The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-30
DRESSING AT HOME.
Importance Of Being Attractive ut
all Times.

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Every little while one finds in femi
nine journals q pertinent word tx
wives and mothers regarding DRESSING
for home eyes. And wisely. One can
not afford to look less we'll in one
children's yes than in those OF TN
next door neighbor or the yerles'
stranger, and if Arthur and ste
phen's approval vas worth dressing
for when they were s~weethearts, why
not when they are husbands? Bul
about undress, Doyouremember Davlo
Copperfleld's concern over the items
of Dora's curl papers? Well, the most
unobserving man is quite as quick 10
notice if not to remark the detalls OF
feminine attire. Because q MAJ is toe
good natured TO comment on what he
sees, do not take it for granted that
he is blind. Sterling worth in charac-
ter may be relied upon to secure 2
goodly amount of love, but we are all
agreed-is it not so?--that personal
appearance has a decided influence In
our friendships and loves. Our friends
and foes are, in q measure, what they
look to be. Inherited features are
pretty much, though not altogether,
beyond our power to change, but one
is after all largely the reflection OF her
surroundings, and these depend much
upon herself,
In the matter OF garments, one may
have silk or cotton ones, but the
agreeable effects of or the other
hinges not upon shekels, but upon the
tact with which the goods are ar
ranged and set off. That Is, n may
be "a picture" in a print dress or a
fright in the same dress, with the diff
| ferences of its hanging ''at loose
heels and being worn with untidy
| person, and so on. The average
woman, Invested of the various Access
sions that buoy her up in dress toilet,
is pretty apt to be unloveiy to look
upon. But how few women think
about it. Men are fastidious beyond
their own avowal, wives, and one
needs to think twice to think
wisely before she makes herself a
nightly fright. Curl papers, oil be-
smeared face, hands in untidy gloves,
and robed in ugly-and it must be
confessed, not always neat-under-
clothing, and what is there in the por-
trait to remind II of the fair woman
one finds on the morrow in the par
Ior? If hair must be curled, let it be
by a patent curler that takes but two
or three moments in the morning.
Only spinsters not afraid of their own
shadows can afford to sleep in curl
papers. Appearing in them in public
should be a capital otfenSe.
Whatever cosmetics one cares or
dares to use should be applied and
u.1,-. 11Irr x.yhnn onn fe Of 1ho~txr fA
s'seek the seclusion that the dungeon
grants 1t would seem almost super
huous to say, however, that the fair
est skin and most elaborate couture
do not require that one shall sleep in
the plight so many people appear to
think necessary. The European GUS
room-if no bigger than a closet
where he or she is sole monarch, is a
wholesome, happy arrangement that
may obtain some day in our land.
While husband and wife have but
one sleeping apartment, that must in
most cases do duty as q dressing room
as well, one surely cannot afford to
make her sleeping toilette less becom-
ing than her prettiest day attire, to
say nothing of the artistic reason of
WlSlllnS lOI OAC . OWA odhV w w idil
end sweet.
And the means, supposing silken
bed gowns are forbidden by the state
OF ones purse-well 1t is forbidden to
no one to bl lush her teeth and hair be-
fore retiring, and to make her face
and hands clean, and very often to
take a hot tub bath, and to wear a
fair, white night dress, be it ever so
simple. If high priced toilet per-
fumes are not be had-and fine odors
are always high priced-one may, by
hygienic living, have q breath as
sweet as new mown hay, and sprigs of
sweet smelling herbs laid in bureau
drawers lend their fragrance to the
contents. -Dindh Stuagis.
Game of Shadow uf.
The game of shadow buff differs
very materially from blind mans buff,
but it is equally as amusing. A large
piece of white linen should be fastened
neatly up at one end of a room, so that
it hangs smoothly. Buff mot blinded)
seats himself on q low stool, with his
face to the linen, and a table, on which
is a lighted candle, should be placed
about four or five feet behind him,
and the rest of the lights extinguished.
Buffy's playfellows next pass in sue
cession between the candle and him,
distorting their features in as gro
tesque a as possible-hopping,
limping and performing various odd
antics, SO as to make their shadow
very unlike their usual looks. Buffy
must then try and guess to whom the
shadows belong, and if he guesses cor
rectly, the player whose shadow he
recognizes takes his place. Buff is
allowed only one guess for each per
son, and must not turn his head either
to the right or left to see who passes.
-MontreGI Star.
Its Time Had Come.
Racial traits outcrop irresistibly.
Neither surroundings, education nor
training can remove the ineffaceable
imprint of ancestral generations. The
Oriental is a fatalist, just as the eau
casian is an optimist, or the red Indian
revengeful, The negro inherits no
small share OF the Oriental cast of
mind. He believes in dreams, signs,
warnings. spells, lamentations,
voodoos. hoodoos and night doctors,
and you can't educate it out of him.
There are some eight million negroes