The Jersey City news., 1901-04-08

not later than Saturday, July 90
Great interest is felt in the immense
California palms. for Pan-American dec
Grating. which has been carried over a
bison-city winter at a temperature of %
degrees.
Floral circles are much pleased at the
measure passed near the close of the last
session of Congress, whereby five OF the
divisions of the Department of Agricul-
ture are placed under the supervision of
| one director. the new arrangement to he
known as the Bureau of Plant Industry,
: the divisions being: gardens and grounds.
pomology, botany, plant pathology and
physiology, and plant and seed introduce
tion. Dr. B. T. Galloway has been chos-
en- for the dictatorship, and he already
has a staff of assistants who are enthu-
siasts in their special lines of work.
A most fashionable florist assures US
that the gardenia is quite as Fashionable
Ior men as it has been for women.
Questioned about Easter weddings he
says that bunch of vio1ets is proper for
the noon wedding, but that for evening
| ceremonies the good dresser sports in his
butronhole a gardenia or bunch of lily
of the valley.
Any one who feels so inclined certainly
has good cause for fear we are becoming
eXtrayagant.
Not long since economical souls looked
apon any great amount of lace trim
ming as rather a reckless outlay. but all
that was very economical as compared
with the present schemes of lace decora-
ton.
he i-r7ff 1of.
but rather to call attention to the way in
which we use it.
Allowing it to dangle aimlessly in fril.s
is not enough. Lace must now prove its
rishF % tive by working!
1t is not laid on and allowed to idle at
its case. Even the most cobweoby length
may be compelled to support the weight
of an entire skirt.
Statesmen were wont to recommend a
garment for it's strength once upon a
time.
Could they add this to list of virtues
of a skirt which is hung entirely upon
fimSy lace yoke, or from band of
insertion which runs around the hips?
While every woman does not permit
herself this Indulgence, the great majority
have the flounces of summer skirts de-
pendent upon rows of insertion alone.
Woe be unto us when thoughtless ones
tread upon our skirtsl
This same extravagant tendency is
noted is noticed in the eagerness to give
our rainent golden touches.
Twas in '4S that men became the vic
Tins of the gold microbe.
Not until half a century later was the
gentler half attacked, and even then it
was in the name of one of whom they
knew next to nothing until they had
either read Rostand's poem or seen the
divine Sarah personate Napoleon's un-
lucky son.
In this case though. the extravagance
is nothing so wild, since gilt lasts quite
a while, unless, that is, you sport it too
much at the seashore.
To many of US, however, it would be
improved by little furnishing. Too much
glare is hard on the eyes.
AT the risk of being accused of return
ing to the subject of lace, the novel
founce of fancy net must be cited
Given a dress of any of the numerous
sorts of that big and beautiful yelling
family, it seems quite the thing to cut
it off at the knees, or thereabouts, and
eke it out with a filmy fancy net
This is in turn alive with rows of
velvet ribbon, and, ten to one, rollick-
ing lot of ribbon trimmed net fiounces
along the edge.
Feminine rhymestresses may yet be
moved thereby to wax eloquent over
footprints on the f1ounce of net"
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drift
Instead of investing in a tough straw
that will stand plenty of knockabout
wear" we are very likely to lay out our
dollars upon an airy, fairy creation in
tulle!
Among meats beef leads off as the most
expensive; but it is also the most nourish-
ing for people in good health. says the
'.Woman's Home Companion" Porter
house and sirloin steaks and the rib
roasts are the choice for general family
use. Fillets for roasting and steaks cut
in a special way are much higher in
price, and are not seen. on the average
table. Hotels and restaurants have them
always on hand, and they really are not
so expensive in such cases, where all the
buying is done on very large scale,
thus reducing the price of every pound.
If the housekeeper of small or average
means will adopt this perfect plan of pur-
chasing her meats in fairly large quanti-
ties she will reduce her butchers bill
perceptibly, and at the same time give
her family better cuts and more. When
there is a family of from four to six
people it is an advantage to buy from
ten to fifteen pounds of beef at a time.
If this is bought from what is known to
the butcher as ''the best part of the small
of the back the housekeeper will have
the best cuts for her table at a very mod
crate cost.
Long, low couches, tufted and stuffed
until they look positively apoplectic, make
! the slim, severely wicker or rattan couch
blush for its own simplicity. Dressing
tables with voluminous draperies of
chintz or cretonne caught up with knots
of ribbon and frills of muslin and lace,
are for the summer boudoir. The denim
sets are more severe in outline and are,
as rule, plain instead of tufted.
Plain blue denim, in light or dark shades,
is finished around the edges of the seat
| and back by straight bands of blue and
white, or all white fringe. Pink scarlet,
lilac, green and a pale creamy shade OF
yellow are all effective, and because so