The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-19


stand for constant use amply repays
tne trouble and slight expense. After
washing the hands squeeze a few drops
OF juice into the palms and while the
hands are still moist rub it in wen. A
few drops of lemon juice upon the tooth
brush two or three times a week keeps
the teeth dazzlingly white and free from
that outline of tartar or faint yellow dis
celebration SO difficult to keep at bay.
Lemon juice enters into one of the
best hair cleansers and tonics known
among toilette secrets. The yolk of an
egg is beaten TO a smooth oil, the Juice
Of a lemon is added, and when well mix
ed a few drops of ammonia are added to
the whole.
Brush the hair thoroughly and apply
the mixture with the finger tips, rub
blng in evenly all over the scalp. If the
mixture hardens on the head too readily
have at hand a basin of hot water, into
which dip the hands and scour the head
thoroughly.
Let the mixture stand a half hour,
then wash off in several waters. This
treatment renders the hair beautifully
light and soft. bringing out its latent
lusters n giving it that indescribable
l sheen of raw silk, seen only in the best
cared for and healthiest hairs.
Among the Italians lemons rank as
the first fruit, a household necessity. A
little wine or lemon Juice lavors the
drinking water and renders nil the bad
effects that might accrue from malaria
or NAL aqua taken into the system
through this channel. A delicious sum-
mer beverage is offered by the hospitable
Italian to visitors during warm weather.
1t is a combination of lemon and orange
juices, sugar and water.
To SO many wholesome uses is this fruit
put that it cannot be enumerated, and
so kindly is its effects on the human
system and cuticle that its use cannot
be overestimated as a spring medicine
and an ingredient of wholesome toilette
use
Other fruits nave scored many points
in human ills, due to their use or abuse,
but the lemon has never been known to
infiict discomfort by it's use in any form.
Mt was many years ago when Addison
w~rote:-"Take a fine lady who is of a
l delicate frame and you may observe, from
the hour she rises, a certain WEAKNESS
of all that passes about her. I know more
than one who is much too nice to be quite
alive" Since that good old time Phila-
delphia has taken it upon herself to make
nice people" represent quite another
kind of specimen. The nice woman of to-
day is the one who is alive from head to
foo, who is trimming over with genial
goodness to all the outside world, who is
like a bit of sunlight after a dull day,
and whose people rise up and call her
blessed wherever she may go. If she is
a mistress she never imposes on her ser
wants; if she is a wife he does not nag
her husband; if S is unmarried she does
not utter cutting Sarcasm about c~onjugal
infelicities; If she is on a committee she
conciliates her fellow members; if she is
an officer of a club she is uniformly
pleasant to everyone; and SO on. ad fini-
tum. She is typical of the evolution that
describes her. Mice" had as the original
of its eight modern meanings simply zig
norant, foolish, shy as its synonyms;
but today 1t has come to cover a multi
tude of virtues which can be expressed
by no other word. 1t is true that now
and then we still meet with Addison's
fragile dame, and she never fails to sug-
gest to us the dictum Of Oliver Wendell
Holmes.-"Live folks are only dead folks
warmed over" he said, and our irrelevant
fancy adds that some of them must have
bCCAt tahClA I'm Int Of0h bS4O1C tllCJ
were done Once in a while our Ameri-
! can girls do penance to imaginary pro-
prieties and affect a delicate ennui in the
face of all opposition. but the effort is
usually a disastrous failure. Of course,
there is the other extreme, but as a rule
there is a something about our future
| grandmothers that makes them the incest
girls in the world.
Wis a vic with fha Eranah ynp1op J1,ct
peeping from her convent, the English
young lady chaperoned by a %forbidding
relative our fair matron may be a bit
impressive by contrast. but she has
drawn into her lungs the bracing air of
independence. and with all her faults she
is generous, kind. sociable, remarkably
quick at grasping situations. and at all
times and in all places "as nice as she
can be-"
Lady Henry Somerset. remarks a Lon
don exchange, looked in delightful health
and the best of spirits at her sons we'd
ding to Lady Katherine Beauclerk. A
subject of some comment was the very
small waists of the grown-up brides
maids, and somebody recalled the fact
that Lady Henry once attempted to
form a league for the suppression of
foo~tJbinding in China. 1t failed lament
ably. One Chinese maiden is said to
nave put the case to her Ladyship in
these words: w squeezy foot. you
squeezy waist; same object-both gette
husband"
The more a woman's waist is shaped like
an hour-glass,
The more quickly will the sands of her
life run out.
It is always a little a~ggravating to a
writer to find a printers error in an
article, particularly when a ridiculous
change in the sense is made thereby.
I couldn't help being amuse, however,
says a contributor to London Lady" at
a serieg of unfortunate lunders that 1
noticed in a loye-story / somehow or
other found myself reading in one of
the penny weekly papers. Instead of
falling into a reverie, the young lady
fell into the river .'buil-pup'' appears
for ''pull-Up." nasal for NATAL and
trombone for trembling" The fair
heroine was awfully hungry instead of
angry, Her heart was filed with
"etceteras'' and not .ecstasies,' and
when she meant to say ssthines' the
typer made her say II am thin. / am
wholly thin
One thing about Olga Nethersole which
is as remarkable as her Carmen kiss. and