The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-15


the joints in place and makes a strong
and attractive foot, AS TO shape OF stock
ings, the single digital or ''one-toe stock
ing is the best.
Ia. Never think that the fest will grow
large from wearing proper shoes; pinch
ing and distorting make them grow not
only large but unsightly. A proper natural
use of all the muscles makes them COM
pact and attractive.
Mary Hartwell Catherwood, the we'll
known author, writes from her home in
Hoppeston, Ill.,, to say hi she halls cy-
cling sas a new and rejuvenating factor
in the life of women. The more passive
sex has never yet known all the enjoy
ment and exhilaration of outdoor life
which the more robust and active one
has counted as its birthright. Now at last
the evolution of the world has ordained
that women shall know more of the JOY
of nature than she ever has before, and,
as she skins ON her wheel, she feels that
she has entered into a new kingdom.
look and long. Something hurries through
me as I watch, and tempts me to dare
what others do. l see my young daugh-
tiers fly like al angel, and / hope some
day to gather the impetus to fly.
7 only dread spreading and sprawling
all over the pavement-that unhappy
experience that l feel certain awaits me
before 1 could fly. But watching the
wheelmen and the wheelwomen spinning
along on the perfect roads gives me a
tremendous desire to travel the same, an
it looks so birdlike. SO graceful, so easy;
and, as one goes swiftly flying over fair
reads and by pleasant herds. something
more of the beauty and divinity of life
must be borne in upon the SOU. Some
day I know I hall arise and grid myself
and go and do it. Blu / shall rid in a
mountain dress, never in baggy trousers. .
No other country offers such opportuni-
ties to those desiring to marry as Ameri-
ca. In that respect it is truly the home
of the free and the and Of the brave. net
to say the foolhardy. In some coun-
tries those matrinonially inclined have
to get the parents consent, in others the
prospective bridegroom has to show that
he can support a wife. Uncle Sam throws
no such obstacles in the path Of r
love, says the sPicayune." He recog-
nizes every mans right to starve a wom-
an if she is willing, and provided one
can raise the slight fee necessary for the
license there is nothing to hinder him
getting married if he can find a woman
of the same kind. In South Africa the
savage tribes lave "a peculiar ceremony
which they put the matrimonial candi-
date through previous to his entering the
holy estate. His hands are tied up in a
bag containing fire ants for two hours.
II he bears unmoved the torture of their
stings he is considered qualified to cope
with the nagging and daily jar and fret
of married life. Such a mar would make
an admirable husband. He would not
be upset by the thoughts of a spring bon
net or grow irritable every time the
steak was overdone. The idea of having
a patience trial for those about to marry
is a good idea that civilized people might
adopt.
In packing breakable articles it is as
tonishing how many people will jam them
down in corners and sides where's they get
the full force of every conclusion against
the unyielding walls Tie your corks
well with bits of rags and Irvine ana put
your bottles near the middle of a com
partment and you may carry ink and
SlsD6 QIcSSl1S III safety oil JUN LIZ -
In packing such things as delicate hats,
bonnets and fancy waists Of such a frou-
frou nature thai no pressure can be al
lowed on them it is still better to fill up
the empty boxes allotted them with lightly
twisted sheets of tissue paper than to give
them a chance to move, and with all due
respect to the best packing in the world
it is still well to unpaek as soon as you
can.
Miss Harriet Morgan who died recently
in Piketon, Ohio, possessed one popularity
which had given her considerable noto-
riety in the region adjacent to her home,
and which entitled her to rank as a curio-
sity. Her right hand was a triie larger
than her left, but it was SO perfectly
formed that a casual observer would not
notice the difference in them. She also
had the power to increase the size of the
larger hand by a simple effort eff her will.
She could not explain how she did it. but
without an effort she could lengthen the
fingers and make the flesh swell consid-
erably. She was a talented musician.
An INDIANAPOLIS woman made a curious
find the other evening. In pouring the con-
tents of a can of tomatoes into a stew
pan she heard a clink. With imprecations
on the solder she fished about with a spoon
and brought up a gold watch chain. Her
cry of surprise brought in her husband,
who suggested that If they kept on they
might find a few diamonds or a house and
lot, so he went at it. His only discovery,
however, was a lady's gold watch. The
watch was hurried to a jewelers., where
1t was cleaned and its color restored by
the polisher. It's value was given by him
as $50.
London purple is the rage. The craze
not only rules in hat decorations, gowns
and wraps, but has descended to hosiery
and shoes. Lovely low shoes are shown in
soft purple kid, with patent leather trim
mings. The new shade of green, since it,
like most other fads, originated in the
French metropolis, for want of a better
name, has been dubbed Paris green. 1t is
death to the complexion.
1t is a notion got from a West Indian
belle that a lemon bath is a great beau
tifer as well as freshener. Three or four
lemons are sliced into the water. perhaps
a half hour before it is used, and its cos
metic and tonic virtues are thereby much
increased.
The fashion for perfuping gloves,