The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-20

names In order to start q regular corre-
| ~spondenee with a little English boy or
|; miss.
In England the movement has not
progressed as rapidly as in France, and
the proportion of the sexes also differs
considerably. for up to the present only
| about 500 boys and 1000 girls have mani
| tested their desire to correspond with
| French children. Thus 1t happened that
French boys and English girls looked in
vain for correspondents of their own sex
in the other country.
As soon as 1t was decided to give the
| English girls French boys as correspond
ents the matter proceeded more rapidly,
| and at the present time 500 mixed CORE
| spondents are under way.
The exchange between france and
Italy seems to be more difficult. While
the director of the Secolo in Milan found
| without trouble 500 Italian children anx-
ious to correspond in French, there were
but go French children found who We're
willing TO correspond in Italian. After
this movement was well under way an at
tempt was made in Paris to start cores
| pcndents with Germany. The first an
ncuncement that German correspondents
were wanted appeared in April.sand with
in two weeks 200 German children had
sent their application to the Revue Uni
versitaire. So far the secrets of the cor
| respondents nave not been violated, but
| it would be highly interesting to find out
| what the little folk are writing to each
other.
Conditions to become a correspondent
are the promise to write weekly and to
submit the letters to a teacher before
sending them. The letters received, how
ever, are not subject to a teachers inspec-
ton. AT any rate, the movement is very
beneficial, as it spreads the knowledge of
languages and teaches children its value
at a time when they are the most easily
impressed.
Children of all ages require more sleep
than grown people, as their impossible
nervous system could not bear, during
long waking hours. the prolonged strain
to which they would be subjected. While
sleeping all the vital powers are concen-
trated in building them up, instead of d.
verting to muscular movements and other
Influences, which would interfere with this
concentration.
If children ,a~e wakeful and restless, it
is an indication that something is wrong.
This something will generally be found
to be improper or excessive feeding, cloth
ing too tight or too warm, or confinement
and impure air. When a child is restless
and sleepless these are the things to be
looked to first, and Supplying drugs
should never be resorted to except by the
advice of a physician.
Child slaughtering preparations in the
form of drugs are to be foun in many
households; and mothers too often not
only give them themselves, but even leave
them in the hands of an ignorant and ir-
responsible nurse, who is but too ready to
dose the helpless little one, in order to
secure her own repose.
The mother is nothing short of criminal
who is so t%houghtless and so heartless as
to give a dose of laudanum, or some other
strong narcotic, to her baby to put it to
sleep while she makes a call or attends
an evening gathering.
If mothers could be brought to realize
the danger of opiates, they would not
give them on every trivial occasion, but
would train the children from ~babyhood
to take regular hours of natural, refresh
ing sleep.
L. q * Nl41A L S4A1 AO&AOAf " ~ AAGA1
lately been locking into the mysteries Of
our respiration, is to be believed, the ex-
ploits of .'Rosalind." Viola Julia"
with other of S-hakespeare's heroines and
of other fair DANES who masquerade as
members of the sterner sex, would have
been practically impossible.
Men and women, it is claimed, do not
breathe alike. The difference is so no.
ticeable that a woman disguised as one
of the sterner sex, can be Immediately
recognized.
Women's respiration comes from the
thorax and chest. say the theorists,
while the masculine breath IS drawn in
the diaphragm, which is lower down.
Many physicians claim that this differ
ence is caused by the wearing of stays
and artificial compression produced by
the feminine costume, as. she is made.
But on this point, doctors disagree.
A gourmand recently published in a
Paris daily a chat about the cooking of
different nations, with an indication of
the places where he would get the diff
ferent courses of an ideal meal. He
wants the oyster, blue points, from New
York; soup, borsht, from Sta Petersburg;
fish, red snapper, from New Orleans. or
carpione, from Riva, in Italy; lobster,
from London; beef, from Vienna; vege-
tables, from Frankfort-on-the-Main; roast
and salad from Paris; pastry, from vi
emma; cheese, from Milan or Nice ;~patties,
from St~rassburg; ice cream, from VII
emma or Philadelphia: dessert, from Ber-
lin; after-dinner coffee, from CONSTANT
nople, and, a little later, tea from Mos
COW or chocolate from Madrid. A meal
composed as above would, according to
his idea, be the most perfect that could
be imagined.
The air of dainty prettiness so much
sought after for the bathroom depends
entirely upon the combination of color
ings in its decoration. OF course, moth
ing is so attractive for this room as to
have floor and sides tiled, nave these of
glazed white and robins egg blue, with
a pattern of the latter around the edge
of the seven-foot wainscot, which is also
tiled to match the floor. Have the cell
ing and the plastered side walls above
the tiled wainscot painted the same shade
of blue; nave a white enameled tub with
oak or mahogany edge, a white goatskin
rug and white Swiss curtains, looped
back with BROAD blue ribbon, and there
can be no doubt of the beauty of your
bathroom.
Wash ties In Madras and gingham for