The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-17

IL Is TOO DAD IDaI Jne duties OF our
health inspectors do not cover the
mysteries of the beauty shops and
cosmetic parlors about New York. If
they did the reports would be inter
ing in showing not only the baneful
influence of the goods sold but the
army OF women from all sections OF
the city who are willing to risk conn
fort, money and health for the sake OF
trying something that is warranted
to remove tan and freckles, whiten
the skin, tint the cheeks and soften
the flesh.
The stuff is sold at the rate of 50 a
pint and is just about as soothing to
the face as an application of cTeosote,
ammonia and soapsuds would be. At
all events the effect produced by Mime.
de Hunbug's balm OF youth is exactly
the same.
1t you doubt this you have only to
visit the cosmetic factories, West
Fourteenth end Twenty-third streets,
Broadway and Sixth avenue, and I'M
der the pretext of waiting for your
sister, see with your own eyes the
wonderful change in the appear
ancen made by the patent medicines.
You won't know the customers, for
the reason that they are heavily
yelled, to hide the frightful ravages
made by the poisonous lotions. Most
of these customers are accompanied
by their husbands, fathers or
brothers, who come to swear at the
madam, who knows in her heart she
is trading ON the credulity of her sex
and advising the use of a decoction
the very ingredients of which are in
furious.
She Takes Almost as Long as a Man.
Ii you have never had the pleasure
of watching a woman open her front
door by means of a latch key it is
worth the fifteen minutes she requires
for the operation to be amused at the
thorough femininity of her actions.
The other evening, shortly before
dusk, a bright looking girl, buttoned
up in an English walking jacket,
swinging an umbrella and carrying
half a dozen small parcels, passed
briskly along West Twenty-third
street, assembled "a flight of stone
steps, and opened fire on the front
entrance with the skeleton key.
She first shifted the responsibility
of purse. packages, umbrellas and
handkerchief on n hand. while she
used the other to ransack both coat
pockets for tine key. They failed to
yield it, and one bundle and the tire
some umbrella lay half way down the
stoop as a result of her endeavors.
With slightly flushed cheeks the girl
picked up the awkward parachute,
leaned it against the stoop rail, took
a firmer hold on the slippery panels
and examined the palms OF her snugly
fitting gloves.
This process gave her handkerchief
to the breeze, and, m~istaking the trifle
for a miniature sail, the zephyrs play
fully caught it up and waited il half
a dozen PAGES down the street. BY
this time a sad expression developed
about the young lady's lips. She
paid no heed to the results of an
afternoons industrious shopping
now lying scattered at her feet,
but plunged boldly into the intri-
cacies of her smooth draperies and in
stituted immediate search for the
mysterious pocket within which she
supposed the ~keyreposed. She pulled
at one fold after another, until finally
a section gave way, and, with a lurch,
her hand disappeared in the depths of
some hidden recess.
The triumphant expression begin
ming to dawn upon the girls features
gave way, first, to n OF dismay and
then to a growing modification, as
memory seemed to point TO the exact
spot on her dressing table from which
she had not taken the key that after
noon. Indignant and disguised this
independent young woman gave a
vicious pull at the bell, bowed humbly
as a sympathetic man gathered up
and restored her disordered belong
ings, and passed out of sight through
the door held open by the smiling
maid.
MethodicaI Persisteney Wins.
1t is amazing to those who have
tried it to see what can be accomplish
ed by laying aside even a small por-
ton of time daily for a set purpose.
Seize "a fraction of your time and lay
it aside for a special object. If you
take it as soon as possible after break
fast you will be surest TO get it. Do
not curtail your sleepfor any purpose.
The duty of sleep is just IS binding as
any other duty. Women will never
AMOUNT TO anything In n depart
ment until they learn that the care OF
their health is a sacred duty.
Do you find your mental furnish
ings growing rusty and dim? By
reading a good book fifteen minutes
each day you can effectually new
your mental vigor.
You cannot master an art by work
ing fifteen minutes a day upon it; but
the fruit of years of study in litera-
ture, music or painting can be con-
served through busy months by the
devotion of even a few minutes daily,
if you can get. no more time, to hard
practice. Then the health can be
greatly benefited by even a short
stroll in the open air when it is i'm
possible to take longer one 1t is like
the p%roverbial saving OF the pennies
and fragments. The results are sim
ply astonishing domestic Monthly.
Fresh Air for Sleeping Rooms.
A sleeping room should never be a
small n dependent for most of its
air on an open window. Such a room
is seldom safe and in certain states oil