The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-10

by boosting self into prominence What
earthly interest. pray, can anybody OUT
side ones family take in purely personal
affairs2
Courtesy in others may permit a dis
sertation of private matters. but courtesy
repays itself for the infiction by rending
the culprit in twain as soon as her back
is turned.
Not long ago l heard one man tell an
| other man that a certain young woman
had just escaped being a beauty.
.How?" he was asked.
s.By having the face Of a Madonna and
the ~babbling tongue of an Ego"
This woman is never able TO get rid
I of self long enough to inspire anybody to
admire her. She can go nowhere. meet
no one that she does mot attempt a rer
hash Of her troubles and her joys.
People most patient grow FESTIVE under
| enforced attention. The constant chatter
of the inveterate chatterer is declared a
nuisance. The chance her dainty looks
might have given her for popularity is
lost for all time.
Egotism and graciousness refuse to go
hand in hand. Remember this when
tempted to self-assertion.
Anew York physician said recently to
a patient OF his. a lady of wealth, that he
would refuse to treat her further II she
did not give up wearing black. 1t was
not. however. until a discussion ensued
that he found out how much he was ask
ing; not only were her gowns black put
her underwear throughout was OF the
same color. The doctor then remarked
that ne had considered the alternative ne
offered her. to abandon black gowns or
find another physician an extreme meas
ure. and only justified because of her Pc
culiarly nervous and neurotic state, put
when it came to discovering that she had
nothing but black clothes upon her per-
son he would refuse to treat ANYBODY SO
| dressed. The peculiarly nervous and
neurotic state he considered largely ex-
planned by this dress alone.
He succeeded in Erecting a change IN
this patients attire throughout. insisting
on white, all white underclothes, ana as
much use of white in the outer garments
as was practicable. There are hundreds OF
women similarly i'll and pressed as she
once was. who have no idea that any
thing but a question of taste is involved
in the color of their garments. They
would not expect a plant covered PIP from
the sun by repeated layers of black cloth
to flourish. but they do not know that
lisht and sunshine are necessary to their
bodies. They think if they see it. if their
ewes are blessed thereby. and thus their
! minds cheered, thai light has performed
its good work upon them.
The whole body needs light, and sun
| shine is well recognized as having the
most valuable healing properties; upon
tle nervous system it acts with especial
| force. and sleeplessness. nervous head
aches and i~rrita bility can often all be
cured by sun baths alone. But physical
ills can be prevented oftener sun Simply
by wearing light clothing.
The outward dress it may be impractic-
| able to always govern with an eye single
| to this one consideration, but the under
| clothing can and should be always white.
Every instinct of the incest taste leads
| TO the same conclusion. Nothing else gives
| such assurance of that exquisite cieanil-
ness which is the most decorative thing
| possible. and the fact that 1t lnterposes
| the least possible barrier to the health
| giving rays of the light is conclusive IN
its favor.
It may be before long that our pins will
| have to be dipped in carbolic acid before
being put on our bureaus. For pin nave
| been proved to be a prolific source OF
| danger in spreading contagious disease.
saws sHarper's Bazaar All kinds OF
germs, it is said, can be collected under
the heads, and nurses who indulge the
| feminine habit of holding pins n their
| mouths lay themselves open to serious at
tack. The doctors who have warned
the public say thai many of the so-called
new pins are not new at all, but nave
/ been picked up in the streets and laid side
| by side with the others. The idea is
not an altogether pleasant one, and is,
moreover, one likely to increase the I'M
/ easiness of the over-fastidious.
There are some women now who are so
| afraid of germs thai they wash all Their
gold and silver pieces before handing
them, and who never allow a bank bill to
| 90 info their purses until it has been
wrapped in some kind of disinfecting pa
! per. They ever require the shop girls
who hand them their change to wrap 1t
in paper first. What is to be done, If al
| this is so, with the popular superstitions
| about picking up all the pins that enc sees
and never passing a penny in the street.
Back into the fold of fashionable types
/ of things silken has come the goodly OF
| toman weave and the chine effects also.
while on this topic 1t is quite Impossible
| TO pass over the charms of q new version
of MORE velours. Now we have it as
yelours soleil. or sun v%elvours. differing
from its predecessor in that both its sides
| are alike while instead of falling in very
| soft folds it now crisps and rustles like a
| ~taffeta. Any woman who is in doubt as
! to the special f-ashionableness of a silk
may hold to this truth, that at all times
and seasons a MORE is a safe purchase.
! At this very instant there is a particular
taste displayed for a regal sort of weave
known as nacre MORE. This is a silk,
| white as an angels wing, and showing
| waving stripes of white satin over It.
| Every satin ripple is outlined with q
| thread of pale blue, but by some secret,
known only to the weavers. merely lends
a clearer. more dazzling whiteness to the
| folds and surface of the fabric. Less
| costly thar any of the silken types de-
| scribed above and yet as popular as any,
while more suited to young women, IS
our old tried friend, crepe de chine. This
is to the fore now in lovely pale tones
with bullion threads crossing the width
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