The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-07

seems to q tilnid man as II all eyes
were fixed ON him, as if each n was
making a mental note that his trous-
ers bagged at the knees or seemed shy
of his boots, that a button was miss
ing from his coat, that his cuhs edge
was frayed or that his hat was last
years style. These cabins afford hne
opportunities, though, for people VINO
seldom think of themselves, ana IKE
to study their fellow men, and are also
much enjoyed by women who are
well dressed, or think they are, which
answers the same purpose.-NeD K02H
Tribune.
Poison in Dyed Clothes.
The Berlin Medical Society at a re-
cent meeting discussed at length the
effects upon the skin of dyes used to
color wearing apparel. DIR. Weyl, a
general practitioner of high repute,
told about his examination OF a dress
which had caused an obstinate and
painful skin disease to the woman
wearing it. He found the red cotton
goods with which the collar and CUTS
were lined saturated with a red pois-
onous dye, which came off whenever
brought in contact with persplr1ng
skin.
Another woman of DIR. Weyl's ac-
quaintaince poisoned her SKIN by
wearing blue stockings which she her
self knit. The first day she wore the
stockings her feet began to swell, the
second day the inflammation extended
to the calf and the third day to the
knee. When DR.. Weyl was called the
woman was in bed with large swell
ings and eruptions on both legs. She
recovered after being treated two
weeks.
DIR. Weyl said that much of the vel
vet which, for instance, ssis often worn
around the neck by young women,
causes irritation of the skin and rough
ness of the whole face. One piece,
which he procured directly from a
dyer and manufacturer, produced
eruptions after it had been worn but
a few hours. Every bit of cotton or
woollen underclothing, according to
DR.. Weyl, should be thoroughly
boiled, soaped and rubbed before it is
| put on for the first time. Colored silk
underwear is not so dangerous as
other colored underwear, because the
fibre of silk holds the dye much more
firmly than the tibres of other goods.
DR.. Weyl also described the case OF
a young man in Munich who had been
poisoned by the yellow dyeing matter
used in coloring russell shoes. After
wearing these shoes for one week the
young mans feet were covered with
small yellow blisters, which, in the
middle of the second week, began to
spread to his ankles. His doctor had
him give UP the shoes and cured the
eruptions in ten days. The yellow
leather was subsequently examined at
the Munich HYGIENE Institute, and
was found to be saturated with a dam
gerous yellow dye. DR.. Weyls advice
to his colleagues was:-"Don't wear
russell shoes. n-EDchdn1e.
Roman Marriage Etiquette.
Independent of the legal forms,
there were the social observances Of
marriage which were the same what
even was the legal ceremony chosen.
At nightfall, when the star of Venus
began to shine, the bride was fetched
from her fathers house. She was
dressed in a white robe, a symbol of
her virgin purity, bound round her
waist with a woollen sash; her hair
was plated into six tresses after those
of the vestal virgins; on her head she
wore a flame-colored veil and a fresh
wreath of the sacred verbena, for the
wife was priestess in her family. I'm
der the protection of Juno Domiduca
(the home leader) she passed through
| the streets accompanied by her friends
and lighted on her way with torches.
BY her side there walked a young boy
carrying an open basket, in which
there lay a hank of wool, o distaff and
a spindle, for spinning was the great
duty of the Roman matron of the re-
public.
To be a good spinner was a gem in
her crown of virtues, by the side of
chastity and frugality, and the nj
blens of this occupation were held in
honor even at a time when the chosen
pursuits of women were very differ
emit. Arriving at the door of her new
home she found it wreathed with
flowers in honor of the festive occa-
sion. On the door posts she hung
fillets of wool and Amounted them
with oil as a symbol, it would seem, of
fertility.
She was then lifted over the thresh-
old, a custom in which we may see a
survival of the time when wives were
habitually stolen from neighboring
tribes and carried by force to their
husbands house. In the atrium the
bridegroom received her, handed to
her a key as a sign of her rule in the
house, and offered her fire and water
to represent the necessities of life,
which were at her disposal.
Answering to the fixed formula in
which he addressed her, asking who
she was, she replied:-'Where you are
Caius there an | Gaia; as we might
say, 'Your people shall be my people,
your house my house, and your life
my life.n The pair then sat side by
side on. two chairs covered with the
fleece of a sheep, and the priest joined
their hands.
The marriage contract fixing the
amount Of the dowry and the mode of
its administration was then signed
and a banquet followed, during which
five a candles were burned, while
from the walls the waxen masks of
the husbands ancestors, decked for
the occasion with flowers, looked
down from their open cupboards with
approval.-N0tSondt Re0ies0.
The Indian Devil.
/ was camping one night late in the
fall of 1S49 at the head of Molly
chunnkemunk Lake, near a stream
which runs from the ponds known