The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-06
ABSOLUTELY PURE

leaving the refractory child alone. to
have his cry or his tantrum out. Put
him in a room by himself, and leave
him to think it over. / say a room;
never a closet, unless it be a light one.
VINO knows what irremediable harm
has been done 10 children. in BODY
and mind, by putting them in dark
closets? a nervous child may be
frightened into fever, may become
almost beside himself with terror, If
left alone in the dark. while his nerves
are all aflutter with passion.
CLOSET REVELATIONS.
But a light closet is a different mat
ter, or a room, not too full of furni-
ture, where the little angry spirit can
spend itself, aud do no harm to itself
or to anything. There is a room
L know of, a quiet, sunny room,
now the abode Of .gentlest thoughts
n maiden meditation, a de-
lightful place to visit. but the
door OF this cheerful bower is SCARED
n denied, deep, deep, with the
marks OF little angry heels, beating a
furious tattoo ON the panels. The
gentiest of maidens stops sometimes
to look at these panels, and smiles.
pressing her finger into the dents.
And looking at ner, her mother is re-
minded of a certain morning when
she and this first child of her heart
did battle together. to see whether
there should be any dressing or not in
the nursery that day. And it came to
pass that when. the mother, using
gentle force, drew the little shirt over
the pretty head, the child took the
shirt in her two hands and with
superb gesture tore it in two. flung
the halves to right and left, and fold
ing her arms, stood and looked de-
fiance. |
l cannot believe that it is ever nee
essary to really hurt a child, even
when corporal punishment seems i'm
perative. 1t is the disgrace the child
should fear, the having Incurred the
same kind Of punishment as would be
meted out to an offending dog. a
creature that cannot reason and must
be dealt with by brute force because
he is a brute. If the child under
stands this, surely it is enough, and
the blows given need have no actual
pain-giving weight. Laura Z. Rich.
G1ds IN The Philadelphia Enquirer.
Travels of a Shos.
An old, badly-worn shoe passed
through Madison in the United States
mail recently. An old shoe, with half
of the sole worn off and holes in the
uppers, is a rather unusual thing to
find in the mails, but this has travelled
thousands of miles and not one cent
OF postage has been paid on it. 1t is
probably still travelling, as it was sent
on from here.
There are about 200 tags tied to the
holes for the lacings, and something
ike 100 of them have the stamps of
different post offices ON them. to-
gether with Inscriptions by different
postal clerks.
The shoe came to Madison from
Minneapolis. to Minneapolis to ST.
Paul, to st. Paul from Seattle. to
Seattle from Portland, to Portland
from San Francisco, to San Francisco
from Honolulu, to Honolulu from
San Francisco. 1t is hard to trace its
course before that, but it has the
stamps of any number of p~ostofices
on it, among them being those at Oak
land, Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha
and any number of cities in the East
and some in the South.
Where it has gone from Madison is
not positively known. When it wa
found in the mail pouch it was thrown
to one side. Later one of the clerks
it up and discovered the dis
tance it had travelled. He read some
of the inscriptions, added one and
threw it into the mail pouch, the one
that happened to be nearest at the
time. 1t went East, but the exact
destination of the pouch he does not
know.
The shoe was started from Boston
by n of the postal clerks there-the
tag shows that-and there is a
request that it be returned there. The
idea probably was to see how
far it would travel. and
if it ever does get back it
will undoubtedly have covered
more territory than n other one
shoe ever did before. But it may not |
get back to the man who started it on
its journey. As no postage is paid on
it any postal clerk may keep it ais a
souvenir, but SO far it seems to have
been a point of honor with all to keep
it going.
When it is stopped somewhere the
inscription and the postmarks will
give the record of its journey, and an
interesting one it should be.
The inscription put on it in Madison
was:
I've wandered east, I've wandered west,
Thro' many a weary war,
Seeking yet not finding rest;
My soul is worn away.
AT st. Paul it was inscribed: s.roo
for a big city. Pass it on to the
village" Then it was sent to Min
neapolis.
The Japanese Hairpins.
The chief distinction between the
appearance of the male and the fe-
male Japanese lies in the hair. The
men shave nearly the whole OF the
hair, while the women allow it to
grow, and even add to it by art when
required. 1t is then twisted and
coiled into elaborate and fantastic
patterns, which few Eastern hairdrsss-
srs could initiate or equal. The hair
pins used are not SO much for confin-
ing the locks in their places as for
actual ~adornment, and are very fash
lonable. They are of enormous size,
or eight inches in length and