. about the correct thing for a
schoolgirl, especially the hats known as
fats.
Then we have some violet hats tnal
would tempt a woman to rob a bank to
procure them. Even they, as light in the
hand as a big bunch of thistles, seem
clumsy. There is the same toppied-over
look at the front as if the huge violet,
u no fhaFd is
about to make a dive waistward.
1 have tried on one dozen if I have tried
on one and each cyclone of tulle and vio-
lets and peoples gave me a timorous sen
sation. 1 longed to prop up some of the
fantasies. 1t did seem as if they could
never stand a puff of wind, let alone a
boardwalk gale.
However. they are warranted to wear.
They ought to. As for the gays and
"siddies,'' as / nave dubbed the outsiders,
a time the creator of them must
1ave had. 1 suppose when he or she be-
came really interested in the great art of
trimming the defenseless piece of tulle,
or straw, or lace was stuck on a pole and
pelted with wads of material.
There are so many unexpected euirks
that this must have been the method. For
instance, a sane affair suddenly seemed
to have become hopelessly crazy because
a wad of tulle as big around as if a bread
and butter plate had alighted right on
the edge of flowers and feathers. 1t had
been we'll jabbed with paste gem pins as
big as walnuts. The pin were evidently
an after thought necessary to keep the
vaporous mass in order.
I trust I nave not been impolite. / have
$50 - = - 49, 4s- ~1-,a so
tective work in hat buying. h is, l
have watched the buyers
A puckered faced little dame I remember
interested me very much. She had set her
heart on a broad Drummer Of straw load
ed with twelve heavy headed roses. What
roses. A glorious magenta with row and
her a pale yellow beauty. Very, very
French, and each rose as big round as a
tea cup. !
Above the roses, and it was a shame,
lowered spikes of ribbon and tossing fea-
theirs. Such a fracas as that combination
was having in tints. There was a regular
color bout.
Possibly a tall woman with a skin
faultless in texture and tinting and with
a wealth of hair might have worn this
hat. The lady who ordered it needed a
complexion artist and a hair store to pre-
pare her for her ~headpiece.
Well. we shall have to put Up with each
other. If we ara truthful we shall not
be able to gush much over the beauty CT
our neigrhbor and we are not going to fall
in love with ourselves.
We are all in the same boat. That's one
comfort
One of the evidences of the late din
ner hour which obtains in New York to-
day is the change in the theatre hour.
Various reasons for this new order of
things have been discussed. None of
them has explained it satisfactorily, but
the fact remains that Z and not $50 has
come to be the time at which most New
Workers take dinner. The distances of
the city, the migration of many persons
to regions far uptown and the scatter
ing of families socially connected finally
did more than anything else to cause the
change.
It is quite as fashionable within GER
tain limitations to live in one part of the
town as it is in another, and 1t is inn
possible to get from one residential dis
trict to another in time to be on hand
at what used to be the customary hour
The time for formal dinners has settled
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