The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-24

games like lawn tennis 1t will soon De-,
come natural, easy and graceful
49,
There is great knack in using the
hands gracefully, which seems to be but
little understood by girls and women
generally.
Hands blush! Did you know that? II
you are conscious of our hand they
will grow red and angry-looking. II
you forget them they will return to their
normal color. If hands are homely in
shape, despite the best one can do they
should be shielded with sleeves that drop
over the hands.
Thin hands can be made plump by rub
bing them with cream. Hands that are
crimson when they are held down often
pass for exceptionally pretty hands be-
cause their owner deftly contrives 70
keep them so that the blood shall not
settle in them.
Children should not be allowed to
sscrack their knuckles." 1t causes their
knuckles to enlarge in a hideous way.
Some hands are naturally pretty ana
some are naturally homely but many
homely hands can be greatly improved
by judicious care.
Ones employment has a great deal
to do with the look of the hands, of
course, and the harder the work is on
the hand the more care is required to
keep it in good condition.
An abnormally small land is not att
t~ractive.
The hand should be in proportion to the
rest of the body.
1t should have character. too, and
should be used expressively.
Indeed, the hand does much to ex-
press the character.
When it's owner is a nonentity the hand
is merely a machine. When its owner
is an Individual the hand follows suit.
Speaking of tact-'I have just had an
amusing experience said a young
woman who has never prided herself on
beauty that she does not possess. Il
nave been talking with an old ady who
always try to say the right thing ana
nine times out of ten makes a failure
of it. She was speaking of my sister,
who is a very striking blond-in I'M
usual contrast to me, as you know, a de-
cided brunette. 4 always thought SO
much of your sister, said she, in her
most gracious manner, She IS sucn a
sweet, pretty girl; but isn't it strange
how different she is from you? You
aren't a bit alike, are you?
ssThat reminds me of an experience OF
mime" said her companion. fThe other
day I was introduced to a woman VINO
had not seen me since I was three years
old. You ought to have seen her disap-
no;nted expression when she looked at
me. why said she. you used to nave
s,1ch beautiful eyesl-and you are SO
short. too. Dear mel l always had i'm
agined YOU had grown to be tall So,
Won see. | am to understand from that
that am an Insignificant little sawed
off with s~hoe-button eyes-and not a
hi interesting TO look at. No, I didn't
fail on her neck and tell her how glad
I wasn't to see her, but had TO iaush
at her-she was such a t~actless curios-
ity."
Serious friendship cannot be enjoyed
except by persons of character. Inose
who, themselves light and frivolous
choose friends from whim or fancy, or
drift into the relation from chance proN-
unity. or who make passionate or ex-
travagant demands, forgetting the other
duties of life in a swift transport OF feel
ing must forever remain ignorant OF the
depth. the solemnity and the saeredness
of which friendship is capable.
Emerson says: "Our friendships hurry
to short and poor conclusions because we
have --4de them a texture of wine and
dreams instead of the tough fiber OF the
human heart. The laws of friendship are
austere and eternal-of n web with the
law of nature and of morals. But we V
aimed at a swift and petty benefit to such
a sudden sweetness. We snatch at the
slowest fruit in the whole garden of God,
which many summer and many winters
must ripen."
Fashion is making an effort to get away
from the blouse. The makers of ready
made waists. on the other han are ad-
vocating the blouse. For them 1t has its
recommendations; it fits everybody. Civ
en- your best measure you can wear any
waist provided it has a blouse front.
They are making a yachting dress this
year of very heavy duck trimmed with
the coarsest kind of embroidery, which,
indeed. looks more like a piece of cloth
decoupe. This is with holes cut out to
show the fabric underneath The style,
while it is extremely effective, is hardly
TO he recommended for the amateur uress-
maker. The openings must be cut with
great accuracy and the outside fastened
many tailors use glue-to the inside
The effect is that of an open work pat
tern. designs being cut out in scroll shape
to show the material underneath.
Ostrich is beginning to be used again
but principally in black and white ano
for smart hats, says the Millinery TRADE
Review, A capeline of leghorn, with the
brim bent over the brow. has two white
plumes fastened to the front of the crown
Slightly to the left). and floating back
over it. Lying on the brim is a scarf OF
white tulle. along the centre of which is
sewn a broad band of black insertion, its
medallion design outlined with very mar.
row black velvet. The hat is slightly
lifted on one side, where a semi-coronel
Of France roses is placed.
The art of being agreeable is spoiled ny
self-consciousness. S-elf-knowledge is nee
essary to proper self-respect and control
but the self-consciousness that clothes
one with the air of I-did-it-with-my-little
Ratchet. the Observation-Disclosures
for-the-next-one type of persons. oh, but
they are tiresome, more so than stupie
people who never say or do anything.