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

(t4tC p0J tAdt ~ i Spun.
I have never seen It served without
some preparation of the kind.
However, if it is to be eaten dry. as
the question seems to suggest it should
come to table upon a mall platter with
a pretty garnishing of green, and be help
\ ed with a spoon or litter. A fork mus
be used in eating it.
The arrangement of the bread and
butter plates is much a matter of choice
In a formal dinner the roll is usually
\ found folded in the napkin when the
diners arrive. At a family dinner the
bread is more often passed. Again, the
little balls of butter may be already
upon the plate at the beginning of din
ner, or they may be passed by the maid.
If the pats are small. as they should
be, two is a good number for each plate.
When the butter balls are passed by
the maid there is a special little instru-
ment which comes for helping oneself
to them. It is neither a fork nor a
spoon, but a wee spear with which the
pats are dainty harpooned.
Women who and run their farms,
without any male assistance. constitute
thirty per cent. of the farming population
Of Kansas and Oklahoma, says Frank
LesIie's Popular Monthly Women and
girls who are now engaged in teamwork
in Kansas constitute fifty per cent. Of the
farming population. This large percentage
is partly caused by the absence of the
Twentieth Kansas Volunteers in the
Philippines, all excepting a very few of
whom are farmers, and who. upon going
to war. left their teamwork in the hands
of their wives. sisters and sweethearts.
To say that these women have failed to
do their duty in cultivating the crops,
would meet with as much merited con-
tradiction as to charge the Twentieth
Kansas with having been afraid to charge
the enemy.
In fact, Kansas VIII produce larger
crops this year than any preceding season
in the States history. The wheat crop
will be a little short, but that was caused
by a very cold winter. Of every other
cereal and farm product there will be a
superabundance. To the Kansas woman,
with her usual daring grit n obstinate
resolve, is due these excellent crops. The
labor they nave performed merits all the
honor and wealth these crops bring forth.
During times Of peace thirty per cent. of
the farmers in Kansas are women, while
Oklahoma comes forward with about the
same percentage. AT present the kla
homa women are Slightly behind their
Kansas sisters in numbers, but not in the
amount of work. Oklahoma women, al
though they have not been as long en-
gagged on farms, are more active and can
do more work and get better results. That
their crops yield a larger acreage is due,
somewhat, to the fertile soil, which is also
new and more productive than Kansas
land. But Between the women of the
State and Territory there is no jealousy.
Each go about their own work, bent upon |
making a large crop with the same earn
est zeal as the most steadfast German
farmer. The umber of women who work
on farms in Kansas will reach over 5000,
while the entire number Of farmers in the
aggregates 1900, exclusive of
families. In Oklahoma the population is
smaller, out the percentage is about
equal.
The opal is no longer considered of evil
omen by those who are the best informed.
1t has become popular to believe that in
stead of i'll luck the opal carries with it
the best of luck and happiness in its
highest form. Indeed, it is now consid-
cred the token of mutual love, burning
brightly in an the colors of the rainbow.
1t is the gift of lover to sweetheart, the
of an eternal devotion, and of so
devoted a character as to show itself in
constant and fiery flashes of beautiful
To emphasize this romantic idea the
opal is now cut in the form of a heart.
and the sentiment of a heart on fire with
love is one which appeals to all lovers.
This heart, when small enough, is set in
a ring, but Australian opals have recently T
been imported of sufficient size to permit
of their being used In a simple gold frame
as a pendant for the lorgnette chain.
*
In hanging the colored silk or cotton
curtains, a better result is got with small
plaits than with the old-fashioned box
plaits. A cluster of five small side plaits
is sewed together, where the plait is
formed, so that they stand out the depth
of the plaits. Along the sides the fringe
Is then sewed close to the edge or across
the bottom. The edge of the fringe should
just above the edge of the curtain.
The loops TO hold back the curtains are
usually of the cable cord, about half an
in diameter. When it is preferred
to use rings with white sash curtains
may be made with th~ree-fourths of
an inch heading. below which is a shir-
ring to slip the brass through. To hang
the curtains across in French style they
must first be Tapped to cross as far as is
desired, and then a cotton tape is sewed
on, through which the rod is passed. This
of draping calls for a curtain
fully two yards long. in order to allow
the droop where 1t Is topped back.
Beatrix first mentions casually what
consider the most novel fashion of the
hour. but, oh, so expensive TO carry out,
says the Ladies Home Journal She
says. IAN the best dressed women here
wear them now" She was talking Of sets
Of buttons to be worn on gloves. They
come, It seems. in sets of three and four
or more, and are made of real stones,
turquoises, pearls, emeralds. ruhies, gar
nets, etc, set in gold, and may be sewed
on any pair OF gloves one wishes. They
a loop at the back just like an ordi-
nary button. The common pearl button
taken off and the jeweled one put in It's
place.