The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-30

boiled rice and milk. or moulded wheatlet
with whipped cream may be used. Water
not iced should be the accompanying
beverage.
" Supper may consist of bread, thor
oughly baked. with either butter or milk,
or cornmea mush and milk, mush bread.
bread sticks and chicken broth. Milk is
however, the better liquid food for the
hild' night meal. A child. who is fed
properly, and is well bathed and comfort
ably clothed, will eat Wen, sleep well and
be happy and good"
l have been asked to give my rules for
| growing sweet pea for the finest lowers,
| and the longest season OF bloom, says q
! writer in Vick's Magazine. One-Always
| sow the seed early. Pea are the first
seeds | put in the ground, and this is that
the plants want che strength that comes
from early spring growth in order to
carry them thrifty through hot weather.
| Two-Prepare the soil deeply and in
| clude some bone in the manure. Wood
! ashes also are excellent, as they keep the
soil damp. T~hree-Sow in trenches some
thing like old fashioned celery trenches.
| about four or five inches deep. The seed
S4lOdlQ bC A. wv Nt4N 'Y
at the first, and Their fill in almost but
not qrite enough soil in the trench later
as growth proceeds to bring the top even
The slight depression is useful for sum
mer watering in case of drouth Four
In the summer mulch the line of peas
and apply water literally at times if the
weather is dry. ~Lastly-Pick all lowers
| before they drop, in order to prevent seed
bearing, which is fatal to continuous
bloom. Follow this course and any one
| can bloom sweet pea to perfection. which
means to have plenty of flowers the sea-
son through.
One of the new models for a shirt
waist is plain, except from chin to waist.
| where a tucked waistcoat is set in. These
tucks are neither up and down nor
straight across, but incline slightly down.
ward to the centre. where the waistcoat
is closed with small buttons. The tucked
front presents a series of obtuse angles
of tucking. The lines of tucking are ex-
actly spaced, so that the point where a
line ends at a button is just on a line
| where the next tuck begins to descend
| The sleeve is moderately full IN the
| shoulder. and is gathered into "a queer
little cuff, with dogs ear" ends bent
over, and fastened down with two little
buttons. The cuffs must be cut out with
| considerable flare at the wrist or they
win not fold into the proper dogs ear
points.
The weight of opinion is in favor of a
moderate amount of good, pure candy
eaten by children with or soon after their
food. and that it is not only not in the
least detrimental, but is positively bene-
fetal. 1t is the cheap sweets manufac-
tured out of Injurious compounds that
have drawn upon the practice the odium
of medical men. Pure sweets contribute
valuable force to the human system. and
need not be feared. A Chicago physician
claims that one can scarcely eat too
much pure chocolate. Now, if this au-
thority would only go a little further and
tell US how we are to know the pure from
the impure. a great burden would be
lifted from many mothers, who are anx-
ious to do right and yet are equally anx-
ious to contribute to their children's hap
piness.
The person who is not very well'
may find it profitable to spend a day
in bed. The slight symptoms of a grippy
cold, which, if neglected, LAY turn to
more serious difficulties, may be averted
with a little precaution. When people
are over fatigued the cold fastens on a
peculiarly helpless prey; but by taking
a days rest beneath the blanket in a
quiet, well-aired bedroom. one is often
able to throw off the fatigue. One day
in bed and the next in the fresh air is a
good prescription for a tired man or
woman. It is well to do what we can to
resist the attacks of "Marchy'' colds,
which sometimes involve a train of dan
gerous ''sequelae.v
A clever invention, which may be made
at home, is a small roller for keeping
wells tidy and smooth when taken off. Get
a small wooden roller, one inch in d.
ameter and about eighteen inches long,
cover with a piece Of common flannel
first, then cut a piece of velvet or satin
two inches longer than the rod, and then
tie up the two ends with a piece of mar
row ribbon SO that the piece lined with
color stands out at each elge. If wells
are rolled on his they Will last longer
and never get curled at the edge.
Real old-fashioned pink (none of your
''cerises" nor '.nasttrtium" reds) borders
the white and black gauze ribbons that
are being snapped up at the counters.
The old pink goes by the pretty name of
s~candy-pink'' and for this reason its
popularity will be undiminished among
school girls. Candy pink looks like the
fresh yet deep rose tint that suggests
what lies at the heart of a Portuguese
secret or that curls in spiral curves
| over the sticks and rods of peppermint
and w~intergreen candy thai stand in
serried ranks in confectioners' glass jars.
Just now all the school girls are ann
bilious of wearing a white leather belt
with gilt buckle. and some of the blouses
have serge loops under the arms at the
waist line though which to Slip the belt.
White leather defines the size of the
waist and makes it look larger than it
really is. But this is not considered det-
rimental to a growing girls figure. If she
had a small waist it would be supposed
she had not a normally healthy physique.
Another cape that was fastened in front
| with large mother-of-pearl buttons. car
ried large. very sharp revers, and a
small. loosely plated shoulder collar
Both were edged with nine rows of SOU