The Jersey City news., 1899-05-18

fully as well. When raising them for
! market men, make your arrangements
| With them yearly in the season, agreeing
to furnish so much per week of the green
herbs, in bulk or tied in punches, as his
business requires. The balance not used
| in this way can be dried and the dried
product can be readily sold to druggists.
During the summer parsley, marjoram,
mint, sage and thyme are freely used in
large markets parsley, summer savory
and thyme being sent out with soup
pieces, mint with lamb, and the sage is
used for seasoning chopped meats.
Leaves for decorating can, also. often be
sold to these men. Swiss cards and the
variegated beet being especially valuable
| for such work
| When drying the herbs, pick the young,
| tender shoots before the plants show
signs of blossoming, a dry day being the
| best for the work. They should be well
| shaken to remove the dirt. and then
| spread on papers to dry, the color being
Better if dried in a room where there is
| 40 sunlight and no currents of air. The
smass should be turned every day, and
4 will be dry in few days; the herbs can
! then be put up in paper bags and hung In
dry place. 1t is we'll not to sell too
early, as if 1t Is offered before the bulk
of the new crop is in the market it will
| be called last years. Most of these COM
mon herbs are very hardy. lavender being
| the least hardy of any of those men
toned. 1t can be protected in the fall,
however, so that many of the plants will
| live over winter.
| I hear that fashionable present of the
| moment is lomely brown earthenware
teapot one of those shiny ones that make
such Incompatible tea. writes London
society woman. It's Responsiveness is
counteracted by the addition of a gold
| monogram. Worth. you see,- tells in the
long run against beauty and riches. The
little ugly brown teapot excels all COM
petitors in gold, silver, costly china, and
probably laughs at the grand old mono
gram with which pride adorns it.
And yet. what teapot would deliberately
choose, if offered a choice, to be but
! brown earthenware? Would you? Would
I. if we happened to be teapots? No, we
would be rich and beautiful. chased gold,
engirt with jewels, or silver engraved in
the handsomest of patterns in splendid
relief.
But what about the tea?
I only wish that some friends of ours
would adopt the brown earthenware va
rietv. We might then have nicer tea
when we CALL What wretehed stuff some
people offer one! Overdrawn and stone
cold. 1t is objectionable. in these days
of spirit lamps and cheap tea. 1t is pure
carelessness, however, not parsimony.
g.
Fewer wives would sit lonesomely and
disconsoiately at home, while their hus-
bands roam elsewhere in sea4ch of enter
tainment. if more wives realized that
home should be something besides clean
place 70 eat and sleep in. Men hate
wonen's tea parties and large show
functions, but they like little dinner and
supper parties, says THE Gentlewoman."
Many families refrain from entertaining
because they cannot do so on an expen-
sive scale. 1t is, however, possible to give
small dinners and suppefs that are both
enjoyable and inexpensive.
The stiffness SO often experienced where
people are calling upon other people whom
they do not know very well can invariably
be broken up by offering some sort of re-
freshments. The act of eating and drink
ing inevitably destroys self-consciousness
and renders all concerned less restrained.
1t does not matter very much whether it
is cider or doughnuts, chocolate and
waters, cup of tea and a biscuit, or
what not, so long as it is something. 1t
adds charm, however, to have whatever is
served brought in deftly and served
daintily.
One of the surest ways to be awkward
'in company is to try to act differently
from ones accustomed manner. If ones
everyday manner is not good enough for
company, then it should be changed, but
the most delightful company manner is
the natural manner when it is natural to
be charming. One of the charms of an
agreeable manner is to seem unaffected
another is to have something to say
worth hearing, and to say it easily and
interestingly; another is to listen appre-
ciatively when others speak.
OF late one sees dainty traceries of
chiffon fecking the silken frivolities of
the most admired of the shop petticoats.
Because of this mania for chiffon, tulle
and mousseline de sole have vogues of
their own. The tulle is particularly ser
viceable, SO madame the milliner tells
me, in the construction of those dainty
bouillons that are sort of accompani-
ment to the broader effects of flowers
and ribbon in the summer millinery Gre
ations.
While speaking of chiffons and laces,
says Paris correspondent, let me not
forget to mention the rather gruesome use
of black chantilly in the preparation OF
a recent trousseau. The lingerie was ali
of soft wash silk, or lawn, and the chan
tilly was used for it's ornamentation. I
cannot blame madame, who had been or
dered to make it so, for struggling her
shoulders deprecatingly.
At recent wedding the bridesmaids
gave to the bride a chest of linen as
joint present. The chest was hand
some piece of furniture made in quar-
tered oak, finely polished and fitted with
compartment trays. It's contents includ-
ed four sheets and pillow cases of fine
linen hemstitched and with the brides
initials in small letters at one side just
below the hem; beautiful tablecloth
and a dozen dinner napkins, each piece
having the brides initials, and number
of fancy doilies and tray-cloths. The
embroidery was the work of the donors,
a fact which naturally enhanced the
value of the gift. Sprigs of lavender
were laid away in the folds of the linen,