The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-04

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tract the attention of buyers who
otherwise would not have noticed the
graceful sauce pitcher. The solid sill
Yer condiment sets have oval trays,
and the bottles are patterned after
the pagodas of long ago. That a
service of this sort brings $3.50 is sufh-
cient proof of its exclusiveness. Vege
table dishes in sterling that cost $lOO
are not as expensive as they seem,
since the covers are provided with ad-
Unstable handles, which, when I'M
screwed, the lid reversed, becomes a
salad, fruit or dessert dish.
The best plated ware is made in the
same way, so that every covered dish
with a flat crown counts two in the
entire service. A very handsome set
of silver for punch is the envy OF
every housekeeper and buffet owner
that enters a we'll known Broadway
house. There is a tray worth 1912.
the punch bowl that costs $470, and
eighteen caps at 1895, making the
total cost far exceed the wages OF the
average bookkeeper. The silver IS
etched with a pattern of conventional
grapevine and the handles OF gold
lined bowl represent ideal heads OF
Bacchus.
Five hundred dollars will buy a
very beautiful sugar basket, cream
jug and salver for a berry course, but
the fruit bowl necessary to complete
the service will add $40 if made OF
silver, and 800 if cut glass. Family
Bibles, writing pads, albums, follos,
scrap books and adjustable covers for
paper editions are also the work OF
the silversmith, and the ornamental
corners cost the purchasers a pile OF
money. For instance, a family Bible,
bound in seal leather, with sterling
corners, sells for $175. Think OF the
nice lot of standard authors in cloth
or half cloth that much money would
buy, and then say whether you wan t
the testaments in sterling finish OF
not.-NeW York World.
Pope Leo's Daily Routiue.
Every morning, before addressing
himself to the direction of the affairs
of this planet, he offers the sacrifice
of the mass, and then for gratiorum
actio attends a second mass, at which
his chaplain is the celebrant. With a
mind thus attuned to divine things,
the Pope then begins his workingday.
A single glass of coffee, tea or milk
sufices to break his fast. After going
through his papers he begins to re-
ceive about nine. From that hour
till one in the afternoon the throng of
visitors never slackens. Secretaries,
ambassadors, cardinals from the con
g%regation, distinguished strangers,
bishops from afar, have audience in
turn. There are 1900 bishops in the
Catholic Church, and with all of them
the Pope is in more or less constant
personal relations. Nothing car be
more gracious, more animated or
more sympathetic than the manner
of the Pope.
His eye, which, when fixed in
thought, is deep and piercing, beams
with k~indliness, and the severely
rigid lines of his intellectual features
relax with the ~pleasantest of smiles as
he talks, using, as the ase may be,
either French, Latin (Which he
speaks with great purity aud facility
OF his own musical native tongue.
After four OF five hours spent in this
way, he returns to his papers and
books until three; when he dimes.
His meal is frugal; a little soup, two
courses of meat with vegetables and
dessert of fruit, with n glass of
strong wine, suffice for his wants.
After dinner he goes out for a drive OF
a walk in the gardens of the Vatican.
In the evening he resumes his papers,
and at night, between nine aud ten,
all the members of the papal house
hold assemble for the rosary, after
which they retire to rest. But long
after that hour the cardinal state sec.
rotary, Ralnpolla, or the under state
secretary, Mocenni, is often sum
moned to the papal apartments,
where, by the light of the midnight
lamp, Leo watches and thinks and
prays for the welfare of the church.
Contemporary ReuieW.