The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-17
4 IDEAS for 1Mon1en.

own h0lSeW0fk. IS OIlen Q6l6rISu ioAi
giving even the slightest form Of social
entertainment. because she fears to go
Through the function uuassisted
An informal afternoon tea is one OF
the pleasantest manners in which one
can NEST ores friends and entertain
them pleasantly, and it is the one occa-
sion when an assistant can be most easily
dispensed with. OF course, a maid, even
a tiny enc. makes things more convenient
and enjeyable for the hostess herself; sut
If she IS an utter fapossibility, the deft~
BANDED woman who knows how to pre-
pare and manage can do very well alone,
and make her little reception a most en-
joyable affair.
She should give herself ample time for
preparation, so that she may be sure thas
everything needed is IN It's place, before
she goes upstairs 10 dress for receiving
her guests.
Everything should be placed just as It
is to be served, except the tea or bouiilon,
which must be hot. and which she can
easily bring in after she is dressed and a
minute or so before she expects her
guests.
A small round table should be placed at
a suitable place in the room-a spot that
win hold easily. also. the chair in which
the hostess viii preside. On This table
should be a oainttly e1n5foiierel tea
cloth. two or three choice cups ami sas-
GERS. with spoons, q small sugar bowl
and sugar tengs. a small cream jug. a
dish of ben-bcns and at the last moment
the little teapot of freshly made tea
$50
If more than tea and cake are to be
s~erved-if bouillon ard rolls are to be
added-another table must be used. This
had better be placed at the rear Of the
room near the door to the dining-room
or pantry. On it spread a tea cloth and
place on it an urn of bouillon, bouillon
pitcher Of iced water, turnblers, plates
Of finger rolls and small cakes. a dish
of bonbons. a sugar bowl, a cream jug
and a tea caddy. On this table have q
little spirit lamp for the hot water and
for making the fresh tea. Tea to be en-
1oyable must be always freshly brewed.
Remember tina bouiIlon must be hot and
a cup of tea must be hot and fresh. Fin
ger rolls should be spread in such a man
ner that bits of butter viii not come in
contact with gloves. It IS these little
details which make or mar the success
of even the simplest forms OF entertain
ment for ones friends.
If Russian tea is to be served, a fair
fresh lemon should be selected and sliced
evenly. A small dish with a few slices
should be placed on the tea table, and
another should be kept in reserve for
repienishing.
After the hostess has made these pre-
parartons and seen that plenty of fresh
cups and aucers and spoons are near at
hand she may so upstairs and beautify
herself with an easy min When the
hour for her A Home approaches she
win place the bouillon and tea on the
tables and await her first guest.
Bouilon should be offered first and with
It the finger rolls. If tea is preferred.
cake is served with it. The hostess will
find thai she will have little else to do
than to pour the tea or serve the boufl-
lon. At an informal affair. such as this,
If the hostess surrounds the guests with
sFhe proper atmosphere of hospitality and
informally. they amuse themselves to a
great extent. Moreover, there is usu-
: ally some helpful man among the guests
who viii delight to fetch and carry from
one end of the room to the other. If
the hostess has carefully prepared every
thing beforehand, an affair of this kind
ought to run off quite smoothly, and
she should be able to enjoy the company
and conversation of her friends, without
an anxiety as to the material part of the
affair. The less anxiety she has the
more will her friends enjoy being there.
In a letter from India a correspondent
writing about the hot days in that coun-
try says:-"Lassitude and loss of appe-
title are among the first evidences of the
effect of the SUMS heat upon the body,
and in hot weather many persons who
never have had sunstroke are debilitated
by what might fairly be called sun
fatigue, which, although not serious, rem
ders work of every kind much more la
borious al 1T would otherwise be. The
influence of the sun varies enormously
on different individuals, some of whom
ave to take special precautions In order
80 be able to resist 1t.
"A spinal pad is used by soldiers in
many tropical countries. 1t arrests the
light, which often works such injury, but
1t is uncomfortably hot, and soon be-
comes Objectionable from its absorption
Of perspfration.
According to a royal engineer, who is
stationed in India, the boon and bless
ing beyond compar to those who have
to spend part OF their lives under a
tropical sunlight is an orange-colored
shirt. He declared that he frequently
fell sick after duty in the sun until he
treated himself as a Photographic sensi-
tive plate and surrounded his body with
yellow light. Ali clothing. however thick,
allows certain rays to pass, and although
thick clothing would arrest all the in
furious elements Of sunlight, it would in
terfere with the escape of bodily heat
The yellow shirt, for sensitive people who
are much in hot sunlight, is an excel
lent protection, only inferior to that
simplest and best of all Indian protec-
tives, a white umbrella. which has not
yet been widely used in this country"
In Cairo there are women who are
n~ominally free, yet practically slaves.
That is TO say. there are forms Of slay-
cry of which the British officials in
Egypt know, or profess to know, nothing,
or which are difficult of proof. OF course,
no open slave traffic is tolerated: severe
laws against the introduction of black
slaves from the harefns have long beer
in force: yet such slaves are secretly
Introduced into the country every week
writes a correspondent. The poor