The Jersey City news., 1899-12-20

Don't you think asked the Bachlor
Girl of Dorothy Maddox of the Philadel-
phia Enquirer, . women bave measly
way of gauging the worth Of each other $
belongings
.eYou mean''-began the Listener, with
questioning note in her voice.
'.Oh, well, in such pretty ways as peep
ing under the flaps of envelopes to see
who your stationer is; looking in your
coat for the mark that's 10 vouch for its
tailor origin, and all sorts of tricks like
that.
Now, just imagine lot of men meet
ing together somewhere. hanging up there
hats. and then half a dozen of them
sneaking away from the rest to hunt
through the hat bands for the names of
the makers
Haven't an Imagination elastic enough
for that
Would 1t require too much of stretch
to make you believe it of women?''
Even of trivial womanknd," affirmed
the Listener solcmnly.
.srhens you'll just have to take my word
for 1t Jnat such thing did happen only
last week. and what's more, it happens
right along. l was at an afternoon euchre.
You know how the women are always
ushercd into some room to take off their
wraps, and how they strew their hats
around on the bed, the tables and the
chair knobs
Yes, know" assented the Listener.
.sWell, at this euchre our hostess room
looked as if regular fall millinery OPEN
ing was going on there. Most of the club
members had spick and span new hats
that day-you could see it at glance. as
we'll as by the extra care they took set
ting them in safe places.
Just after the last game ana before
the refreshments were served I went over
into the wrap room to get my vinaigrette.
AS 1 was going through the hall l saw
five or six of the players fitting about
from hat to hat, peering to the crowns
and giggling over the marks or lack of
marks there.
when 1 appeared in their midst they
weren't in the least abashed. One of them
called out to me to come and look at Mrs.
AS velvet toaue with stitches like bast-
ings inside. And she cried. waving it
triumphantly before the others, no mil
liners mark of any kind, SO it must be
homemade, even if she did hint it was
Paris model
Then they began to buzz around among
the other bonnets and turbans. comment
ing on somebody's extravance in getting
her hats at such and such a place, or
somebody else's attempt at amateur mil
lnery, and all along those lines.
II was so disgusted I had to sniff hard
at my vinafgrette to keep from giving the
crowd a slapping piece of my mind.
There are so many bores of that type
among our sex. They actually judge your
morals by your tailor's or milliner's tag.
mean to teach them lesson, especially
those Poll Prys in the euchre club"
How are you. going to do it?'' asked the
Listener with interest.
This way: I have a little milliner who
comes to the house and does work for me
from season to season. She's inexpensive
and clever and makes about as pretty hats
as anybody could want. But of course
they lack the swell stamp within that is
their passport into other peoples favor
Il was telling her about the way most
women reject or accept a hat according to
it crown tag
..And how she laughed. Why she said,
when I finish this toque for you, would
you like it to be a yirot or Mime.
Marie?'
II didn't know what she meant until
she explained that at the wholesale houses
miIliners tags by the yard, stamped or
worked in gilt with all-the different names
of big foreign milliners.
1T was easy enough to buy those tags,
snip one of them off. stitch it into the
crown of a hat and send it out into the
world as an imported novelty
s.she said lots of her customers had her
do it. The added cost was very little,
twenty-five. thirty or forty cents, perhaps
and think of paying only forty cents extra
to have the good character of your hat
Guaranteed
There's no limit to women's decep-
tion,' unused the Listener.
'There'n be no limit to mine" frankly
declared the Bachelor Girl. I'm going to
have a French tag put inside every piece
of homemade millinery own. And |
shall hang the hats around right under
the noses OF those silly women and keep
them wondering all winter how l can
afford so many imported hats on my small
allowance.
There isn't one of them smart enough
to detect counterfeit millinery and such
small minds ought to be dealt with by
small methods" concluded the Bachelor
Girl with vicious jab of her hat pin
into the 5aunty headpiece that topped her
pompadour.
good method of teaching little girls
to be tidy is to make them feel an in
nocent pride in keeping their bed room in
good order. If possible. let the little maid
have her own bureau. Nowadays, single
beds are always the rule, and no matter
how many children share a sleeping APP
partment. each one has a separate, if
narrow, bee.
The little girl who has her own bureau
or dressing table takes great pleasure in
receiving as Christmas gifts pretty ar
ticles for the toilet. Prehaps she pines for
brush comb or hand mirror with backs
and handles to correspond. II these are
not of silver. let them have pretty cellu-
loid backing. The ivory white is in gener- /
al demand but some children prefer the
pretty blue, pink or amber-colored celu- /
loid articles.
In choosing a handsome brush be sure
that your money is rot invested solely In |
the back and handle. One sometimes
sees fine brush Of repousse silver richly |
decorated with a pitiful array Of bristles
sparse and weak a strong bristle is re-
quired for brushing through the little /
girls hair. Weak seft brjstles merely pass
over the outside Of the hair and do not /