The Jersey City news., 1899-10-21


ly and cozy and in those houses where no
liberal expenditure could be INDUCED in
the decorators have pursued the King
James style with wonderful cheapness and
success. They copy the quaint furniture
forms In carved black American wainut,
or use an oak that by artfflce is given
the worn dusky tone of great age Bur-
lap Is laid on walls and painted murrey
red, and walnut is used for woodwork,
door facings, etc, painted black. Where
In any room this early sixteenth century
idea of decoration is followed the bric-a-
brac is carefully boarded up In open
fronted cupboards or shallow presses
with half glass doors and the very new
est idea ins dining rooms is a great plate
sideboard.
Red, running through the gamut of its
rich, dyes, from Morris scarlet to the
| deepest mulberry, is by universal choice
the favorite scheme in house decoration
this season. The steady increasing pop
ularity Of mahogany in simple Colonial
forms has brought this sanguine color
into fashion and after long dalliance
! with French styles and momentary
| fancy for delft blues, lavish use Of
/, gliding and white paint, the whole in
clination of extremely modern iterior
ornamentation Is toward the older,
darker and severer English modes.
Nothing is more acutely fashionable, for
instance than a library, hall or even
! an etire first floor wholly decorated and
| furnished after the best Jacobean models
| left in England, Ireland and Scotland,
| and one OF he charms of a King James
! room is that it can be done at as lavish
/ or moderate cost as you Dlase, and 1t ls
I like nothing we have had before in our
1 American homes.
| In a fashionable New York house, only
recently completed, there Is a small Ja-
| cobean library that would be a faultless
| model for any one desiring a similar room
| to copy The walls are hung in murrey-
! colored leather and the woodwork is
carved cedar the floor is stained black,
then waxed. highly polished, and on 1t
are laid red rags All the furniture and
this motive in decoration come from an
ancient manor house on the border be-
tween England and Scotland Carved
i fumed oak, so called from being black>
+ 49,
whenever a dinner party Is given now
/ adays 1t is in the code of fashion for the
! hostess to order on view all her beautifuf
plate. gold and silver, not so much for
actual label use as for display and the
I orna m naentation of her dining room Now,
+ the ordinary long, low Georgian or what
we call colonial, s.deboard of mahogany
IS not well suited for this, SO that some
! women who do not own splendid silver
service. but whose husbands have won
with their yachts and received from cor
,porations beautiful gifts of plate, require
special sideboards on which to exhibit
their glittering boards.
FOR this purpose in black carved oak
.Iacobean plate boys with shelves rising
nearly 10 the ceiling, are being especial
lv built and so placed in handsome din
/ ing rooms that the light from many
4 branched candlabrum can fall effective
NV on the tiers of almost Nibelungen
richness. Mrs. Bradley-M Martin was one
1 os the first women in America to use
nlste bov. and she introduced one at her
dinner parties last winter. Hers was of
richly carved fumed oak, a genuine King
Ia mes or Charles piece, and its top shelf
/ nearly touched the dining room ceiling.
/ Those of her wealthy friends who this
vaar viii follow her initiative are, some
Of them. having their plate boys built
| of any simple wood and then entirely
covered III ruby-eyed velvet, against
which the plate will show effectively and
certainly at rnuch less expense than on
the lofty oak shelves
Massage has been very considerably ad-
! vertised as an alleged means for restoring
damaged beauty, but its virtues as an aid
/ 70 DEVELOPMENT in childhood have not re-
ceiyed much attention which fact makes
especially interesting the experiments re-
corded as being made by a Philadelphia
knhysician upon his infant son. Although
hut a year old, says Vogue the little
fellow is a prodigy OF strength, his mus
cular development being unusual. This
his father ascribes to a daily massage
treatment. which consists in thirty min
utes, kneading of the little ones musclss,
he being stripped and laid upon a blanket
| during the operation. He is given daily
cold bath; his head and feet are never
/ covered hats and shoes and stockings not
being included in his articles of attire. The
fathers Intention is to make the child one
of the strongest men of all times, and he
prophesies that he will never become bald
or lose tooth. LAS for his muscles with
massage and a course of treatment / have
laid out, they will be big and supple all
over the body"
Is there any woman who cannot be
ianliable? asks the '.Woman's Home Com
panion.'' Do not understand me to mean
the forced sweetness that degenerates in
to fiattery. Such an attitude is unworthy
The first definition of "amiable'' given
in the dictionary is worthy Of love" To
be worthy of love we must get ourselves
into right relationship with the world.
Love begets love, and the woman who
would be amiable in the highest sense
must learn to love her fellow man. She
should seek out the older people, and find
/ what delightful companionship she has
hitherto missed. If she will .sympathize
with the younger boys and girls she can
be most helpful in their affairs OF heart
and ambition. The love affair of Jack OF
twenty-one and Betty of eighteen may
seem to her foolish in the light OF her
larger. deeper experience, but she should
remember her own life story, and bring
some Of the great tendernss which seeks
for an outlet to the unraveling Of their
tangled skeins OF perplexity.
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Tea rooms for women cyclists are be-
coming extremely popular in England.
xVoroers as a rule are more particular