The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-21

ana HexlDle, out there Is NO Gnu VI Aui
to be had while the work is doing. and the
pleasure of eating is not one to be ig-
nored.
ginger snaps rolled out to a fine paste
and cut into perfectly rounded shapes.
The puffy c~rullers, thrown into boiling fat,
and drawn out at the precise moment
when they are crisp and brown. sprinkled
with sugar. and served to a hungry house
hold, are a dainty not to be despised.
Another homely dainty worth making is
a sandwich of very thin brown bread with
cream, and finished with a lettuce-leaf.
The bread should be very thin, the leaf
should be crisp, and there should be a
Isdelicate soupcon of mustard to add pi-
auaney to the flavor.
The season for fashionable balls is now
at its height in gay Paris, and nowhere
in the world are so many graceful figures
introduced in the cotillons. Many de-
kghtful Innovations have been introduced
along this line. The palette figure has
had some new variations, and in the
homes of the w%ealthiest exquisite minia-
lture palettes, with snow scenes and
landscapes of every description are dis
tTlpultu, lIUIu q very idt6C sitfSi pNiSeeS'
! which is brought in by little pages dress
ed In artistic manner. They are arranged
! in pairs, and the ladies and gentlemen
| thus find their partners.
! When some of the cotillon favors are
opened Spanish students headdresses,
fancy coiffures that are caricatures of
! Dreyfus, imitation army decorations and
similar designs fall in profusion. At some
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everyone has received his favor, the room
presents the appearance of a fancy dress
ball. One person is wearing the cap of
the Car. another is Napoleon lie Pro-
chain, General MERCER. Turkish ladies
OF the harem, the Chinese Empress Dow
| ager and persons of all nationalties.
When the cotillon was danced recently
at the Duchesse D'Uzes. the favors
! were very artistic fans, but a huge dum-
my had been introduced at a consider
able expense in the form of a large
| ostrich, which by means of machinery
distributed the favors.
At a debutante ball at Nine. Chemi-
/ nee's a few evenings ago a fancifully
attired gypsy maiden was introduced into
the room with her double in the form OF
a dummy. When she had made her de-
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danced off with her partner for the even
! ing, while the rejected gentleman had to
! talk to the wall-fower of a dummy. Blu
a very ingenious Partisan woman car
ried the eotillon fad to such a degree at
a recent ball that she had had machin-
cry contrived behind the elegant tapes
! tries of her ballroom and invisible hands
| dispensed the silver and gilded favors
; n,l v,apx, bopdcopo novelties tn the cIr-
prised persons who were so fortunate as
| to be her guests.
There are many new and delightful in
! corporations of floral dresses. Snow
drops in a short green and white striped
silk skirt, which, like the plain green bod
ice and paniers and elbow sleeves, are all
bordered with the flowers; powdered hair
| and a green cooked hat. A milkmaid,
with a white satin skirt, having alternate
perpendicular stripes of primroses and
; violets, represents these blooms; a lettuce
green bodice and panier tunic; a dark
green kerchief, with violets in front, forms
the mob cap. A white satin skirt, with
rows of dog roses decking the bodice and
paniers; powdered hair, surmounted by a
straw ro-se-trimmed hat, depicts dog roses.
: i1SdItoCdSS lids d yNfCW Shh ohohe
bordered with the flowers, green stock
F.: ings. violet shoes with a pansy on each;
the princess tunic velvet, square bodice,
! yellow sleeves edged with the blossoms, a
! large one on the top of the powdered hair.
Chrysanthemum has a black cooked hat
over powder, a white skirt, red and white
| striped velvet bodice and tunic, and a boa
with long ends formed of the blooms in
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skirt and some on the sleeves. These
| speak we'll for our artistic culture.
Early in the winter the hat that
; turned up in front justly received it's
due of favoritism and %fattery. Its sue
! cessor in the spring will be an airy thing
| of silk muslin or tulle set on the side
of the head, and with a wide spangled
brim turned up on all sides equally. AL
ready we see some lucky women, who
have their ~headgear all hot from Paris.
wearing these delicate glittering
but meantime a great many sensible souls
| content themselves with pretty tulle
trifes they can really fashion with their
| own hands. These are very popular for
theatre wear and are made first of a ring
of hat wire about the circumference of a
saucer. Wound tightly around this is
| black satin or white satin ribbon, and
then loosely goes a winding of tulle. The
| tulle ring just encircles the top of the
/ head and at some point in its circum-
ference, usually just in front, a tuft of
| silver wheat, with two loops of tulle, is
! fastened. This simple ornament passes
for a bonnet and is a becoming coronet
and a snowy one on any head.
Simla. the summer capital of the Indian
Empire. is a pretty pine-treed place we'll
IN in the foothills of the Himalayas.
| saws the ssWoman's Home Companion" A
| feature of Simla life is the annual fair
held by the native hills people, an attrac-
tive item of which is a Bank of Brides
in an amphitheatre, where sit numbers
| Of young women who thus calmly an
| nounce that they are candidates for
hymeneal honors. Some of these as
! pirants to matrimony so patiently await
ing a choosing are quite pretty, and have
intelligent faces; but those of Mongol
| caste must needs linger longer for a part
ner, If personal beauty enters into the
question.
One of the latest fads is to serve con-
undrums with the salad at an informal
| dinner party. Each guest draws a con-
\ ,,,d~,n frox, n tho 1affr1oo 1aa uoS