The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-29

III my sisters who ride the wheel Will
renem Der these few hints they will be
sure Co look well.
Have your saddle well forward over
the pedals, sit erect, raising the handle
bar just high enough so you may
grasp it easily without leaning for
ward, using six-inch cranks for eoun-
try riding and fiye-inch tor city, and
use the ankle movement, keeping the
knees we'll in Washington Star,
Is GRAY Hair Becoming Fashionabies
Having been informed that gray
hair is coming into fashion, a London
correspondent writes:-I took the OPP
%portunity OF a representative gather
ing OF society folk the other evening
TO glance at the couture OF ladies. The
merest glance round the assemblage
was sufficient to show that the fash
ion of gray hair is a grisly fact. A
charming lady near me who did not
look a day older than thirty was quite
gray, aud within conversational dis
tanee there were at least half a dozen
ladies with a more or less pronounced
turn of gray in their hair. | take it
thar this fashion is a revolt against
tine all but universal system of dyeing
the hair to a fashionable color. l
shall not be surprised il young ladies
who do not number gray locks among
their charms are by and by found to
be resorting to hair powder, in order
that they may be numbered with the
gray sisters.
She Met Her Equal.
Arichly but not over-dressed woman
a day or two ago entered well filled
Fourth avenue car, and without so
much as a look dropped into a seat
vacated for her by a man who on ris-
ing had politely raised his hat.
The woman's behavior was so mark
eddy ungracious that other. occupants
of the car SMILED broadly at the victim
OF misplaced politeness, who did not
fail to notice that he was being
laughed at.
Turning to the lady and ones more
fitting his hat he said:-"Pardon Inc,
madame, but did leave my gloves on
the seatgn
The oma stood up to look for the
missing handgear and the man slid
himself edgewise into the seat The
laughter which followed was not par
ticlpated in by the and she
left the a at the next block.
Curious Marriage superstitions.
In the Voges Mountains the young
women who dress the bride strive as
to who shall stick the first pin Ia the
bridal robe, as the successful one will
be married the same year, 1t was
lucky for English bridesmaids to
throw pins away. The bride must not
look into the mirror after she is
dressed for the ceremony unless she
puts on some article OF apparel after
ward. In Russia the bride must
avoid eating the wedding cake on the
eve OF the ceremony, or she will lose
her husbands love. The sneezing of
a cat on the eve Of a marriage was
considered a good omen In the Middle
Ages, but the bowling Of dog then,
as now, was especially ominous.
shape their lives on the English
model; il they are poor, toadying to
the rich and would-be aristocratie: if
they are rich, playing the arrogant
English duchess to the best of their
ability. Not a few OF them even rem
der themselves contemplate to men
and gods, by toadying or buying TAT
what a price sometinesD their way
into English ar~istocratic circles, by
shivering attendance for hours at
royal receptions, in order to do
obeisance to what their country has
nobly repudiated; or, worse than all,
by buying husbands, renouncing
their birthright of freedom and equal
ity with the best, and sinking down
into subjects. liable TO be called on to
act as sfiadies In waiting that is, as
chalnbernaids. Ii all the sacrifices
which degenerate American fathers
and mothers have made to buy titled
husbands for their daughters were re-
corded they would form a revelation so
ignominous that it would not be be-
lieved; and, after such q revelation, pa
triotic Americans would hardly dare
TO look foreigners in the face. But
even without such a revelation the con-
duct OF many OF our countrymen
abroad, and especially in England, is
enough TO make eyery self-respeeting
American hide his head for shame
Prot. Thomas Dacidson in Nay
Forum.
Hints for Gardening.
Spring is here and work Is plenty in
| the garden. One advantage of the
north is, that for the winter months
but little can be done out OF doors,
and when the green buds begin to
push out and the grass to grow. peo-
pile are itching to be doing something
to help matters along. Pretty nearly
everybody who has a plot OF land viii
make some kind of an effort 10 clean
up in spring time. The FIRST thing TO
do is to clean up all leaves, rubbish,
ETC., and where this is admissible, the
better way is to bury 1t. 1t helps, on
decaying, TO furnish material for
building up new plant growth, Flower
beds and places where anything is to
be planted require spading up, il
small spaces around the house, if
large, the pillow will do 1t nor expe-
ditiousiy, and 1t should not be forgot
ten that a coating OF manure is bene-
fetal to work in the soil.
Anything In the way of shrubs,
trees or hardy border plants that are
now being more thought OF than for
merly, should be planted as soon as
the ground Is In fit condition, as if
left to the last moment 1t is often too
late, as delicious trees and shrubs do
not transplant fayorably when the
J leaves nave burst out. Flower beds
! that stand for a long time in the same
place and year after are expected to
grow about the same kinds of plants
will, ii not heavily manfred, be found
to fail to furnish the display they did
at first. This is because some par