The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Queer Way They Have of Resting
Vassar's Free Money.

Dutch housewives cannot De eQualeo
in managing their houses and ser
wants. They seem born to command
and the servants to obey. Doubtless
one cause is due to the regularity and
the precision with which their house
hold affairs are carried on.
Annie Besant makes her name
rhyme with peasant" but Walter
Besant pronounces his name, ac-
cording to late information, as Bes.
SAINT.
The German empress has formed a
league for the preservation OF good
habits among the. Prussian ladies.
The members bind themselves to dis
courage luxury, TO wear simple
dresses and to practice economy in
the household.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone have left
England or their way to Naples,
where they propose to remain for
the Winter, SO as to have the advan-
tage OF a warm, soft climate.
Women have peculiar methods OF
resting. All i've the land are evil
dences of the work women do when
they rest. Once on a time they knit
ted stockings. OF all Notwithstanding
occupations knitting takes the lead.
The ceaseless click of the needles and
the muscular exertion combine to pro-
duce an exhaustion equal to the most
vigorous exercise. They have GRO
cheted enough to envelope the earth
in a case like ar Edam cheese. They
have made more crazy patchwork
than could be measured, and they
have made tatting work and rick-rack
enough to trim the gowns of the hosts
recorded above.
Vassar is probably the only college
that has a fund to be used in giving
its students good times" For sew
eral years past a sum has been given
the college by a New York gentleman
to be used for such a purpose. 1t is
known as the free money! and when
parties of students start for a day at
Lake Mononk or some of the other
beautiful places along the Hudson it
is the free money" that turns the
wheel.-Baltimore Herald.
Patti, in her Welsh castle, still
tune of ringing a curfew bell. When
the diva is ready to retire for the
night she presses an electric button
and a gong rings through the castle
the signal flights out" for the entire
household. This is the curfew very
much ''up to date"
Eugenie's small and elegant foot,
once the admiration of the French
Court, has now, it is said, become
swollen out of shape by govt and
rheumatism. The foot, in the days of
its fame, was SO Cinderella like in it's
tininess that its discarded shoes could
be worn only by children, for there
was no women in all Eugenie's train
whose foot was small enough to fit
them.
One day | saw a seventeen-year-old
girl stand up before an audience of
about two hundred people and l
heard her sing. She sang we'll. and
there wasn't a single evidence that
she was then for the first time in her
life facing a public audience. Why is
it that girls have better repose and
greater self confidence on such occa-
tions than is usually shown by boys?
1t is a fact and was q fact when I was
a schoolboy, as well as when my
great-grandfather was a schoolboy.
The explanation of it is, probably,
that a woma knows she is admired,
that she is looked upon as one of the
weaker sex, that, in brief, she is en-
titled to the respect, admiration and
protection of men. and so far as other
women are concerned she is indiffer-
ent.-Detrott Free Press.
Hints About Christmas Greens.
1t is best not to put up the decora-
tions until. the afternoon before
Christmas, writes Maria Parloa in her
department in the December Ladies
Home Journal. The halls, sitting
most appropriate places for the holly.
Place large branches over mantels and
sideboard and some of the pictures.
containing holly and laurel, unless
you are to have a fire at once. Have
long sprays of English ivy in small
wide mouthed bottles which can be
hung behind picture frames. Irvine
the ivy around the supporting wires
and the frames. Do not hang the
greens near a fire or over a register.
They curl and wilt very quickly when
exposed to dry heat.
Get at the florists about fifty cents
worth of the green stuff called WAN
dering Jew This will fill several
bowls and vases. Arrange it grace
fully in the various dishes, and fill
with water. After wiping the outside
of the receptacles perfectly dry, place
on the corners of maDtels, bookcases,
etc. Change the water every other
day. To do this do not disturb the
plants; simply hold the vase under
the faucet and let the fresh water run
until all the old is displaced. In a
weeks time the vines will have grown
into a graceful, luxuriant mass, and
with care they can be kept in this con-
dition for months.
Smiiax, asparagus fern and other
delicate vines can be used for pictures
and statuary, but the expense puts
them out OF the reach of the majority
of people. There is a hardy wild fern
which all florists keep now and sell
tor about ten cents a dozen SPRAYS.
Buy a few dozen Of these and place
them on the cellar floor. Sprinkle
well and they will keep for weeks. A
large bowl filed with these and q few
flowers will make an effective piece
for the centre of the dinner table; or.
the bowl can be placed on q low table
in any of the rooms. These sugges-
tions are for people with modest
purses.
Rustic Simplicity.
The fancy phrased in the line, ''God
made the country and man made the