The Jersey City news., 1902-08-29

/ culotes within their substance. FROM the
edge of tbe nail new growth pushes on
! ward until the whole finger end IS guy
| protected. The dainty nail is laid on d
yarv sensitive skin bed, which also gives
| it additions. The growth is nearly tWice
as rapid in summer as it is in winter IN
all people.
! There seems to be a general impress
! ion that feather pillows can not be WASH
ed or cleaned in any way except by IRE
ouent airing. But during the hot sum
MGR weather it is sometimes aosoiuteis
necessary to have the feathers freshene'u
and sweetened by washing; and practieai
housewives have found that this IS nor
such an impossible task, after ALL Ihe
main care is to so handle them that the
! feathers will not be allowed to ny
when only the ticking is to be washed.
In this case, shake the feathers INTO
one end of the pillow tick, then rip open
the other end, and baste the opening q
n flour sack over the opening in the Pill
low tick. Shake all the feathers mo
the flour sack, and sew up the end be,
fore removing the pillow tick. WASH me
flick. then put the feathers into 1t IN the
same manner in which they were taken
! out
IF both tick and feathers must be
washed fill a tub half full of warm soap
suds. add a tablespoonful of ammonia
r1L soap on the tick, put into the water
and use the washboard as for ordinary
clothes. Rinse in several waters that
are lukewarm, and run the pillow
through the wringer. Hang 1t IN the
| shade to dry. 1t will require at ieasl
three days. When dry give the pillow
good beating up and it will be sweet
and light.
| Never put pillows in the sun, even 70
| a;r them for it will bring out the AMI
| NAL oil and cause them to have rancid
smell. For the same reason pilio"s
| should not be dried near the hre alter
wetting. If the clothes wringer cannot
bo made sufficiently loose in the rollers
+o allow the 4bunehes of feathers to pass
| through. wiring as dry as possible Win
the hands. and beat and dry the Pillows
several days in wind and draft.
Very beautiful evening cloaks are
seen of Killed mousselipe de sole IN paie
tones of cream. pink on,pale tone gray
which is more fashionable and more be-
ocming at the present moment
The smartest of these cloaks are not
made of accordion plated chiffon, which
gives foo much fullness of material near
tba neck. but are built of "Plisse Soleil,
a kind of plait which is narrow at the
top and broad at the bottom, and when
is impressed on the material set dlag-
onally.
There is only one place in Paris where
| the plisses are made, and the manufac-
turers-two women-who own the pat
ent. have so many orders to execute Just
at present that orders have to be sent
| in two weeks before they are required,
| so as to get them done in time.
II All plaited mousselines, whether accor-
dion or solid, are pressed out straight
with band at their lower edge, on
which narrow frill or ruching is set. The
present tendency is toward the frou frou
effect. Indeed, SO recherche is the 'frou"
| of all our garments, that even the lnte-
rior of our cloaks and their wide, broad
sleeves are adorned with row upon row
Of narrow fiouncing of very soft chiffon,
either plain or killed, and invariably
edged with narrow ruchings-or what
Paris dressmakers call "chi-chics." (Re-
member that word).
OF course they are all well lined be-
meath their apparent fragility. Usually
| the chantilly is put plain over another
! transparency of plain or black chiffon.
| Beneath this a full ACCORDION plated
or pIisse of solid white chiffon is seen..
And beneath that again a lining of taf-
feta or a double lining, with an outer
| lining of flannel, so that you see their
weight is somewhat deceptive.
| Among the most attractive cushion
covers are those with fronts or Persian
and Syrian embroidery. The oblong
pieces of embroidery alone cost $1.25 and
up, and the made cushions $3.50 and
upward.
1 i Though colored, there is about these
embroideries a CERTAIN coolness and clear
ness of quality. The embroidery colors
are always clear, like the flowers and
| foliage af early summer while the ground
is softened white, the material being
quite like canvas.
Since these embroideries come in stripe
effects they may be cut up and used in
various ways. They have very much the
J look of the Bulgarian embroideries so
| much used upon dresses. Some Of the
handsomer ones have an open-work de-
sign in the canvas, between the rows of
embrNdery. This embroidery is usually
in stripes of two to three inches each in
| width.
To remove tight ring from the finger
/ pass piece of linen thread or fine twine
under the ring and wind it round and
round tile finger toward the tip. Then
] take the end below the ring and gradu-
ally unwind it. During the process the
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