The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-30

goes. Almost mechanically her maj
esty lights cigarette after cigarette as
she sits in her great writing room at
Godolle, which is fitted up with
carved oak panels and Gobelin tap
e~stries, the sombre hue of the walls
being relieved here and there by
trophies of the chase. Any n who
has the opportunity of examining
closely the slender, white hand of the
imperial lady will certainly have no.
| ticed a faint yellow stain on the first
and second fingers of the left hand
caused by the cigarette.-Paris
| Letter.
They Would Have a Precious Time of 1t.
Common sense is rapidly emanci-
pating women from thralldom to silly
fashions, says the Detroit Free Press.
An authority on the subject says that
it is coming to be the proper thing
not to dress the hair at all, but to let
it float iii wild abandon over the
shoulders and down the back, with no
restraint excepting that imposed by a
small fllet bound round the head,
Greek fashion. 1t has long been a
cause for surprise among men why
women should lessen the beauties of
their luxurious tresses by hiding them
in the accustomed coil. One might as
we'll wear no hair at all as to have it
punched in a hot, unwieldy, and GER
tainly ~unbecoming knot. 1t is a gen.
orally shared masculine belief that
long hair, u~nconfined, is one of the
most pleasing of feminine adorn-
ments. Thus it was, according to
tradition, that woman was ~primevally
introduced to history. And it may
fairly be doubted whether all the art
and fashion since time began have
succeeded in making any improve
ment upon the natural grace of the
united tress. But the knot always
will be favored by short-haired girls
The Ever Young Sister.
There's a sister l often meet in my
travels. She is the good sister who
feels just as young as ever she was
She's a kittenish thing, yet she'd be a
little more kittenish if she was a less
| elephantine. Frisky old girl, how she
does love to climb into the swing at
the picnicl Weighs two hundred and
fifteen, and makes the swing creak
like a hosting tackle. Higher, Mr..
Thinshanksl Higher! Oh, higher
You can't brighten me! I'm not one
of the scary sort of girls You bet
she isn't. Has six children, and il
you'll mistake her for her eldest
daughter-a sweet, slender girl, with
an oval face, spirituelle expression,
and figure us graceful as o swayine
lily-shell ask you to dinner for
a week. Plays PUSSY, wants q
corner" and Hunt the slipper
Loves to ''teeter.n With an eighteen
foot board you have to pull all bui
about thirty inches over to your side
of the trestle to make it balance.
When the board is balanced right in
the middle she can fire the whole
young mems Bible class up into the
air as though they had been fired
from q catapult. When her end o.
the board bangs down on the ground
it jars all the buds off the trees. Fond
of mountain climbing. Usually fas'
tens on to a young man to drag her
up. Older brethren too wary. They
Younger. Besides, the old youngsters
retain their old-tjme prejudice in
favor of younger girls. They help hei
daughters up. Man never mistakes
mother for daughter going up noun
tain. Apt to make that mistake
about luncheon time only. Oh, we
know that old-elderly-that is, mid,
dle-aged woman who is the youngest
of the lott And, knowing her, we fly
from her, that is, as we'll as q man
who has long since shed his wings
and raised a few achers of corns-can
hy.-Robert j. Burdette M ladies
Home Journal.
How to Take Caro- of the Brain.
The brain stands most abuse of any
organ in the body. Its best tonic and