The Jersey City news., 1899-10-24

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person aspires also to have her own par
ticular social meter, to be an authority
on whatsoever subject, hobby or occupa-
tion her volatile fancy fixes upon. II
short. the Chicago maiden who recently
complained that she couldn't make up hel
mind whether she should take up slum-
ming or golf this summer, was no crea-
ture of wild exaggeration, but real per
son with real theory of life.
In England, it is true. the specialized
girl already exists but here 1t is usually
more with view to earning livelihood
that she confines her studies to single
subject Overseas. it appears, the young
girl fixes on a hobby with one eye on the
sterner sex. 1t is with view to still
further subjugate her male compatriot
that she take UP stunning, playing the
violin. Christian science. or golf.
Nevertheless, much to her confusion,
the thing occasionally miscarries. We
have It on the authority of the poet that
the best laid schemes O. mice and men gang
aft a-gley, and so 1t is that our specialized
girl occasionally falls across the totally
wrong person for her subject" She may
have devoted herself to golf whole sum
rner. mastered the difficulties Of teelng
ana putting, learned how to swing from
the shoulder, and even to suppress her
emotions when she smites mother eaFtn
instead of the ball--but what ayails all
this if the young man Of her temporary
fancy turns out to be poet or philan-
thropist. to whom stunning rather than
golf. would have appealed
On the other hand, she may spend
winter haunting noisome city dens tend
ing the sick, and comforting the poor and
10. it is a soldier or base ball hero whom
she wishes to subjugate when the season
of dallying is at hand. These amoreus
catastrophies, it must be admitted. are
hard on the specialized girl, and it is no
wonder that she. sometimes despafringiy
asks herself if woman must always be
Intellectually and .emodonally-at the
beck, so to speak, of the tyrant man?
Bold on one side and tirnid on the other
is the way the fair one who can make
cloth garment but doesn't dare even think
of altering a fur one impresses us. To be
sure, heavy furs are not to be ta1npered
with. Sealskin is decidedly inclined to be
clumsy and unmanageable. Sable and
mink likewise have way Of looking
botchy when pieced up by the prentice
ham Martin fox and lynx are much diff
ferent; these, however, are only used for
trimmings and facing Of the smaller
pieces, such as scarfs and muffs.
In cutting out any fur one should mark
the pattern on the skin side, allowing
next to nothing for seams. and then, with
an extra person to hold the fur, cut with
a sharp knife.
1t is comparatively easy to work with
Persian or Persian broadtail. which is the
half way between stage from Persian to
broadtail. Broadtail, pure and simple.
cannot be pieced by the amateur without
showing ali shortcomings. But with the
moire like coat the fur bit longer all
is plain sailing. Once the pieces are cut
a narrow tape must be laid along and
carefully basted down to the fur-on the
skin side OF course. Then place the
seams together and sew overland. the
stitches being close together. This sew
ing is done with the pieces folded wrong
side out. through the four thicknesses,
the two edges Of fur and the two tapes.
Without the tapes the more tender skins
be on the safe side.
The altering of furs is always expen-
sive, the harvest of the fur workers be-
ing all too short. Naturally these para
graphs are not intended to drive anyone
TO making furs, but rather to show them
that a little alteration is really not an
impossible matter And so many who
have time and inclination enough to do
such a bit of work viii wear thing posi-
lively ancient as to design because they've
no idea as 10 just how to go about altera-
ton.
One Of the fads Of the present day IS
the making Of odd photograph frames.
A few years ago 1t was popular to en-
brotder or paint them then came the
monogram frame. and all the girls be-
gan 10 save monograms from their let
ters and beg their friends To help ac-
cumulate them. It was a polite little
fiction thai they ali came from the girls
private correspondence for 1t would be
impossible for most girls to find enough
of these tiny fliunlinations to cover the
frame without repeating some of them.
Now the aim Of most girls is 10 make
some new and original frame. One, who
has taken for her model the Gibson
frame, in which some of the small fig
ures from Gibson's drawings are cut out
and pasted on the mat, intends to make
q "piekaninny frame" For this purpose
she is saving all those cuts Of little dark
les that come In the comic magazines.
Another girl who had an especially jolly
time at a wienerwurst roast last summer
has passe-psrteifted the pictures of the
folk who gave the roast and around the
edge IS a frame Of wienerwursts-tha Is
they look like wienerwursts, but they are
reaIiy. pieces of bristol board cut into the
shape Of "wienies, and then painted the
proper color.
One girl has a frame made Of rope,
splfced and tied into curious knots. the
reason Of which she explains by saying -
why, he used to take me sailing and
show me how to splice rope and tie
sailors knots, 50 1 thought would give
his photograph an appropriate frame"
One Of the oldest Of these is what the
owner calls her dance autograph
frame" She has cut The signatures from
her old dance programmes and pasted
them all over the mat Of the frame. It
makes very novel ornament for her
room, but ] fear the gentlemen woulG
hardly think those autographs. written
with the short. blunt pencils Of the ball