The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-14
crossed as are the bands in golf capes,
and covered with shirred white satin.

| crossed as are the bands in golf capes,
| and covered with shirred white satin.
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1t frequently happens that a simply
| furnished, u-npretentious drawing ROOM,
| where good taste and individuality of
ideas are combined, will turn out quite as
| successful in effect as one fitted in more
| elaborate and costly style. There is a
| certain air Of homeliness about such a
room which appeals strongly to the ma
| jority, who, as a rule, prefer simple COM
| fort to e~xtravagent luxury.
In the drawing room to be described the
| walls are hung with a we'll designed
I small pattern paper, in monochrome. The
! frieze. a twenty-one inch, is plain, and the
woodwork is painted to tone.
On the floor there is an Oriental carpet
in subdued eolors, with a surrounding Of
. string mating, which is made of string
itself, and, while very inexpensive, makes
/ a stylish and uncommon border.
Near the fireplace stands a well cusli-
| Toned settee. covered in a soft-toned tap
| estry. The chairs are all most tempting,
for no straight back little chairs have
found place here. The chairs all differ in
their degrees of comfort. from the gran
ME-" with high back and deep seat, to the
| small work chair, with lace seat and cuSn-
| Toned back. But the one piece of furni-
| ture de luxe in the room is the combined
bureau and bookcase, a most sensible ar
rangement, for here quite as many books
\ as usually find a place in a drawing room
| can be accommodated, and instead of the
| small, useless writing table too often
adopted, there is a decent sized. desk
which can be closed with all the papers
and writing materials inside, hidden from
| view, and underneath four good-sized
! drawers, for which there will arise many
uses.
The room is by no means crowded with
furniture, for, in addition to has al
| ready been mentioned, there are two ta-
bles-one with folding leaves and the other
| a small ~octogan-a revolving bookstand,
and, of course. the inevitable piano. The
| piano is not treated in the usual fashion
! by being draped with material at the
| back; it forms instead a background for
| some pretty photographs which are
framed in a handsome oak frame stained
| green and made to entirely cover the
whole of the buck, an arrangement which
| is both ornamental and durable. There is
| no other feature of the room to be menN
| toned except the window, and this, be-
| ing a small easement, has the short cur
! tains, with a heavier pair of diagonal
| cloth lined with silk, at the sides to draw
| across when the room is lighted UP in
the evening.
There was a time when woman bought
her corsets by numbers. This one wore
| No. IS, that one No. 20, no one at all No.
rs, if her own evidence was to believed.
The corsets purchased by this system
were not always satisfactory. They were
too large in some places, too long in
| others, too small or too short as figures
\ varied. This did not seem to particularly
| affect the buyers, who laid all the fault
at the door of their W forms and wore
| the corsets just the same, trusting to
| luck and the dressmaker that any de-
| f~ciencies might be concealed.
This is all changed now, for the era Of
progressiveness is with us and the wo-
man who values her personal appearance
has her own corset maker, just as she
| has her own dentist, doctor and modiste.
| She need not necessarily Ia her stays
made to order, for hat is an expensive
process that women of limited income
cannot afford, but she does have them
fitted just as she does the bodice of her
| gown. Sometimes she tries on ten pairs
before she finds one, that, with a few
| alterations, made by the skillful litter,
| will save her lines from falling into 1leshy
| curves, or if she be slight, will keep her
from angularity, for all of this the mod
/, ern woman firmly believes the staymakar
can do. That he does accomplish a great
deal in this direction is shown by the nd