The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-31
Uoman's $ Ways in Summer Days.
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The swimming costume Is closely related
to the bathing suit, butes not its coun-
terpart. The swimmer dspenses with all
the furbelows possible. Even the wide
sailor collar. so fashionable this year, is
objected TO by the swimmer, as 1t fiops
up about the head and ears aud interferes
with rapidity of motion in the water. The
swimming dress is sleeveless. with close
fitting "knickers' to the knees; a short
skirt, not over full. and a blouse cut
heart shaped at the neck with sloping
revers, or is made with a braided yoke.
deeply pointed front and back.
The Leghorn hat is having a decided
vogue--it Is so shady as well as light, and
droops so gracefully at will about the
face. In its most fetching form II has
cluster of la France roses starting from
a drapery OF chiffon or lace, with stems
and foliage trailing over one side. The
prettiest sun hat seen this year at the
summer resorts has a brim of silk or
muslin. knife,pleated and edged with
lace, forming fun jabot about the
crown OF straw. This is wreathed by tiny
pink roses, while a full single rose nestles
in the folds of the brim at the left side.
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.
To obtain the perfume from any favor
ite flower is possible with little trouble,
AZ one has an abundance OF flowers The
blossoms should be picked without stem
and dropped into jar half full of olive
or almonu oil. After standing In that un-
til the next day, they should be put In
coarse clio n and squeezed dry over the
bottle OF oil. Then fresh flowers should
be added and the operation repeated un-
ill the required strength Is obtained. The
all f- tn
tity OF pure rectfied spirits. This should
be shaken every day for three weeks.
when 1t may be turned off and bottled for
use.
A cleaning fluid that will remove grease
from the most delicate silks and cloths
is made OF one pint of distilled benzine,
three-sixteenths of an ounce OF fluid chlo-
reform, one-eighth ounce OF carbonate OF
ammonia and one-eighth ounce OF sui
phuric ether IL should be bottled and
corked tightly and kept from fire and
lights. as 1t is very infiammable.
Fruit juices are Indispensable In fam
lilies where summer drinks andy water ices
are liked. and are useful In making sauces
for puddings. To can these juices mash
the fruit and rub II through sieve. To
every pint of the juice and pulp add three
cupfuls OF sugar. Fill the fruit Jars with
the mixture, cover them and plsce In a
kettle with sufncient cold water to about
cover tncm. bTlflS to ooi SloWiy
boil half an hour. Then fill the cans full,
seal them and cool them in the water.
FALSE JEWELS.
The Polish princess who was supposed
TO have lost pearls valued at $4,000 In
London hotel and who later begged the
police not to trouble themselves about
the matter, as the thieves had taken, not
her original gems. but reproductions of
them, has been the subject OF more ridi-
cule than sympathy since her loss.
She seems 10 have made the unpardona-
BILE mistake of allowing herself to be
found out.
Few persons believe the story that she
while travelling. rather than risk the loss
of the real stones, and the opinion most
frequently expressed condemns her for
having called attention TO the matter.
The wearing OF false jewelry Is one of
the things that women now do without
concealment, although the women OF "A
former generation would have considered
IL beneath their dignity to wear stone
that was false.
IL might be that an amethyst or a gar
net was the extent of a woman's iewelry
20 years ago, or she might have nothing
more valuable than a hair pin. But she
was very much better satisfied with such
things than she would have been with a
string of false pearls that came to her
knees.
The woman OF today would rather have
the false pearls. however, and the prob
abilities are that she would have very lit
tie objection 20 letting her friends know
that she was not adorned with the genu-
Inc article. says the Philadelphia Press.
Pearls in particular are very becoming