The Jersey City news., 1899-09-18

with an orderly sewing room will do
twice as much work as one whose tools
are scattered over the area of three or
four closets.
That chic finishing touch which nearly
every woman finds so irresistible, the boa
is with us again in inearnations never so
much as dreamed of. Time was when a
boa was a boa, a mere strip of fur Or
| feathers, considered only as necessity
| when chill winds were altogether too inn
/ pudent Now it's a work Of art, a back
! ground. a frame, an exquisite creation,
/ that shows its good taste by not stray
( ing far from the pretty face of its owner
Not only this, it has luscious, long ends
| that allow the winds to toy with Their
/ graceful, coquettish lengths in way to
make the poor beau-catchers of yore fold
their simple lengths of ribbon and steal
away into oblivion.
The conservative woman may think OF
nothing but an ostrich feather boa She
can have 1t. The proper length is yard
and a quarter, and the color limit is not
announced. Indeed, if it should happen
/, that shade was needed that could not
be had. one could wait to have the
feathers dyed. One in violet is love,
and costs $12. White ones are exquisite
for occasions, and the blacks are stand-
bys, of course.
It must be admitted, though that the
cog feather has been most employed. The
noveltysin those beautiful black ones with
metallic glintings is the curl. 1t isn't
much of a curl, to be sure. but It's
crinkle, after all. Such one costs SIS,
while one in VI Lite and uncurled is marked
50. These light-colored ones are very
dainty wear for evening, but, of course,
the first mentioned is the standby. While,
rich and handsome, it is not too dressy
for even morning wear.
But Mr.. Cog hasn't had it all his own
way. Indeed. one Of the great ideas has
been the utilizing of the feathers of Mrs
Chiekadee. Not high-5rad beauty at
that. No; just the old specSied hen. But
what an effect! Over the expanse of
white marahout these specklad gray and
white or brown and white feathers are
seemingly cast. The white tails at the
ends have speclSled extremities. And they
cost 80. Shaded brown. short wing seath-
srs ara also stuck to brown marabout with
lyFe1y effect.
These are exquisite, m all white they
are fairy-iilSe. But this season they come
dyed every color. One even initiates red
fox. Many are in castor, and in most
cases have the tails tipped with con-
trasting tint. To most faces marabout is
exquisitely becoming.
1t would take a column TO do half JUS
lice 20 the daia.y ones in moussaMne A
white one IS mixed with snarten tails.
One in white gauze has black threads
along the edges holding jet beads.
Hune,res of violet velvet baby ribbon
adorn It. Chenille, too, enters largely into
these CONNECTIONS.
Inasmuch as this is what one may call
the closed season in handshakes here in
Washington, perhaps you haven't hap
pened to see the very latest thing in that
ine says the Washington POST" So far
it has manifested itself In only a few
sporadic cases hereabo1ts, and think
those few have all been due to a man who
was at Newport week before last and !
came back familiar with all the newest
manners of really fashionable society
The high-in-air handshake. as of course
you know. went out long ago. 1 am told
that theatrical companies played it in
ohe-night stands out in Iowa last season.
and YOU know what that signifies Last
winter psople shook hands in the nearly
normal way, or in the from-l -left-to-right-
pass-them- along political fashion.
This season, so the man who has been
to Newport tells me, the proper way of
performing the ceremony of greeting is
somewhat like this: The challenging
party, that is to say. the person who Of
fers the salute. holds out the hand at
about the level of the waist, palm down
The party of the second part grasps it,
lifts 1t high in the air, bending over 1t as
if he were about to kiss it, and lets it
go. There is no side movement, there is
no hint Of a shake, and the operation is
performed as quickly as possible 1t is
simply a jerk upward, and the hand is re-
leased high in the air to get down as best
it can. OF course it fsp't graceful. but it
is the way they do it at Newport and if
you want to be really correct you'll be-
gin to practice on IT this very afternoon
OF tomorrow at the latest.
A new tablets being shown in the swell
furniture stores which could easily be
duplicated in less expensive materials
and placed in more than one room in the
house. We all know how photographs ac-
cumulate and how hard it is to keep
them from dust and also from fading.
This table is designed especially for pho
tographs and will fill a long felt want It
is about as large as the old fashioned
work table and. like it, has a top which
opens, disclosing a box inside which is
divided into compartments of different
sizes for the reception of photographs.
The top is of pleated satin bfocade, so
arranged that pictures can be poked in
here and there. and when opened the top
forms quite an ornamental background
for the faces of our friends.
The imported model is very beautifully
and expensively upholstered in heavy
Pompadour brocade of an ecru Color
powdered with smaH flowers. In copying
this pretty invention for the preservation
of photographs cheaper wood can be
used. and the covering may be of some
inexpensive silk, cretonne or plush.
From Paris comes the news that the
new walk there does not entail a swing
ing of the hips and long, Looping steps, like
those affected by the girls who follow in
Mrs Carter's erratie footsteps. says the
philadelphia Times The new Partisan
walk is designed ito display to the utmost
the beauty of the clinging tunic and
fower-like skirt The gait is easy to
frnftafe hrtt rnuef easier tn exa geerate.