The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-03
HER NAME is LEGION.
She Considers C~arefuIness Too Much
Trouble.

She said she hadn't time to keep house
hygienicallv. nor to care for her children
as all the dictates of modern science de-
mand that they shall be cared for. She
said she hadn't time to air the house in
the mornings. to change the air IN the
living rooms several times during the
day, and to flood the bedrooms again with
fresh air Just before retiring. 1t put her
work back for the entire day to take all
the bed clothing par piece by piece.
and let the beds lie unmade by open
windows in the sweet. purifying breezes
for two or three hours. Let the scien-
lists pirate of the germs that are impris-
oned in foul air If they wanted to. She
for one was willing to take the risk in
preference to going to so much bother.
She said that to wash mating on bed
room floors once a week with salt water
was n IONS na es 1t ana bec m ,ess Yer, m,n It
would wear out sooner than If were left
dry and dusty. She was an economical
person.
She said busting the walls was unheard
of in her mothers day. and she guessed
her mother knew more about it than the
She said she didn't believe in airing the
kitchen in winter. nor. indeed, any Of the
house. because giving hostage to blasts
She didn't believe in bathing her chill
dren every day-it was a waste of time
and effort-and she thought it probably
wearied them unnecessarily. Once a week
was often enough to change undercloth-
ing; it was folly to think of changing it
two or three times, and a ridiculous
proceeding to have it made so simply
matter. For her part she believed in the
refinements of life. Her mother had all
rays sat at the sewing machine and
stitched tucks and embrOideries into I'M
der garments by the hour that her girls
might be dressed like ladies at home and
abroad. She fancied her mother knew
The new domestic theories were an i'm
pertinence. She believed in cleaning
house once a year. The weekly upheayals
of to-day made her groan- She wonder
mated.
She believed in allowing children to eat
just What their elders ate, and at the
much trouble and fuss. If her children
were Ill or frail it was because they were
destined to be so. Anything. In the way
81 cS Worr see i TOO m,, oh as eof frisegg feo-
Do you know her? Her name is legion.
How to Wear the CoIIet.
The collet, simple as it looks, must have
a certain air to be a success. writes lisa
bel A. Mallon in December Ladies' Home
Journal. 1t does not want to stand up
high on the shoulders, but 1t should go
out in a very broad fashion 50 that the
waist below it looks very small by com
parison. Then the frills must b. very
full, and whatever is used must be at
once harmonious and chic. If there are
ribbons they must be very long. Ro-
settles are more Ike cabbage roses than
ever before, and chiffon frills are in full
ness like unto the drops of water in the
ocean. Give to your evening bonnet and
collet that intangible air, which, for want
of something better, we call style, for
then. and then only, will it be a success.
And then, and then only, will you look
cess on you. And 1t is only when ones
gowns and ones belongings are successes
that the general woman feels comfortable
and really enjoys herself.
The New NUN.
The Marie Antoinette muir is the ex-
treme novelty of h moment 1t is