The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-05
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WOMAN'S WORLD.


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Easter weddings are the prettiest we'd
dings in the year, and they do say there's
no bride so lucky as an Easter bride.
The preparations for a wedding in the
family fail, as a rule. on the mother. The,
first duty after the trousseau has been
completed lis the making out of a list of
friends on both sides of the house.
No matter whether people live In San
Francisco, Yokohama or st. Petersburg,
if>you know them n count them as
your friends, you must not neglect to send
them a card of invitation to the church.o or
house. as simply IN announcement, as the
case may be.
1t Is the custom for the brides family
to pay all expenses for cards. The open
ing of the church, fee to clergyman, mus
ic, bouquets to bride and bridesmaids.
boutonnieres and, very often. gloves ana
souvenir scarfpins or c~uffbuttons to ush-
ers and best man, besides fee to sexton
and carriages for entire bridal party. are
all paid for by the bridegroom. Awning
at the house. collation., man to open car
rage doors. policeman's fee to keep the
sidewalk clear in front of the house, mus
ic at the house. or any other Incidental
expense there, are all paid for by the
bride's family.
This spring the old way OF arranging d
bridal procession is revived.
First come bridesmaids and grooms-
men, then the bride, with her father.
The present fashion of having the bride
groom and best man standing at the altar
has its disadvantages.
They sometimes AVE to 'cool their
heels many a long moment before the
bride appears. Electric bells and signals
of all kinds have 50 far failed to prevent
these delays.
Another old custom has entirely gone
out- that of the bride going up the aisle
with her veil over her face and having II
thrown back to walk down with.
The inconvenience of arranging and ad-
iusting the veil properly at the trying mo-
ment was probably the cause. For some
wears brides wore a short piece or tune
over the face, still striving to keep to the
old-fashioned idea. The veil was pulled on
by one of her bridesmaids and crumpled
in her hand before the newly married one
turned to face the world.
Now even the bit of tulle has disappear
ed, and the veil. be it either of lace, net
or tulle, is fastened with jewels or an
aigrette of flowers or feathers, to stand
high at the back of the head.
Etiquette at n church wedding Wills 1t
thai the bridesmaids and ushers should
give the bride and bridegroom a few sec
onds .leeway'' to drive to the house
They quickly follow and are found
ready ranged on the left side or on both
sides of the young married couple, VINO
then stand in the center at the back or
the room 70 receive congratulations
The ushers act as ushers also at the
house. taking the guests up as they come
in The room.
After all are assembled the bride makes
the move ana followed by her husband
and bridal party goes 10 the dinning-room
or wherever The collation. Is served; cuts
her cake if there is one; takes a bite OF
lunch. throws her bouquet ID her bride
maids and slips away to change her gown.
Her mother. sisters and most intimate
friends generally go with her The
bridegroom goes TO the room assigned to
him.
Then the young people try to slip off but
never can. The guests below are assem-
bled at the foot of the stairs and line the
Railways. SO amid flowers of rice, old slip
pers and flowers they start on lfe's
journey.
Turbans and walking hats are most at
t~ractiye this season, says Harper's "Ba-
zar." The turbans are quite small with the
trimming IN a big clump directly in front
this almost always of flowers Black
straw turbans have flowers of any color,
while in the different colored straws the
flowers are supposed to somewhat match
the straw. A violet straw will be trimmed
with v~iolets, the green straws with gar
denias and a great many green leaves,
and so on, while on the brown there are
always yellow flowers, buttercups are
used on many of these turbans, and can
very easily be arranged in the clump trim
ming
The English walking hat is often a
dainty little hat of plain straw with some
trimming at the back, looking quite in
keeping with the tailor gowns, but it is
also made up in tulle and jet, and is then
trimmed with feathers. flowers and bows
of ribbon velvet or tulle. but it is rather
too heavy in appearance to be very smart.
1t is a shape that is generally becoming,
especiary with the present style of hair
dressing. By-the-way, it is evident from
the new hats that the hair will probably
be worn low again, for the hats them
selves do not fit well to the heads. If
they do not, they look rather dowdy, and,
therefore. it is usually necessary to put
in a little velvet bard to raise them sui
fciently from the head.
The tulle hats of this season are shown
In the English walking shape as well as In
the turban; there is no shape in which
tulle is not appropriate this year. They
are very bewitching, and the %colorins
most attractive; nothing could be prettie1
to wear with batiste and any wash ma
teriai. or even with India silk.A pale pink
and white that has just been brought over
is a ~favorite model. 1t is made of pink and
white tulle twisted in and out in a very
odd fashion, and is trimmed with pink
roses-the roses at the back of the hat
and also standing up at the side. 1t is very
soft and dainty. and the tulle is so wei
held out by the wire frame that 1T Is likely
to retain its freshness for some time
Tulle is not so perishable a material a:
chiffon. and consequently will be a safel
investment for summer wear. There are II
all the large shops a great many OF tnes'
tulle hats ready-made. but they are no
always satisfactory. The tulle is not O
the best quality, but II hats are one
third the expense, and that is something
to recommend them. The black tulle hat
ana bonnets are all relieved by steel or Je
+r,nm;n0s They rave no flowers at all