The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-07
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easy matter, as many mothers realize
when they find the question before Them"
writes Phebe Wsstcott Humphreys in the
April Ladies Home Journal" THE
wise mother, however, is ever on the alert
and many savory compounds, in the way
of potted meats, ETC., are prepared. in
connection with the home cookery, that
are quickly SLICED and invitingly arranged
in the lunch basket, and help to form a
plentiful nourisiling lunch. The first con-
sbderation in preparing these lunches
Should be healtfifu illness, yet dalntineSs is
of equal Importance. 1T is an easy matter
to make the home luncheon attractive,
even when served cold; the white table
linen and attractive table appointments
seem to impart a certain relish to the
food. One of the first requisites for a
dainty lunch Should be a lunch o or
basket that can be readily scalded and
kept sweet and clean, and waxed paper
and Japanese napkins, on a quantity of
linen napkins to separate the articles of
food. Waxed paper is especially impor-
tant, as pickles, sandwiches, cake, or any
thing that is wrapped in 1t, may be kept
fresh without destroying the flavor of
the other. A corner in the dresser drawer
we'll stocked with these papers. with the
doilies, etc., and the small glasses, with
tight-fitttig lids, Mould be a part of the
regular kitchen furnishing in every home
where cold lunches are to be put up each
day."
Olu MdluS IluSl cldlIn Tie EICle klIlS-
dom of Denmark for their Paradise, for
they are insured there. Any girl who
feels that there is a likelihood of her be-
ing laid on the shelf may make provision
whereby she can, at the G of 40, be put
in the spinster class for good and receive
weekly benefits. These benefits. of course,
are in cash.
Some of the old maids might prefer to
have 1t so that, instead of money, they
would have a nice, well-trained bachelor
call + twice q yy1Gk and stow aud no optor-
tanning. Some entterprising American
ought to get up u a scheme. There
are good-lookirrg bachelors enough to get
up a corps of wooers. Old maids In the
company would have q man to call on
them, say twice a week, and listen while
they played the piano and sang their
favorite sentimental song. He would say
nice things about the playing and the
singing and he singer. Neither would he
kick the cat that would be sure to be
prowling about. Many an old maid would
be able to retain her se1f-respect if she
could make some such provision.
And think, too, of the tempers it would
keep from SQUIRTING! Old maids are said
to have awful tempers, and this course
Of treatment would be certain to sweeten
them.
The latest fad of fashionable people is
telling the character by clasped hands.
A cl~asped-hand character specialist says
that this means of reading character is
easier and more correct than all other
ways.
"A woman he says. VINO is frivolous
Will clasp her hands together with the
first finger of the right hand between the
thumb and the first finger of the left. But
the first finger of the right hand lies be-
tween the second and third on the left
when constancy prevails. Those people
who place two fingers of one hand be-
tween the thumb and fingers of the other
are deceitful. and not to be trusted"
1t Is said that in a married couple the
one who on clasping hands and interlac-
est the body, with the right fingers COR
respondine1y placed in relation to the
fingers, will be the dominant member of
that couple.
A,chiropodist of this city comes for
ward with a novel theory concerning
the tortured feet from which so MANY
persons, men, women and children. suf-
fer. He says corns are the result of
-ervousnes and are more freu1lent with
those of neurotic temperament. Nervous
persons, he claims, are apt to have habits
of clenching the hands and fingers. Some
times the movement is very slight. AL
most unperceptible to the eye. A mere
shrinking or contracting of the muscles.
But the effect is there. In precisely the
same manner a nervous individual con-
tracts her feet and toes. The movement
is slight but frequent. This cramps the
~10oi StAANA - ~ LIZ ICldC1
In order to do away so far as possible
with this trouble shoes should be. the
practitioner says, fully long and the sole
as wide as the bali of the foot. Most
people have an idea that the width-not
the length of a shoe is the important
part.
Carefully prepare a calf's liver, and lard
it thickly over the top. with the lardoons
sufficiently large to fill a good sized lard
ing needle, says Mrs. Rorer in the
Ladies' Home Journal Into the bot
tom of the haking-pan put a small onion
sliced, a carrot sliced, a stick OF celery
cut into pieces. two bay leaves, a sprig
of parsley. four cloves and a teaspoonful
of pepper corns. If without the latter,
use the ordinary ground pepper, but only
.~one-quarter the quantity. Place liver on
top of these; d one quart of boiling
water, In which you have dissolved a tea
spoonful of salt. Cover the pan with an
other of the same size; bake in a quick
minutes. Remove the upper pan and bake |
thirty minutes longer. Serve with a
brown sauce made from the liquor in the
PAN.
The Queen Is as fond today of the so-
eiety of little children as ever she was.
and the most induIgent grandmother and
great-grandmother possible. Have it
own way. darlingi'' she will some
times smillngly say, when one of her
pets is arguing a point.
Like many other women, her Majesty
was never inclined to spoil her own chill
dren, however much she may give in to
her grandcllildren On some points she is
a great stiekler, and demands that all the
simple, comfortable ways of management
in the Osborne nurseries SHOULD be car
ried into the nurseries of her grandchil-
dren.
Then, the Queen does not care for the
new-fashioried notions about children's at
tire. W~ell-curled hair. white frocks, and
q smart sash she considers de rigeun
A great lady sent her little girl to visit
the Queen at Osborne in the ordinary lit
tie shocked frock, sashless. When next
Lady A. was commanded to Windsor her
Sovereign remarxed:ztYour little girl is
very sweet and pretty, but the next time
you send her to see me she must wear a
sash"
Plated coarse straw seems to be IA |
vored moro than anything else for spring !
hats and soques, and masses Of flowers
are Used to decorate, Foliage of every
sort is likewise employed-the nde I
lcaves Of birch, ivy. rose, poplar Of
field daisies heliotrope, mignonette, mall
den hair fern fronds, etc., and whe |
hienasns with q few appropriate tiowers
the effectEi s very charming, but Il the
present saihsesess exces In decoration Is to