The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-18

adorable. Not conventional, understand.
but just sweet enough to eat
Come right here and let me look at
Won. You are a sight for the eyes of a
9 woman dressed to suit other women."
S / am not" said She
oven. no taking women as they go.
They would stare you out of counten-
ance if you were to go down town. and
vet YOU are dressed none too airy. none
too cool. none too comfortable to shop
or do any Of the things that are dreadful
to do in warm weather, but things that
women must attend to, even if the Their
mometer is making tracks for the hundred
mark"
Pshaw, How deadly stiff necked we are
about most things. To test the truth OF
my opinion 1 asked my pretty friend TO
lunch with me. She made ever SO many
objections. but finally persuaded her Tor
the fun of the thing to try her real sum
mer frock on the multitude.
She did it. and from now on / am sure
NV knowledge of our sex will not be
sneered at by one woman at least.
we trollied to the hear of the city, l
IN my proper tailor rig, feeling as II 1
would jump out of ray skin SO miseraple
was /. my companion looking as II she
were ready to futter her way over oo-
stacles mountains high.
we lunched together. the conventional
ana the unconventional, and we had our
own fun. / suppose the women who crlti-
oised had theirs. My summer girl, my
real summer girl, for there was nothing
bogus about her, will never again receive
50 much attention. and all because she
had on a frock cut modestly low ABOUT
her soft white throat and frilled with
lace: because she wore a pair of sleeves
that were finished with elbow ruffles in
place of skin tight affairs falling over the
knuckles.
Even the men stared. if anything, more
than the women They seemed to have
forgotten that soft white Threats existed
l am not surprised, since we try to out
swathe each other to our ear tips. AS
for the arms. when the long suede gloves
were removed they were pretty enough to
satisfy even a woman. Ny summer girl
was all right. l doubt if anybody else
save myself thought 50, for She did not
look like the mob, and that is a crime not
easily forgiven
II the present style demanded dresses
cut away In the morning as Wei as in the
evening. if It insisted upon the aoaty
sleeve III place of the swelterlng arm Gov
.ers, ii present styles allowed us to Walk
without getting tied UP in a froca hem,
if We were only deeenIly comfortable NOR
tails and not the suffering wretehes We are
we might bear LIES ills with more Chris
tian forfitude. Take Us as we stand, and
If we are nor deserving the condemnation
ana the commiseratdon of the entire world
then l am no judge OF all that we deserve.
We are grotesque, absurd, ridiculous.
All three words mean the self-same thing,
but it does my soul good to use adjectives.
Poor harassed creatures. And yet if we
meet one woman brave enough to be half
way healthfuily gowned, we poke each
other in the ribs, giggle, whisper, make
fools of ourselves generally. and actually
think we are smart.
Never was so little. jewelry worn as in
this summer of grace, and the fancy for
Oriental patterns is as marked as ever.
At night in the couture very charming
wreaths of small clear green enameled
leaves, ivy. myrtle, laurel, bay and grape
foliage, fasten among puffs and braids
and sometimes a row of leaves forms the
top edging for a tuckirig comb.
With the setting in of a temperature
that is significant of the dog days, stiff
linen collars lave been cast from their
proud company with shirt waists, for fem
mime kind finds great comfort in stocks
OF snowy pique or cheviot thai do not
finish with the four-in-hand or waterfall
fold in front. When passed twice about
the neck, the ends of the easy chokers
are hooked together, and then a flourish
ing bow of lawn or muslin. soft as a
cloudIet, n crisped with lace, is pinned
under the chin, and TO- perfect comfort
and fashionable f~riyoltty go hand in
hand.
The making of these BOWS is, by the
way, a sort of delicate employment for
the agile hands Of country house visit
ing. piazza loving ladies. and swan bows
they are called out of compliment to their
whiteness and fuffiness. Some of them
are large enough to form perfect facades
for shirt waists, their frills and tips fall
Ing to the waist line, but the neckband
to which they are attached is invariably
a double twist of starchless white cheviot.
If you have had patience to await them
you can now procure amazing bargains in
summer dress materials. particularly in
the sheer batistes, Swiss muslins. lawns
and dimitles. nainsooks bareges, which
are endeared to the imagination of every
true woman. for there are many who are
only tolerably good looking in winter
clothes, who appear positively charming
in summer raiment. Organizes. lawns and
dimities tempt us by their phenomenal
misunderstanding at this season only a
few pennies a yard. The laces, both edge
lace and insertion, and the ribbons re-
quired for trimming a summer frock are
also to be had almost for the asking. It
is the same story with summer silks and
lightweight woolens. which seemed so
costly in the spring. The July shopper
reaps a harvest of beautiful and inexpen-
sive purchases. there is no doubt about
that.
1t Is the same story with the underwear
required for the children. Ready-made
articles in graded sizes allure one to Sc
cure them at the low figures now quoted.
The outing hats go for the proyerbiaI
song. Articles one desired earlier in the
season. and resolved to do without, on ac-
count Of the cost. now almost beg one to
take them away from the counters. There
are many jokes current about the bargain
hunter. but it is quite true that goods are
marked down. in dull seasons, and that
the woman who is on the lookout for an
opportunity rarely misses finding it.