The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-14
4 IDEAS for dWnrnen


caretaker who surrounds her little flock
from day to day and from year to year
with this golden ether takes a most po-
tent step in the way of making great
and, better still, good men and women.
To make a plant bloom we set it upon
a sunny window sill. If a child in after
life is to become a good citizen, lover
and friend, he must begin life surround
ed by the gentle optimism of love. Great
souls have come forth from homes in
which, as children, they met with con-
tinuous misunderstanding and diseour-
agement. But this happened because
the soul was especially great, and not
that the Encouragement was profitable.
There is TO much crushing of chill
dren's aims and ambitions. A handful
of disheartening words and some little
fanciful brain structure is overthrown.
Some little idea and ambition somes top
ping down about the ears. Too many
ambitions cannot topple without an eff
feet on the character of the child. An
enabittering and a encouragement.
Mother, there's a poor man at the
door who wants something to eat" says
Goldilocks. with enthusiasm. Can l
make him a sandwich"
I tSs HOs - ~
men who go about like that are all
tramps. They just want a chance to
steal something
Discouragement Number I for Goldi-
locks.
Mother. 1 think I'll take a try at that
word-contest. All the fellows are going
in for it."
Nonsense, child. What figure would
-, ant j., y u,a~1. oontaSf1 IF tbara *
one thing you are especially weak in it is
just that
And again the child's confidence, which
should be preserved as a tower of
strength. is shaken.
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This Encouragement steadily under
mines the character. The growing boy
ana girl should form habits of thorough
ness and continued persistent effort.
The woman who discourages will have
many life-failures laid, justly laid. at her
door.
1t is not once in a decade of once in
g year even, but every day, that one
hears young girls regret the system of
training which prevailed In their homes.
Continued doubt ana ill-confidence dis
couraged them from every undertaking.
Every aspiration was nipped pitilessly in
its little bud.
IN the end if the maiden is iron of
will and purpose she may come forth
unscathed. But the average girl, cap
able though she may be. has lost all
confidence in her own powers There Is
no tyrant 50 relentless as that great can't
which rules supreme in too many good
families.
encouragement is not hattery; it is
rather a kind interest and a willing ear.
How prettily Mrs. Burnett describes her
first childish efforts at literature. and
her sweet mothers encouragement of
these in her photographed sketch
the One I Knew the Best of All" She
listened kindly to each effusion, did this
sensible mother. She never made it
seem that the writing OF stories was
remarkable in so young a child, although
she probably SO considered it. But she
gave the tales the kind ear which the
tiny author craved ana all the praise re-
CURED.
Flowers to the sun and the sun to the
flowers.
Confidence and high ideals make better
cornerstones of character than timidity
and doubts.
With the first spring weather there al
ways comes a great wish to wear iight
clothes, light not only in weight, bu- in
color, and there are a great many dainty
little gowns turned out to wear just at
this season. Garish coloring is not in
good style, but the light tans and grays
and Mine light mixed cheviots, all these
loo Especially well, ard this year the
Za 80 -, +boF -; ~ mi ~, u a G
well as the white at the throat-for Il big
white bow is as necessary now to any
thorough appearance as a smart hat or
pretty Jacket. None of these light gowns
arc very heavily braided or trimmed
there is only sufficient on them to give
some marked contrast in coloring. For
instance. when black braid is used there
will be only one band of it outlying the
skirt. the jacket, and the caps or coll
lar, says Harper's Bazaar"
When white is used with the black it
is lust the merest line, and is generally
put on. as it were to bind It. Even in
these costumes the skirts are made long
enough 10 touch the ground-a most I'M
necessary fashion, It would seem, for So
called street gowns. A smart froch OF
this description IS made of a blue gray
cloth. the skirt of medium width, trimmed
with one band of black braid put on a
band of white cloth. The waist is like
a long jacket, coming half way down the
skirt. 1t fits quite tight to the figure
as far as the waist line. and the sleeves
of the coat are only full enough for it
not to be tight fitting. AT the throat the
waist opens with small revers for enough
to show a chemisette and white tie. There
is a cape that can be worn with this cos
tune that is more like a collar than a
cape, cut in points, the points going down
in front. at the back, and over the
sleeves. Down the front of the waist is
rather a wide band of the white cloth,
on which are two row of the black
braid, and the same trimming is put
around the edge of the cape.
A truce to the middle aged heroine
writes a clever paragrapher. We have
had enough of her. Whether by accident
or design, or merely a desire on the pari
of authors to treat of something eccentric
and novel, books and magazines havt
been entirely too replete with the species
Of late. She may make more interesting
conversation than her book muslin pre-
decessor. and she certainly demands
more descriptive finesse ON the part of the
writer in order to convince us that she
still possesses charm Of amy kind. but as
a rule we readers prefer the slip of a CIR