The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-03

nances do The maid Of honor should be
handsomely. but not too handsomely
dressed. Her belongings should be sub
ordinate to those of her royal mistress.
Her unvarying manner should be one of
even cheerfuiness. A betrayal Of tedium
would be thought bad form. Nervous
headaches must be concealed. One does
not speak until spoken to.
The subjects Of conversation are limited.
because SO many subjects would be I'M
safe II repeated. Thus, that 4 of
scandal which goes In at one ear and out
at the other Is tabooed. But serious fault
may be found If leading questions are
asked, Young members of the royal
family are held In by staid attendants,
though dying to vent the animal spirits
natural to their age. They sometimes,
bursting put. shake with laughter at the
slightest provocation. Visits of other
royalties delight them, for these guests
can be jolly as they please, and start sub
1ects of conversation.
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A Princ of European repute for his in
defatigability in fighting against tediusn
OF court life is nicknamed to his royal
nephews and nieces Uncle What-Next-"
The reason is that when one form Of
amusement Is exhausted at a house
where he is a guest he Is sure to ask
What next? What next?" The fair
Princess, his wife, can play for a whole
evening with a toy puzzle and with non-
royal companions thinks this is the safest
pastfme. But with kindred royalties she
throws OF all restraint and fait chanter
lie piano. throwing Into the instrument all
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self. unless IN her Sunday visits to the
kennel. There Is scarcely a royal per-
sonage In Europe who does not dote on
dogs. They can be themselves with their
dogs and familiar without fear of breed
ing contempt.
The desk Of the Kings or Queens
the angel touched 1t. All the ills to
there. In sad letters, some true and
some false. merbid and vain persons de-
light to reveal their uneasy consciousness
to heads OF State and their consents. The
mania Is worse In Protestant than in
Catholic countries. It is impossible to
waste-paper-basket all the appeals for
help and recognition of unsuccessful tai
emit When there is a letter showing :he
sense Of a permanent grievance it is sent
to the police. and precaution to protect
the royal persons are multiplied.
The pests of the small courts are the
Importance attached to etiquette and the
thin-skfnnedness and jealousy of the
courtiers. Great pests of all courts, but
chiefly of the greater, are the hosts of
Iussy people, humbugs of all kinds, AMI
re1ectors whe van to secure royal pa
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They are much more likely to get it than
the deserving. because their instinct tells
them how to make their approach. Queens
are now pestered all over Europe with
individuals who imagine money is to be
made In getting up unions to secure ar
tfstic and literary employment for wom-
en- h Empress Frederick is ready to
help feminine unions, but for landlords
requiring trained skill and talent. and not
20 gel poor scribbling or painting shot into
the market.
The rise Of ladies' clubs in England. a
che Forum" is a fact that the social his
forian cannot afford to overlook; for it is
q sign of the times. The division of labor
between the W sexes is no longer
summed up by Kingley's line.
Aausi woTk ana women must weep"
since women work too, nowadays, and
hence have less time and occasion for
weeping. Then the old fashioned pleading.
Poor dearl he works so hard all day, he
must have some amusement in the even
ing is gradually disappearing before the
consciousness that women too havesa
right to a little fun when their days work
- over. So the British matron and the
English girl have started clubs for them
selves; and London is growing fun of
eheM- Far be 1t from me, however. to
suggest that fun and frivolity are the
keynotes of these institutions. They have
various aims to suit various needs; and as
the modern English woman is Inclined, on
the whole, to be serious, she is ant to
combine am aim and a mission with her
amusement As a result, many of the la
Dies clubs have What might be described
as an Object with a capital O, which JUS
titles the members in their own eyes IN
partaking of their comforts and adyan-
tagea-
Mrs. 8. T. Rorer, the famous instructor
In the science of cooking and domestic
economy generally, in the Ladies Home
Journal (for February, for which maya
zine p viii hereafter write exclusively,
gives this advice concerning mixed diet,
etc.:-"As all things have been given us by
Nature for some good purpose, I nave al
ways advocated a mixed diet. If nature
had Intended us for meat eaters only we
would ave had meat teeth alone, but we
have grinders for the m~asticatjng and
the grinding of grain, which teaches us at
once that a mixed diet is necessary.
People are rather conservative in mat
tiers of change, especially regarding food,
looking back upon what their grandmoth-
ers did, and upon what they Aved, forget
ting that their grandmothers were much
more active in domestic duties thai they
are, and were obliged to take such food
as they had at hand.
Bread was then the staff of life, and
rightly, too. It was made from Natures
wheat, containing all the p~hosphates, the
nuscle-forning food, and heat and force
food necessary for feeding. Now, this
wonderful grain, in our manner of prepar-
alton, has been robbed of the ~phosphates
and a portion OF, its muscle food, and as
the poorer classes depend more upon bread
than the middle or upper classes, they
have suffered most"
A garment related to the vest Is the
shirt-b,ouse. There is no doubt but what
its popularity will exceed anything