The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-09
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OF the boiler. Before rousina the fire
open the hot water taps and see whethe,
there is a free flow of water. If not
something must be wrong and the fir,
must be drawn.
After a boiler has been out Of use dur
ing frost, and allowed to get cold. light
ing the fire is always attended with con.
siderable risk, Il the boiler is not fitted
with a safety valve.
A truly beautiful foot must be free Of
all blemishes. and in perfect proportion
to the leg and stature. The instep SHOULD
be high. or moderately high. and thu
portion under the instep hollow and wei
raised above the level of the sole: fht
toes regular and well developed. ths
heel narrow and non-projecting. Ths
general outline Of the perfect foot Ii
long, slender n graceful. The toes
OF the beautiful foot according to Flax.
mani should follow each other imper.
ceptibiy in a graceful curve from the
first to the fifth, and in the Greek sa,t
according to the most famous statues
the second toe was made longer than the
great Toe. The beauty of the longer see
ond toe is disputed.
1t is true that small feet are consid-
cred by many a mark of aristocracy, blu,
they certainly do not indicate superiority
OF intellect. for many brainy women OF
supreme intelligence have had very
large feet.
George Elliot, for example, and Nine. d.
Stael, the most brilliant woman intel
lectually of her day, had such large and
ungainly feet that she was made undue
proportions. Nme. de Stael once ventured
TO assume the role of a Greek statue IN,
some tableaux vivants, and was grievous-
~ offended by the witty Taneyrand's bon
mot, that he recognized the impersonator
at once by the pied de stael.e
me nigh French heel is accountable
not only for the distortion of the first
joint of the great toe, but for innumer-
able feminine internal complaints. he
sides which it is utterly impossible for
any woman alive to walk or dance grace.
fully in high French heels.
II is said that a fashionable French
woman once asked a famous artist how
to acquire a graceful carriage, and was
told to take off her h~igh-heeled shoes.
OA TYP VI IltT mead, ana DrdC-
tIce walking until she could do so with
out the little snoes showing the slightest
culver of motion.
FWnen you walk" he said, with those
shoes perfectly balanced, you will have
the gait of a goddess, and for the first
time since French heeled shoes were
invented they will really have served to
help and not to disfigure a woman.
Thirty-fve per cent of the graduates
from our women's colleges marry.
twenty per cent. of all women who he
come of a manageable g do not marry
and about sixty per cent. of the college
women who are marriageable do not en-
brace matrimony.
About 1000 women are graduates Of the
principal colleges for Probably
another 1900 graduate from co-education-
al Institutions.
" this great number of women about,
5000 are at the head of homes and 3.ooo
are employed at almost every kind Of
work.
Schooi-teaching seems to be the most
popular of all the fields that are open to
college, women. In 1890 there were in the
United States 735 women who were pro-
fessors In colleges and universities.
The last census shows that we have
LBS women preachers. 2o8 lawyers and
4.555 doctors and surgeons. But in all
these numbers there are few VINO were
college women.
Fashionable dressmakers are now
making the English distinction between
the blouse (which we usually cali the
shirt waist) and the bodice, writes Isa-
bel A. Mallon in April Ladies' Home
Journal" Both are supposed TO be worn
with skirts that differ from them in color
and material, but the blouse is full. is
draped, has a tucked or fancy front. with
stiff collars and cuffs, n always sus-
gests a rather undress get-up. The bod
ice fits the figure, and though it may be
made of cotton, silk or velvet, il must
never suggest, by its trimming or style
of collar. the tailor-made or shirt effect.
Unlike the blouse it is very often sum
GENTLY elaborate to be worn with ths
richest skirt, and the trimming upon It
may be ribbons. ~spangles, laces, feather
or fur pipings, and all the very open en-
broidery that initiates Irish crochet.
However, it is the blouse that win be
given the greatest popularity during the
coming season"
Sleep, if possible, in a cold room. but
do not sleep cold. BY this / mean that
while the air in your room should be cold
and clear, you should have plenty OF
covers over you, and if you wish your
skin TO be beautifu1 Won shoiiId navnr on
to bed with cold feet. A woman hands
ought to be beautiful, but a beautiful
hand is not, of necessity, a chubby hand
nor a dimpled nor a fat hand, but it is a
white hand. a clean hand and a tender
hand. Redness of the hands is often due
to bodices that are tight, sleeves that
catch you at the arm holes, or are too
close-fitting at the wrists. A simple but
good treatment for red h%.eds consists In
bathing them every night in hot water.
using for this purpose plenty Of good
soa and q nail brush: after this bath
dry them on a soft towel, and then rub
thom in some simple emolient-cod cream
or mutton tallow will answer-but what
ever you use must be soft; If necessary
melt it so that what is put on the hands
can be rubbed in gently. Then take a pair
of loose gloves, very loose, cut off the
finger tips, slip them over the creased
hands and sleep in them. In the morn.
ing give the hands a soap and water
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