The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-13

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belfry. with hts three. small bells. At, the
gate Of the cemetery is a small house,
where the f~aibhful1buy the votive. candles
which even from there cansbe seen flick
ering on the steps below the altar.
ihe p~ilgrinaases to the chapel must be
made on foot and fasting. Each time a
candle must be added TO the faring3 group
In the little dim church, and to make as
surance dorbly sure. it is just as well to
make use of the we'll near by. This well
has remarkable properties. If you kneel
and put your hand down on the water
while you make your wish. it is almost
as good as settled that you will get it.
The Creole girls have another matri-
monial agent which is very powerful. In
tact, 1t would really seem to be nobody's
rault but the girls own If She allows her
self to become an old maid. The visitor
IN New Orleans will be very likely to
notice, outside of the small shops con-
tanning prayer books, images and other
churcn paraphernalia, a small basket
with dozens of little lead cases about the
size OF a peanut shell. If he has the
curiosity to open one of these cases he
VIII md in it a very small and very
rude image of ST. Joseph. These convent
ent pocket editions of the saint can be
bought for five cents a piece, so they are
within the re ch of any one. Only-to
have a st. Joseph really effective, he must
be a gift. Even that is easy of ac-
complishment.
st. Joseph is warranted to bring a hus-
oand, except in the most refractory
cases. Sometimes it takes patience and
perseverance. but it all comes right in
the end. They tell a little story down in
New Orleans which illustrates the abso-
lutte dependence which can be placed on
the saint even in extremity. There was
a creole girl who had carried her little
leaden st. Joseph until he and her patti
ence were almost worn out. One day in
a fit of disgust at the tardy realization
of her hopes, she picked up the little
image and threw it out of the window.
The mean thingr' she said. Its no
good, any way
AT that momen a young man was pas
sing the house, and the ST. Joseph alight-
ed at his very feet.
Dear me!' he said, picking it up.
nov some poor girl has lost her ST.
Joseph! Well, Til just take it back to
her.
So he rang the bell and was ushered in
by the identical young person who had
thrown away her st. Joseph in despair.
They came, they saw, and st. Joseph
conquered. 1t took a tolerably hard blow
to set him to work, but he lost no time
when he fairly realized the situation.
st. Joseph is justly revered by the
young girls of New Orleans. At a GER
tain convent in the French quarter a
priest came one time to talk to the girls
about the good and great saint The
priest did not speak English with much
f1uency. but he was full of resources. He
began thus
SAINT Payter-he was a vera greet
santi And SAINT Powl-he was a vera
gret SAINT! Mais-San Zhoseph- WhewI!'
and the good priest threw up both hands
and whistled with the intensity of his
emotion.
There is no country in the world where
sthrtlls'' area more common than in the
United States. The nervous jumps. the
violent trembling at intervals. when an
noyed. or even employed (this is what
gives this peculiar ailment its name Of
..thrilss'). can be found all over this
country but particularly in big cities,
where there is so much hustle and ac-
tivity.
Fortunately for those afflicted, the dis
ease is not without a remedy, and the
prescription is a simple and agreeable
one. There is no help to be obtained from
drugs or doctors; all the tonics and wines
and elixirs prepared by the chemists
only tend to make matters worse. All
hat has to be lone is to take ak in
the open air and sunshine. pay visits to
others, attend teas without thinking too
much tea and go in for gaiety and in
nocent amusements generally. Morbid
thoughts must be depressed as they arise.
or they should be expelled by thinking
of a necessary duty.
1t is a peculiar phase to this trouble
that the remedy is a good deal like the
disease itself. 1t is explained that al
though exercise may fall to the lot Of
the sufferer in her daily life, it is gem
orally indoors, and in any case it is Of
a routine nature. Taking exercise for
hygienic reasons and as a matter
of business are two entirely differ
Cit tAiu6o, LIZ Liz CiiCClS dic usually
distinct in proportion to the different
mentality awakened.
The woman who gets ho~use-nerves
usually begins to study herself, her
wants, ailments and loneliness to a
painful degree, until at last she thinks
she is on a fair road to an asylum.
There may be happy lands-say Boeotic
or the peasant state of B-ulgaria-where
nerves are unknown. Nerves are believed
to affect the inhabitants of Southern
Europe far less than those of the North.
The difference is probably due to the
climate: that of Southern Europe allows
of life being passed more in the open air
and sunshine n ozone are known to
be great nerve tonics. In Russia nerves
are attributed to. the consumption of tea
and to Tolstoi.
Even the women object to the large
hats at theatres. Each Individual who
has a grain of unselfishness in her dis
position is delighted that the bill went
though the Ohio Legislature. (Rather a
coincidence that a man named Hogg
should ave been Instruments in IT'D
But one good turn deserves another.
What of the men who Chamber over half
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