The Jersey City news., 1906-06-09

bows and tiny pink and blue flowers. for
a. border. M
Elaborate creations of chiffon and lace
are not so much seen as-last year. They
are superseded by a dainty lingeries par
| asol of sheer hand-embroidered white
batiste-very simple in appearance. in
deed, but hardly SO III price Others are
of white all-oveu embroidery. and look a
i, little like a fine white pettieoat stretched
| on a frame.
Then there are sscolored hatistes, pom
gees and linens galore, some plain. many
embroidered and numbers with frills of
lace and embroidery. One can get a
really charming little affair for so little
as So. Or one can pay ten or twenty
times that.
Even the black parasol of elredly La
dies are this year decorated with gay
colored flowers, either painted or woven
in the silk.
From mere utilitarian article for
keeping off the sun, the parasol has de-
veloped into creation of art and gem
fus, the most decorative article in wo-
mans toilet. ~ -s,ns ~
ALI sorts of accidents are liable to
happen to table linen that is given to
unskilled laundresses, and the life of the
linen is undeniably shortened by visits
to public laundries. Some of these may
not use an excess of bleaching powders,
but the mangling certainly wears the
fabric, as can be proved by the fluff
shaken from households linen made
smooth in this way. Undeniably a man
gle can be used with, less danger to the
fabric than careless hand ironing, but the
greatest recklessness seems to be the
rule.
When a hole actually appears in table
linen. it must. be either darned or patch
ed, and darning is most satisfactory. If
( the tear or broken place is not large. put
the linen into al embroidery hoop and
darn with soft mercerized cotton or get
the fiat linen thread if you can, which is
made for the purpose Of darning table
linen Either will be better than ravel-
ings of the cloth. which were once
thought to be the best for mending
The careful housewife looks over her
table linen occasionally, holding it to the
Hight to find the worn places which have
MT yet broken through, These are put
over the embroidery hoop and aarneo.
The slight Intervene remaining both
strengthens the darning and makes it in
=-visibfe-wi1en ironed
Linen that is so worn as to be mend
ed may be starched slightly if great care
be taken to- use no. more than viii give
a new stiffness. 4o. Il a esa
s a 10 "
In the garden where flowers. and fol
iage plants gathered the Mpods and
fields are grown, natural conditions
should be initiate. as nearly as possible.
Most of the earliest wild flowers prefer
some shadt. There is no. better way of
providing this than by planting them in
a rockery. 1t can be built of al few
loads of weather-stained stones, arrang-
ed in a mound. leaving recesses of vary
ing sizes for pockets in. which to put
soil and plants. ss
As in bed, the soil for the plants
should be thoroughly enriched. The flow
, ers are well established. The rockery
may be made beautiful with score of
plants and ferns that grow in the woods,
even near the city, only, awaiting some
one who cares enough to dig them up.
Columbines, liverworts, saxifrages,
lady-SHppefS,I anemOneSs OF sWIHduVWeTS,
gentians, May apples. vielets and many
hardy ferns, including the. beautiful
maidenhair, are widely distributed.
Spring flowers, which do we'll in the sun,
are the blue-bells, buttercups and spring
beauties. Before the spring flowers have
ceased to loom the summer wild flowers
are beginning. The wild rose blooms in
May and June and is followed by the OK
eye daisy and butterfly milkweed. Then
comes host of snowy field flowers,
which continue to bloom until severe
frost of late October and November.
| One of the most satisfactory items of
news. which reaches us from the '.gay
city, is that foulard is coming back; into
favor. The beautiful satin foulards,
which wear Sc well and look sosfresh and
smart, as long as there are two threads
to hang together, '''win once again take
their rightful place among the spring ma
terials, in addition to the pretty little
I spotted and figured silk foulards, which