The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-13
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

When necessity became the mother of
invention it taught women to utilize her
fertile brain in devising schemes for
~self-support and more often the support
of a dependent family. Every day some
woman tries some new avenue for accu-
mulating a bank account, or, at least, a
little extra pin money.
A French woman, h has a most
artistic little home, found herself with
more time on her hands than she knew
what to do with. All of her friends adj
mired the artistic arrangement of her
home. ard one day one of them asked
if she would object to going over - the
friends home and rearranging the furni-
ture, for everything locke so stiff, al
though she had plenty of pretty things.
Such a success was made by the young
rench woman that she concluded it
would not be a bad idea to see what she
could do for strangers in this way and
make a little extra money. She advertis-
ed to do busting and artistic arrange
nsent .eby the hour" She had several
and her customers were SO
pleased that they recommended her to
their friends, until bw she has all she
can do.
does mending, reading, writing and
shopping by the hour for an invalid. and
fnds herself most congenially employ
ed. Persons who do not care to employ
a companion constantly find this a
pleasant plan. This young woman finds
she can serve three or four customers
every day and still ave her evenings
at her disposal. She is free to come
and go and the change of employers she
finds most interesting.
Another young woman, thoroughly in
structed in the art of china painting.
inding that it has grown old-fashioned,
discovered a new way in which to ap-
ply her art. She makes a business of
replacing broken pieces in fine sets of
china. All she needs is one of the other
pieces, and she can match It so that no
one can tell the difference between the
fine imported china and the hand
painted copy unless his attention is es-
pecially called to it.
Still another young woman has found
a way to fill the slender purse without
leaving her own home. She was left an
orphan. but with a houseful of furni-
ture. She managed to fill up the bed
rooms with s'roomers," but still she
IOuHu. the rent IL DuIuen.
She had three large parlors running the
full extent of the house, with archways
and folding doors, SO that the first
floor could be thrown together. These
were handsomely furnished, but she
never entertained, and she conceived the
idea of allowing other people to entertain
in her parlors.
Her friends were told of her plan and
they were only too glad to avail them
selves of the opportunity. She now has
to figure pretty closely to arrange for
all the card parties. club meetings. dam
cling classes and afternoon teas which
demand the use of her pretty rooms
She has a small dais in the back par
lor for the use of a lecturer or for
amateur theatricals. while the orchestra
for dances is stationed in the large hall
This young woman soon found that
everybody demanded refreshment of
some kind, and SO she added catering to
her other business, and now serves any,
thing from tea and waters to a full
course dinner. Persons who live in small
apartments, poorly arranged houses or
hotels find this a most convenient ar
rangement, and they escape all the
trouble of getting ready for company
ard the d:sagreeable task of cleaning
up" afterward.
One of the latest innovations consists
in the use of flower petals for covering
shapes of different kinds, but principal
ly small fancy hats, boleros and toques,
says III Millinery Trade Review"
When large petals are used-such as
those of the pansy, rose or poppy-the eff
feet is much that of a fiewer-covered
hat, but with this difference that a re-
markable novelty may be given to the
border by fastening petals of a large
size to the under side of the brim and al
lowing them to curl upward over its
edge.
Carried out in pansy petals, prettily
marked. this is charming.
Shapes covered with small petals, as
those of the violet, hyacinth of aster. MAJ
easily be mistaken at a short distance
for fancy straws, or even for shapes
covered with plumage, If the petals be
arranged regularly all bending over one
way.
Thus a bolero of grayish blue hyacinth
petals, with a low crown and turban brim,
looks wonderfully like one in plunage. 1t
is trimmed with torsade of purple tule
filling in the interval between the crown
and brim, finished in a twisted knot on
one side.
Some of the shapes covered with petals
assume the most fantastic forms, combin-
ing the decoration with the shape; as, for
instance. one in which a pair of OUT
stretched wings are formed out of the
same materials as the hat; for the rest Of
bolero shape, in wired net entirely COW
cred with violet petals. These wings rise
symmetrical1y on either side of the bTdm's
edge.
Behind them a large bunch of mounted
yiolets, fntermixed with small sprays OF
foliage, may be placed, or a couple of
pale pink roses and some rose leaves
with buds.
Very pretty hats are covered with pale
pink or yellow primrose petals, and these
NAV be trimmed with the same flowers,
mounted as il growing, with their leaves
and buds. Decorations of the wing, palm
and palette order are also made of petals
of all sorts for trimming straw hats, or
hats made of gossamer.
Fashion is following the example OF
history this season and repeating itself
Hand-painted silks and satins for even
ing dress wear have suddenly become
so much the rage in Paris that the mo-
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