The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-24
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fekleness. saws Dorothy Maddox in the
Philadelphia Enquirer" If the amount
expended weekly by women for race COW
ers could be rounded up 1t would be louno
thar nothing costs us more unless II
might be face creams.
women worry over their Extravaganza
They try what training will do that lne
habit may be broken. 1t is no use. me
first sight of a beautiful mesh proves TOO
much for them.
Dollars and dollars are spent on TINS
one dress item, a natural extravaganza
for if wells are to be worn they mus
be clean and they must be becoming.
Here is a shining example of devotion
to a single style. A lady stopped nefore
a lot of yelling strung about ana eyea
each piece. Then she called the clerk
and tried to describe what she wanted
After a time the right article appeared.
She looked as pleased as if she had touho
a nugget of gold.
az have searched this town over 1or
that mesh. Bought my last IN A.
naming a certain big W Nineteen
yards, please"
The clerk stared and another clerk
nearby edged up. After the shopper hao
left the two girls began
Nineteen yards. What do you thihh
of that?" ~,
..Did you ever? The stuff wears like
iron. 1 should say it would take nineteen
wears to wear nineteen yards out.
Mice people don't wear a veil until
III is filthy. That woman probably cuts
off a new veil every week"
go way, child. Hundreds of women
wear a veil until it is in tatters.'
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what kind of skins have they? have
q customer who never buys anything but
white wells. She says she wants to know
INST how much dirt she is carrying
around on her face
.cbiffons nlease. six. Two dark blues,
two blacks. a cinnamon brown and one
a little darker"
The woman who rustled up and gave the
order smelled like a bouquet of violets.
How many wells do you get through
with in a month" asked the friend with
her.
Half a dozen anyway. Chiffons. l ike
them and somebody I like very much
likes them"
s.Tha settles it, laughed the friend.
THAT settles it, echoed the vioieteo
chiffon buyer.
men, she went on, fancy certain
wells and certain colors. They hate black
net yelling, and it does make a woman
look fast. They say the white chiffon is
horrible, that the woman who wears 1t
looks like a corpse
st wear white chiffon. I don't care
what the men think. My complexion Is
of more Importance than their opinion
The idea of wearing wells to suit a lot
of men. Preposterous."
The chiffon lady laughed good-natured-
ly. and when the pair had moved on the
yirl behind the counter said to a COM
-an:-
ne who bought the wells is a chif-
She must use up yards of ma
stsaar.
prisould be such a crank. A
well,o sweet for anything under
That woman does not
me a moment after it gets
seanry aIo 4ea15aerrfts what kills a chiffon
all those-tiny lines makes the skin look as
if It was filed with assures"
"And the labs of powder that get on a
chiffon veil, They are fearful. There
goes a veil now all streaked with pow
der
The two craned their neck as a woman
went bv. Sure enough, her black chiffon
veil suggested a setto with a -four bar
rel.
Wells? It is a wonder they do not bring
US to the poorhouse.
The suburban housewife, and any one
who has access to the woods and groves,
does not have to depend upon expensive
rotted flowers for Easter decoration this
year, for MOSES and delicate opening
fern fronds and low growing woodsy beau
ties promise to be the fad for the seasons
display wherever it is possible TO obtain
them.
The best arrangement for displaying
these lowers, as well as the most nat
ural and economical, is that of using any
low. shallow dish either of glass or china,
of about the size of a soup plate. If this
is filed with clean, fresh moss from the
woods, made up in a slightly ROUNDED
form in the centre, flowers and ornamen-
tai sprays of leaves can be inserted in a
free, natural appearing manner, instead OF
having that excessively formal appear
ance they usually have when packed in
small vases or when made into bouquets.
They also keep fresh for a longer period,
owing to the much larger surface exposed
Immediately under them. The moist moss
furnishes a source of vapor which tends
to preserve the blossoms. The moss
should be well sprinkled with water at
each renewal of the flowers.
Very pleasing effects are produced by
securing small rooted plants, such as vio-
let's. which may be picked up in the woods
and meadows, and inserting them in the
damp moss, where they will continue to
grow and flower for a long time. An ar
rangement of this kind is easily kept ever
fresh by substituting a twig or fern or a
lower as the others fade and are re-
moved.
Trailing plants of suitable growth may
be usefully employed in this sort of decor
alton. The liniara cynabalaria, often
called Kenilworth ivy; the trade-scantia
discolor, one of the many Wandering
Jews" of our domestic nomenclature, and
the lysimachial nummularia, or money
wort, are some of the plants welr lifted
for use in this way.
These ~trailers are especially fine for
hanging basket culture, and the wire
hanging baskets can now be made very
messy and beautiful from the early WOOD
growths, and with an upright fern in the
centre and dropping ~trailers surrounding
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