The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-14

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Surplice, but instead, if he have occasion
to tell you of his good fortune in licking
one or outranking the other in scholar
ship, will say;-.1 settled a fellow to-
day, son of the Honorable Smith Blower,
member of the City Council" or = did
three times as much OF nay translation
US another fellow in my class, son of
Bishop Surplice," and his title-hating ia
Their never reproves him for his ~snobbery
nor tells him to judge his own genera
ton on its merits.
But this looking up to certain children
as the sons and daughters of noted peo-
pie, while belittleing in its effect upon
character, is less harmful, il not less
snobblsh. than the looking down upon
certain other children, the sons and
daughters of plain, perhaps poor but per-
fectly respectable and self-respecting par
ents.
In this day when all the world is
preaching the gospel of the brotherhood
of man, it is indeed disheartening to see
little children taking the attitude OF con-
temptuous superiority to those less for
tunate in mere worldly goods or unstable
social position.
1t is so utterly at variance with the
frank sweet spirit of comraderie that
nature Intended should characterize her
unsophisticated darlings that its preva-
lence should suggest to the numerous
faddists of s.ehild culture so-cailed, that
less theorizing and more definite pre-
cept and example is the need Of the hour
for the suppression OF this juvenile tend
ency to toadyism and condescension.
The consistent American mother, while
not pretending to despise the social dis
tinction based upon the inevitable lines
of dennarkation separating the unpublished
from the polished, teaches her children
to extend courtesy to everyone, and.
shows her well-balanced character in
bringing them up in ignorance of the
elassisns of the great Republic to whose
! Presidency ever Dick, the bootblack, may
aspire.
No, we cannot believe that this grow
ing evil of snobbery among children IS.
a willful fault of their own. but rather
one of those sins visited upon them by
shallow thoughtless or ignorant parents,
who, in setting up their own false stand
ards, openly or tacitly influence the judg-
ment of their natural imitators.
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For those VINO nave ugly views lIoAu
their pack windows, or corridors leading
to back stairs or kitchens, etc, it is
quite a serious matter how best to hide
them. Draperies are expensive when
the materials is good, and cheap materials
get easily tossed, and are, at the best,
veritable dust traps.
Bead blinds, which may be made with
little trouble at home, are clean and
tidy, beside being very pretty, and have
the further advantage, if over a window,
of admitting the light while preventing
people from seeing into the room.
Measure the width of the window or
doorway you wish to partially hide, and
| get a carpenter to make a narrow lath
to fit, with small grooves all the way
along a tequal distances, and rather
near together. The only thing you will
then require will be a ball or two of
macreme Irvine Ordinary string is not
recommend as it is stiff anu unsuita-
ble), and plenty of large glass beads in
pretty colors; to mix too many colors is
q mistake. Thread the string with a
bead, and knot to prevent the bead
from slipping; do this at intervals all
the way down the string until it is the
length required. II Is ddNtScDiS ~ AZ
each length securely on to each groove
in the wooden lath as you go along, as
they are apt to get e~ntangied II left
loose. Try to nave the strings as close
together as possible; the effect is quite
spoiled if they are straggly or far apart.
BY the exercise of a little patience and
ingenuity, a pretty pattern of flowers,
birds. ETC., may be introduced. Beads
suitable for the purpose may be pur-
chased at a very low price.
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Mrs. S. T. Rorer writes of tea, coffee,
cocoa and chocolate in her cooking lesson
in the December Ladies Home Journal"
In telling how to best prepare tea she
points out that ~'stannin, the Objectionable
ingredient of tea, is more Thoroughly dis
solved by boiling. To get the best tannin
we must, then, avoid boiling the tea. The
machine picked teas are undoubtedly
more wholesome han the green-colored
teas or those dried on copper plates. FIRE.
auently. expensive ~teas-thcse sold at
from ten to twelve dollars a pound are
not so healthful as the cheaper black teas
sold at a dollar. Tea should be taken
clear or with very little sugar. If taken
between meals it may be taken with SUI
gar and cream, but I cannot think of a
more injurious or pernicious habit than
the drinking of tea with sugar and cream
at meal time. If taken with food it pre-
vents mastication, thus creating stomach
fermentation.
'eTo make tea properly first scald the
pot, drain and put into it while hot a
level ~teaspoonful of tea to each half pint
Of water. Pour over the water at the
first boil; cover for five minutes, stir and
use at once. The rule in making tea is
to allow one teaspoonful of tea for each
person and one for the pot. Tea should
not, under any circumstances, be made in
q metal pot"
This is sometimes called the French
hem. It is the proper manner of hem
ming all darnask table linen, napkins and
tabiecloths, and gives them a finish not
to be obtained by the finest workmanship
executed in the plain hem. The stitch
used is "oversewing." Which is used to
finish the ends OF a plain hem. The
napery hem is folded differently from an
ordinary hem. It is first folded as usual
and then turned back on itself at the line
of the first fold. The seam is then over
sewed, pointing the needle towards one's
face, and endeavoring to take up as little
material as possible. A No. 8 needle and