The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-31
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WOMAN'S WORLD.


The pleasure Of a trip to the seashore
need not ead with the return home
When sauntering along the beach, take
with you an oilskin bag or a tin box, to
collect the pretty bits of W that
are to be found on the sand.
Put them at once in your bag or box,
for if exposed to the suns rays while
wet with salt water, they will lose their
bright hues. just before you are ready
TO leave the beach, turn out your treas
ures and wash them well in salt water,
shaking out the sand foreign substances.
Put them back in the box and turn them
out in a dark corner of your room 10
dry.
When ready to use the seaweeds. float
them in clear water. Shake out the
coarser kinds, n hang them up on a
string fastened across a window, to dry.
Float the finer sorts separately in a
basin. Slip a piece of stiff cartridge pa
per under the seaweed. lift il very care
fully to the surface Of the water, and
sim keeping it afloat. arrange rhes sprays
naturally, with a fine paint brush Sep
arate the various fronds into graceful
shape.
when this is done, cautiously raise the
paper out of the water, SO as not to dis
turb the arrangement of the seaweed
Then let the moisture drain on. Leave the
eaweed on the paper to dry, and cover II
with a piece of muslin Do not press 1t
unless 1t is to be used fiat, as for picture
frames easels. books, door panels, or
similar purposes. In such cases. lay the
seaweed while still. moist under heavy
weights. between sheets of paper, not
plotting paper. however. unless you wish
it to adhere, there being usually enough
mucilage In seaweeds for this result
when dry brush them over with spirits
of turpentine in which a few Jumps OF
mastic varnish have been dissolved
Seaweed albums are very nice things to
have. and if paste is used IN
fastening the sprays. there viii be no
shiny marks left on the pages.
when used for decorating panels or
other woodwork. varnish the seaweeds
with mastlc varnish-
Did you ever see bouquets of the coars-
er seaweeds? They are really beautiful,
and so far out of the every day style as
TO attract the pleased attention of every
one who sees them. For these uses they
should be dyed in various %colors, and
sprinkled over with tiny shells. gummed
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dipping them in a saturated solution OF
alum. which can be tinted with the dyes
A fine glue for mounting seaweeds and
also for ferns and leaves. is made thus:
Take five parts gum arabic. three of
white sugar. and two Of starch, add a
little water, and boil the whole until it is
thick and white.
Only those who have mounted sea-
weeds can realize how beautiful and dur
able they are. Their retention of color is
wonderful. In the writer's family are
several seaweed albums. mounted nearly
fifty years ago: the colors are as bright
and beautiful today as if they had just
left their ocean home.
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81 wonder If you all appreciate one of
your dress privileges2' asked the mar in
the white flannel suit of a group of shirt
waist girls.
Think of being able to spend a whole
summer going around in you shirt
sleeves. Now, if I should come up on this
porch, rip my coat off and let the breezes
blow on my shirt sleeves you'd all set me
down as an iil-mannered chump. For my
part, l can't see why such distinction
should be made
sHWeH. you can wear negiigee shirts
without your coat. can't your asked one
of the girls.
"Only when playing tennis. rowing,
running a sailboat or something of that
sort. You wouldn't take a walk with me
on a city street if 1 was rugged out in the
best sort of looking .negligee shirt, now,
would vou2"
"Er-no, I don't believe I would
That's just it. But a solid phalanx of
shirt waists wouldn't make people turn an
eyelid. It isn't fair" concluded the man,
yiciously tanning himself with his hat.
Just hear the selfish creature" whis-
pered one of the shirt waist wearers.
And we with our troublesome long
skirts: guess we need at least one COM
pensation.v
Is it a compensation" pondered an
other. Il question If he would be willing
TO bother so with a shirt, pinning it down
and betting it in. and goodness knows
what else to make it look trim. And as
for GOODNESS! All my shirt waists are
made on Innings to give them a good fit.
To go In her shirt sleeves a girl has got
to pay more penalties than the men ever
dream Of"
But it was a cool-looking crowd in crisn
percale, linen and lawn shirt waists. and
the man grumbler continued TO gaze at
them with envy in his eye.
must call attention to the most i'm
portant factor TO be considered in re-
gard TO proper dress for summer-that ie
the necessity for paying more attention
70 the color of the clothing than to It's
weight during the day and vice versa
IN the evening"" writes Edward B.. War
man in the August Ladies' Home Jour-
nal" IF in addition to his regular
summer clothing. when exposed to the
sun, a mar should add thereto a winter
overcoat eight in color). he could out
walk, outwork, outwheel, Guido a man
or equal strength who, instead of the
overcoat, wore a black, unliped. thin al
paca coat. This is not theory. 1 speak
from experience.
NJ conclusions concerning underwear
are that the weight of authority. as well
as experience and observation. all tend
to the decision that a fair compromise
between cotton and wool is the most suit
able settlement of the question. | believe
that during the heated season the under
wear for the upper part of the body
should consist OF the combination of
these two agencies. For wear while tax
ing vigorous exercise. causinp nroft1sa