The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-24
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trimmed muslin tabs. and the universal
resumption of the old fashioned linen col
lar itself seems imminent.
1t has already eheircled necks Illus
trious in the realm of fashion. and it
may be taken for granted that it has
come to stay. One does not need to be
venerable to remember the time when a
gown ungarnished by a line of white at
the throat was regarded as incomplete,
and to be seen without a collar was to
be seen in a negligee equal to that of the
collarless man today.
A touch of white about the throat is
universally becoming. and when the
edict of Punishment was first decreed
women rebelled and vowed they would
never succumb to a fashion so ugly.
But it is a well known fact. so mex
plicahle otherwise that psychological in
fiuence must be inferred. that whatever
is the fashion looks well. and whatever
ceases to be the fashion looks ugly. re-
CARELESS of intrinsic merits.
A group of charming girls were loudly
d~enouncing the s~elishness of Mr.. Adams.
a young married man of their acquaint-
ance. A newcomer inquired the cause Of
complaint.
Why. you see.' said one. ''he won't go
to the Browns party, and If Mr.. Adams
doesn't go Mrs. Adams won't go, and as
Mrs. Adams was to chaperone us all re
shall all have to stay at home
Among the girls two were at least Is
and one over 80. The last had been a high
minded. sensible young girl. and itsseemed
as if she might now be an adequate chap
erone for her companions, but to have
asserted herself in such a capacity would
have involved one of two results-either
she would have been looked upon as al
together passee or as extremely eceen-
trio.
She was not ready to accept eithe
judgment. When the lamented Mrs.
Adams-a frivolous young woman of 20
appeared she Joined her voice to the earn
est appeal made to her. For propriety of
conduct or force OF character she could
not be compared TO the older woman,
and yet the latter felt that she could not
so to the party except under the shadow
CT her wing.
No doubt the canon of society which
DEGREES that a married woman, however
young, may serve as a guardian for girls,
has a sensible basis, since marriage is in
itself an education, and many an older
single woman, through sheer innocence,
might permit liberties which her married
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there is a limit to such rightly of rule
which good sense should be permitted 10
transcend.
Here is another new science. It's votaries
call it heartieulture. which is understood
to be a word invented in contradistinction
to manicure. Manicure. or the culture of
the hand physical, is acknowledged to be
well enough in its way.
But as heart and hand must work to-
gether 70 effect any permanent good, the
hea%rticurists aim to begin at the Begin
ming with the unseen, the inward and
the spiritual in contradistinetion to the
outward and visible. Since the hand is
powerless to act. unless the pendulum of
the body. the heart, keeps even stroke and
swings in harmonious time, they propose
to open a school for the culture of the
Shears spiritual.
Physical culture. to which so much
lime and attention have been given, is
cons eered as of but secondary import
ance. Why? Because the spirit alone in
aman is thai which ansmates.
proposed to open classes for the
culture Of the heart spiritual. having for
a motto, do as you would be done by"
After all is said about the preservation
" Dcduiy upon WHICH HOutdil-cN6i Tie
new woman-is always and forever in
tent: after facial massage and steaming
have had their due. the sum and ~conclus-
ion of all is. that a placid mind is the
very best specific for good looks and pro-
Ionged youth. It is the worried mind that
ingraves lines on the forehead and digs
hollows in the cheeks. Happily. the new
psychology declares that worry may be
absolutely eliminated from our lives. The
little book. ''Mentieulture," by Horace
Fletcher, published recently, pronounces
anger and worry the roots of pretty much
all evil, and declares that with an entirely
possible emancipation from these come
happiness and good looks.
A great deal has been told about the
superiority of the male cook over the fe-
male, but whatever of superficial truth
is in such they lack the root
of ruth.
The truth is that It pays a man to
learn all that is required of a first class
chef, while it has had never yet paid a
woman-if we except those who, having
mastered both the chemistry and the fine
art of cooking. teach classes the same.
And except through these classes, or ex-
pensive and laborious private experiment,
there is no way for a woman to become
a SklliIul COOK.
In Europe man or boy who begins as
a scullion may be paying a certain
amount to the cook just above him to
learn that all he knows; then, by trans
ferring his tribute money to- his first
teachers superior, he advance another
step. and so on till he has spent all his
earnings. and often more. too, but has
acquired in return a liberal education,
one which renders him independent. He
is now in a position to do little work
with his hands, but to direct, to superin-
tend, and to draw a salary often larger
than that of a college president. The
ordinary kitchen girl has no such oppor-
tunity.
She cooks for those who know of
nothing better, and she has never seen
anything better herself. But let her
orce understand her possibilities and, of
course, she must have intelligence in
order to do this, and she may add a
new feature to the woman century.
To possess a mouth shaped like Cupid's
bow, with lips like dewy rose leaves. that
disclose teeth that rival Orient pearls in
wilderness and in lustre, is the happy for
tune Of few women; but to have a mouth
that shall approximate in some degree, if
it does not fully reach the standard of