The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-02
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lady. along with the lilies and the buds
| and the season after p~enitence.
| The more one looks at 1t, the more one
| thinks Easter is really the httest time
in the year to launch a young girl into
society.
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According TO both manufacturers and
| dressmakers a brilliant future appears in
store for silks. This is pleasant news for
what wear can be more convenient or ele-
| CANT, either as an entire robe or mingled
with some soft wooden fabric. Silk, with
I its soft, graceful folds, is moreover, ex-
! ceediRgly appropriate to the s~cuiptusal
| style of dress now in vogue.
All grades in this line seem likely to
| meet with favor, from the modest and
| unpretending taffetas for underskirts and
MORE antique for ball and dinner dresses.
Then for trimming, satins and gros grains
/, will play a prominent part. First of al, a
wild range of glace taffetas. the glace be-
ing white or a paler shade OF the main
color. Thus two shades of pink or amber,
or green blended, are among the newest.
Very small checks or pin stripe effects In
black and white, gray, blue, mauve ana
several shades of tan, in all cases with
white, will make up charmingly for mex
| pensive spring and summer costumes.
In a somewhat higher grade we have
some white faille- also mingled with black
| 0hese two colors combined will be one
| of the fashion features of the coming
season.. In this case the stripe is rather
broader, about half an inch, and crosses
the material, the black stripe being of
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a tiny figure in white br0cade, which
shows out equally well on the black of the
| satin and the dead white of the faile por-
ton.
The figures shown are of three different
/ styles, floral, oriental and geometrical, the
latter being a series of small compasses,
double crossbars and nails strewn care
lessly over the suface. The description
sounds somewhat bizarre; the effect, how
ever, is unquestionabIy good.
The same effects are carried out in
seven very light shades of pink, mauy
and cream, always with the black satin
stripe. Black shows very prominently in
combination with light colors in the new
order of ideas. frightening greatly the
effect.
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fore, the light shades in this case also
being maintained. On these again rich
designs are embossed in satin, mostly in
white, but in some cases, when flowers
are concerned, the natural colors are OBJ
served. This is seen in the case of a pale
maize ground over which are scattered
garlands of orchids of a deeper tone, with
gold brown spots on their delicate petals,
their fine brownish, hairy tendrils sup
porting the peculiar green. foliage. An
other white MORE has light branches of
pink coral of an almost flesh tint, form
ing a treIlis design over the surface, in
satin always. This series is, of course, APP
propriate to evening wear only. Some bro
1 caded in gold thread half hidden in the
weave are very rich also; silver thread,
too, carries out this idea, which is very
effective.
"a woman who is blessed with good
sense does not consider at the start that
marriage is a role to be skillfully and sue
cessfully enacted, or a grand frolic of
which she is to be the admired and in
dulged centre, or a mere incident in a life
crowded with other activities" writes
Helen Watterson Moody in he March
Ladies Home Journal She knows
that marriage is a serious and steady vo-
cation, and thai the true wife is one who
enters marriage not thinking how much
she can get out of ii, but how much she
fcan put into it. 1t is this larger concep-
ton of marriage which makes women
dwell by their own firesides in sweet con-
tent with what is commonly called the
marrow limits of home knowing well
thai no true hons is narrow since it
must give cover to the whole primal
mysteries of life-food, raiment and work
to earn them withal: love and marriage,
birth and death, right-doing and wrong
doing-all these commonplace of human
ity which are most divine because they
are most commonplace The way to make
home a wide place to dwell in is to bring
a wide personality to dwell in it. Any
home is just as wide as the maker, and
can be no wider. When a woman under
stands this she is able to keep her head
steady and her heart undisturbed over
newspaper. sketches about other women
in which each one of them is made to do
the most remarkable and unnecessary
things"
A little millinery information will be in
order. The rage for feather applications,
and the use of the entire bird has been
carried over into the spring models, and
the effect is extremely chic. Insects will
be extensively in favor, as their manu-
facture by the best houses has been very
great. Butterflies, ~dragon-fiies, etc, made
of molines, edged with jet, chenille, and
velvet ribbon, will be used by those who
wish to be exclusive. With these will be
combined ~diaphanous nets and 1aces, also
broad silks.
One lovely toque has a small crinkled
crown of black straw hat looked as if
1t had been beaded with dull jet. The
brim precisely resembling the brim OF
the velvet Winter toque, was of velvet
s~ilk-eovered with black molines net, and
draped in the well known toque manner
1t was a Winter toque reproduced in
straw, silk and net.
At a recent wedding. says a reporter for
the Philadelphia Times 1 saw a har-
binger of a spring fashion in a scarlet
jacket worn by a young girl with blond
hair. These jackets are now the rage in
London, but are slow in coming over the
water because of our preference for dark
colors. They are made shot and half-ft-