The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-10
1deas for djMo1nen,


No one who does not follow a daily
routine of either work or pleasure car
fully realize what q necessity and bless
ang a day OF solid rest can be.
But few women. the workers who need
1t most, allow themselves this Indulgence
The weekdays are given over TO tot
for daily bread, and Sunday. the day OF
rest, properly, is a routine also, and is
usually a drain on her, physically and
mentally.
When one looks about them in church,
at lecture or matinee, wherever women
are seen in numbers. and, presumably
at their best. one cannot but wonder
that the average woman objects both in
theory and fact to the passing of the
twenty-hfth milestone on her journey
through life.
The thirties, instead Of bringing to
women generally a faded complexion,
eyes that have lost their luster, scant
locks and a gradually increasing crop
es wrinkles should find her upon the
high ltable-land Of perfection, both mem
tally and bodily
There have been women who have
kept their charms. q hne. unwrinkled
complexion, bright eyes and a luxuriant
growth of hair. q light step and youth
full figure ever after their years would
have excused the absence of either
charm.
But such women are not man and
If the secret were known they were such
as kept their minds serene, and knew the
full value Of recuperative power of rest.
If a whole day cannot be devoted to
this beauty rest, then az much time as
can be spared should be religiously set
aside and no other business or pleasure
be allowed to encroach.
The best way to begin is by a warm
bath n the laying aside Of all heavy
and binding garments.
The corset should be stunned and an
even. light, but warm slumber robe as
sumed. Shoes and boots should be laid
aside, and pretty low-heeled slippers
dcnned.r
A graceful and appropriate gown for
this occasion can be made Of eiderdown
for cool days. and s lighter flannel for
a day that would prove too warm for
the heavier materials.
The back IL cut to outline the figure.
but not to fit tightly, and a vatican plat
beginning in a full rosette at the back
Of the neck ends In a short train. The
front is gathered at the throat and falls
full to the hem. A large. round collar
beginning under the vatican at the back
ends in deep points at the. front and IS
tied ar the throat with two-inch ribbon
that reaches to the hem of the gown.
The sleeves are bishop, with narrow
cuff of ribbon, finished with a large bow
on the top.
fronts, about the hem. and lining of
pletes a pretty, comfortable and mex
pensive lounging robe, which should find
a place in every woman's wardrobe
Another robe is made Of fine elder
down in pale yellow pink and brown
stripes, which comes for IS cents a yard
and is thsrty-six inches wide
The back is vatican, the front double
breasted, closing fran neck to hem with
large, handsome mother-o'-peari buttons.
A wide collar finished the neck of this
garment also, which was lined through
out with a handsome, quantity patterned
taffeta, a shimmering pink predominating
In the color
The entire absence OF stays or strings
during twenfy-four hours is a greater
tonic than half the women know. Rest
and sleep are ordered BY the best physi-
clans for their patients. because they
realize that the people of today do not
take IT, II must come as prescription.
when 1 look at myself In the mirror,
see tired, dull eyes, and small lines about
the mouth said a bioeming matron, 'in-
stead of q tonic I goesn for a rest. I re
TIRE early and rise late. One day in the
week T put On a slumber robe, nave
my maid rub me with alcohol or sweet
oil, massage me gently and lounge about
the house all day. Try it and you viii
And 1t works wonders.
But about engagenents2" I asked.
$50 few Of us who lead active lives can
give up a whole day to rest"
You'll find the way to either break or
keep cut of engagements" she answered,
eff you make up your mind to it. That
one day of rest rs worth. many dissfpated
quarter hours
Frau cosin1a Wagner is described as
a nice-looktng old lady, tall, with short
gray hair and a pleasant face, despite the
blue veil she always wears; but hers
is not a personality one would think to
inspire two great geniuses with the
grande passion.
h was the daughter Of List, and
her first husband was Won Bulow. But
she fell madly in love with Wagner;
and Won Bulow. recognizing the fact,
proceeded with the utmost compliance
TO aid her IN getting a divorce from him
self, and afterward in marrying Wag-
ner. The Won Bulow children, accepting
the situation in the same remarkable
spirit, began Immediately calling Wagner
father just as they did Won Bulow.
Those children by the way-they were
daughters-are named for wagner's
three famous heroines-Elsa, Elizabeth
and Isolde. The devotion between wag-
ner and his wife continued 10 his death.
He loved her devotedly, and her hair he
thought the most beautiful in the world
loving to finger its soft iuxurlance, and
to kiss it rapturously. 1t is because Of
this that Frau Wagner now wears he.
hair short, for when her husband died
she had it all cut of and buried in his
coffin.
She is a very fasctnafjnv uo,an shcr