The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-10
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WOMAN'SS WORLD.

How d~eliciously comfortable, these bit
ter cold nights, must be the head that
bonnetless, hatless. hoodless. searfless,
goes along our fashionable t~horoughfares,
says Dorothy Maddox in the PIladel-
phia Inquirer" =
There is, perhaps, a solitary black bird
or a trio of humming birds broodtng over
fair locks, again a golden winged butter
fly hovers over tresses of a rare chestnut
brown and a head silvery white majesti-
cally carries a tuft of rich old point.
And the winters blasts gaily whistle
about the birds and the butterfly and the
lace and it's seems at times as if old Bo-
reas was shrieking with merriment over
the Inconsistencies of my sex.
The dear coddled ones who are kept like
hot-house blooms-what are they thinking
about? Fear, they evidently have none,
of getting that kind of a cold that will
water their beautiful eyes until they are
as bleary as an old toper's and mottle
their skins until they look like a frosted
pippin.
We, in the great city's whirl, have
ceased to cast a second glance after the
uncovered head. We see it emerging from
a wealth of fur and velvet and satin, for
the evening cloak this season is a thing of
beauty. Its collar stands high, but not
high enough to care for the head that is
fraternizing so chumily with Jack Frost.
Where is the God whose praises are
being SUM- near and far? | am constantly
coming across such suggestions as these:
There are hoods for the theatres, for
the opera, little affairs called hoods for
dinners, for balls, for concerts. The beauty
and b-econingness of the articles depend
largely upon native ingenuity and the real
understanding a woman has of her style.
Every girl in fashions charmed circle
tries to have more pretty and becoming
hoods than her rival!'
The women who ride in a coach and
four may have hoods. If so, they leave
them in the coach. In all this seasons
grand opera l nave seen, let me see, may
be, a half dozen hoods all told, and these
did belong to women who came in their
carriages. The women who walked or
rode in trolleys went complacently home
bare-headed or with their heads tied up
in rusty black rags called by their owners
"scarfs,"
I am nonplussed by the tying-up craze
heads this winter. I am constantly meet
ing with women gotten up regardless in
every way save about their heads. They
come into the trolleys, into Our SWEETEST
cafes; they are seen, in fact, where fash
ion congregates-looking too hideous for
words with a gypsy-like arrangement
holding down their pompadours, their
curls and their Grips.
1 often find myself wondering where
SO many queer-looking tie-downs are
found. Have they been rumaged from
trunks of by-gone finery or at the last
moment is any old thing snatched up and
twisted about these elegantly coiffured
heads?
And the way they are ted Such
sights Some of the women look as if
they were half dead with toothache. This
happens when ene4 sister, more careless
than the rest, draws her scarf well over
her cheek bones. There are women who
look as if they had humps and there is
one style of tie-down, a dotted veil. 1t
does up the pompadour roll in a bandage
as if the poor puff had met with a seri-
Gus fracture.
Vanity for once seems to lie dormant in
sweet woman's breast. 1t is so utterly
unlike her not to make the most of her
opportunities. She has certainly been
given a glorious one his season. That
she has failed to appreciate it shows she
is not to be depended upon to do anything
expected of her.
One of the prettiest cloaks for a ma
tron is of black satin. Light silks have
their day, but for good, all round wear,
a black satin wefl trimmed is a most
serviceable and artistic affair.
A women came into a musicale the
other afternoon with a charming one en-.
1t made her look like a duchess with
her height and white hair.
1t was of the heavy quality Of satin,
lined with black China silk. There was
some interlining about the shoulders.
The long loke was of velvet. trimmed
with lengthwise bands of black guipure
lace. The yoke came over a long
shoulder line and was finished with a
bertha of velvet.
On this the satin was laid in fin gath
ers, hanging shorter in front and grow
ing longer in the back. At the hem was
a band of velvet overlaid with the lace.
A high storm collar was lined with
pleated Brussels net. At the joining of
the bertha, over the bust, was a huge
positively heroic-bow and scarf of the
net; the ends had little ~ruchings on them
and fell to the hem.
Imagine thai cloak lightened up! Lined
with white satin, cream guipure and
white and black net together! Wouldn't
it be charming!
AS every woman needs some kin of a
wrap for winter evenings (for eve
those who live simply in a social way
go to the theatre and to call on friends
here is an excellent model made for a
young woman who makes no ~pretentions
to keep up with society affairs, as she
is a very busy wage-earner, but needs
must have the right clothes for even her
social life.
The wrap is of light tan cashmere. 1t
is lined with white satin, which she got
at a bargain. There are two deep col
lars, slightly stiffened, the lower one
falling below the waist. On the edge of
each is a broad band of rose-colored
velvet, edged top and bottom with a
narrow band of yellow lace.
The high storm collar is of rose-col-
ored velvet, ined with white fur, the
whole tied around with a wide scarf of
rose velvet, having a huge 0 in the