The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-27
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stamped. colors selected, and the most ex-
plicit directions as to how it must be done
Il visit Europe once a year for three o.
more months, and spend most of nay time
hunting for ideas. Every season I have
some new designs and in thai way manage
to set the fashion, as it were. in this coun-
try. I have executed many orders from
abroad, and have more than once com
pleted rooms in the White House. Some
of the most elegant homes in New York
and Newport have whole floors ornament
ed by my hangings, cushions, etc. In my
opinion. ha~nd-ernbroidery is n of the
largest fields open to the woman bread
winner. and, at present, the one in which
she will meet with less competition"
Two years ago, the cavy, as a house,
hold pet, was practically unknown in
America, although in England the little
creature was popular among lovers Of
pets. In 1887 an Illinois woman imported
some specimens and began breeding them.
Since then large numbers have been sold
in the United States.
The cayy is really an evolution from
the guinea pig. 1t is a native Of South
America, where 1t was a great favordte
with the natives who called it couy, and
from this comes the anglicized cavy. Sew
eral years ago an English fancier brought
the first specimens into England, and by
clever breeding has succeeded in produc-
ing some very remarkable varieties There
are four distinct, recognized species of
cavies-the English, Peruvian, Abyssinian
and Angora. The English or short-haired
variety is the most common, and is in
deed the original stock from which the
others were derived.
The long silken haired Peruvians are
the especial pets of women and children,
and quite deservedly so, as they are real
ly of remarkable beauty. Their long. fine,
| glossy hair falls in a natural bang over
the forehead and nose, developing into
a thick name on each side of the head,
and trailing upon the ground In the rear,
making them seem like so many animat-
ed silken balls OF varying colors. They
are found in black, white, French red,
tortoise. shell, English solid black and
English solid red; the pure white with del
icate pink eyes and pink claws being per-
haps the most attractive. Their hair is
| generally from four to six inches long.
The Angora is quite different from the
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being very attractive in its long coat of
straight hair that reaches to the ground.
The Abyssinians, although hardly as
pretty as the l~ong-haired varieties. are
curiously interesting with their rough
wiry hair growing in a series of perfect
ly formed ~rosettes in white, red and
broker colors.
AS pets for children. CAVES are really
without a rival. They are always gentle,
and when accustomed to their surround
ings are very playful and a~ffeetionate;
their frisky antics and ever-ready APP
petite especially endearing them to the
little ones. When first born, they are
mere tiny balls of fluffy down, which a
child can hold in one hand; they are
wonderfully mature from the start, open
ing aaheir eyes at once and before they
are an hour old. jumping about in the
most lively manner and nibbling bread
and milk, grass, oats and carrots along
with their elders. They love to be petted
and manifest their pleasure in much the
same way as the cat. the purr of the
former being modified by them into a
kind of whirr or ehuekle. They also
frequently indulge in a musical twitter,
which reminds one of a nest full of sing
ing birds. A great point in their favor is
that they are easily cared for at very little
cost, and are extremely hardy.
The increasing popularity of CAVES has
led to the formation of the Chicago Cavy
Club, the only organization of its kind in
America, although cavy clubs are nurner-
Gus in England. The purpose is to pro-
mote growing interest in Ivy culture in
this country, and the idea has been en-
Enthusiastically Endorsed in the East as
well as the West. During the last decade
the creation and Improvement of colors in
England have so increased the value of
the stock that rare specimens are sold
for $3.50 to $500 apiece.
'"To assert that men dress better than
women is probably to most persons a
very unorthodox claim" writes Mary
Wager-Fisher in the December "Woman's
Home Companion" Their dress is more
rational more in harmony with the out
lines of the body, and more IN allegiance
10 it's Importance n needs. 1t is free
from the bows and loops, the founces and
ruffles, and the countless trivial furbelows
and impertinences that give to women's
attire a sspotty,' confused appearance,
breaking up and spelling the effect of
unity. When a man is dressed we never
lose sight of the fact that his body is
more than his dress, while the women
dresses as if she held her body to be a
form upon which to display dry goods
and the mill4ner's art, and her head a
roost for murdered birds and stores of
curios %purloined from all the kingdoms
OF. the earth. When women look best in
the street they have gone to man for their
clothes-his plain, felt hat, his coat and
vest, his haberdashery, and often his foot
wear-the boys w~alking-shoe, with it's low,
broad heel, broad, projecting sole and
general look of snugness and comfort.
Mems feet are always better dressed
than women,s, because for one thing they
are more in evidence, and they are far
less distorted in shape because their
shoes more nearly conform to the ma
tural shape of the foot. The tailor, 1t is
true. often builds up his man, but it is in
The direction of symmetry, of good pro-
portion. while the dressmaker, as a rule,
hasn't an eyelash for anything more
than fashion, which, to her mind, is
style and nothing is too hideous, too in
artistic, to be worn IL 1t only be Fashions
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