The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-18
ideas for dMonaen.

by the generic title OF the Summer
Novel, IS now on the decline. as statis-
ties gathered in all manner of ways
tend to show.
Publishers who two or three years
ago turned cut thousands of copies Of
nl-Written. Imprinted stuff, expecting
that it would be carried by the summer
girl to her hammock and by the up-to-
date woman TO her sandrchair by the
waves. nave this year reduced these
worthless editions TO so small a quantity
that all book lovers may have the salts
faction Of knowing them to be on the
road to extinction.
The summer girl this year will read
novels. of course, but she is going to de-
mand thai they be good. The plot Of the
novel will nave TO be strong and we'll
developed. The character drawing true
and lifelike. The general tone and ten
dency, good, healthful and optimistic
In 9act. l found by systematic inter
viewing out Of a number of bright So
Getty women that the summer girl this
year expects great results from her
hammock book. and viii be much dis
appointed and surprised if she does not
accomplish equally as much by that
literature as by the course of reading
pursued during winter hours.
"Books are not summer friends that
leave you with the swallows aptiy
quoted one gir,. laughing. girls
have given up reading that abomiuable
trash which used to be called the sum
mer novel. One reads a bushel of those
books during the summer. and when
the season was over NOT a jot of them
could one remember.
I remember what it was which dis
gusted me with my summer reading last
year. ! actually had bought and read
POO of those foolish paper-bound books,
and really, when the summer was over,
and l came back to my reading senses,
| realized that not one plot, not one
character sketch, not one thought or
quotation had Impressed itself upon my
memory. Then ! thought it was time
to stop. I threw myself heartily into this
new movement. which women have been
making concerning good reading for the
hot days We have made lists from good
authorities and mean to stick to them.
Then we have organized little clubs to
meet once in a while and discuss the
results.
AA~1iA ! lt64 exclusively
musty old treaties upon subjects of
which we know nothing, nor to occupy
our minds with the different systems of
philosophy and Esoteric Buddhism. Don't
think that. But we do mean that every
novel we read shall be worth reading
and shall contain some good original
thought and ideas. I think all women
are turning over a new leaf in their
story reading Just now There were writ
ers employed during the last few wears
Just TO turn out that stuff by the vol
nme and which was called summer lit
srature, and women did spend their
money and their time over it almost
without realizing the loss until it was
100 late. But that day ds over"
course, it is almost a duty nowa-
days to keep up with the modern nopel
and so we are hunting up all which we
lave missed so far and making them a
part Of our summer reading. Then
dozens Of good essayS which ee8taia Ions
lpI good solid ideas and suggestions. writ
Zen In bright, CHEEKY language, have an
peared during the last few years. and We
mean to take these in, too. A lot of us.
Foo. who have become rather mustv mon
pur classics, T~hackeray and Addison.
plckens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Herrick.
phver Goldsmith, intend to lock up these
what essayists have yon chosen for
the summer?' I asked.
wen, we have little volumes by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dudley
warner, Agnes Repplfer, Brander Mat
thews, Dean Howells. Andrew Lang. oh.
there are quite a number of them and ali
neiightful for summer reading. just
ight enough and yet containing some
true thought"
And how about the uovels?"
Well, there viii be Hope and Conan
Doyle, Marion Crawford. Stanley Wey-
man, James Barrie, Ian Maclaren, Violet
hunt. W. Z. Norris. Mark Twain, Mary
Xix and dozens of Others
Heading the book nst made for future
reference BY one bright Philadelphia girl
| found this charming quotation culled.
from the writings of the book lover. .Tobn.
Alfred Langford:-
"A wise man will select his books. for
ne Will not wish 10 class them all under
the sacred name Of friends. some oan
be accepted only as acquaintances Ia he
ehatted with for a time. To spend a few
pleasant hours with and laid aside. but
not forgotten. These are for the hours
when the mind asks a little recreation
and seeks to be free for a time from the
necessity of thinking. AT such periods
Ct relaxation the lighter kinds of books
are the best Of companions. for they
CIV Of their pleasant stores and demand
nothing in return. They win add a sweet
insouesance TO your moments of delight
tui incidence which are felt as the pleas
ATTEST experiences of life
Unlike bees and many other insects. the
miller or moth fly has no fixed abode. 1t
travels about, depositing its eggs in ma
:eFials where the moth worm will find
food when it comes 10 life. One miller
deposits two hundred eggs. There are two
n three generations yearly. The number
'f moths consequently increases enor-
nously during the summer months. The
Eggs, WHEN laid in suitable material. are
Matched b. warm temperature, the miller
having died in the meantime, says an ex-
change.
Immediately upon making their appear-
anee the worms begin devcurIng eyerv-
thing within reach which contains animal
grease They continue to eat greedily IN
~ fully grown. When this period is
reached they spin themselves into cocoons
change in them 10 Q miliers, and so
complete the generation. These develop