The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-18


MIR. Dfsraeii's Experiences.
The most curious episode in Mr..
Disraeli's life occurred in the year of
the Great Exhibition, when Mrs.
Bridges Willyams, then living Wild
owed at Torquay. wrote to him pro-
Tossing admiration and asking advice.
He did not answer and she wrote
again. Meeting a Devonshire man at
Monckton Mines he asked him II he
knew a mad woman at Torquay
named Willyams, and was assured
that Mrs. Willyams was not mad.
Still he did not reply and she wrote
asking him to meet her near the foun-
tain in the Exhibition. He did
not go. and she wrote again,
naming another hour. His
friends advised him to keep the APP
pointment and he did so. He found
an old lady who might have sat for a
figure OF a fairy godmother. She told
him a long story and gave him an en-
velope containing a statement on
which she wanted an opinion. Dis
raeli put it In his pocket and forgot it.
Weeks afterwards he put on the same
coat and there was the envelope, con-
tanning a bank note for n thousand
pounds for his election expenses and
the legal case. which was not absurd.
He got a lawyers opinion for her and
sent it. That was the beginning of q
long correspondence. When she died
she left him her fortune, and was
buried at Hughenden.
In one of Mr.. Disraeli's letters to
Mrs. Bridges Willyams. published in
Mr.. Froude's Lord Beaconsfield," he
says writing on the 21st of March,
1868, just after the marriage of the
Prince of Wales:-'The wedding was
a fine affair, a thing to remember.
After the ceremony there vas a splen-
did dejeuner at Windsor. The Queen
was very anxious that an old shoe
should be thrown at the royal pair on
their departure, and the Lord Cham
berlain showed Inc in confidence the
weapon with which he had furnished
himself. He took out OF his pocket a
beautiful white satin slipper which
had been given him for the occasion
by the Duchess of Brabant. Alasl
when the hour arrived his courage
failed him. London Daily NeUs.
Spraying with Cold Water.
The spraying of the surface of the
human body with cold water is now
resorted to for the purpose of reduc-
ing febrile temperature. In the ease
of a nan suffering from phthisis,
whose temperature was high, il was
found that by spraying about a pint
of water between 60 --and 20 degrees
Fahrenheit ove his body the temper
allure fell to normal, and continued so
- ~
was satisfactorily adopted in the case
of a girl with diphtheria-
Decorating Ceilings and Windows.
When the ceiling is to be papered it
is desirable to choose a closely pat
termed paper, as the cracks and inc
qualities which all ceilings nowadays
seem to possess are then much less
apparent. A cornice should be a con-
Meeting link OF color between the wall
paper and the ceiling, but the average
design to be met with is so bad that it
is better to accentuate IL as little as
possible. Wooden holdings can be
purchased from any timber merchant,
and when painted and placed between
the ceiling and wall they look exceed
inglv well.
In the matter of windows ones
sense of proportion causes a feeling of
revolt against the unbroken expanse
of glass TO be met with in many
modern houses. This difficulty may
be dealt with in many ways; for in
stance, unglazed easements divided
up into four or five inch squares and
fixed up as shutters produce the
desired effect; or a shelf crossing the
window, hung with transparent cur
tains falling below, serves to break
the monotony, besides supplying a
place where flowers are sure to look
happy.-Ethel Johnson On Womdn's
World.