The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-29
MOTHERS WISDOM.
She Advises That Her Daughter
Should Neither a Borrower
Nor q Lender Be.

time she had when she was quite a
young housekeeper, afflicted with a
borrowing neighpor. This lady sell
dom had anything of her own at
hand when it was wanted, SO she de-
pended upon the obliging disposition
of her friends.
One day nv mother put on her
large housekeeping apron, and
stepped across the yard to her out
door kitchen. The kitchens in Ken
lucky were never q part of the house,
but always at q little distance from it,
in a separate building.
Aunt Phyllis" said my mother to
the cook, who was browning coffee
grains in a skillet over the fire, II
thought | told you that l was coming
here to make pound cake and cream
pies this morning. Why is nothing
ready?n
La me, Miss Emmelinem replied
Aunt Phyllis. miss 'Tilda Jenkins
done carried off every pie pan and
and rolling pin and pastry board, and
borrowed all de eggs and cream TO-
herself. Her bakin' isn't mon be-
gum
This was a high handed proceeding,
but nothing could be done in the case.
1t was Mrs. Jenkins's habit and
mother had always been so amiable
about it, that the servants, who were
easy going, never troubled them
selves to ask the mistress, but lent
the inconvenient borrower whatever
she desired.
Sometimes just as we were going to
church, l was too little at the time Co
remember, mother said that a small
black boy with very white teeth and
a very woolly head, would peep up at
her chamber door, exclaiming.-
"Howdy, Miss Emmeline. Miss
Tilda done sent me to borrow yo'
Prayer-book. She goin' to church to-
day herself
Or, of a summer evening, her maid
would appear with a modest request
for Miss Emmeline's lace shawl and
red satin fan; Miss Tilda wanted to
make a call. and had nothing to wear.
All this, l think, made mother per-
fectly set against yer borrowing
SO much as a slate pencil or a pin.
We were always to use our own
things, or go without. / never had a
sister, but cousins often spend months
at the house, and were in and out of
my room in the freest way, forever
bringing me their gloves to mend or
their ties to clean, as cousins will.
"Never borrow said my mother.
BUY, or give away, or do without.
but be beholden to nobody for a
loan. n-M0ygGret 3. SGngSter, IN H0T-
per's Young People.
A New Profession far Women.
In spectroscopic work lin astrono-
myb the eye has been superseded of
late to a great extent by the photo
graphic plate, which is now able to
recognize fainter impressions than
the eye, and to register them perma-
nently. Professor Pickering has been
continuing at Cambridge his remark
able work, and it is also being carried
on in the southern hemisphere by a
party sent there in connection with
the operations of the Draper memoir
ial. The instrument employed is a
Photographic telescope, with a prism,
or a series of prisms, in front of the
object glass. the whole mounted like
any large telescope, and provided
with an accurate driving clock. With
an instrument of this kind we obtain
upon the sensitive plate the spectra
of all the stars which happen to be in
the field of view, sometimes hundred
at a time, as when q cluster
like the Pleiades is in
question. This method has made it
possible to complete, in a compare
lively short time, a general survey of
the spectra of all the brighter stars of
the northern hemisphere; and the
survey is now being extended to the
southern hemisphere, where it is al
ready we'll advanced, Whenever the
spectrum of a star, thus photograph
ed on a small scale, is found to present
any interesting popularity, it is ex-
ainined with a more powerful instru-
ment, which photographs its spectrum
on a much larger scale; and this sec
ond photograph is then enlarged
again for special study.
1t is worth recording here that the
examination of the Harvard photo
graphs has been made almost entirely
by women, who are assistants in the
observatory. A niece of DR.. Henry
Draper, whose memorial is now being
erected in the form of this monument
al work-the spectroscopic survey of
the heavens-h had the good fortune to
discover in the star spectra the deli
cate doubling of The lines which has
proved so full OF information Prof.
ChdS. a. Young, an September Forum.
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