The Jersey City news., 1899-06-20
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

ehildren,s prided ourselves upon being
| careful to fold our clothes away piece
| on top of piece. when We went to bed,
and shaking out the clothes and laying
| them over the chairs to get the air. she
would say:-"Remember, my dears, that
orderly women are not necessarily clean
{! ly ones"
Embroidered linens should not be
washed in tin or wooden tubs. says the
! Home Needlework Magazine" All FISK
| Of rust or stain may be avoided by using
an earthen bowl II there are any spots
on the article wash them out first before
wetting the entire piece. Prepare suds
| of hot water and any pure soap. II the
linen is very much soiled or yellow tea
spoonful of puverized borax may be added
| without the least danger to the silk. Care
fully avoid washing powders or cheap
soaps
| Plunge the fabric up and down in the
suds until clean. 1t is well to keep II
moving, but If should not be roughly
| handled or rubbed Rinse by plunging
i up and down In several tepid waters, or
until the water remains perfectly ciear.
| If the soap is not entirely removed by
| rinsing the linen will yellow quickly. Now
| toss between soft dry cloths few MIN
utes until the greater part of the water IS
| absorbed; then draw thesfabric stralghe
| to the woof and wrap and carefully bring
the embroidery into place-it should not
dry twisted Continue to shake the linen
in the air until there is no danger OF the
water running in it, then it may be hung
to dry thoroughly.
When the drying is eomplete-the silk
especially should be perfectly dry-lay the
linen face downward on a fresh muslin
sheet about six or eight thicknesses but
without blanket between it and the table
If pad or blanket IS used the pressing WIZ
not be so successful pampen section
of the linen with velvet sponge dippea
in clear cold water and wrung half dry.
Pass it lightly over the embroidery-the
linen between the silk should not be wet.
Now pass hot iron quickly over the
lampsned surface straight with the
threads of the material. Do not press nara
and slow with a moderate iron. This IS
not the precaution it seems. Do not lay
damp cloth over the embroidery. THESE
ways very generally In use are often the
cause of whiting the silk and making the
embroidery seem ]ifeless. dull ana nat
or as though it had been laundered. The
iron should be as hot as possible without
scorching If moderate the continued
pressing necessary 70 dry the linen Will
crush the silk and stamp on it the gram
Of the ironing sheet. The quick drying
stiffens the linen and restores the lustre
to the silk-but one cannot insist too
strongly upon skillful rapidity in this pro-
cess. Damp linen. dry silk, heat in the
iron. and quick movement are the ele-
ments necessary to success"
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One of the new pieces of lingerie is an
elastic band which is now fastened to
the end of most corsets, in order to re-
duce the figure as much as possible' that
it may fit into the sheath-like skirts,
which now elasp round it like long
cuirass, reaching to the knees. The un-s
der skirt is then sewn on to the lower
edge of the elastic band. and thus there
is no fullness whatever over the hips,
or the lower part of the figure, and the
dress skirt can be as tight as you like,
without showing line or wrinkle under
its tightness. The corset by this means
NAV be quite short, the elastic band
round its edge being sufficient to draw
in the figure to the necessary culrass
dimensions. Referring to these cuirass
skirts, / am told by one Of the greatest
luminaries of the medical world that
this cuirass fashion is not only ridiculous
but it is even dangerous to the health:
and out of hundred cases that he has
examined scarcely thirty women came
safely out of the ordeal of the cuirass
sheath skirt, owing to the compression
to which the figure must be subjected TO
be able to wear it. In his ire, he calls
upon fathers, husbands, and even legisla-
tors, to forbid its wear. ''Tax this ridicu-
lous fashion" he says; tax it like you
tax alcohol, it is equally deadly" Art
ists on their side, complain of the lack
of grace and beauty In the sheath skirt.
.sThe first Empire skirt was tight" they
say, .4but it left the waist free and easy;
now all is tight. tighter, tightest, from
neck to knee"
The purpose of boiling clothes is to ex-
pafld the fabrics by steam and thus to
loosen the dirt and allow it to drop out;
there is ne good, but actual harm, de-
rived from cooking the clothes; they
do not require cooking" but cleansing,
ard when they are cleansed that is suf-
ficient, says the "Gentlewoman." Hence
within half an hour after the water first
begins to bubble they should be immedi-
ately removed and plunged into clear, I
cold water While the clothes are boiling
they may be turned with clothes stick,
but must not be punched or lifted in
such manner as to tear them. The
common custom in many households of
putting the second boilerful of clothes
into the boiling dirtied water from which
the first boilerful has been taken is Who'll
1y opposed to good laundry work. When
the cook wishes to keep the juice in the
meat that is to be cooked by boiling, she
plunges it into boiling water. When she
wishes to extract the juices and have
them in the water for soup, etc, she puts
the meat in cold water. If you wish
to get the dirt out of the clothes in
stead of driving it into the fibre, put the
clothes on in cold water, and do not al 1
low them to remain in the boiling water
soiled by them until they are dyed yell
low.
The elegante of this season wears
gloves little off the white at elaborate
social functions 1t does not seem TO
matter what the tone, although the |
creamy and bun tints are preferred to
those ivory pearl and putty colors. some-