The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-14
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j the most ill-bred of any class of women
I know
Il see you have met her often" said the
girl at the fire in a modified tone. Il
thought 1 was not the only one who has
to hear such things. 1 am not so sensitive
!, that my feelings are always being hurt,
| but women who take advantage of the toll
| erance of my friendship to be rude have
made me cry more than once when l got
by myself. The little courtesies are OF
| greatest Importance. l never realized how
large a part they play in the happiness OF
life till I spent a summer in the frontier
towns of the Southwest, where life is too
rough to include social courtesies. I used
to ride to a ranch where the people liked
me and were glad to see me. But they
( would sit on the porch and silently watch
me as 1 rode up, dismounted, unaided. and
fastened my horse. They never asked
| me to sit down or offered me a chair or
did any of the courteous little things that
| are the natural part of politeness. Their
attitude was that ] did not need to be
| especially asked to do all these things.
| Such a thing as introductions among
| strangers is there a form of effete civiliza-
ton to be frowned upon, and if | did a
| little favor for any of them they promptly
| spoiled it all by offering to pay me for it.
A grunt of a gruff hello was their GUS
| tomary form of greeting. I felt awkward
and hurt at first, but I soon saw that they
did not know any better, and that the
little courtesies of life were to them a
sign of weakness of charae ter."
well, I think a boorish men is bad
| enough said the other Bachelor Maid,
biting off a thread, "but boorishness is
| positively disgusting in a woman
sLet US have a chocolate" solemnly said
the first girl, laying down the poker with
| a sigh.
Lets do"
|! And the did.
Ravishing things for the spring are be-
ing made in all the great dress-making
| houses, says Harper's Bazaar" The
| novelty of the season will apparently be
the coming in of cashmeres-Indian cash
| meres especially. The old-fashioned pale
blues and pale green, and pale tints of
every description will be seen in this sup
| pie material, so admirably adapted to the
soft draperies and clinging lines that
fashion will decree.
Naturally the Indian cashmeres immedi-
| ately suggest shawls, and Doucet and Pa
quin are both apparently preparing to
| launch shawl dresses. AS each and all of
these grands seigneurs de la mode envelop
| their projects for the future in the most
profound mystery, one wonders how it
! ever happens that when the season opens
they are discovered often to have hit
upon precisely the same line of ideas.
But fashion, / am beginning to learn, is
as much the result of a natural process
| of evolution as anything else on this
mundane sphere. Louis XVI and Direc-
toire styles are in the air. Just take
down your g~randmother's portrait, if it
happens to nave been made at the very,
end of the last century or the beginning
of this, and let it inspire you with sug-
| g~estions for your summer frocks. and you
will be following the creators of the
mode.
Perforated cloths will be seen again,
to be worn over -transparents of color.
Any number of Directoire coats are
among the models, and they. begin to APP
pear at the theatres, always the advance
heralds of the new styles here. We saw
a most effective parsonage in one of the
] orchestra chairs of the Vaudeville, at a
dress rehearsal, attired in a robe of white
cloth, embroidered, and a long Directoire
| coat of scarlet cloth. The skirts of the
latter always make one think of the
primitive leaf. They have a certain leaf
| effect of fatness, and gored-in-ness at the
top, and flare at the bottom.
A lovely scarlet cape, mantle, collet-
whatever oyu please to call it-from
| Paquin's that we saw this same after
| noon was also of scarlet cloth, and most
| useful, its wearer said, as she used it
now for an opera cape and a carriage
| cape, and intended to wear it lei sum-
| mer in Scotland, across the moors. In its
| present state in life it is extremely smart
! and elegant, with q lining of ermine and a
| border of chinchilla; but on inspection one
| discovered thai 1t could easily be adapted
to change circumstances The fur lining
| could come out, the chinchilla come of,
| and a long bias cape was left trimmed
| with stitched bands, with velvet collar
| cites, and abs IN front borded with gull
pure. It was held III place BIZ CLASHES,