The Jersey City news., 1901-02-27

with silks. adorned with any quantity of
lace and ribbon Alternate stripes OF
black and white ribbon in narrow widths
form a favorite garnsture for colored silk
petticoats.
Among the novel touches that so to
make the dress beautiful for spring is
hemstitching.
In its mildest form this fever for hem
stitching is well known, and is always
delicate and in good taste.
Now. however. we have come to liking
it so we'll that we are not content to see
it hush unseen in its usual form. So the
designes have helped out and given us a
=. ,al cAen.lle hemstitching. or rather
chenille caught in hemstitched effect.
1t is very rich.
If you expect to be a June bridesmaid
youll be interested in this way of en-
HANGING the beauty of your get-up.
Say you are to officate in white silk
muslin over pink silk. You can't do bet
ter than to make the blouse and the ruff
fles round the skirt beautiful with ap-
piiques.
And don't be stingy with them.
Let there be perfect riot of blossoms,
foliage and loose petals strewn over the
muslin. You can cut them from figured
panne. taffeta or chiffon.
Roses are the preference, and then, of
course, the same flower will figure on the
accompanying picture hat
There's a tremendous novelty in skirts
1t is a shirred circular.
Ash it is tremendous full circular.
Around the top of the hips and into the
belt it fits without-a wrinkle, but, because
of its extreme fare, it begins to fall in
innumerable folds within an inch or so.
AT distance of eight inches be.ow the
belt it is gathered onto shirring string.
This string is drawn rather closely
around, but the lower ones (they are
about five inches apart, the lowest one
just below the knee) are held rather loose
ly.
There's sufficient fullness to make what
falls below a very full flounce.
Naturally. this idea is only TO be work
ed out in cheer goods.
Sias.hing is effecelve.
Especially eoes it look alluringly rakish
on the raiment of the knight of old.
In some cases, too, a dressmaker just
But, alas! not always, and even if the
effect is good at first these picturesque
ornamentations are likely to become more
raggish than rakish with little wear.
Moral:-Think before you decide.
The sacrifices that certain fair ones
make for Lent are so novel as to be in
teresting even to outsiders. Thus, one
young woman last year determined to
abstain from sugar and cream in her
matutinal cup of coffee.
During the forty days she began 10
love the beverage taken clear in this fash
ion, and has never drunk it with trim
mings" since. Tomorrow, to mortify the
flesh, she means to commence the old way
Of using cream and sugar with it. So
that, travelling in a circle in this fashion,
one refreshing article of diet will give her
a way to do penance the rest of her
natural life.
Others of the sisterhood save the dimes
that would naturally go for chocolate
drinks and bon-bons and give them as an
Easter offering. Sometimes the maidens
sew in their leisure moments on gingham
aprons and the like for charitable visit
ing and bandage wounds in so unique a.
fashion that it has to be done over again
Immediately by a doctor or a nurse.
1t is the motive that counts, however,
that the buttons are sewed on the wrong
side of the aprons or that the sum is in
finitesimally small that is put into the
collection plate on Easter Sunday.
The home seamstress revels in the peni-
. che h "
excuse for not going to afternoon teas
and card parties-which still go on by the
bye-but can stay at home and fashion
lingerie which is marvel of fine nainsooS
and dainty lace.
Afternoon church is well attended from
Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, but the
costumes worn do not in the least sug-
gest sackeloth and ashes. The pink rose
is still in vogue, and as it goes bobbing
through the street at $50 P. NJ, attend
ed by a masculine creature, it speaks
eloquently of the pomps and yanities OF
this wicked world.
The twentieth century will be pre-emi-
nently the womans century, says the
'Woman's Home Companion. 1t will be
her duty, her privilege, to do its choicest
work. What is the noblest thing she
may do with her life, with her leisure?
The thoughtful American girl is coming
to see this truth-that the nations great
est need is spirituality; that the ideal
type from now on will be the spiritual
woman It is not the religious side or
spiritual life which is lacking. The
churches and hundreds of God-fearing
men and women are attending to that.
1t is that portion of spiritual life not
directly connected with religion-the por-
ton which has ever been womans pecul-
lar province-which is neglected.
In the physical conquest of this coun-
try woman bore the heroic part of the
silent sufferer. Important as was the
role she played then, it grew even more
important In the intellectual conquest
which followed That conquest is SO
nearly complete that it may be taken for
granted. An education-such an educa-
tion as the world never dreamed of here
tofore-is now within the reach of every
American boy and girl. 1t extends from
the kindergarten through the university.
But having become the most powerful.
the richest and the most resourceful of
modern nations we are not to rest there
in the belief that progress is all to be
measured by warships and the dollar
mark. Every people has gained little
on the great ladder that humanity is