The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-01

bought by these anxious yqqns
people striving to make both ends meet
on a thousand a year; the salt cellars, the,
cream jugs, the fruit knives, the papers
! cutters, the inkstdnds.
Above all. the lhmpsi And when a
mans friends are many and their tastes
are similar, just think of the individual
/ longings which can be satisfied by the ex-
change. of duplicates! Surely, If one cam
not afford wedding presents, one can sum
mon up sufficient character to ignore the
obligation. But by all means preserve
the custom and cheer the hearts of the
little voyagers.
Fill their painted boat when you can
and there is always a large percentage of
ones friends who can afford something.
l nave known girls to marty secretly
and in haste to escape the boredom of
writing notes of thanks for things that
nobody wants, but they were eccentrici-
ties; far. are they from representing the
average. Fancy the calculations that
would be upset, the hopes that would be
blasted, if it were decreed that wedding
| presents were bad form, were to be es-
chewed by all who respected themselves. 2
1t is true that the great middle class
would go its gait for a time. but all fash
ions which obtain a firm hold travel as
inevitably as the winds about the globe,
and the time would come for all civilized
nations when the wedding present would
be as obsolete as the New Years call.
So
Deep ~founces, finely plated, which were
so much seen two years ago are once
more to be the rage, not SO much the sun
as the accordion plat, says the DRY
Goods Economist" The plating is much
finer and does not extend in width as it
reaches the hem.
These are treated somewhat differently
this season, no longer being worn in a
single 1ounce footing the robe, but in
two or even three medium-sized fiounces,
over which falls the tunic or %oplonaise,
according to the build of the dress. They
are frequently cut to form vandykes, the
broad hem of the hounce being covered
with a colored ribbon of the same width.
When these flounces adorn the skirt the
costume is completed by a chemisette of
the same over the sleeves in the shape
of epaulettes.
There is no doubt that as the season adj
vances flounces of all descriptions will De
much seen. An idea adopted by some or
the leading houses for summer costumes
is the adornment of figured muslins, Or
candies and even mousseline de LANES
with very narrow lace iounces. either
white, cream or black, forming detached
series of two or three, almost covering
each other and leaving a space of the tex
tile between each series. These will be
more put on in slight festoons than in
straight lines.
This sort of trim roin0 iS oh 1smi0 OILY
light and most effective. The same style
of decoration is repeated on the long,
tight-ftting sleeves It must be remarked
that the shaped f%1ounce, as far as skirts
are concerned, is absolutely discarded.
This remark applies to the double row Of
small buttons which during the past win
ter closed the fashionable tight-fitting
skirts at the back. Skirts are not now SO
finished.
One of the most curious and interesting
of bridal customs among the Eskimos Is
the practice of choosing a bride, not for
her face, her figure or for her fortune,
but for the excellence and strength of her
teeth.
Up in the polar circle. where a mans
blood freezes, and parts of him drop Of
at the touch of the icy blast, it is a diff
cult matter to keep the Unframed skins
from hardening and cracking. There is
only one process known to the Eskimo
that of chewing. 1t is necessary to per-
form this operation every two or three
months, and it is a part of the wife's du-
ties. 1t is for that reason that an Eskimo
selects his future helpmates for the size
of their teeth and the strength of their
jaws. OF course, one wife canno attend
to all the skins, and so sometimes the Es-
kimo has as many as ten loving help
mates.
Wives are bought, sold and exchanged
among the Eskimos. The price fuctuates
like that Of wheat or corn, or stocks on
Wall street. A father with a growing
daughter will be approached by a neigh
Dor, and offered one. two, or three dogs
for her, according to her maxillary pow
ers. Sometimes a blue foxskin or a dozen
strips of blubber may enter into the bar
gain, but dogs are generally used.
-.
Black straws are the most frequently
chosen for hats worn right off the face,
the back of the brim coming down in
the nape OF the neck, ana THESE, Defng
lined with bright colored silk, present a
very dressy appearance. Here is one lin
ed with taffeta of a turquoise blue tint.
Tiny tucks, about half an inch apart,
are run in the silk. On the left side
against the upturned brim is a fiat bunch
of f-orget-me-nots surmounted by a small
cluster of monthly roses. Outside is a
torsade of black tulle and two short
black couteaux. Another is lined with
leiais of sky blue satin surah, run on
in single spiral band, and turned up by
a large rosette of narrow black velvet,
with a brooch in the centre and a bunch
of small roses. Puffs of black tulle, al
~ternating with similar r~osettes, ornament
the outside. A third is lined in the same
way with pink surah and turned up with
three big black silk roses framed in green
leaves: three black ostrich tips compose
the outer decoration.
I do not think re should expect of chill
dren the sort of love of which we our
selves are capable, says the ''Woman's
Home Companion" The child's love for
the parent and the parents love for the
child are essentially different, and we
may only arouse 2 sort of ~antagonism in
the Young by insisting upon our right to