The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-22


packages of PearAne every
year. Let PearAne do its best
and there is no fear of "dirt
doing its worst"
Beware of limitations. 26 JAMES PYLE, NY.
~rougheDed out aud filed. The grammar
should be used, like fine emery dust in a
machine shoD-last of all. It is alb
solutely worthless in learning to talk;
and should be made use of only in con-
nection with lessons in composition, for
polishing purposes after one has attained
some degree of efficiency and ease in
writing.
BOOKS TO SELECT.
1t is hardly necessary to say much on
the subject of reading. In the selection
of books there is only one thing of real inn
portance, namely, that they be interest
ing. They must be wildly interesting.
Nothing of q slow huni-drum, serious
character should be read ever; unless. in
deed. books of this sort afford amuse-
mert. Ones table should be piled high
with novels of the highest class, and as
many of these must be read as possible.
The more ground one can cover the bet
ter. a dictionary, therefore, should on
no account be used. 1t is best not to own
one even, for the temptation. Is great at
times to look up words which are not I'M
derstood. But it is just as harmful to
make use of a dictionary as to try to keep
your grammar in mind when you are con-
versing. So far as the enlargement of
vocabulary is concerned 40 worse thing
could be done. It must not be forgotten
that we are here dealing with a
system which can have no value
as a whole unless the principles
which so to make it up are consistent
with each other. The best way to learn
how to talk rapidly and commercially in a
foreign language is Co place ones self
where ones W language is unknown
and where a constant practice in conver-
sation may be had. Ease in writing is
acquired in the same manner, simply by
frequent practice with such words as are
at ones command, and in forms the ac-
curacy of which Is controlled, not by
rules but by a sense of fitness" Surely
a likely method of procedure may be APP
piled in the case of reading.
My knowledge of French when l went
abroad was a fraction with zero in the
n~umerator, writes Leighton Calkins in
the Boston Transcript. Yet by
au application of the method
| could read with pleasure in
less than two weeks. My first book
wa LIE Comte de Monte Christie. Mem
DRY fails me as l try to bring back every
detail Of my experience, but l am sure
that Dantes had been deprived of his lib
eFty for II long time before l could under
stand much more of the story than that
he was a prisoner in the Chateau DIFF.
However, I soon became intensely inter-
eSted in his fortunes and the last un-
dred pages of the first volume were read
at one sitting. Words which l could not
understand at first explained their own
meaning in time, and the sixth volume
was finished ten days after l began the
story. l had learned 60 read French
NeDdTk Daily Advertiser.
PATHS Jewels.
Adelina PATHS diamonds have been
valued at 1875, 900. The Empress Eugene
gave Patti as a wedding present when
she married the Marquis de Caux a comb
set with t~wenty-three diamonds. A gift
from Queen Victoria was a superb dia-
mond locker.
Baroness Burdett-Couts once gave the
songstress an enormous diamond set in a
ring. The diva's wonderful set of sap
phires was sold when she was obliged by
French law to divide her fortune with
her first husband.
The Emperor of Russia was the giver
to the prima donna of a pair of large dia-
moDds mounted as earrings. Emperor
William of Germany gave her a splendid
diamond brooch. and the Emperor of
Austria q. bracelet of diamonds. Patti
possesses twenty-three diamond bracelets,
and has a necklace Of very large and fine
emeralds. Her turquoise jewelry set
with diamonds includes four pins, two
bracelets, earrings and a hand some PEN
dant.-JeWelers' Weekly.
q Quaint Austrian Custom.
The quaint old Austrian custom of q
bride being cast off, as it were, by her
countrynen when she takes TO herself a
foreign husband, was an Interesting fea-
ture at the marriage of Archduchess
Louise of Tuscany. In describing the
ceremony the Brooklyn Citizen says:
THE Archduchess entered the church
followed by a long train of royal and
semf.circ1e around her until the mo-
went the bridegroom placed sthe ring up
on her finger; then they turned and left
her, for ssshe was no longer a coun-
trywoman of theirs. Fer a moment the
princess stood alone-unattended; hen
a lumber of Saxon ladies ranged them
selves behind her-she had become a
Saxon. At the marriage of Marie An
toinette this custom, which ia her case
was observed only on the French from
tier, had a pathetic denouement- When
the Austrian ladies attempted to leave
the new ~dauphiness OF France she re-
fused to be left and, as # foreseeing
what her fate would be In her adopted
country, chung to them and entreated
them to take her back to Austria again.
Actual force had to he used to separate
her from her a~tteBdants.o
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