The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-09
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sieve to- form a feathery yellow powder
Chopped beets afford a fine deep red,
chopped olives a beautiful green. chopped
carrots a nice orange, trudies fhiniy
sliced or stamped out with tiny cutters
into cr~escents. stars. diamonds. or dice, q
good black: lobster coral washed. dried
and rubbed through a fine sieve a beauti-
full pink. and parsley a brilliant green.
.Croquettes of rice made in tiny mounds,
neatly rounded, decorate a dish beauti-
fully, and croutons of bread are very
effective. These are little crnsts known
In good old days as sippets. The bread is
first toasted and then cut into c~rescents,
stars, ~lozenges. dice, circles, squares OF
triangles, and fried in boiling butter.
Parsley tied in tiny punches and fried
in butter makes a novel decoration. When
using it as an ornament be sure after
chopping it to put it in the corner of a
cloth. screw it up and hold it under the
cold water tap, then squeeze it as dry
as possible.
On shaking 1t out of the cloth you
will find it a light green powder. Should
] you omit to do this, chopped parsley re-
mains clogged together and will fall in
heavy Jumps.
IT dread summer" said the middle
aged woman plaintively. because I'm
SO d%readfully uncomfortable all during
the hot months. / have to go away
somewhere, of course, everyone does, and
as | can't afford to spend the entire sea-
son at an expensive hotel at a summer
resort, l usually go to a country place
that from it's advertisement is In a land
flowing with milk and honey. I used to
start out with the most delightful anti
cipations of returning rejuvenated and
plump, but now my only a~nticipations
are of unexpected deprivations. Last
summer there wasn't a drop of cream to
be found within miles of where l was
staying. Cream, mind you, which /
thought was a staple article of food with
all farmers. The milk was as blue as
Queen Victoria's blood. Eggs were very
scarce, too, and they didn't seem to me
as fresh as those we get in the city.
Altogether, it was very disappointing.
Il am going to make cream one of
my requirements this year, and / shall
refuse to board in any locality SO bar
rem that even the milk is poor 1 in
tend to see hat there is a filed icehouse
on the place before l engage rooms, too.
and some young chickens, and find out
whether they own an ice cream freezer
or not.
Eyes, it certainly is very uncomfortable
to leave ones own bath and large. airy
rooms in summer but, of course, I
does"
Sewing is supposed to come by nature
- I'LL - ESQ.,. - - 90 - =.
is placed in their arms. But there are
many ways of sewing and only one right
a The average child will scramble
dolls clothes together; not so much from
an inclination to be careless and untidy
as from a wish to hurry and see how the
things look, and, too frequently, because
no one thinks it worth while to teach
her how to do better.
When the little girl begins to sew it is
only a matter of a few minutes to show
her how to hold her needle, her work and
her thimble. 1t will not take much more
time to cut some patterns for her and give
a little instruction in the proper making
of the dolls clothes, the evenness of the
stitches and the ~neatness of the work.
The time comes, of course when the
dolls clothes are put aside, but if a love
OF sewing has been created, there has
generally come will it a desire to con-
struct for herself, and the young lady
may be anxious to try her hand on her
own clothing.
The lower half of the clinging skirts of
some very pretty gowns of white ~organdie
are trimmed with narrow ruffles of mus,
lin, lace edged or accordion pleated, each
frill alternating with five rows of tucking
a third of an inch in width. This decor
alton reaches to the knees, and the plain
skirt above is covered with an apron
overskirt simply hemstftched and made
very long at the back. Some of the
bodies en- suite with this skirt are wholly
plain, and with it is worn a much ruffled
Marie Antoinette fichu with sash ends
that tie at the back. Other waists are
laid in fat-stitched plaits at the back.
and the fronts are entirely covered with
horizontal rows of alternate tucks and
lace-edged frills.
There is a mistaken idea of culture
prevalent, says the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. Culture does not mean merely COM
hitting to memory a great number of
facts out of text books, but 1t does mean
a careful and thoughtful assimilation of
every bit of knowledge that comes our
way for the purpose of making ourselves
more Intelligent, more noble, more help
full human beings, and where can be
found a better school for the develop
ments of these attributes than in a wisely
and properly conducted home?
II you plan to spend July at the sea-
coast, tell your milliner to substitute
Brussels net for malines or silk tulle on
your walking hat. The tulle collapses at
the first breath of damp sea wind, but
the Brussels net will stand up to its work
with a will. OF course, the morning beach
hat is of split sennet trimmed with veil
vet ribbon and quilts, but the becoming
constructions of satin straw trimmed with
flowers, ribbon and net are required for
the afternoon and often are worn Alto
gether. Therefore, use Brussels net.
Wells do more to. ruin the complexion
than any other thing, says the Ladies'
Home Journal" The skin needs the fric-
ton of the air. Constant covering inter-
feres with the circulation of the healthy
action Of the pores. It heats the face,
and keeps it covered with an oily mois-
ture which catches the dust and dirt and