The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-20
mind IS taken up with something worth

heat by the exertion. Never fan the back
Of your friends neck If you are sitting
behind her. Fan with a gentle steady mo-
ton. so that waves of air strike your own
face, but not 50 that you send icy shivers
down your n~eighbor's spine.
On a very sultry day nothing is gained
drinking d great deal of ice water. The
more one drinks, the more thirsty one
A little water held in the mouth
a ONE and allowed to trickle slowly
down the throat, will relieve thirst more
eifeetualy than a gobleeful hastily tossed
off.
The question comes UP every summer,
how shall we best keep our homes cool
during the sultry part OF the day? Shall
we close them and shut out the heat, or
simply darken them and allow the air TO
come in? Ny way has been to open every
window. both at the top and at the bot
tom, early in the morning. flooding the
house with the sweet, cool air. Then,
about ten O'clock, or earlier, close the
windows, except for a few inches at the
bottom, and fasten shutters and blinds
SO that they Will not fly open. Darker
every room which you are not using I'M
Ill the sun goes down. But do not sit TO
read, sew, or practice in the dark. You
eyes need plenty Of Eight. When you go
into the darkened room. do so to rest, not
to work.
Fashion declares decidedly in favor of
belts. She says the newest tailor-made
gowns are cut to be worn with a belt,
the flmy summer frocks do not
scorn it, and the shirt waists demand it.
Therefore, its popularity is assured.
With summer gowns some of the most
expensive belts will lave a hand-painted
miniature for the buckle. Silver buckles
showing an enameled flag in the different
college colors are much in favor with GER
tain young women. The Princeton buckle
is worn with a belt of orange ribbon, and
the Yale buckle is fastened to either a
blue or a white belt.
Exquisite manipulated miniatures are
not only used for brooches this season,
but for belt buckles. The faces of French
court beauties are much in vogue, as well
as miniatures of ones grandmother.
Belts of rare cid coins are another now
city of the hour. A hole is bored through
each coin ard then they are sewed to a
ribbon belt. They make g belt more odd
than beautiful.
@-C 80 $50 ~ NC Lac HlICd0y q =
ed to make a collection of hearts. She
asks her friends to present her with a
heart of silver or gold, with a monogram
upon it. When the collection is large
enough to e~ncircle her waist, the young
she orders them Joined together by means
of gold chains, and another belt is ready
to be added to her summer wardrobe.
Gr# soc,sto in ~ Co-2r;on- +lo Ron-or lo1+
VIII be worn. 1t is made of fine artificial
flowers, sewed to a piece of ribbon belt
ing, and instead Of fastening with a gold
or silver buckle. IS held together with
ONE large artificial flower.
With the flower sprayed organdie gowns
these belts look extremely pretty. 1t is
effective to have the flowers which form
the belt match the blossoms stamped on
the organdies. When roses are used. tiny
buds constitute the belt, and in front,
where it ~fastens, is a single fufI-blown
rose. yelvet-petalad pansies are much
used for these flower bets, as we'll as
tiny chiffon peoples.
One of the greatest benefits which
ought to accrue to women from the recent
they have made in sports and
exercises. and which is, in fact,
beginning to appear, is not a physical, bat
rather a moral one 1t IS a result. more
over, of the competitive idea, tina terror
to those of especially conservative mind,
Harper's sBazar." 1t has always
been said, and with truth, that the ma
jority of women have not appeared to ad-
vantage in contests where there was a
strong feeling Of rivalry, a desire Of one
side to Guido the other. They hated to be
beaten, and though it was manffestly inn
possible that everybody should win, the
defeated ones frequently took their fate
very hardly, and could not help acting as
if an injury had really been done them.
In the course of the game, too, there
was a tendency to rebel against the strict
rulings cf the umpire. Women were not
to being held to account for what
seemed to them very trifing lapses from
the letter of the law. and they could not
once get rid of the notion that they
were entitled to some favors and indulg-
ences. In a word, their conduct might
ave been described by the single term
'tunsportsmarlike,v which covers the
whole ground.
1t was all due to inexperience. Women
naturally as fair-minded and as
anxious to do everything squarely and
honestly and goed-naturedly as are their
brothers. but they were entering what was
to them a new attitude of thought which
went with it. Not that they have by any
means entirely accomplished this yet, but
the various sports. wherever they are
properly conducted, are conducting it
Goodness and seif-control are
often more powerful factors in winning
games than skill itself. A nervous, easily
confused competitor can never be relied
upon at crises in the game, and until
she learns to keep her head ard Judge as
calmly ats an exciting moment as she
would at any other time, she is not a
valuabl addition to any side. If It is a
Fame where each contestant is playing
for herself, the nervous woman merely
her own chances, and never be-
comes a dangerous rival. Control of ones
temper is equally important, and oc-
casienally very hard to maintain. If
g dispute arises IN any point. the de-
cision of the umpire must be accepted
as final. Mistakes will occur once in
a while, but they cannot be helped, and
there must be an authority whose word
Will stand.
At the "neute de charIte'' given by
Madame la Princesse de sagan recently
in Par:s, foulard was the fashionable
seen in all the gowns.
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