The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-21
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
An Expounder of the Doctrine Who
Knew Less Than Her Audience.

Knew Less Than Her Audience.
There was a funny incident ont in
one of our intellectual suburbs which
did not go far to help on the Christian
Science doctrine. The occurrence was
in this wise:-A prominent expositress
Of the doctrines of Christian Science
| was invited by a number Of ladies in
one of the suburbs, who had become
interested in these doctrines and
| wanted an authoritative exposition of
them, TO come out and talk on the
subject. She came out and began
her address in a small lecture-room.
Ladies' she said, II wish to inn
| press upon your minds the fact that
nothing exists as it appears to us to
exist. All matter is unreal; it is a de-
fusion, a halfucination. Nothing is
MATERIAL is mind. And this truth
does not apply merely to what is
called disease and it's phenomena.
The most ordinary things about US
are as much hallucinations as So
called disease. / will give you a strik-
ing illustration.
Yesterday ] was engaged in house
work, and | had occasion to cut up
and prepare a number of ounces.
Now, you all know how terribly
ounces are supposed to stain and
blacken the hands. For days and days
under the old thought / have worn
upon my fingers the dark stains made
by pairing ounces. Well, as / worked
over these ounces yesterday. pairing,
quartering, handling them, | thought
''how foolish, now, to suppose that
those unreal, unsubstantial, ION
existent things should stain my
hands," and / resolved that they
should not stain my hands and that |
would not look at my fingers until my
work was over and then would find
them perfectly clean. Well. ladies,
not only did / pare and quarter those
ounces, but after / had completed
them l had occasion to cut and pre-
pare a number of tomatoes, and you
know how dreadfulthey are supposed
to be. l prepared my tomatoes, cut
them and sliced them, handling them
freely all the time, and when / was
all done with both ! raised my hands
and looked at them, and they were
perfectly clean and white, with not a
stain upon them"
When the Scientist had reached
the stage of the tomatoes the I'M
of the audience began tolook wonder
ingly and significantly at one another,
and when she announced the miracle
handkerchief were stuffed into
mouths ali over the little hall, and
chests were heaving with surpassed
laughter. Being in considerable part
housewives the ladies knew that in
the nature of mere material things
the juice of tomatoes will wash away
and utterly remove the stain of any
other fruit whatsoever, and that
after cutting up tomatoes not a
vestige OF the ounce stain could have
been left upon the woman's hands,
Christian science or no Christian
science.-Boston Transcript.
Serviceabie Coffee Pots.
Tin or any other metal is unfit for a
coffee pot. Even the beautiful silver
cafetiere, decorated in niello work, is
a delusion and snare. Porcelain or
pottery is the only material that can
be kept clean, as the acid of coffee
readily unites with any metal aud
forms a coating on it's sides thai is un-
wholesome and %unelean. A pretty
blue and white Dwarf coffee pot,
which differs in shape from a tea pot
in being tall and slender, will not cost
half what is charged for patent Tin
The cup with a perforated bot
tom is sold at sixteen cents in the
heaviest quality of tin, SO it is a small
item.
Very pretty coffee pots are made Of
Carlsbad ware, decorated with shields
and ~guilloches in color on a creamy
ground. The Berlin and Dresden
factories make the most beautiful
coffee pots from models of a hundred
years ago; these r imported into
this country as chocolate pots, porce-
lain dealers not daring to risk the
absurdity of Offering such dainty
coffee pots to a nation that boils its
coffee. The double section in French
"biggin !" may also be found in brown
stone ware and in blue and white ware
in house furnishing stores in the city.
Not Fallen so Low as That.
An English magazine, in an article
on restaurants, tells Of a New York
Spectator who came to grief and
went to work as waiter in d cheap
eating house in that city. To this
WHlb6f taDle came q pFOkeD down,
seedy looking individual of al. aristo-
cratic, Fifth avenue, brown stone
front type, sneaking in with every
sign OF being very much ashamed Of
himself. When the waiter arrived to
take his order there was mutual recog-
milton, and the new conner murmured:
Great Scott, Thompsonl you heres'
The attendant showed no sympathy
at all, but, drawing himself uphaugh-
tily, dryly replied:-"Yes, Jones; +
wait here. but | don't dine here
The Care of the Hair.
A who has been for many
years at the head Of a large hair
dressing establishment expresses the
opinion that the average woman
browns the life of her hair by fire.
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