The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-26

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Do you know it is almost impossible to
obtain ready made a widows cap? If
one could make one, one could make
other such dainty gear as well. And
one should do 1t.
The hardest worked washerwomen in
the world are the Koreans. They have
to wash about a dozen dresses for their
husbands, and. as every man
wears pantaloons or drawers so baggy
that they would come up to his neck.
like those of a clown. they nave plenty
to do. avs a writer in s'Pearson's Week
W" The washing is usually done in cold
water and often in running streams.
The clothes are pounded with paddles
until they shine like a shirt front fresh
from a Chinese laundry.
The Japanese rip their garments apart
for every washing, and they iron then
clothes by spreading them on a fiat
board and leaning this up against the
house to dry. The sun takes the
wrinkles out of the clothes, and some
of them nave quite a luster. h
Japanese woman does her washing out
of doors. Her washtub is not more than
six inches high, and is about as big
round as the average dishpan. She gets
the dirt out of the clothes by rubbing
them between her hands. She sometimes
uses Japanese soap, which is full of
grease, and works away in her bare feet.
The Chinese girls do their washing in
much the same way.
The pretty short haired beauties of
Siam wear their gowns when bathing in
the river, and wash them while taking
their bath. When they have finished
they trot up the steps of their floating
house, and. wrapping a clean sheet round
their bodies, they slip off the wet clothes
and wiring them out dry.
The washing in Egypt is usually done
by the men. The Egyptian washerwo-
man stands naked on the banks OF the
Nile and slaps the wet clothes, with a
noise like the shot of a pistol, on the
smooth stones at the edge of the rum
ming water, and such fellah woman as
wash the dirt out of the clothes in the
same way.
Frenchwomen pound the dirt out with
paddles.
The proposed wedding journey of two
young persons who are to be married
next month is exceptional enough in the
scope to attract attention even in these
days, when trips of this sort. are more or
less unconventional in plan, and the old
jokes about the bridal couples at Niagara
| Falls have lost their point. says the New
York Sum-" This particular couple pro-
pose to go to Japan, which is already a
| f~avorite country for young married people
to visit, and the unusual part of their
| plan is their-contemplated s~ojourn for a
long period in Siberia.
They expect to stay in Siberia for near
ly a year, and the bridegroom-elect, who
is something of a politician. expects to
learn enough about the social and politi-.
cal conditions there to write a book
about the country when he comes back.
When the guests at wedding receptions
begin to throw rice and old shoes at cou-
pies who have their faces turned toward
such remote points as Siberia, the business
takes on a more serious aspect.
| Wedding journeys in buggies through
the Berkshire Hills, bicycle trips. and
even the cruise of six months in the
Pacific Ocean, which was undertaken by
a young couple two years ago, all seem
tame and commonplace enough compared
with the prospect of a long stay in Siberia
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inal system. Last spring a young mar
ried couple made a journey to Alaska,
but their enterprise seems to be surpassed
by the Siberia project.
If this ambition continues to spread,
engaged couples will begin to wait with
especial interest for trustworthy news
from hansen and Borehgrevink.
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present season is the fancy in fashionable
circles for mattresses, rather than walters,
as heretofore. to serve at meals Of cere-
mony. This is especially the case at
ladies' luncheons. teas and afternoon card
parties. To show how quickly a fashion
gains hold and asserts itself. first-class
caterers already announce that they e'are
prepared to furnish trained Mattresses for
social functions"
It is true that most schools for domes-
tic servants include a waitress class, it's
intention hitherto being to fit girls for
the position in private houses. This new
demand for transient service, with better
pay. will advance the movement until
waiting will be a profession with women,
as it has been in the past for men. They
are quick, deft-handed and with apprecia-
ton of the unexpected and awkward situ-
ations and ready tact TO meet them. This
particularly adapts them for the duties
required in this especial line of work.
Each thrilling point indicates the train
ed and expert waitress, who can be
trusted to carry with quiet elegance the
service through it's many courses from
first to last. These do not come by in
tuition. but, like any other business in
which success is to be expected, must
be carefully and thoroughly learned.
The required toilet is neat and suitable,
and gives a certain touch of dignity to
the occasion. It consists of a plain black
alpaca gown, broad turnover collar and
cuffs of white linen, with the usual cap
and apron of a waitress.
Now that Mary Anderson Navarro is
bidding the aspirants after histr.onic
honors to avoid the stage. is is inter-
esting to recall the advice she received
from Charlotte Cushman. Suppose that
Miss Cushman, while admitting the
girls talent, had advised her to shun
the dangers and discomforts of the stage
and live a quiet lady-like life, and that
Miss Anderson had followed the advice.
What would she be now? Not Mrs.
Antonio de Navarro, a woman Of fortune