The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-02

The head of the family comes home
in the evening all capped and primed Tor
a growL
He doesn't mean to be cross. in fact he
isn't cross. at least not until he gets his
latch key in the door and begins to sniff
the furnace heat
Then WHEY whirls down into the front
hall all logged out in a fioat-away sum
mer organdie which she has determined
to nut on dinner duty way into the win
ter.
She looks very ruffly. very gauzy, and
as she futters towards her spouse she
evidently expects to make an impression.
Why should she expect to make an
impression? Would that organdie or any
other dress appeal to this man VINO IS
stripping off his overcoat and slammlng
his hat on a peg with a snort OF irrita-
tion7
..Great heavens. what a hot box. Bridget
must have been piling coal on that FUR
mace since daybreak. Who wants to eat
dinner in a Turkish bath house? You
sust be trying to burn the ranch up?
wifey. who even now feels a chance
draught coquetting under her rufrles, con-
trolls a SILVER n says just what she mas
been SAYING on similar occasions times
unnumbered.s
..Why. Harry, the idea. This house Is
merely habitable. I believe you'd like
to live in a barn all winter. Come up
stairs and get on your thin smoking jack
ct. You'll be all right. I'm sure Pm per-
fectly comfortable"
SHOULD think you might be. You're
dressed for July weather" retorts the
unhappy man as he starts for a light
jacket.
But the change of clothes doesn't help
matters.
He tramps about from room to room,
shutting the registers with a bang. throw
ing open the windows or the canaries
and the plants that are madame's dearest
uride. and finally takes his place at the
dinner table with an apoplectic tinge Of
countenance that BODIES no good for the
family peace.
1 happened into a house the other day
about six o'clock. There was a small cy-
clone tearing through the rooms. Every
window was up and there was such a
blowing of draperies and suffering of
lamps that l exclaimed, Trying to lift
your roof?''
Just getting ready for John" an
swered my hostess. II am determined he
shan't come home and begin fussing about
that furnace. From the time it is start
ed every year l hear nothing else but
complaints about this oyerheated house.
John began when we were first mar
ried joking over it and calling me Sailie'
short for S~alamander. o know-but
he's grown positively vicious about it
lately and threatens to stay down Town
altogether unless things are cooled off at
night.
You see, John comes In and even after
he takes off his overcoat there he is in a
great heavy suit, one layer after another
of s~tuff-vest, coal and that sort of thing
It's about the way I'd dress to go out
doors.
.-There's no use telling him this. He
Just a Put on more clothing Wear.
sensible things in the house, and when
you go out, add more
H can't understand what a rest it
is for us women to slip on a light gown
indoors. Goodness knows We have to wag
stuff enough about as it is.
THAT furnace, though, has been one
continual friction with us and I've made
up my mind to cool his temper and the
temperature at the same time.
But" she added, with a faint twinkle
OF mdllcG III uCE eyes L SAld ScIQ lAitli
a pretty fat bill for expensive winter I'M
derwear this season.
Something that won't add one inch to
my waist measure. Heavy ribbed silk will
just about do It,"
And went way thinking.
"
The biggest fashion change of the sea-
son is Paquin's new box plated skirt.
II sounds tho death HnaI1 Of tho ckiu-
tight, habit-back skirt which has been so
popular and so vulgar.
The new skirt has just been introduced
in Paris. and New York women will nave
their first glimpse of it at the November
Horse Show,
1t is modest, it is graceful, and it is
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES which the
habit back skirt never possessed.
1t is a skirt with some fullness and
long, graceful folds, and is the beginning
of a decided change in women's fash
ions.
1t is a happy contrast from the eel
like skirt which arrived from Paris late
last winter and which women nave been
wearing ever SINCE
The eel skirt has been responsible for
much that was unpleasant.
Since it first put in an appearance
N New York it has been the source of
more gossip than any other fashion for
a generation past. And. really, though
she would not admit IT. 1t has been the
pane of the fashionable woman's life.
1t has been uncomfortable to walk in,
impossible to sit in without a dreadful
fear Of its bursting, and to the fat woman
it has brought unlimited woe.
1t has frankly revealed every curve of
the figure, for the material has been
drawn like a sheath over tn ody.
Now there comes a new .rt, which
women are sure to welcome With joy. 1t
tells a different story-one Of graceful
draperies and pretty. ripping folds.
The first skirt OF this sort was made by
paquin, the greatest French designer of
the day. and was only a slight change
from the Hat habit back.
1t introduced q carefully fitted. very
fiat, much pressed box plat. which hardly
showed it was a plat at all until half
way down the skirt, when it opened to
fall in graceful folds. This skirt, though
but recently introduced, has been seen in
Parts in many variations and has proved
the first ster. in The right direction.
1t was the : resanner Of a much more
pronounced nux plated skirt-the skirt
,.yh,ch NOW nr0Ynfspe tn no the most orr