The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-29
for QIln1men.

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There is scarcely a woman in the world
who does not object to growing stout and
who vastly prefers being thin if She has
her choice. Yet the stoutness usually be-
tokens health ana vigor and the thinness
just the opposite. The stout woman has
not only a healthy look but she has d
good natured look and with the thin one
min times out Of ten there is a bad tenn
per. The thin woman gets to be so be-
cause of certain we'll recognized abuses.
Too much worry, too much work, toe
much society and so on. 1t is not hard 10
find the cure.
There is no certain road to anything in
this world but whether one is too fat Or
the opposite the best way is to look to
ones general health to cure it. If you lack
nesh first of all carefully regulate your
LIE so as to eat and sleep and do other
Things ct fixed times. You must make a
point of going to bed very early, what
ever attractions the evening may offer.
You must get up equally late in the morn
ing and take a leisurely bath. Do not have
At hot, Only mildly tepid without being
cold Instead of you early cup of tea,
take one of new milk with sugar in it.
For breakfast take well-sweetened cof-
fee or cocoa that is half cream or milk.
Eat plenty of bread and butter. and take
oarmeal and cream, fish. eggs and bacon,
or cold pork. You should lie down or rest
for half an hour after meals.
For lunch and dinner take as much
~farinaceous food as possible, and as many
sweet things as you can without running
your digestion, Pork is very fattening.
but 1t must be eaten very sparingly, and
then when cold it is very apt to make the
skin greasy and coarse. Much meat is not
fat-forming, but you must, of course.
take a certain amount of it, which must
be Of the very best quality.
Timed meats are not good, ard you
should only take meat which has been
freshly killed. All root vegetables are
more fat-forming thar any others. car
riots. parsnips, and beets especially SO. as
well as potatoes. Puddings made of sage.
rice and tapioca should be eaten in pref
erence to any Others. You may allow
yourself a cup of black coffee after lunch.
and a glass of either good old claret or
burgundy at dinner.
Above all things you must have your
meals al regular hours, and ALWAYS eli
down to them punctually. You must
eat your food slowly and masticate II
We'll. and linger over your meals; never
hurry through them.
As to exercise you must take a mod
crate amount of it daily, but never 3,
as to Overture yourself. Gentle W alkinp
and driv .ng fx better than any other kind
Ct exercise. Riding and bicycling. if in
ulged in, must only be taken very mod
erately ard quietly, and not every day.
violent games must be gone in for
with extreme caution and moderation.
and entirely given up when you first be-
gin the cure. You must not overworlx
the brain in any way. and never read ex-
citing books late at night, or talk too
much before going to bed.
Never worry about anything. TRY IL
learn that the world can go on very well
witheat you. Keep cheerful and cult
yaIe a good temper. Do not wear heavy
clotn3ng, and be most careful never to
sleep under a pile of bed clothes. nor
to keep your window closed at night. Do
not eat between your meals, but have
your food served al moderate distances
from ach other, and eat plentifully when
you are having them.
For two thousand years, ever since the
Romans plishted Their troth with a rins
iron band, the magic circlet has kept its
hold upon the world. says a writer in
"Pearson's Weekly but will that hold
be as firm in the future? It must be re-
membereds that, after all, the ring is
nothing more tina $ symbol, that the put
ting on of a ring is not necessary to
complete the legal contract of mar
rage.
W " mo Clos, -
already on the wane. The engagement
ring may be regarded as doomed. since
Princess May substituted an engagement
bracelet for the conventional ring of
betrothal. She has not, indeed, declined
the mystic symbol of the union Of
hearts presented by the WEIGH people
to the Duke of York, but the refusal of
the engagement ring might fairly be re.
garded as the first step in the path toward
the abolition of its more important sue
cessor.
There is yet another argument against
the wedding ring. The ring was adopted
as the outward and visible sign of power
and authority. In the ohea days, when
messages were sent by word of mouth,
1t was the custom, in order to prove the
authenticity of the bearer, to intrust him
with the signet ring of the sender
Thus, when a man took unto himself
a wife, whom he placed at the head Of
his household. that delegated authority
was made visible to the world by confer
ring upon her the all-potent myth only
distinction being that the woman wore
her ring on the left hand, as being the
inferior hand of the two, while the man.
as lord and master. carried his upon the
right or superior hand.
In a day, therefore, when the woman
claims the authority in her own right
and %scornfully repudiates the idea of
being delegated it would be only con-
sistent for her to refuse the symbol. If,
Indeed, there should be a comforting of
rings at all, it would be more in keeping
with the man to receive it, since the
spirit of the age is all in favor of mis-
being the delegated authority.
1t is not generally known that In all
there are about twenty-four different
makes of rings and three qualities of
gold. The cheap quality is in favor with
The Scotch and Irish, while in the north
Of England heavy rings are in demand.
Of the two styles of rings-the round and
the broad sort-the popular taste most
approves the latter as being most snowy.
The wants of the United Kingdom in this
respect are supplied for the most part
by Birmingham, where the trade is SO
brisk that 1t is no thing for