The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-19
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+. dinner hour and looked about for an ex-
| PLANTATION. 1t was found by some inves-
| tigators in the increasing number of abb
sinthes which the men We're thought TO be
| drinking. That was found to be an in
sufficient explanation. as the absinthe
hour affected TOO small a share of the
community to bring about SO general a
result. Such an explanation for the later
dinner had consequently to be given UP,
and probably for the same reason 1t
would be impossible to account for the
change here on the ground that the COCK
tails nowadays are more numerous than
they used to be. But this explanation has
been advanced.
Undeniably the children made a most
attractive showing at Easter, in spite OF
the fact that their picturesque hats anG
gay little gowns were rather swamped oy
the %splendors of their elders. The pretty
retieules, all the little ladies car
ried with their fresh Sunday
cho dresses, did not, how
ever. escape notice, nor the prevailing eff
feet of coats as short as those of their
mothers, with quaint mushroom shaped
! shoulder collars, and the almost universal
wide hat, turned off sharply from the face.
The coats on the misses of eleven and
fewer years, were without exception box
shaped back and front. with the bottom
edges cut in three or four shallow seal
Tops and the seams all gay with white
and gilt bratding. The mushroom collar
has hidden .ccessful defiance to the trus-
ty, faithful sailor shape. 1t is cut quite
round, juts out to the shoulder seam and
is either lined or faced with silk that IS
an emphatic contrast in color to the coat
itself. There were elegant little pale tots
on elegant little gentlewonlen, of warm
rose bengaline, which after all is quite a
serviceable cloaking goods, and on the
bengaIine were applied the most graceful
Figures done in cream guipure. OF course a
cream guipure collar swept about the
shoulders and the white leghorn hat worn
with this was decorated with pink wings,
and had corded white taffeta swathin9s
on the crown. In some respects these
small Easter worshiperS outshone their
mothers, for nowadays no toilet is consid-
cred too splendid for the pretty American
child.
Many of the new black hats are trimmed
partly with wide black edging, says the
Millinery Trade Review One in rice
straw has two lows of this lace plait I'd
on to the upper side of the brim. 1t has
one of the new high straight crowns, about
which is folded a broad band of lack vel
vet fastened by a jet slide; surrounding
this, rising still - her than the crown, is
a large bunch of globular roses in several
shades of pink. Hats of cream lace on a
foundation of wired tulle viii be very
: fashionable this season. Their effect IS
improved by sewing thereon rows of fancy
Tuscan braid with an interval of an incn
between each braid. Lace wells are to be
preferred to tulle this year, and the new
/ selections include wells of the most ex-
pensive kinds of lace, beside admirable
limitations of the same. Long scarfs In
net with designs in Escurial, are now be-
ing converted into decorations for hats;
one end lies along the brim, and the re-
nainder of the scarf is worn twisted once
round the throat.
/ The Geisha came into evidence in ia
pan in the middle of the last century.
says the Ladies' Home Journal" and
in a remarkably short time her pepu-
larity was such that her presence be-
came indispensable at parties, which, but
for her contagious vivacity and mirth,
would perhaps have been fat and insipid.
Her duties are not merely to serve tea,
and dance for the entertainment of her
patrons, but she is expected to laugh and
talk gaily, even if on the most trivial
subjects. A Geisha must be highly accom-
plished in many ways. She plays the
samisen, and often a number of other
musical instruments dances, sings, and
talks, and her remuneration is generally
large.
The newest order of coat and skirt de-
mands thai the latter should consist of a
heavy Scotch plaid, either in grays,
greens or blues. while the coat is made of
very smooth plain cloth in the predomi-
mating color of the plaid, the reverse and
cuffs matching the skirt. Plaids whose
eoloTs nothing short of a breakfast food
advertisement could countenanee are also
popular, and instead of being used for lin
ings of coats and skirts, they appear on
the outsides of our walking garments.
1t is sometimes impossible to avoid the
thought that somebody's cape has acct
dentally been turned inside out, when you
see-so far as the tartan is concerned-the
CarnpDellS coming along III 2oiI cdpeS IKE
a go-bang board in pattern, he plaid
wooIens having a lining of plain face
cloth which shows only in short, gored
frifls at the bottom.
.
China and India silks are to be more
been for a very long time, says Harper's
Bazaar" They are certainly much cooler
than the ~taffetas. or, for that matter,
than almost any other material in the
market. They are exquisite in coloring,
and, besides, having a great variety of de-
signs entirely different from those used
on the ~taffetas. except the black figured
ones that nave much the same designs,
lacking, however. the stiffness and body
of the t~affetas. Many of the figured China
silks are comparatively inexpensive, and
almost all wear WELL They must be made
up either with a silk lining or with a very
good cotton lining, while the taffeta silks
have The advantage of not needing 81 lin
ing.
The eelskin fit of the skirt worn during
the winter demanded a modification of the
underwear, many modistes first fitting
their clients with "knickers' of black