The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-09

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most useful of inventions, a tiny hot
water bag in a cover of knitted silk and
tied with a bow of ribbon. The basket
must be supplied with several sets of
buttons and literally with pins of all
sizes. These can be had in sets in as
sorted sizes, five to nine, in a pretty
satin case. ready for use. They like the
buttons, should be either of plain gold
or ornamented with delicate enamel or a
single small pearl.
1t is apparent, as time goes on, that all
the influence of thought and money is
brought to bear on the dress waist and
the skirt is left to take its beauty from
elegance of hang and fold. It's drapery
falls chiefly from the abundance of the
waist tails, scarfs jabot ends and what
not that now depend from hip line and
shoulder.
Young ladies in the evening show their
great skill in dancing in skirts that sweep
well out on the floor in front and that are
close-ftting and almost unadorned. save
at the foot, where they flare and shov a
thick ruche of tulle, or chiffon, or lace.
Meantime the waists are respondent with
! lace berthe, embroidered vests. a whole
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tails that fall nearly to the knee behind.
Pretty. new midwinter suits in black
will turn back from the waist front a
series of reyers in green and white, over
tapping. or a rich violet-colored cloth dis
plays revers faced with mandarin yellow
velvet. This play of tabs and lappets is
observing in evening dresses, to which the
sencible and always becoming lace berthe
has come back.
If a rich berthe is not to be had, then
something equally pretty is one of silk
muslin or chiffon, cut in deep scallops and
edged with small violet blossoms, purple
or pink hyacinth bells. or delicate green
smilax leaves. Another noticeable point
in the evening gown is the artful method
employed to show off to advantage a pair
of fiat, dimpled shoulder blades or to con-
ceal a pair of faulty ones. The majority
of dancing and dinner gowns are apt to be
very. much more decollete in the rear
than in front. and the approved plan
seems to be the heart-shaped opening, or
a long and very narrow v.
Cooked 'seraped beef" being a very
strong point in an upward" diet, and
ever a~fterward, it may be well to give
very explicit directions regarding it, says
the "Woman's Home Companion" Buy
d steak from the roun an inch or an inch
and one-half thick, cut at the point where
the surface is one solid piece of lean meat
mot divided into forms or sections with
fat. There will be three forms in the
solid piece, a long one and two smaller
ones, buttthey are compact and will
scrape easily. Draw the spoon firmly and
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or bearing on hard enough to get off little
chunks. The rejected parts remaining
may be utilized for soup-making. Make
a little cake of the scraped pulp, and
s.pan-boiI' it; that is, heat a small spider,
put a bit of butter in it, and when melt
ed pour off all that does not adhere 10
the pan. Now put in the meat-cake,
cover, and cook slowly enough to secure
a delicate pink in the middle without
browning the outside. Then add a little
boiling water, by way of gravy, boil up
once, and serve on a hot plate. Later,
when such great care is not necessary,
cook these cakes more quickly, browning
the outside, and the result will be more
savory, though not quite SO easily di-
gested.
line SHlaTleSI OIL LIE new SCdTlS Is Tie
Ardsley. 1t differs from the Ascot in the
way it is folded, the two ends on each
: side of the square knot being drawn up
ward over the knot, entirely conceaing
it. h ends are then brought forward
and downward, the edge of one piece
slightly overlapping that of the other,
and held in place by a pin.
To form the Waterfall, another new
NJ of trviuo the ma scarf fhe two
ends are brought over the knot, as in
the Ardsley, then one of them is thrown
over and spread out Upon the other, SO
that there is no fold down the middle at
l all, but one broad end alone forms the
Waterfall, which is all that is in sight.
This tie is also held in place by one of
; the new pins.
{ The pins used in these scarfs are modi-
fications of the plain gold safety pin
seen so much last year. Some of them
6 nave a little cross-piece at one end and
: a gold loop at the other, forming a cross;
but the prettiest ones are perfectly
plain at the ends and have a tiny ami
> NAL sprawling across the middle.
I The oldest one seen had a little green
> enamel frog, with no two of his gold
y legs in the same position, sprawling laz-
. ily across the round bar of the pin. An
D other had a bumblebee in brown enamel
with here and there a speck of gold
e showing through, as one sees the glim-
e mer on the back of the real bee. "A
. description of these pins may give the
idea that they are somewhat c%onspicu-
Gus, but they do not look so at all wher
in place upon the tie, and as they are
3 necessary to hold the Ardsley and the
Waterfall shapes in place, they have al
least the excuse of utility, which is more
! than can be said of the old stickpins
: which were merely thrust into the knot
| and served no purpose but that of orna'
ment.
, There is a new turnover collar which
: is gaining in favor every day. 1t is very
: high and straight. Some of these collars
have the edges of the turnover part per
fectly square, while others are slightly
! rounded; but all of them have a straigh
piece going around the neck between thu
inside and the part that turns over, sim
liar to that ON the turnover collars worr
by women last summer These collars
are very comfortable, as there is nothing
: about them which can cut into the neck
: no matter how high they are For gen
eral wear they are becoming quite popu
n lar, though one never sees them in tn