The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-14

the rights of citizenship as men. The
writings of Shelley and of Ibsen, with
their note of freedom for women and due
recognition of her true place in the econ
omy of nature, appeal strongly to Miss
Harraden, the keynote of whose nature
is, as We have before said, a love of
freedom and a hatred of the ~unmeaning
and useless conventionalities of society.
She loves the Bohemian life, with its
greater opportunity for development of
original character.
During the last year or two Miss Har-
raden has found in Southern California
a health resort exactly suited to her
tastes; but it is a mistake to suppose,
as has been often done, that her perma-
nent home is there.
Buy shoes in the afternoon, when the
days activities nave made the feet their
largest. Shoes purchased in the morning
are apt to be tight.
To save shoes that have been wet from
an early grave, wipe them off and then
rub with oil of cream applied with a
piece of flannel.
Never wear new shoes on day when
overshoes are necessities. Rubbers spoil
shoes.
To clean kid boots which will not bear
backing roll a strip of flannel four
inches wide and a good yard long into
a wad and sew 1t tightly. Dip it into
a saucer filled with a few drops of olive
oil and good black ink. Daub the shoe
all over, and taking a fresh flannel, rub
the shoe until it is dry. BY this means
| the painful approach of purple and the
dreaded white cracks will be delayed.
Tan shoes should be washed once a
week with saddle soap before applying
polish, which can be made by mixing
one ounce of muriatic acid, half an
ounce of alum, half an ounce of gum
arabic n half an ounce of spirit of
lavender into one-half pint of sour milk.
Apply with a flannel and polish with a
piece of fresh flannel.
So
The Duchess of Fife has followed the
example of her mother and invested in a
spinning wheel. And a very pretty one
it is, of black walnut mounted with
brass, and although 100 years old, still
in excellent working condition. With
this wheel the Duchess spins her yarn,
which she afterwards knits into golf
stockings for her husband, who declares
las indeed he ought to do-that no stock
ings hailing from the Piccadilly shops
have ever worn like thesel Many of the
intimate friends of the Princess of Wales,
like her daughters, have followed her ex-
ample, and started a spinning wheel.
I cannot say that 1 think spinning yarn
is well worth a woman's time, out I GER
tainly know of no object so decorative in
her drawing room as the quaint and
pretty spinning wheel.
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For a good whitewash for your bed
room ceiling put a piece of lime weighing
| about five pounds in a granite pan or
bucket; pour on it a gallon of water,
allow it to boil and slack until the steam
| ing is over; take from this two quarts of
the liquid lime, put it in a wooden or
granite bucket. and add sufficient water
to make it rather thin, says the Ladies'
Home Journal" d. a small amount of
pure indigo, sufficient to give it the
proper color; add a teaspoonful of salt
and a half a teaspoonful of lampblack,
stir well. This will give you a perfectly
white ceiling; if you wish it colored add
one of the colorings which you may pur-
chase at any druggists, stating that it is
to be used with lime.
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The Powered muslins intended for
| dresses, blouses and Marie Antoinette
ichus are particularly fine in quality and
| exquisite in design and coloring. Surplice
| or crossed bodices are very desirable
when transparent materials are used, and
| fashion is for once consistent and favors
this graceful form of bodice. When the
| figure is high, the slightly bloused front
is approved. The dropped textile should
be transparent. In his case, While giving
| apparent length to the waist, the airi-
| ness to the material does not impart an
appearances of thickness to it.