The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-20
THE COLLEEN BAWN.
She Is Generally Fine Looking, Her
Chief Charm Being Her Fresh
and Splendid Vitality.

M oplendl0 illallly.
In the remoter districts, away from
the villages, among the peaty boys
and the hawthorn hedges, the roses
bloom red in the cheeks of the Irish
peasant girl.
However, she manages it on the
stirabout and potatoes, she grows
lush and vigorous and full of sap,
like the green things that fill the
island.
The colleen bawn is straight, she is
not infrequently tall, her shoulders
are broad, her waist large but supple,
and she looks as strong as q young
man.
Her hair is brown, perhaps with a
shade of chestnut; sometimes it has a
ripple In it, but often it is lustreless
and straight, and. very possibly, so
heavy as to be almost mop like.
/ have seen peasant girls with braids
that were like clubs, the tresses when
unbound reaching to the knees.
Her forehead is low and the
waive of hair is drawn back to
leave it uncovered; her eyes
are frank and blue; her COM
plexion clear, though exposure to the
weather has darkened it and put it
into shades of yellow brown, and the
red in her cheeks Is as deep as In
the peoples that brighten the wheat
fields.
1t is a splash of color, daring. as if
an artist had flung it on dark spot OF
his canvas, more brilliant than n
ever sees in the drier climate of what
they are here pleased to call the
States" spreading its warm blush
| quite from cheek bone to chin.
The peasant girl is often fine look
ing-sometimes su~perlatively hand
some-but never with what an Ameri-
a would consider any delicacy OF
beauty. She has few of the soft
curves of luxuriously nurtured
young womanhood.
Her arms are not rounded; they look
muscular and hard. Her bust is fat.
like an Anazon's. She is not dim
pied, but she is sturdy, as becomes a
scion of the "foinest pisanthy in the
world"
Her greatest charm is her fresh and
splendid vitality.
She wears a red kerchief over her
head or folded about her shoulders,
and a p~etticoat of brown or dark blue
stuff, which she weaves herself, and
which stops half way between her
knees and her ankles.
Six days in the week her feet are
brown and bare. They are large
feet, and look better in their naked
shapeliness than when disguised
for Sundays and holidays under
coarse yarn stockings-these she
knits-and the cheap laced shoes,
with the peculiar combination of
thick soles aud high heels, which
come to the small market towns.
For defense against the weather she
has a long black cloak gathered at the
neck and provided with a hood, and
which is probably the most character
istic article left of the old peasant
costume.-LSmerick Letter in SdcGn-
nah Nes0s.
The Expression Lady Friend.''
You don't need to explain that
you're doing this or that with a friend
you wouldn't do it with an enemy;
the only thing you do with an enemy
is to fight her, so there's no need of
with q lady friend; you we're walking
VAIL q AboJ Va VI ECAALACbAdAA-OA
preferably, with q man or with a
friend. The conversation will tell
whether your friend was a man or a
woman. The good old word LADY,
has been vulgarized, until now it
means almost the opposite Of it's old
meanings. You read about two
ladies' being arrested, of society
ladies' who know no more of what
the women who are in society are do
ing than they read in the newspapers.
Gentleman" hasn't been so vulgar
lied, but it's badly treated, and with
'lady" should be put aside to o
How Baby Is Fed.
My baby nurses practically when
she is hungry, every four to six hours,
on the average. / am inclined to
think that bottled babies should not
be fed oftener than once in four to six
hours. Our baby is never overfed.
and we never allow her to nurse until
we know that she is hungry. Nor do
we ever interrupt her sleep to feed
her. Not long ago she woke up at
noon, nursed, went to sleep again at
three o'clock and slept till ten O'clock
at n~ight-seven hours without nurs-
ing.
The sleep was of as much benefit to
her as the food given when she walked
hungry. We hope that she will nurse
until she is twelve or fifteen months
old, and we will not begin to give her
cows milk until we see that the
mothers milk is actually insufficient.
When she is ready to take solid food,
which she will not be until she is
twelve or fifteen months old, then she
will get graham bread with the milk
and we may add a little fruit later.
Many babies die of dyspeptic starva-
ton by overlooking, and | don't in
tend to let mine. -IntercSesD IN Boston
Globe.
The Art of Sweeping.
In sweeping take long, light
strokes and do not use too heavy a
broom.
"Alice, said Lois, do you honestly
think sweeping is harder exercise
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