The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-17
for lNnmen.

The proprietor of a Summer cot
tages of even the most bagarelle size, is.
If necessity. hospitable. That is one
of the statements that prove themselves,
as people who are not Hospitality inclined
20 to Summer hotels and boarding houses.
the raison d,etre OF the summer cottage
is. that 1t permits us to entertain and this
we can do quite as pleasurably in the lit
tie seven-room structure built around an
open fireplace and contained within an
encircllng veranda, as in Newport villa.
The only requisites are a positive inten-
ton of enjoying ourselves and an intelli-
gent use Of the simplest means at our
command.
When in the country, even more imam
the city, the presence of flowers is al
most essential to the completeness OF
the table, yet many times they are an-
sent because I'VE cannot trouble our
selves with a garden and flowers are SO
hard to procure. away from
Hard to procure? Why, the fields are
fun of them! The evening walk should
send you home with arms laden. Solo
mons seal leaves and many OF the tail
grasses are beautiful as palms, the gold
en-rod and spirea, the soft pink OF the
ground-nut blossom, the common fern,
the white daisy with golden heart, the
'.ox-eye'' daisy of glowing yellow, with
deep brown center. purple iris and aster,
crimson and yellow lilies-the list is al
most endless. There is not a month OF the
whole long Summer that does not freely
lend beauty of flower and leaf. Gather
them fearlessly and Unfortunately; Sc
lection comes later.
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In the arrangement the principle of Sc
lection must be vigorously applied. It's
better usually TO have only a single KIND
OF tower in the vase, with leaf sprays OF
h~armonizing form. The matter OF vases
By the way. is sometimes a little perplex-
ing as one does not care to bring one
fine ~bric-a-brac from the city home, put
it is really easily settled. Preserves the
pretty wicker-covered bottles in wnicn
you buy your Italian olive oil; keep the
Chianti TASKS with care; finger bowls are
admirable for short-stemmed blossoms;
you may be surprised to find that some
sturdy bloom shows a rollicking affinity
with a baer mug!
A preserve jar placed in a low glass
dist has amazing possibilities; fill the CEN
trail vessel with tail stalks OF the iris, in
the lower arrange heavy masses OF
feathery timothy or similar grass in such
a way as to conceal the jar, among the
grasses put the broken stemmed iris bios
SONS. OF twhich there are certain to be
more or less, and you have a charming
nvramidal effect whose stiffness is broken
by the dropping grass. Or the same re-
ceptacle can be used for any flower, by
arranging vines in the jar to trail over
and conceal its pronounced utilitarianism.
A pretty way Of using oil and Chianti
TASKS, is to hang them in corners or
over the mantel. filled with trailing vines.
They may be made to do good service in
framing the magazine print or color re-
production which is too pretty to throw
away Immediately and yet is not worth
the expense of framing. Tackled on the
wall. the vines caught loosely around the
edges. a tasteful frame Is at once secured
A good plan Is to hang the TASKS at one
upper and the diagonally opposite lower
corner. The vines can be renewed as
often as necessary with only the expendi-
ture Of the requisite time.
Once become imbued with the idea that
genius consists in adapting everything
to your needs and you will find that "alfs
fish that comes to your net. and no wild
flower will be too common no vessel too
unaesthetic to be made useful IN decora-
ton. A brown jug originally filed with
Holland gin, has been converted into a
really pretty vase for ferns, catkins and
kower-de-luce, by breaking off the small
neck, leaving the straight, tall body.
The rich brown harmonizes admirably
with the deep greens and puppies of leaf
and flower. The low stone preserved
ginger jars, also, can be used for many
varieties Of wild flower.
There are two general rules in ar
rangement that may be well to remem-
Der: Gather long stemmed flowers with
stems as long as possible. Nature knew
what they needed when she provided
the stalks; and keep the coiors unmixed
or with not more than two colors in a
bowl With these limitations
Pass freely thro; the wood is all thine
own
Unto the end of time.
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Many interesting facts regarding tan
and sunburn hav. been developed by
modern scientific observation. One of
most surprising Is that 1t is sunlight and
not heat which affects the skin. That
severe sunburn may be produced with
out heat has been proved by the fact
that persons exposed to strong sunlight
on the tops of mountains, at extremely
low temperatures, have been burned just
as il they had undergone the SUMS heat
as well.
Alpine travellers Snd all who have taken
long journeys over the snow have had
the experience of being painfully burned
by the reflected light from the white,
glittering surface, and sunburn from re-
Elections on the water is equally well
known. That heat alone does not produce
the effect is clear from many evidences
Persons exposed to the high tempera-
lures which prevail in the fireroonns Of
ocean steamers, in deep mines and other
places, do not become tanned and burned
in the same manner as those who work
in the sun. According to The present
theory, then, sunburn, or tan, is pro-
duced by the actinie rays of the suns
Ight-that is, those rays which possess
the power of affecting chemically certain
substances upcn which they fall.
That part of the skin which receives
the chemical action OF the light rays so
as to produce sunburn, tan or freckles, is
the pigment Of coloring matter.
This varies greatly in sensitiveness in
different persons, not always being gov
srned by the complexion, although as a
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