The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-26
IDEAL GUEST ROOMS
The Well Filled Book
Shelves Give the Touch
Of Completion:
PROVISION AGAINST DREARY NIGHTS
Madame Janauschek Talks Of Her
PROFESSIONALLY Stanley's Old
Age-The Woman Who
Didn't scold.
PROVISION AGAINST DREARY NIGHTS

'Iwish I could impress upon every
young housekeeper the Importance of in
GLIDING a few books in the furnishing OF
her guest chamber if she would have II
complete. "said a bright recently,
who was evidently in the habit of noting
many thing that would be overlooked by
the majority of people.
'You may feel insulted,' she continued,
'.if 1 tell you that a very important item
is missing from your well-appointed
guest chamber. You glance from bed
to dressing table, and are Indignantly sure
that everything is perfect. Yet there is
one lack. There is not a book in the
room. Probably your friend may spend
several hours each day in her room, and
she win need something to read; and il
she chances to be a poor sleeper she will
appreciate your reading matter more than
your purple and fine linen.
HER WAKEFUL RIGHT.
ST visited at a house not long ago,
where 1 occupied a gem Of a room. The
bed was a marvel of daintiness, the APP
pointments of the d~ressing-table were
perfect, choice pictures hung on the walls
a luxurious bed invited me to lounge,
and to crown all a CHEEKY little fire
burned in the CRATE. I retired, but after
wooing the drowsy god in vain for an
hour or two, I arose, lit the gas, and
looked for a book. But not one page of
print could I find in the room. Back to
bed I went n tried all the sleep-in-
ducing schemes I had ever heard of. /
counted myriads of white sheep going
over a wall. 1 named all the people ]
knew who names began with a certain
letter, tried counting a thousand, and
kept getting more and more wakeful.
how I longed for the book I had kept
under my pillow at home. Diseases OF
the Ear which is as unintelligible as
Sanskrit to me. and never fails to send
me off to the sleepy country. I could
have read anything just then, a rail-
road guide, or even last years almana
would have been vastly interesting.
81 threw myself into the sleepy, hollow
chair, thinking regretfully of the we'll
filed bookcase in the library below. In
my desperation I started to go down.
but remembered that the master OF the
house was an expert marksman, and fear
ed that he might shoot me Tor a purglaT
At last | remembered a railroad mover
that was in the corner OF my
bag. / fished DIT out, and although II
was one of the Penny Dreadful variety,
/ managed to read myself sleepy. Ana
I did not forget to arm myself with a
book before retiring to my room the foI-
lowing evening.
FILL THE BOOKSHELF.
sHow different was my experience IN
visiting another friend in a much hum
bier home a little later. The
guest room was q plain little apartment t.
furniture. but q little shelf hung in h,n 1ae
angs. There was one OF George Eliot's
novels. one Of Dickens and s s.s ? t TIVE W
Emerson's Essays. a. copy Of KINDER
der Welt,' and a COLLECTIONS Of trencn
umes in all, and yet there was variety
enough to suit almost any mood, go
81 resolved then hat l would follow
this practice in my own home, and that
l would give housekeepers a hint. Any
one can spare a few books from the
shelves and be sure that the few min
utes before breakfast, during the after
noon rest on the lounge and in the
watches of a sleepless night your guest
will be grateful for your t~houSnIui-
mass n-Philadelphia Press.