The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-03

some women still adhere to the plain
parting Of the hair so popular a couple
Of seasons ago.
u one thing is necessary for a hand
some couture. and that is that the hair
itself shall be we'll taken care of. That
means frequent s~hampooing. No mat
ter how carefully a lead may be dress
ed, the hair looks better for being fresh
and fluffy. and nothing better gives it
this appearance than hot water, borax
and CASTLE Dap Where there is so much
nasty coal smoke as there is in many
towns, the hair should be washed at
least every fortnight. Some people In
sist that it injuries the hair to sham
poo It often. but they would be Mortified
II a suggestion were made that a daily
bath be omitted. The hair should be
p as sweet and clean as the rest of
the body. A well groomed man ducks
his e n the bath every morning,
and sometimes again when dressing at
night, and If 1t doesn't hurt him and
spoil his hair why should it that of his
wife, sister, or daughter?
"
Black trimmings thai suggest black ac-
cessorfes in the way of hat and gloves are
effective. Several dainty figured silks are
trimmed either with black lace, or with
a profusion of black chiffon ruffles. A
dainty silk, with a flower pattern running
over a pink ground, has a shirred cape
arrangement of black chiffon, ending with
a fieunce embroidered in pink chenille.
Similar ruffles trim the skirt, making a
N a rrnUr hand Of oarnifz1ra In fha front
and rising high behind after the latest
mode. The combination of blue and
black seems to be more than commonly
popular this season, and results in some
clever effects. A pale blue cloth gown
is arranged with deep ~founces of black
lace on the skirt, headed by rows of
gold embroidery, and the tiny jacket, on
the corsage, is edged by a frill of black
lace. and embroidered with the fine
plumage of black ostrich tips, with gold
stems. The gown is really not bizarre,
for the embroidery of black and gold
makes the only trimming, with the ex-
ception of a friil of mousseline de sole
about the decolletage and on the sleeves.
s
when planting trees in the lawn"
writes Even E. Rexford in the March
Ladies Home Journal I'VE must re-
member that the tree of today is only a
hint of what the tree of ten or twenty
years to come will be. The trees we plant
today, perhaps five or six feet tall. and
two feet across, should in a dozen years
from now, stand twenty-five feet high,
and have a spread of fifteen or twenty
feet If we plant them but ten or twelve
feet apart now we will have. at the stage
of development they are expected to
reach ina dozen years, a perfect thicket
of branches overhead and dense shade
beneath. Never plant with regard to
regularity that is, so many feet apart
zach way as the rule has been laid down
for orchards.
IF you want several shrubs on a small
lawn, and the space is too small to al
low you tc set them as far apart as they
ought TO be, in order to give them the
benefit of space individually, group them,
that Is, plant them in a clump. The idea
is to make the three, or four, or five
shrubs which you plant in the group
produce a unity of effect which will give
much the same impression that one we'll
developed specimen would. BY selecting
varieties in which there is contrast of
color as to foliage, as well as flowers,
satisfactory results may be secured. In
the irregularfty which produces charming
effects there is always a method and a
PLAN
1t is not generally known that tea is
an intoxicant of a powerful kind. It
was Cowper who dubbed the feminine tip
pie s.the cup which cheers but does not
fnebriate." Generally speaking, the poets
case is a correct one.
Nevertheless, in China tea is rarely
used until it is a year old. This is to
avoid a species Of intoxication which new
tea produces. This i~ntoxication does not,
1t is said, produce as violent effects as
accrue from wine and liquor stimulants.
The trouble begins with quickening of
the pulse ard rapid heart action. The
Intoxicated one begins to tremble and the
Imagination runs riot The thoughts
wander. Ghosts and visions are apt to
be seen. These symptoms after awhile
pass away and a deep sleep follows.
The theme contained in tea-and one
of its principal constituencies known to
be the agent IN producing this intoxica-
ton. Whether or not the tannin-an-
other constituents instrumental is not
known.
AS every true woman loves the soothing
cup 1t is interesting to known that such
powers do really in it lie. But then as
the exceedingly fresh article rarely
reaches us, we nave little to dread.
That babies ought to cry occasionally
is a fact well known to doctors, but one
which seems to be very much against the
creed of mothers and nurses. The model
babies who never cry are unnatural speci-
mems. Crying Is the only exercise a
young baby gets: 1t expands the lungs,
causes a better circulation of the blood.
and helps on muscular growth. Of course
frettlng when there Is discomfort is to be
promptly attended to; and screaming
(which might cause rupture) must not be
allowed: but a really healthy little cry,
when nothing particular is the matter,
save that baby needs that mode of ex-
preston for his pent-up feelings-this is
not a thing to make everybody run and
try to divert the little ones attention or
to stop him, or get out Of the way as IL
there was a fire, or a nav locomotive
coming. The noise is not pleasant. but
IL we were once assured that it was a
harmless pastime for baby, most of us
could reconcile ourselves to it once in