The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-11
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WOMAN'S WORLD.


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d fruit and a vegetable is that the former
may be eaten raw, the latter cooked But
a better distinction. having few exception
is that a fruit is sweet when ripe, while
the vegetable is not. Perhaps a combina-
ton OF two distinctions makes the best
definition. A fruit is sweet and may be
eaten raw; a vegetable is not sweet and
needs to be cooked.
A dry andwich that Is convenient for
the five O'Clock tea tray has for a filing
shaved ginger and orange peel. Sugar
preserved ginger and candied orange peel
are used for this purpose, spread between
buttered slices of bread cut in oblong and
circular shapes.
To scrub wooden articles. rinse well,
sprinkle with fine sand, soap the brush
and scrub with the grain of the wood
Carefully rinse and dry, and stand In the
open air for a time, if possible.
Pretty little collar clasps come in all
sorts of pretty designs to fasten ribbons
around the neck. There are butterflies
and conventional patterns in various coli
ors, in enamel and with mock precious
stones.
A treatment highly recommended by a
scientific magazine for poisoning from ivy
Is to wet a piece of bread with water, dust
it with common washing o and apply
to the eruption, keeping the bread wet
from the outside. Half an hour of this
treatment is said to be a sure cure.
Little daughter lives in the back yard
now, a woman said to me the other day,
and she's the happiest thing you ever
saw. When the maid brings her up I
have to scrutinize her hair ribbons close
ly and locate the freckles on her left ell
bow to be sure she's my own y~oungster.
She has an unlimited Number of dark call
leo slips that are short and untrimmed.
Besides one of these she wears a little
shirt and a pair of thin panties, which
| are also of dark muslin. Her sunbonnet
is of the thinnest material I could find.
She has a shovel and a little pail and a
big spoon and various other treasureable
articles which she has collected. When
she comes IN she is put into the bath tub
and aliowed to splash all she wants to.
Then she is scrubbed nice and clean and
her hair ~shampooed and she is got into
clean clothes, which she wears until bed
time. She is as brown as a berry-and
heaps sweeter-and the way she sleeps at
night-well. she never stirs.'
Certainly this mother is a wise one.
Summer instead of being a trying season
for the little ones. should be one of
health and pleasure.
The demand for lace as trimming and
as entire dresses has hardly before been
equalled, and most of the very pretty thin
materials we are destined to wear for
! spring and summer will be trimmed with
them, and it will often be powdered with
tiny paillettes. Evening gowns in thin
materials, and in satins and silks, are be-
ing literally trimmed with wreaths and
trails of flowers, composed of quilted net
and crepe or chiffon intermingled with
lace appliques. Irish point, Swiss and
very fine nainsook embroideries, mingled
with yalenciennes, medallIons. ieur-de-lis
and scalloped edges. ornamen the So
called washing materials. Black ere
ponette is as useful as the discarded Gre
pons. There is a silk warped material
called Curzon cloth, after the order of
Henrietta cloth, and there is some French
mohair and many varieties of camel-hair,
serge, whipcord and Scotch tweeds, trim
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thin silks, soft fancy satins are many of
them scattered over with tiny flowers or
stripes. There are black and white mix
lures in pretty well every kind of dress,
and there are some wonderfully handsome
matelasse silks for evening wear. Camel
hair, bengaline and Indian cashmere Zone
of the best wearing materials there are)
remain fashionable.
Ready made hats are fancier than ever,
and the variety IS large. The bicycle girl
has claimed the special attention of many
manufacturers, and straw hats of all
shapes show the result of their labors.
Instead of the Tam-'o-Shanter, so popular
a few years ago, we now wear round hats
something like the military shape in
vogue during the winter. The brim dips
in front and just the edge is curled up
at the sides and back. The crown is low
and fiat and is wound round with either
a band Of velvet or a tuIle arrangement
knotted into rosettes at the left side
through which a very long quill is thrust.
Alpine hats are worn to some extent,
but not as much as the style just de-
scribed, which is seen at golhng, wheel
ing, boating, and in fact all outdoor
sports, as well as on the promenade.
That the sailor hat has reappeared with
its customary persistency goes without
saying.
We must be prepared for curious mix
lures of color. and a green skirt checked
with a light tabac tone and cut on the
cross is worn with a cream toned cloth
jacket trimmed with gold buttons and
braid. An indoor dress made in soft silk
crepe over black velvet fits the figure
closely at the hips and opens at the side
to show a panel of velvet which is visible
to the depth of four inches at the base
and headed by jet trimming carried up
the side panels. The bodice is slightly
full, confined by a band at the waist and
opens up the front to show tuckings of
chiffon, the velvet forming a cape over
the shoulders edged with lace and a
pyramid-shaped slashing rising from the
waist at either side of the front. OF
course, Princesse dresses will have the
preference; they are perfectly charming
made up in the Princesse shape over black
silk, the material, crepe de Chine, trimmed