The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-12

HeWly-Haafried PAIR OIL IN a SmalI Dir
zard of hard, snowy rice.
In course of time, however, the golden
grain was ground and made into large,
thin. dry biscuits. which were gayly
shattered above the b.Gshing maids
flowing locks and then distributed
among the b~ystanders. To this day, too,
in some portions of Highland Scotland
it is still customary for the best mar
and first bridesmaid to break an oatmeal
cake over a young wife as she crosses
the threshold of the first house entered
after the marriage ceremony. This ban
mock is then partaken of by all the as
sembled friends and washed down with
the Scotch whisky, in which they drink
the health of the bride and bridegroom
and of their respective clans.
AS described by a recent traveller,
Russian babies, as seen in the homes of
the Russian peasants in Siberia. are
very unattractive specimens of humani-
ty. Il looked curiously at one little
bundle" says the traveller. (which was
! laid, upon a shelf. Another hung from
the wall on a peg, while a third was
slung over one of the supporting raft.
ers. and was being swung to and fro by
the mother, who had a cord loop over
her foot. Why cried I. in surprise,
that's a child,' of course it is re-
piled the woman, else should it
be?' Having learned so much in SO
short a time. l had an irresistible desire
to inspect the contents of the swinging
bundle. looked, but turned away in
disgust, for the child was as dirty as a
pig in a pen. l could not refrain from
asking one question. 1t may have been
{ irpnortipant syNoSbaIf cbrial1a1 +b,
mother, apparently Mortified. Washed.
What? Wash a baby? Why. you'd kill
iti'"
Never stay out with wet feet.
Never sleep in a room that fresh air
is not entering.
DON'T take anything for wet feet on
your way home.
Daily cold waterybathing, dip or sponge.
win prevent colds.
Get home as quick as you can and
change your shoes and stockings.
Calfskin shoes are worth their weight
in diamonds to women in winter.
Take off wraps. or. at least throw them
open. when you enter a street car.
Wear your overcoat buttoned to the
throat when you go out. Never wear
it in the house.
Never breathe through your mouth. It's
function in the breathing exercise is to
throw off carbonic acid. 1t is the BUSH
ness of the nose to strain the air and
pass oxygen along.
Among the many eccentricities of fash
ion. which one has to report, both by
way of warning, as we'll as advice, may
certainly be classed the novel introduce
ton of ankle bangles. Now that brace
lets are more or less banished from -ele-
] CANT attire, a sort of compensation has
appeared. in the shape Of a chain. made
of either gold or silver links. with a
coin, amulet or heart pendant, worn as
a bangle on the left ankle. OF course a
low shoe is necessary for the due dis
play of this extraordinary ornament, and
it is confidently asserted that not colored
but only black silk stockings are to be
worn with the same. What next?
There are charitable institutions in
most large cities called day nurseries.
Every one knows their mission. to take
care of the children of working women
so that the mothers can earn a liveli-
hood. Some of these charge the sum
of five cents a day for a child's care. This
lldh6S d CHARITY WHICH Gall Ut easily anu
prettily presented to others. Ask any of
your friends if they are not DESTROYS of
keeping a baby in such an institution for
a day. at least, and see if any one will
refuse the five cents. This. done regu-
larly. by an appeal to all ones acquain-
tances. will result in a nice little sum to
turn over to the managers of such a place.
.
~ 1-,Abar,c o;x-ao 40 aao1nrafo p,-ro
nastics that goes beyond the point of de-
veloping a mans animalism for any other
purpose than to give the best possible
support to his enlargement as a rational
and moral possibility is a perversion Of
the purpose of human discipline and to
that degree blocks the wheels of all pro
per college intention" writes DIR. Park
hurst in the March LADIES' Home jour
nall Nevertheless the real animus OF
the athletic tendency is a wholesome au-
curry of a better breed of men. =
French officers wives, in fact. al
women over here who have a spark Of
patriotism in them, have heard with re
greet of the death of the celebrated vivian
diere, the Mere Langlois," who was
quite a brick" in schoolboy slang, dur
ing the Franco-German war. At her blu.
rial in the Clichy cemetery, NJ. Marques
president of the 1870 Veterans" made 3
touching grafton over the grave of the
brave vivandiere.-Paris letter in st
Pauls.
Low. circular dishes for the centre OF
the table to hold the low pot of ferns are
charmingly pretty in the new delicate
Dresden china patterns. Some sell as low
as $l.75, and all are provided with re.
movable tin Innings. It is quite the thing
on fashionable tables in place of the sill
yer fern receptacles to have several il
china en- suite with the various services
The empire craze has extended to al
branches of dress as well as of furniture
The Empire fan is a tiny affair of folded
paper with ivory sticks. It is almost alb
surdly small and is decorated by ga.
garlands, or shepherds and their lasse
in the lovely old Vatican styles which
will bear endless repetition.
One conscientious little woman is keep
ing her pe~nitential season in a strictly
private and beneficial fashion. She hal
selected as a fitting modification of tn,
flesh. at this time. the total abstinanc,
J from fiction. She does not read any
thing Eight except the daily paper, no
even keeping up with any Of the periodi