The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-24
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the morning, combs her hair back as
tightly as though she were afraid one
stray hair would escape from the gener-
al direction of smooth. scalp-like uni
formity.
She twists 1t as firmly as fingers n
hairpins will allow into the smallest
possible snail-like ball at the back of
her head. Most likely she will screw a
few pinciies of bang into little spidery
knots across her brow. completing an APP
pearance that is by no means pretty to
look upon.
But this is the object that greets many
husbands vision six out of seven morn
ings each week.
He could tell. so familiar is he with
the sight. even without looking. just how
many Jumps of paper grace the bald
expanse across your brow, and draw with
his eyes. shut the pattern of that old
morning wrapper, so often has he seen
it at breakfast. dinner and tea.
You intend to comb out The knots on
your head into pretty crimps, and the
one Of. the back into a fluffy roll, and
change that old wrapper for a trim.
gown just as soon as you get the numer-
Gus first duties of the day performed,
greeting the eyes of your husband fresh
and sweet when he comes in at dinner.
But there are so many things to be
done and you go from one to another
until John appears and finds you the
same fright he left in the morning.
Why need you have been a fright in
the morning? A neat. pretty wrapper, if
you must wear a wrapper, costs no more
than an ugly one, and even If you can
not afford to wear it all the morning,
put it on to appear before your husband
at breakfast. slipping it off before you
begin homework.
Leave out the curl papers and arrange
your hair neatly. They also can be put
in a little later and a fluffy bang secured
for the dinner hour.
Some women who are most neat and
attractive in appearance as a maiden
develop suddenly nto the veriest dowds
after marriage, appearing to think that
with the tying of the nuptial knot the
man loses all sense of beauty and at
tractiveness in the women he has mar
ried. This is not so.
He may not hint it by word or look
but you can be sure he wonders often
what can have become of the girls
dainty ways and gowns.
There is nothing so cold as the winds
of disillusion. Many a mans love fancies
have begun to wane and MS eyes to wan
der from what should be the pole star
of his gaze. simply from seeing a dow
dy. unsidy women before him every
time he enters his home. instead Of the
pretty, neat one he has every right to
expect.
Nine out of ten women will plead too
much to do or so very much that
really don't get the time for personal
adornment l used to have" This is just
the point. Dom devote the time to in
animate objects of your home thai should
be given to your own personal care.
| once knew a women who had what
called in my then childish mind the
"clean fever
50 clean and neat was her whole prem
1ses that everything shinable fairly glis-
tened and everything scolrrable was
secured But the woman herself.
Her ordinary garb was a worn and
battered skirt with a loose saeque or
body of another sort of cloth. Her form
was always corsetless and her clothes
We're held about her wadst with an arti-
Gle that did duty for an apron ordinar-
lily.
She was either just beginning or in the
MIDDLE of a heavy piece of work. One
unconsciously associated her in their
minds with a scrub rag or a washing
pail.
So, dear women. who have become so
addicted to curl papers and a s,ouehy
wrapper, are you associated in your nus
bands mind.
Constant association creates uncon-
sc.ous mental impressions, and the time
spent in this little bit of most necessary
"primping" is, to my mind, the best
spent moment of tine entire day.
The latest fancy of the fashionable
mother is her baby.
Fashion has decreed that the mother
must show interest in her offspring. |
and so society women who are FORUM
ate enough to be blessed with children |
are assuming the maternal virtues even
If they have them not.
The devotion of the young Czarina Of
Russia to her new baby has given the
impetus to the baby-worsffp. She keeps
herself as close to her child as her royal
duties permit. She takes special delight
On its morning bath. In fact she fire.
quentiy gives 1T with her royal and
motherly hands
THIS bath of any baby is a very i'm
portant function. I asked information
concerning it-not from a graduated
nurse or maid, though they are well
enough, but from a good old colored
mammie, who is as proud of the ten
white children she has brought up to
health and happiness as she ought to
be.
And this what she told me-
That a baby should never have a
plunge bath before 1T is Ave or six
months old. Up to thai period it should
be sponged off softly. It is possible to
go over its whole body without expos
ure to the air. The first few months it
should never be stripped entirely and
exposed to the air: II IL apt to take
cold. ao5 III g. ~ n
When the time comes that the plunge
bath is used. some Of the mothers hap
piest hours are in store for her.
Few women willingly relegate this Of
flee to a nurse If they know the Joyous
ness that it lis possible for If IN nrod,,oa