The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-09

force needed measure she will need to
acquire that most difficult art which we
term getting along with her patients.
She must nave the ability to manage af-
fairs In such a way that she has matters
entirely under her control. and yet the
patient should not be conscious of any eI-
fort upon the part of the nurse.
1t requires considerable ability TO do this
at all times without meeting with oppo-
sition which sometimes ends in sharp con-
tiict. In such cases the nurse always
comes out victorious, but the better way
would be to avoid this by tudicious man
agement.
Unless the nurse is blessed with the
sixth and most important sense-common
| sense-and has tact, it will be impossible
for her to succeed in private work. OF
course, nurses are not to blame for beins
born without possessing tact, but there
are many times when it is impossible to
| feel charitable toward them. By their
actions and remark they render them
selves liable to reproof. They may de-
sire friends and instead make enemies.
If there is any boon more to be desired
than another it is tact; without it the
work of the most intelligent and we'll
( meaning nurse is SdQly lldIICu.
1t is said the American stomach has
universally suffered from the use of can
ned goods, says the "Woman's Home
| Companion" This, of course, applies
| only to bought goods which contain some
m to preserve them. Peas, beans
and tomatoes are treated to preserve
their color. and with the exception of
| tomatoes all vegetables, it is said. con-
tain something TO prevent fermentation.
Fruits, being without starch, keep more
| easily than vegetables, but many are va
riously treated to insure their fair APP
pearance as commercial articles. Nearly
all fruits, and some vegetables, are easily
canned for winter use; and If a house,
keeper once supplies her own storeroom,
bought goods will never after have an
attraction for her. 1t is a mystery why
we use bought canned tomatoes when we
are so often warned against their in
furious effects, and when home-canned
ones are so much better, altogether
wholesome, SO easily prepared and keep
so we'll. Perhaps it is because OF an I'M
preston that the bought ones, at nine
or ten cents a can, are cheaper. Thls
is not the case. The first cost of quart
jars, at retail, is sixty cents a dozen.
Tomatoes, at the height of their season,
can be bought, even in cities, at twenty
five or even twenty cents a bushel. so
even the first season a quart jar would
not cost ten cents, and after that the
cost of the jars can be subtracted, max
ing the cost of the canned vegetable
nominal
'sHarper's Bazaar says that black silks
are again greatly in favor, and are in
such great variety that it is difficult to
know what to buy. The plain shiny silks
are very smart, but not so satisfactory
as the gros grain and peau de sole, which
are to be greatly in favor. Small hg-
ured patterns in ~brocades and plain sat
ms are not tabooed, although not to be
placed among the most desirable. Col
ored silks of all kinds and brocaded eff
fects, particularly for older women, are
very stunning in design and coloring.
One OF the newest fashions is to have a
black silk made with facings, Innings,
and bows of some bright color. Tur-
quoise blue, yellow and red are much
used in this way, and the effect is sin
guIarly good. Brocaded silks and sat
ms are still being sold at such very low
prices as to make the careful shopper
very wary. A bargain is always a de-
lightful thing to secure, but when any
material is sold astonishingly cheap there
is the danger it will be SO universally
worn as to lose any smart look. For
evening wear the plain silks and satins
as we'll as the brocades will be fashion
able, and it is said gauze, net, tuhe and
chiffon are to be relegated almost ex-
~clusively to young girls.
" When net is used it is to be made up
over expensive silk or satin Innings. and
deliberately and effectively trimmed. Sim
plicity is no longer to be in fashion.
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The soft, fine white flour will not give
as large an amount of muscle, bone or
nerve making food as the whole wheat
-four, which constitutes in itself a COM
plete life-sustainer. In selecting flour
choose that which is dark in color and
free from bran. The best bread fours
in the market are of a yellowish white
tinge, rather graduated, and do not easily
pack, says the Ladies Home Journal"
They make a strong and elastic dough.
Though not whole wheat f1ours they are
decidedly the best of the white brands
After selecting the -four the next import
ant thing is to have a good, strong, sweet
ard pure yeast. The compressed cakes
are good and convenient, and will do the
work much more quickly than ten times
the amount of homemade or bakers
yeast. When setting bread to rise stand
you bread-pan in another of warm
water; cover the two so that the moisture
will pass over the top of the dough at an
v temperature of seventy-fve degrees
Fahrenheit.
A delicate dish offered at French tables,
not those of hotels and pensions. but at
those presided over by the gracious cha
teIaines of the old aristocracy, is fried
locust blossoms. A whole bunch, heavy
with it's weight of fragrant bloom, is
dipped in the yellow of eggs, as they say
over there, then in graduated sugar and
fried quickly in hot clarified lard. They
are served as a course at the second
breakfast instead of the sweet omelet.
They have a crisp. delicate aromatic taste
that is delicious.
The swagger jacket for fairs cooler
days will be quite a little longer than last
seasons models; some are from 80 to 40
inches long. 1t is also announced thai
all outer garments will be quite elabor-
ately trimmed. Some whispers, too, are
heard of the dolman being revived, but
these will not become popular, ever if
fashionable, except with elderly women.