The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-17
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

boil and yet look neat and attractive,
while the bride of the city lawyer who is
| going to live in a hotel most needs dresses
in which she can breakfast, lunch and
| dine in public dining-rooms In the face
and eyes of well-dressed people. etc.
If the bride is going to live at a New
| port hotel this summer she must have
| full dress twoi,ettes for dinners and
| dances and evening functions of all de-
scriptions; but if she is going to live on a
ranch and take care of the house. she
| doesn't need ball gowns, and she does need
cotton dresses by the half-dozen at least.
| The former needs golf shoes and satin
| slippers, the latter wants comfortable
homework and farm shoes. One needs
bathing dresses and the other sun-bon-
nets. Both need to remember that a wom-
an should be just as careful to dress be-
| comingly after marriage as before.
| There's money in it for the enterprising
woman who would form classes for in
| ;truction in the proper methods of dress
| fitting on the street, declares an ex-
change. OF course, such q one must
speak ex cathedra, fitting herself for the
IdSk ny study ana experiment, DciSdltcAi
dexterity, and practical common sense.
Dressmakers tell us that long-tailed
gowns propose to tarry witt us for a
while. How to make graceful disposition
of these unhygienic appendages on the
street will, therefore, continue to be the
problem.
Hold your train up as you waikiki ex-
claims Madame la modiste superciliously.
Never, never, my dear lady! Nobody
does that but ones country cousins or the
penurious minded. What? Spoil the
| sweeping elegance of outline the artist
! has striven to acquire? Why, madame,
it would be a sin!'' And so they let their
dresses go. a larger per cent. of the fash
ionable pedestrians, in spite of newspaper
ridicule, masculine satire, and the disap-
| probation of the Board of Health, with
superb oblivion of the dusty consequences
to costly fabrics.
1t is their maids that make the oDserva-
tions-not always safe to ~print-after they
get home.
The feminine majority. however, with
no propensity for gratuitous street sweep
ing, and no ambition as scavengers, even
if their purses would allow, must rescue,
llCll lOlS n . 1lOil AtiOloPOS oH0 w.
tamination. Then, let them make an art
of the operation, n not an eye sore.
Nine women out of ten are b~urlesques
when they try to keep their skirt tails
clean.
A novelty is the yale blue" pocket
book Its color is striking, yet soft, and
when mounted in gold or silver, it is GER
tainly very handsome. The material used
is bison or buffalo skin. There is a great
demand at present for the elastic beaded
belts. New shapes in these are pointed
in front to represent a bodice; another
design has a brilliant butterfly in the CEN
tire of the front. With shirt waists.
leather belts studded with steel or those
formed with strips Of leather braided to-
gether in basket weave, will be USED, out
in the fall it is expected that the elastic
belts will be in great favor again.
There is a new pocketbook called the
Ladies' Friend, made with extra wide and
strong gussets, for the purpose of Civ
ing room for the gloves or handkerchief.
Another new resting place for the latter
has been found. 1t is in the purse of sill
yer wire mesh, made with two compart-
inents, one for change, the other for the
troublesome mouchoir. This purse is sly
inches deep, and a little less across the
top, and is finished with a metal fringe.
1t is fastened to a fine chain with a ring
to be worn on the finger. Some have
longer and heavier chains and a ring
large enough to be worn on the arm.
These are, of course, for fine handker-
chiefs.
The luncheon, as a social function of a
certain order, has come to be the femi-
nine counterpart of the mans dinner,
says "Harper's Bazaar" If a man of note
comes to New York he is promptly, often
~exhaustively, dined by other men, who
take this way-happily SO full of enjoy
ment for themselves-of expressing their
admiration. If women want to honor an
other woman they give a luncheon for
her. Not long ago a woman editor from
another city visited New York and among
the affairs given in her honor was a
luncheon at a well known hotel. 1t was
a small mpan scarcely more than a
dozen covers being laid; but the repartee.
the good stories, the humorous discus
sion which went around the table would
nave been quite worthy of a masculine
dinner of imposing proportions. 1t is an
unfortunately widespread habit with
women to take their pleasures sadly, but
the vigorous preaching which has been
done apropos of this very thing seems
not to have been in vain. An honor.
ary'' luncheon, at least. is a pleasure
which New York women take with the
proper degree of gayety.
So
People are always turning up with a
new means of discerning ones character.
Now it is from the tread of ones
shoes, now from the shape of the fingers
or the teeth, to say nothing, of course,
of palmistry, ~graphology and p~hysiogno-
my. The very latest character-reader is
the ~nasologist. He tests your taste in
scent. You sniff half a dozen sweet
doors, and whichever one pleases You
best decides your character. The study
of this new method ought to prove a
pleasant little amusement to women: at
bazaars it would assuredly prove a draw.
Only one fears, that willy woman would
soon learn that in public it is unwise to
express a fancy for certain perfumes.
One cannot help the possession of a
nose of this or that shape, or alter ones
scaligraphy or the lines of ones hands,
but it is possible to keep ones taste in
sweet odors to ones self, and so to lit
orally throw nasologists "off the scent
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