The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-21

III lilC1lQS "hCh
arated. You see, l write so much easier
than I talk. My pen never shutters, balks
over pleasantries, or startles people with
little ~brusqueries as my tongue does, IL
ever I am in love with a man / shall try
and carry on a postage stamp ceurtshfp
with him. AS long as 1 could write my
sentiments they might. please. 1 am quite
i sure 1 could WOO and win better by writ
ing than by talking. Everybody frankly
admits am more attractive as a corre-
spondent than as a companion"
$50
The first few days of her visit at a
country house this summer girl went
about with trailing skirts, skin-tight
sleeves. a sylphine waist and her neck
properly choked by high stocks, banded
ribbons and yards of fluff.
She looked very swell, she felt-well.
every woman who has had to tag around
with company clothes and ompany man
ners as a summer honda ge knows how this
girl felt while she waved her fan. hitched
her swirling draperies from underfoot and
plucked viciouely at her binding collars
/ when nobody was looking.
The weather kept growing hotter and
the clothes more Cumbersome. One MORN
ing the fashionable sufferer drove into the
village with a dress suit case and two big
bundles in tow. When she came back the
case and bundles were not with her and
She looked mysterious, but satisfied, If
quizzed regarding her mission.
A few days afterwards the explanation
came when she whisked into the break
fast room looking anything but Ia mode,
and yet so comfortable that all the women
stopped tanning and stared.
That's right, eye me, every one of
you," she laughed. 81 expect I'll be
ostracized by such a smart crowd. I don't
care. I'll take these buds and move on;
but I'm done, just done, with style for the
rest of the season. That little village
dressmaKer has my gowns and orders to
chop off the trails, shorten the sleeves
and saw down the necks. See this skirt
sure enough it swung barely below the
ankie-'and this sleeve?" and an arm bare
from the elbow was waved tantalizingly
before them. 'As for my throat, what's
left of it is going to be saved. Surplice
waists like this I'll wear If I look as old
fashioned as a daguerreotype. Eve put
up with discomfort as long as TIM going
to, and now I'm just going to. let myself
go and be a good-natured dowd."
-"
The newest effects are in the belt and
neck buckles with with the almost too
popular shirt-waists, says Harper's
Bazaar" Just how to finish a shirt waist
at the throat and belt is always a prob
lem, particularly if a woman is inclined
to be stout. The broad belt and the high
stoek-coilar are all very we'll for slight
I Un1I11O ofrtct h1If 90 chirt-uroiSf ora ctyp-
posed to be correct for older women, it is
time that something else was found to
make them possible. The new style of
wearing a belt made Of a piece of soft
satin ribbon quite wide, and then putting
the ends of that ribbon into the buckle, is
a very satisfactory fashion. The ribbon
is soft to the skirt, thus avoiding the ugly
gaping apart of skirt and waist. The
buckle, quite a small one, can be in sill
YER studded with precious stones, or in
enamel, oxidized silver or fire gilt. The
designs are charming, and the buckle
most inexpensive. These waist buckles,
however, are not so fascinating as the
neck buckles, which fasten a soft ribbon
just at the throat. The idea is to have a
piece of ribbon from two to four inches
in width and th-ree-quarters of a yard in
length, or even longer if necessary, so
that it will go around the neck twice. The
ends are put into this small buckle, which
lis worn just at the throat; a little bow OF
lace being put on underneath, If desired.
~
tt is decreed that pockets are impessi-
BILE in a fashionable gown, but it seems
there are two ways of getting over the
difficulty, one by inserting the required
item in the front breadth, which is very
apt to SHOW, the other to cunningly insert
one in the hem of the gown. There is a
difference Of opinion etween the wearer
and the maker of dresses on this all-iin-
portant question. The chatelaine comes
ITO the rescue, holding notebooks, purses
and other necessary ifnpedimenta. while
7 the pocket handkerchief is tueke up the
sleeve. The words pocket handkerchief
and bocketbeok will have to be changed
if this goes on, for they are destined for
anywhere but in the pocket. Chatelaine
bags do not appear to have a very great
success, possibly because they are SO easy
a prey to the predatory classes, but dain-
ty chine silk bags. slung to the wrist by
cord, are to be seen at gay gatherings
sometimes. The Japanese woman makes
her pocket in her broad girdle, a China
man in his long sleeves, but where the flu
ture pocket of EHglishwomen is to be re-
mains to be seen.
Tooth brushes should be washed in
strong salt and water.
If a guinea pig; wanders about a house
the rats flee away.
I. Cold water makes the eyes look bright
and Keeps them strong.
Ink split on the carpet is removable
with milk,
Take a light meal only before setting
out of a bicycle trip.
After eating onions MUNICH a sprig OF
parsley dipped in vinegar.
Oil of cloves will often cure an aching
tooth.
Gold ornaments may be safely washed
In soapy warm water.
Al hair mattress is better than a feather
bed.
Powdered rice applied on lint will stop
a bleeding wound.
Thin, nervous women require ten hours
sleep every night.
When a child refuses to eat, let him
have his own way.
Ammonia and water cleanse mud OFF
an umbrella
Soak a cork that IS over-large In. boiling
utofar and then 1T will fit.