The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-03

DUWf with one hand ana puSneS the ISd-
faced boy over backward with the other.
1t is legerdemain, But then, how she
manages that skillet, How her red cheeks
flush, her black eyes sparkle, and her
plump hands guide that ship of state!
We were all SO excited that we got hor-
ribly in her way and almost fell into the
fire in our anxiety, She stirs and coaxes
and coquettes with the lovely foamy
| mass until it becomes as light as the yell
low down on a fiedging's wings. She
calls it an omelette, but she is scrambhns
those eggsl Then when it is almost lone
she screams at us to take our places. The
red faced boy,rings a huge bell, and we all
tumble madly at the narrow stairs to the
dining room, where the maids give US
bread and bring our wine and get our
plates all ready.
Shamroeks in green enamel have not
ceased to please, although milliners haye
taken to make them in velvet to trim hats
and comets Small brooches in this
form, composed of four polished stones
rubies, topaz, emeralds, saphires or opals
attached to a small gold or diamond set
stem, are all in vogue. Other brooches,
also very small, representing a twig on
which three or four birds perch have
these same stones used singly for the
bodies or in pairs for the wings.
Marie Antoninette's famous basket-of-
flowers, brooch. a jewelry marvel of the
eighteenth century. shown at the last ex-
position by German Pabst, has been
copied with variations in many sizes,
more or less skillful, by all the first
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the diamonds used being insignificant in
size.
Louis XIV and Louis XVI brooches are
exhibited more sparingly this year than
they were last year, and in general one
finds that more preference is shown for
the Gothic and Renaissance styles, or en-
tirely modern designs over those of the
eighteenth century.
In every shop are to be seen varied
selections of brooches in dull gold, high
ly chased in scrolls only, or scrolls with
chimeras, strange birds, or s-alamanders,
set with three or four stones of different
colors. The outlines of these colors are
symmetrical, though the design itself
may not be so. For an extremely artistic
brooch, modern in style, the horse chest
nut leaf is worked up with much effect IN
greenish gold on a FURNISHED brown
ground. Essentially modern, also, are the
dull gold medallion brooches with delicate
female profiles moulded in low relief on
concave grounds.
Probably these are destined to be vul-
CARRIED by imitation.
The same may be said of the new
buckles which are taking the place of
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a charming design, consisting of an en-
ameled peacock's feather laid across a
dull silver buckle (the form of which may
be roughly described as a big d. has been
brought out at a price that places it with
in the reach of all. These copies cannot
compete with jewelers. work.
Two buckles, two gems, deserve special
mention. In one of these Renaissance
in style, the straight side terminates in an
architectural birds head, while the other
curIs up in calyx form, from which sew
eral tips of peacock's feathers emerge,
the whole being in exauisitely delicate
tints of pale green, gray and blue, bur-
nisled on the metal.
The other is more. complicated, and con-
tains the figure of Phoebus against a
background of rising sun and cloud forms,
always in the same low ones.
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Don't go bargain hunting without con-
siderable forethought. Take advantage
if you please of the low prices offered,
but do so intelligently. The woman who
buys things simply because they are
cheap usually lives to regret it. She
finds in time that a lot of pretty little
odds and ends that looked so attractive
at the time she purchased them are
merely so much rubbish on her hands.
The reliable shops may usually be de-
pended upon when they mark their prices
down a bit at the end of each season.
This must always be done to make room
for new and fresh goods. The wise wo-
man who has learned how to economic
in both time and money selects from the
advertised bargains such articles as she
has need of, and with her list in hand
seeks the shops. She may see other things
while shopping that catch her fancy, but
she should hesitate before buying. Clerks
find it easier to wait on the intelligent
shopper, and certainly a dealer profits
more when goods are selected with care
from his establishment, for the purchaser
being satisfied, makes regular trips each
season to the same shop, certain that she
will find there satisfactory wares.
1t is in January that cotton goods and
trimmings can be found in most pleasing
lots, and the season is an excellent one to
devote to the making up of washable gar
ments. Dainty ginghams and checked
muslins of standard brands are the same
in quality all year round and vary but
little in style, and are just at this time of
wear offered at low figures, and a lull in
the seamstress business to make them up
for both children and grown folk. The
same is also true of household linens.
The comfortable bath robe for mid
winter is of fine French eiderdown flannel
lined or without lining, as you prefer. The
Turkish toweling bath gown is all very
well for hot weather, but when it is freez-
ing out-of-doors, and the bathroom faces
north. it is comfortable to don an elder
down robe for the journey from and
toward ones dressing room. Broad turn
ed-over collar and cuffs, and a 'cordelier"
with tassels for a waist belt, are all the
trimming of these easy gowns.
1t is quite the proper thing among
society's exclusive few to have matinee
teas. This is an innovation, to be sure,
but each season must bring some new
attractions and the matinee tea this
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