The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-31

danger lies in their very Innocence, IN
their very impossibility to grasp the
condition and the result at the same
time and at their age.
No one wants to see a woman as
ignorant of the facts of life as a girl.
The years take care of that. The inno-
cent ignorance of the one YOU be
the folly of the other.
The mothers have this hard problem
before them. II the doors are closed and
windows barred from. sight Of the ap-
pie hanging on the boughs, will that be
sufficient? Or will the girl sulk and
fret and slip away TO nibble at the rind?
Or If mothers tell the story OF the
apple to the girl and explain to her
with the wisdom of the divine which
God gives to good mothers, will that
girl lose the freshness of her innocence
and go out for ever from that beautiful
realm which time makes so brief for
women?
There is little now so important as
this. From the very tendencies of the
world in conversation, literature
drama the reins must needs be drawn
over the girls the tighter.
They have always wanted a nibble at
the rind; but now when they have the
apple shown them so often the desire
| must surely become greater.
Illusion belongs to youth, and 1t IS
very sweet. 1t is the mothers upon
whom the duty of keeping it up lasts.
Let the child believe in fairies as long
as possible; let the young hold TO
Santa Claus until the last plank; keep
| life's serious degradations away from
the girls soul until life DEGREES other
wise.
She must eat the apple which gives
knowledge of good and evil before very
long. so keep her from wanting the first
taste. =
Have a care for her purity and a re-
gard for her innocence.
49,
Century runs have been condemned
widely and emphatically for all except
| the strongest of men riders. and 1t is not
| contended that even the latter are bene-
flied at all thereby" says 'Harpers
Bazaar For women they are. OF
course, still more dangerous; they can re-
| suit In nothing but injury, and that per-
| haps of a very serious nature. What,
| then. if to be said when a woman ac-
| tualIy sets out and accomplishes a
double century"-that is. that Is the
riding of two hundred miles in twenty
| four hours? This has just been done by
| one woman, and her feat has certainly re-
| ceived sufficient advertisement IN the
| newspapers. Persons who saw her at the
| fnish-line commented upon the frightful-
| " worn n haggard appearance of her
face. Indeed, the pedalling OF those
| scores of miles, now under a screening
| sum-, and again in torrents of rain, through
clouds of choking dust and weary depths
of sticky mud, always with the feenng
that she must push on without the loss OF
a moment in order to complete the task
she had set herself, must have been moth
ing short of torture. 1t is a marvel that
/ she managed to accomplish the run at
all. Will power is strong, however, and
the latter part of the way must have been
covered by sheer force of determination
and nerve. 1t was one of the most sense
less and pitiable exhibitions of the bicy-
Gle craze which have yet been manifest
ed. Fortunately there are few women
| who are possessed of like ambitions or
who will have any desire to rival the
achievement.
well made sandwiches, some eggs and
well mdae sandwiches, some eggs and
coffee, with a few lady fingers. will pro-
vide a comfortable luncheon and dinner"
writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer, who suggests a
number of picnic luncheons in the August
Ladies Home Journal" A alcohol
!! stove, costing but twenty-five cents, with
two ounces of alcohol, will furnish boil
ing water for the coffee, and will cook
a dish of scrambled eggs or make a
Welsh rarebit. For cooking the latter
an ordinary tin pie-dish will answer. The
! coffee may be finely ground and put into
a cheese-cloth bag in the coffee-pot, all
| ready for the boiling water. Sandwiches
are the most appropriate form of food
| for picnics, especially the dainty, appetiz-
ing sandwiches made of homemade white
| or whole wheat bread, filed with a mix
| ture of chopped meat, daintfly sea-
soned.
IAN agreeable acquisition to a picnic,
luncheon or supper is a salad made either
from some green vegetable or tomato.
! Half a pint of m~ayonnaise dressing may
be carried in a jar, and the salad ar
| ranged on wooden plates. Vegetables
and fruits serve as food and drink. Sar-
dimes, shrimps or salmon may be minced
| rubbed to a paste with a little lemon
| Juice, and used as filling for. sandwiches.
| Lemons for lemonade may be squeezed at
| home, the juice mixed with a proper pro-
| portion of sugar, four tablespoonfuls to
| each good sized lemon. poured into a bot
| tie and diluted at the picnic grounds.
Condensed milk Is easy to carry, and will
answer the purpose of either milk or
| cream"
A charming example of the elaborate
use of lace is given in an ideal gown for
| fetes n garden parties. 1t is made of
| the silky grass lawn, in biscuit, pale fawn,
| rose pink or a delicate green, and is
| either embroidered in ecru or appliqued
in open designs with ecru, che or
Renaissance lace, or in cream, with the
| open applique designs in black lace,
| slightly tinged with gold tinsel. This
style of material comes in a robe pattern.
The skirt portion is gored and scanned.
| and the designs are run up in points.
and form a border all around. In some
of the patterns the embroidered bodice
| piece forms a pinafore front; in others it
takes the form of stripes of narrow bor-
| dering. There are three yards of double
width. plain silk lawn to complete the
| bodice. which is usually trimmed with
a wealth of fine lace matching the APP