The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-05

the shoulders when the pretty belle goes
for that early evening walk tlat is deem
ed absolutely imperative.
The golf cape, dear, useful old thing IS
just what she needs when she sits out on
the porch or moons and spoons on the
pier or among the rocks, butas an added
bit of beauty to her toilette it Is, indeed,
a failure. so that when she wishes to
create a genuine sensation and lay claim
to being really we'll gowned and at the
same time achieve genuine comfort she
dons the fullest of fluffy capes in chif-
fon or lace either with q silk foundation
or resembling the airy beruffIement of
the ballet dancers skirts.
Seashore wear is dreadfully hard on a
woman's clothes: therefore, unless q per-
son is quite well-to-do. chiffon effects are
not the ones to adopt in antagonism to
fogs and dampness that will come upon
you when you are in your smartest attire
OF course, these models are lovely, but !
can whisper of a little creation designed
by a skillful girl whose allowance is so
ridieulously small that it seems almost
like a miracle that she can twist and turn
it to such good purpose that she has the
reputation of being one of the best gowns
ed girls in town. She has a cape cream
OfOdQclOt1 utftHcQ II three StctlOiSs dSl
section scalloped. Beneath the scailops
is IN accordion plated ruffle of white
taffeta silk, and the plain high collar
has her monogram in front embroidered
in gold, Tt is lined with rose-pink ~taffeta,
and is just the smartest sort of a wrap
for summer evening wear. silk and
broadcloth she secured at different times
at remnant sales, and made the cape her
self, so that what looks like a $25 beauty
hardly cost her five,
Cloth capes can be made very fetching
if the right colors are used and a little
fancifulness added in trimming, while
the fabric withstands dampness so much
more successfully than the airier weaves
that it is a consideration to the economi-
cal woman who must look to every
penny.
Paris has for the moment affected a
blue that has the appearance of being
washed out and very cool looking, though
it has a gray tinge. 1t is very pretty in
cotton and other washing dresses trim
med with lace and chiffon. Guipure looks
well on this shade of silk with chiffon
r~uchings placed just at the hem, where
all the trimmings seem now concentrated.
the rest sheath-Iike. Many of the bodices
are trimmed with the same lace to simu-
late a bolero, the upper part covered with
a chemisette of pleated chiffon. Such
dresses nearly always nave black yelvet
somewhere; bands across the front some-
times appear to fasten the skirt, others
again have a wide black velvet band from
the centre of a high stock, secured in
front by a buckle. Black and white has
many advantages; 1t is cool and fresh
looking either in lace or chiffon. Black
and white braid is employed as trim
ming, and much of the white lace used
is inter-threaded with black velvet. Many
white washing dresses are dotted with
black, and some of the white chiffon
fiouncings are edged with black lace. In
millinery the strongest contrasts in color
prevail; deep dark blue is often trimmed
with rich mauve, and dark blue, sky
blue and rose are all to be seen in one
hat.
September makes us a present of some
very hot days, at least in this latitude.
A charming toilet for such a day is made
of pink batiste, trimmed lavishly with
inserts" of ecru maltese lace. The un-
derskirt is long and carefully fitted.
Around the hem is a founce of accordian
pleated batiste. The overskirt is Joined
only at the belt, below this the breadths
nang loose, so that each one may be Dor
dered up and down, and all around with
rows OF lace insertion and a row of edge
lace on the outside border. The bodice
is a round waist, a little full in front,
and a perfect mosaic of lace Insertions.
alternating with fine tucks of batiste. laid
in groups. Long pieces of insertion run
the length of the sleeve, divided one
from another with a strip of pink tuck
ing The stock collar worn with this
pretty frock is of white ribbon Powered
with tiny pink r~osebuds. This is also
used for a belt ribbon and for the long
streaming ends, and the frequent loops
which complete the toilet.
$50
Few people seem to realize yet how
cheap and how good lima beans are now.
With such an ov~er-abundance Of vegeta-
bles as We are having now, we are ant
to forget some of them, and often it is
the very best that are neglected. So if
you have not had lima beans, get them
Immediately, for they are particularly
fine, and you will only have to pay fifteen
cents for two quarts.
Of course, every one has been having to-
matoes all the time, but you had better
have them again today, for they are very
fine. and tomatoes can be used in so many
different ways The most popular, per-
haps, are the sliced, raw tomatoes. hut
they can also be fried, stewed. stuffed or
made into soup, and are delicious however
you may prepare them.
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If you have the purse of a Fortunatus
you can bring home from Paris one of
the new openwork foulards which give a
laeylook to the familiar material. AS the
drawn work is made to represent a regu-
lar pattern with flower and foliage the
process is attended with considerable
expense. No doubt by next season the
foulards will be worn in openwork pat
terms just as the exquisite Mexican drawn
work is now initiated very eheaply in GER
tain cotton manufactures. The foulard,
which is hand-worked in an open pattern
of stars and screscents of any small de-
sign. SHOULD be worn over a silk lining Of
a much deeper shade, so as to display the
full value of the pattern. For a border of
openwork a strip OF solid color beneath
is all that is necessary. Where there is
al open-wofk border the edges are often
hemstitched or prettily buttonholed in
49,