The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-29
IDEAS for Gununen.

Wnere not one member of the family
VIII trouble to make the meal pass plea
santiy, The very thought of this UNI
homeiike board sends u chill to the
heart OF the true woman. And yet there
are such t-ables-hundreds of them.
me head of the house swallows his
roast beef and potatoes without even a
little joke or merry anecdote to make the
meal pass pleasantly. The mother does
not exert herself to describe the baby's
latest and cutest trick, or to tell about
the prize which Jack won in the geography
class, although she we'll knows that
both these things would be received
with enthusiasm and would give rise to a
CHEEKY little conversation
Of course. If mother and father are
silent and gloomy the youngsters are not
going to talk, either, n so the meal
IS gnlped down amid the clatter Of knives
and forks, and that delightful sense of
home and family is lost to the little peo-
pie.
That is q very old adage which says
that children should be seen and not
heard. With all due respect to the wise
and learned person who said it first it is
a very poor one. That is, of course, if
carried to the exereme degree which too
many mothers think fit. There is not the
slightest harm in the little ones joining
in the conversation at table On the
contrary, 1t is just the thing for them, if
done in the reasonable way. If they are
permitted TO express ideas they will more
readily listen to those expressed by
others
A child who is too severely suppressed
means an awkward, painfully timid
y0fT1g man mr. uyop,o1 The 1b;la --L1zz
mouth has been kept too closely sealed
by the admonitions Of father and the
frewns of mother will not have a syllable
to vouchsafe when he fnds himself |
grown somewhat older and entered upon
the world. There are many gentle little
ways which will suggest themselves to
the mother who really loves her little
people. by which she can guide their con-
versaticn without that foolish Don't |
say one werd more, now. at the tablet,
The English custom Of RELOCATING the
youngsters to the nursery table is little
3practiced in America. The American
as a general thing wants her
little family circled about her. She
wants meal-time AMI bedtime to be
precious periods in which parents and
children are -alene together for mutual
happiness. She wants to be sure, more
over. that the babies are not learning
the deiicaciss of table talk and table
manners as set forth by the servants.
sut have to forbid Tommy to talki,
exclaimed some distracted mamma of a
young hopeful. IF I.allow him to chatter
while his father and / are alone he l.
not to be suppressed when visitors come
AS surely as we have a guest about
whom there is a bit of gossip ahoat
which he ought not to repeat, the young
one will blurt out that very thingIu
All. But there lies the secret of Master
Tommy's troubled If father and mother
had not discussed that bit of scandal in
the young mans presence. Tommy would
never have been able to repeat it. And
as to the habit to which Tommy is adj
dicted of remarking that the minister's
hair is pretty well gone, or that the rich
aunt from whom you expect so much is
cross-eyed. II the mother had been care
Ini to impress on her son that personal
remarks were unkind and vulgar the
chance is that he would never have
uttered these observations.
Whe the head of the house has toiled
day long in the office; when the wife,
a bit dragged out with household du-
ties, it requires a big effort to exert the
mind and make the children's meal hour
a CHEEKY one. But, then, like all other
good causes, 1t repays in the end all eff
forts made. Set the little tongues wag-
ging. 1t makes the youngsters happy,
and-to say a very prosaic thing-it is
excellent for the digestion.
If a bit of slang should escape now
and then. or an unkind story be some
times told. it will only require a few
firm, gentle words from those in high
places to prevent the same recurring.
The Indian Maharaja Thaktsingjee of
Bhownugger, who died recently. was an
Oriental prince of capacity
and character. His reign of just twenty
years was remarkable from the very
first for. enlightenment, energy and be-
nevolence, and was marked by the many
salutary reforms which he gradually and
cautiously introduced. the last of which
was the Institution of the state council.
He was so successful in all these admin
istrative measures that ~Bhownugger has
long been proverbial throughout India
as the model native state He visited
England in 1893. on the occasion of the
opening of the Imperial Institute in that
year by the Queen, and was a conspicu-
Gus figure at the The mag
nifcence of his surroundings. his manly
bearing. his affability and generosity,
are said to have made a strong impress
sion on all who were brought into social
contact with him. He was a man of
commanding presence and winning man
ners- His successor is his eldest son,
Bhowsingjee, who has been carefully,
trained in modern principles of State
government.
Evaporated potatoes, prepared in the
same manner as evaporated apples, are
to be put en- the market from Mime
sofa next fall. Last seasons potato
crop was SO large that many millions
of bushels were wasted, and experiments
were made in evaporating potatoes. The
experiments were successful, and two
big factories for preparing potatoes in
this manner are building.
Under the captain Of "A True Colonial
Dame Mrs Burton Harrison gracefully
and charmingly writes Of Sally Cary
6he wife of Charles William Fairfax).
the passion of Washington's life, in
March Ladies' Home Journal. She is
described as a young woman of rare
beauty, sweet-tempered. witty and high
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