The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-04

went with me yesterday TO the gradual
ing exercises at Miss HIS school.
"I knew that she was interested in
education and children, and l wanted her
to hear Eleanor. Mary always thinks
that true friendship calls for absolute
plain speaking, and she begun to ~criticise
the child in her slow, conscientious man
ner. I think her voice is decidedly less
nasal than it used to be- she said, in
tending to be complimentary; and when I
asked if she thought the child pretty,
why, yes, she answered, hesitatingly,
but, of course. at that age you cannot
really tell. What a pity it is that she did
not inherit your nose instead of her faith
er's.' And afterward, when l told her l
intended to take up bicycling she ex-
claimed, Good gracious! What will hap
pen nextt"
"sBut, mamma I protested, if I say
nice things to-everybody, as you tell me,
shall 1 not be like Mrs. SWEET
go, 1 forgot all about that laughed
my inconsistent parent; but whatever
you do, don't be like Mary Blunt"
Lillian Bell discusses "The Philosophy
of Clothes most interestingly in April
Ladies Home Journal" She declares
that .sthere is a h%ollowness about having
a man praise your gowns when you Know
he doesn't know what he is talking about.
| When a man praises your clothes ne Il
always praising you in them. You never
will hear a man praise even the sooa
dressing of a woman whom he dislikes.
But girls who positively hate another
! girl often viii add: But she certainly
| does know how to dress
And SO the experienced woman wears
her expensive clothes for other women
and produces her effects for men. She
wears scarlet en- a cold or raw day, and
the eyes of the men light up when they
see her. It makes her lock cheerful and
bright and warm. She wears gray when
she wants to look deTnure. Let a mar
beware of a woman in siivery gray. she
looks SO quiet and dovelike and gentle
that she has disarfned him before she
has spoken one word. and he will snug.
ole down beside her and let her turn his
mind and his pocket wrong side out A
woman couldn't look designing in light
gray if she tried. He dotes upon the
girl in pale blue. Pale blue naturally
| suggests to his mind the sort of girl who
| can wear it. which is generally a blonde
| with soft. fluffy hair. fair skin and blue
| eyes--appealing, trustful, baby-blue
eyes"
There are a few things that give a hat
a more rumpled and shabby appearance
than an ostrich feather, hnap and de-
| iected. looking almost as forlorn as when
it and its fellows arrive fresh from
| ostrichland.
Anyone seeing an ostrich feather then
would think it only fit for the rag bag,
but a series of brisk s~crubbings in warm
| soapsuds on a washboard, a judicious
patching together and elimination Of
ragged places, where Sir Ostrich has
ard combing soon make Of the ostrich
| feather a thing of beauty and a joy
forever-until it gets wet-when the pro.
cess of regeneration again becomes me-
cessary.
Have a teakettle full of boiling water,
| shake the feathers vigorously through the
escaping steam, taking care that it
does not get too damp. This livens up
the the plume and restores brilliancy If
It has become dull and dusty.
Next take a silver fruit knife, and be-
| ginning with the feathers nearest the
| quill, take a small branch between thumb
| and forefinger and draw gently over the
blade of the knife until they curl as
closely as desired. Follow this process
up each side of the tip, then take a
very coarse comb, comb out carefully,
and you nave YOU pune as good as
ever.
you think the Ugly Duckling never be-
| comes a swan? writes Ruth Ashmore in
April Ladies' Home Journal. Rachel.
who was said Ito have had the most ex-
pressive face of any woman IN the cen
fury. and to have been the most grace
full. was counted by her family an ex-
cegsively ugly child. She adored beauty.
and she tells in one of her letters that
suddenly one day, after looking at her
L self. she made up her mind that she
would be charming. And she said, I
studied every hour Of my life to be ugly
no longer History tells how she sue
ceeded. Adelina Patti was the Ugly
Duckling 1t being thought by her par
ents that her sister, Carlotta. was the
beauty. Mary Anderson, the ideal, class
icai beauty Of the last two decades, was
considered in her own home an awkward.
ordinary-looksng girl, rather quiet, for
she spent most Of her time reading
shakespeare George EEot never be-
came a beauty, but she forced those
people who despised her lack of attrac-
ton as a child to recognize the great
genius of the woman. The, old mammies
down South Always scorned a pretty
baby. me oddly enough, there IS wis
don in this
Everyone has been annoyed at some
time with the brdstles Of the ordinary
toothbrush falling out ii the mouth
while one is cleaning the teeth: This
maj be remedfed II care is taken when
purchasing q new brush. Il should be
at once set. brush 4 down. ins aSei1p
d wafer, I'D ]aff fhsfs CO an hour