The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-26
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
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The mans dinner, when he plans it to
suit himself. seldom begins with soup. The
raw oysters or CLAIMS with which it con-
ventionally opens are supplemented or
preceded by some of the foreign appe-
Tiers which are surely winning a place on
the American table. Caviare, anchovies,
sarlellen and the like. are among these,
and give an appreciate zest to the appe-
tite. Our Russian friends discovered this
long ago., and their example has been fol-
lowed in the French cuisine, where just
at present everything that is a la Russo
is a la mode.
Th delicate cream soups, the non-com-
initial consommes, which women like. are
rarely a mans first choice. He prefers a
good mulligatawney, or a bisque of lobster
or crabs. or a mock turtle or other rich
meat soup. For fish he will take some
thing a little unusual-seles or pompano
or turbot or salmon; or if it is wnlte nsn
it will lave an anchovy. or shrimp, or eur
ry sauce. Or perhaps ii will be a delect-
able compound of terrapin, or of oyster
crabs and mushrooms. done in a chatting
dish and brought in simmering and saw
ory-a feast for the gods, to be appreciat-
ed even by women.
For entrees the man has little use.
Sometimes he may care for sweetbreads
or calf's head in some form, or for curry,
or a vegetable entree, like artichoke with
Hollandaise sauce, or creamed spinach.
but generally after the fish he is quite
ready for the roast. This may be a fllet
of beef with mushroom sauce or a ale
of mutton, or a roast OF spring iaihp'
Sometimes. too, he likes a roast capon, or
,,lo nth n m1Shro0m or 0yS-
ter stuffing, or a roast of venison. He Will
hardly care for In entree or relish after
this. unless it be fresh mushrooms in some
form. Instead he will have game-qual,
perhaps. or. better still, woodcock or reed
birds, grouse or partridge, or perhaps can
vas back duck. With this will come u
salad. A man will probably not care TO
have at dinner any of the fused up COM
pounds with ~mayonnaise, such as women
serve at their lunchebns, and sometimes
even at their dinners. When he has Il
heavy salad with m~ayonnaise dressing, II
is at a midday luncheon or an after-thea-
ire supper. With game he will have let
tuce, or Romano, or e~scarole with a arc
fully mixed French dressing, containing a
lash Ct red pepper or paprica.
After that, to the feminine MIND, a
sweet or ice is Indispensable, but not
necessarily so to a man. Often he will he
quite as well satisfied with good cheese
and biscuit. celery and black coffee. Per-
haps he may like a little fruit or nuts, ana
he is almost certain to wish a cordial to
conclude the meal. Not the cream de
menthe. which is woman's fayorite IN sueh
circumstances but O. glass of cognac, or
even of old wniskey, or, II he llKes sweet
rouors. Benedictine OF Curacao, or per-
hans Maraschino.. And this is the aver
age mans ideal of a good dinner.
AS a rule, it is the man of the mouse
who selects the wines, but 1T VIII require
little study for a woman to master the
anpropriate wines for different courses.
sherry is served with the soup, a White
wine or claret with the fish, and Inc
champagne does not make its entrance
until the entree or roast. Seldom DO more
"a Tcsesswine appear on the ORDINARY
~O"sler table, but if another is
- ~Mrsambertin or Sauterne may De
bis ser,1tb the game.
piow hardly necessary to say that thc
81 ascorations are altogether differenI
th,s tag party from those which are IN
will. at a woman's dinner, or at one
u,ere both sexes are represented. me
ovolties of bouquets scattered here ana
there. of streaming vines, of floating rlp-
hons. are out of place at so serious a
function. A low dish of scentless flowers
NAV be in the centre Of the table. or there
NAV be a few tall, slender glass vases
containing roses, u the dainty little bask-
ets Of violets or pansies or similar modest
blossoms that are voted correct for wo-
mems luncheons lave no business on the
table where the austere sex address
themselves to the consumption of such a
meal as has been outlined above.
Nor is there occasion for numerous
small dishes of bonbons. or of candied
yio,ets and rose leaves, although few men
rise superior to the attraction of salted
a1mo6ds and olives. If they care for bon
hons at all. their preference will probably
be for some such positive confection as
branded cherries, and they will once n a
while condescend to marrons glaces- In
one thing. at least, is a mans palate con-
s.stent, and hat is in the sturdy prefer
ence for expensive articles of food.
1t was at Cannes that for the first time
we began to scent the near presence OF
the smart world in the appearance OF the
latest skirts, says Harper's Bazaar Al
ST. Raphael, woman, as she met her
friends at the station, or said good-by TO
them. or took the train herself, was ap-
parently a practical creature in felt hat,
shirt waist. and skirt of serge or tweed,
with much fulness at the back. At cam
mes she was a flower, a bird, a butterfly
what YOU villa dainty apparition fitting
across the horizon, to suggest nothing
more serious in life than the function of
harmonizing with the general atmosphere.
Woman when I saw her for the first time
on the cote d'azur, years ago, always
made me think of al orchid; and she is
none the less hower-like there now; but
her draperies mould themselves to her as
the sheath of the li~ly-of-the-valley does
to the lily. Ten years have made her more
simple, subdued, supple in her style. Her
skirt is more than anything else the tunic,
I discover-the long tunic, without a par
ticle of ~fulness, and justnow generally In
cloth. The much-heralded cashmeres have
apparently not gone to the heart of the
feminine sex as anticipated. I see cloths,
foulards, crepe de Chine and its fac sim
lies. batistes, white serges in endless va
rieties, but nothing particularly new in