The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-05

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death this Christmas, says Dorothy Mau-
dox in the Philadelphia inquirer some
win be delighted with my giftfe, some WIN
toss the rarest of its kind INTO the ASH
barrel
rbara are women who ia a rooted
aversion to perfumes. They are soap ana
water angels. l confess TO a liking LOT
tbam Init / have not yet learned why
beca,se a woman believes in soap and
r~ator che should not add on a few per-
fume frills.
uowever that is her lookout. ] know
beaas and necks and faces just whole
sorelv sweet because nature made them
50. Each strand of hair, each pore Oh
the skin gives forth a personal fragrance,
What should such IN angelic creature
want with bath tablets, cap-crown sach-
els and the like? She is a dream unto
herself. 1 delight to kiss her ana | give
her a bear like hug when she WIN ie
me.
She is a type rare as wild roses on .
desert plain. When one cannot nave TINS
subtle sweetness without getting N
nackaqes then say I go right ahead ana
do some shopping.
Goodness. / am wondering. AS 1or nay
saehets. l shall not send out on christ
mas Eve a lot of common place Ones
s,ch as bureau and chiffonier paos.
They are too large, too expensive, anu
and will not fit into the places where
my sachets must.
what busy woman is going to sit down
and think out sweetness for hersef? l
do this for her when l send her a amy
love offering along with a sprig OF glow
ing holly.
T have found something from the orien1
that will be the proper caper for the BABY
sachet that fits into one corner OF tne
n,,rse. 1t is a delicious mixture Oh n
wood ana spices. Its very mysterious
ness f~ascinates.
II is so lovely to open a stuffy poeAes-
hook and not find 1t stuffy. but sauciiy
sending UP to one's nostrils faint sugses-
tions of flowers and things.
Ths other morning l loaned my purse
to a neighbor. When she returned from
doing my errand she said;
you dear thing. what a perfectly al
l,,ring smell there is that purse. l
onened it and forget for a moment to pay
for what 1 was. buying because was SO
busy snuffing."
She shall nave a purse sachet mai VIII
mn ke 06T D16cc liz
g goiug to be very sandalwoodisn. |
nsea for a long time strips of Spanish
leatber but 1 did this because the leather
rr.s oivsn me. AS soon as l lost my
Snanish friend l gave up being 50 ere
CANT.
would love to send Spanish leather IN
hts for purse sweeteners- They are
preat. This perfumed leather must De
paid for at the rate of a dollar an men,
and it will have to stay where it belongs
among the millionaire nobs.
IT is nicer after all to make a sachet-
F,ach stitch ought to mean something II II
does not. I certainly never stitch my nee
die into anything for anybody unless l
love them TO distraction.
Wee glove sachets are very cute. They
fit into the palm of the glove When II
comes home from the shop so new and
ktddfsa smelling it is so nice to have a
pad ready for the palm before it is folded
against its fellow and put among compan
gloves.
Then therezare corset pads not bigger
than two inches on the square and redo
lent of the country. those heavenly
grassy odory. for instance, that one catch
es before the dew has left the fields.
Somebody wants my secret and I whfs-
per with a sort of Acknowledgement
tone of voice-red clover. The pads are
cunning enough to be tucked anywhere
They are nice snuggled under night gown
ruffies or up among the Iaces that smooth
er our Threats until hardly an inch of
flesh can be seen.
Cap-crown pads are another Of my holt
day remembrances. They are airy things
= A--aI-- -o1~n +Y,o a ban5frtl nf
feathers. China silk with a mere sugges-
ton Of down and a Whit of powder will
make one. And then it is caught here
and there and everywhere with silken
dots.
After wearing one of these the hair is
drenehed in sweetness. Who with amy
duties worth mentioning will bother with
bonnet crown or hat crown sachets2 Only
people stop to do such things who are
raeking their brains for inexpensive but
pretty love tokens.
7 have a whole bundle of sachets that
are made of nothing on earth but some
silk null, pinky stuff and thin. filed with
crushed rose geranium leaves. l have
dipped into my rose jar for filling as well.
These pot-pourri affairs are charming for
'kerchiefs and lingerie.
III lDOtSlOpl SdCIcb 4 Cdlt IL Is my
pride I patented it, 80 to speak, for my
own shoes and this year / have three
plump ones all ready for friends.
First 1 make a square lining of I'M
bleached cotton. The square is big
enough to hold two pairs Of feet, even
when there are not Cinderella size. This
square is stuffed with pine needles until
it is firm pm it's four corners. I gathered
some of the most balmsic specimens in
the woods. Of Maine. They are as fra
grant to-day as the morning they were
bundled under the, trees where they lay.
Turkey-red calico and denim are used
for the slip covers. In one corner I have
embroidered in white silk a bit of holiday
f~ooiishness. When I want to enjoy my
self I always drag my cushion out from
it's corner in the closet and prop it up
before the register. Then l settle my
siippened foot on top of the fiat stool and
let the heat watt up nice little memories
of the dear old pine trees under which 1
LACED so delightfully."- during one summers
vacation.
My balsam stool suggests others / wrote
to two old dears who live In the heart
of the pine woods and begged a big box
of pine needles. They came mot the two
old dears, but the needless, and now 1