The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-29

in Boston, who has 700. She would
not allow you to make tea in any of
them. ] dare say a delft is brought
in from the kitchen for actual service,
although there are lovely Queen Anne
silver ones which tea will not hurt.
Some people prefer Russian tea,
which is made by simply floating a
piece of lemon in place of cream. This
is very refreshing and enlivens the
nerves. The real expert of society
never takes anything but a bit of
thin bread and butter with afternoon
tea, but there are those, especially in
England, who eat eggs ON toast,
mullins, sardines, Scotch scenes Ia
sort of short hot biscuit and butter),
at this informal gathering. OF these
last is the Prince of Wales. The
royal family have excellent appetites,
and as they are always going some
where to dedicate buildings, open
bridges, receive Populations, hear
speeches, and accept bouquets, they
need frequent and hearty food.
To those who get sleeplessness from
tea, let me recommend a most delicate
way of making it. Fill a perforated
silver ball with dry tea, and swing it
through a cup of boiling water. The
ball an remain long enough in the
water to produce a most delicious in
fusion, but there will be none. or very
little, of the tannin, that astringent
element of tea which is so
injurious. Recent scientific in
ouiries into the qualities of the
peculiar power of TEA, which has
tended to raise it so high in popular
esteem, claim for it a calm. placid, be-
nignant e~xhilaration, greatly stimu-
lating the stomach; but if it is allowed
to steep long, it becomes a poison.
For ladies who go much to afternoon
teas, a certain outer garment, which
can be thrown of and left in the hall,
is most necessary.
Why not call these gatherings ket-
tledrums? 1t is a prettier, more sug-
gestive word than teas" They are
noisy enough and chatty enough
Mrs. John Sherwood in Hasper's
BGzGr.
The Paris Art student.
The American Paris art student,
female, is homely; male, handsome
that is the general rule. There are
pretty girls, but it's very little study
ing they do, for from the first they
are in constant demand to pose. The
sets are large and not -over-select; blue
blood is not the qualification which
admits n to the circle. The girl
whose pension is up five flights of
dingy stairs over a grocer's on the
Rue Des Basins will trudge off to
Colarossi's arm in arm with the fine
lady from the private hotel on the
Champs ElySees, and you couldn't
aver tell the rich from the pool.
They both dress in execrabIe
taste, both look as If they
had become truly French in
their habits, and both have that look
of unutterable, woeful dishearten-
ment which every female art student
assumes from the time she is first told
by Courtois, Flameng or some other
bright light that as yet she doesn't
equal Murillo or Rubens.
She will spend hours choosing
harmonious draperies for a ZOOS tune
model, y and yet will sally out in a
conglomeration of colors which set
ones teeth on edge. The little Italian
beggar who poses for her is artistic if
her hair is matted into a solid wad.
So, to be artistic, too, the student lets
her locks get in about the same con-
condition.. 1t never seems to occur to
her that what Is sauce for the Italian
isn't sauce for the United Statesian.
IT'S the life of disappointments she
leads which inparts that saddened,
nothing-is-worth-whiie EXPRESSION
Pd1is Cor. Washington Star.
Improving the Mind.
Do all women find a little time each
day for reading something good? BY
good is meant broadening. Ten min
utes a day makes hours in q year, and
it means a growth of the mind that
keeps a woman young. Youth means
more than the absence of years. 1t
means living in the present and keen
ing abreast of the times. Women need
to do this. 1t is a duty owed to them
selves and to their families, and she
who buries herself in cooking, frills
and follies commits a sin. Only that
which we assimilate as part of the
mind is eternal, and it is the only
treasure we carry into that life be-
yond that awaits us all.
All other things are but the frame;
the real, the priceless is that which
becomes a part of us. a poem today
over which we think. a sentence to-
morrow which makes duty clearer, a
little here and there, and our minds
are growing richer, our lives are
broadening and helping others to
reach out for the best.-M. Louis Star
Sayings.
Advice to Girls Who Sew.
Girls who sew for a living often suf-
fer from soreness in what is some
times called the thimble finger, and
serious inflammation and swelling is
often the result. No sewing girl or
woman should let herself be tempted
by the low price of thimbles, which
are composed of lead or something
equally injurious. Silver or plated
thimbles are very much the best and
safest. and when these are too expen-
sive, a good substitute can be found
in a highly FURNISHED steel thimble.
For practical every day use, this
latter kind is the most convenient, blu.
pewter or lead should never be used
especially by people whose flesh is
slow TO heal after a scratch or cut.
feel It my duty TO say a few words In re-
gard to Efy's Cream Balm. aud I do so entirely
without solicitation. I have used it more or
less half o year, ana have found it to be most
admirable 1 have suffered from catarrh of the
worst kind ever sinceSI was a little boy and I
never hoped for cured, but Cream Balm seems
to do even that. Many of my acduaintances
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