The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-04

In MOman'S World.


| investigation will almost invariably Snpw
! that the desire for culture has only just
awakened in that particular family, ard
in its newness is somewhat overstepping
the mark. A~ffectation is a sign OF lack OF
breeding.
Some of the old painters understood
hands to perfection. Long, rounded
hands, with slightly curved fingers ana
gently bent wrists, are characteristic OF
the women whose beauty they haVe
made memorable. Sometimes, perhaps.
the beautiful hands were those OF some
other model than the pictured one; bul
the painters knew that beautiful hand'
were as necessary as beautiful faces Il
order to make a harmonious picture.
ssThe people of almost every other ne
tion have more graceful hands than VI
have; and those who use their hands mes
freely when conversing are by far 4
most graceful. The hands which make
no superhuous movements, which appear
to obey readily and easily their owners
will. whose movements are free, rhyth-
mic and gentle, are the really graceful
ones
There are two great questions to wnlch
every woman surely would like to find
an answer. The first of these is: How
! can a woman retain her youth?" The
second is hike unto it. How may she grow
or keep attractive? Now we have been
told from time to time that it is a wom-
ans first duty to be good looking and
next to being good Joking her best
chance of success ffes in her charm OF
manner. But alasi it has always seemed
as possible to square the circle as to find
answers to the two important questions
/ lust mentioned and as easy for a camel to
fpass through the eye of a needle as for
a woman sunendowed by nature in the
manner described to fulfill the duties laid
down for her by the mondaines, says the
Ladies' Pictorial" Hope, however,
springs eternal in the human breast, and
women have always had aspirations that
In these Misunderstanding days there might
! come a chance for them to discover the
secret of perpetual youth and the royal
road to beauty. We seem now to be on
the eve of that great discovery. At all
events, We nave been old-and told, more
over, in plain and unmistakable terms
why so many of us are ugly and disagree
able, and why women look old sooner than
men. And having learned the cause of
these disastrous effects, our obvious
course now is to steer clear of those
causes, and SO find. as it would seem, the
means to produce effects exactly opposite
to those which We deplore.
As might have been expected, it is from
a medical source that this a~ll-important
information comes. 1t has been said that
some remedies are worse than the dis
eases they cure, and possibly there may be
some who will so regard the advice given
| On the SIlhiant of fanjpina hoa1,fu ola-
gance. and good temper For. low be it
even whisper the accusation, the secret,
ems unsimely wrinkles, loss of figure,
acerbity, dullness of eye, and loss of
youthfulness, is greed 1t is an ugly
word, and already one fancies one hears
low murmurs of indignation from the
feminine camp.
Shall we suffer under the stigma of
greedfness, and risk of compilations, fig
ures and tenpers, or take the hint thrown
out to us, reduce our appetites and re-
tain our youthful spirits and appearance?
The infection of a laundress in Paris.
says the Journal of Medicine during
the course of her work has led to an in
4A&AJ MI liz ways la Ill All e
may serve to disseminate disease. Pri-
marily the operations which are danger
Gus are those of sorting and sleeping in
cold water, particularly the former, in the
course of which infected linen may OBJ
viously communicate it's infection alike to
the operator and to the room. The opera
ton of soaking becomes dangerous when
the dirty water is not run off into a sew
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lily often occur in the country. The re-
manning operations of laundry work are
rather a source of security than of dan
ger. The measure of the danger in the
first two operations is not always con-
fined to the infection of the operators
and to such secondary infection as
they may initiate In the smaller
laundries it frequently necessarily hap
pens that the room in which the linen is
sorted is used also for packing 1t up, and
in this way there can be little doubt that
reinfection of clean linen would readily
occur. The bags used for conveying dirty
linen from the customers houses to the
laundry may during the journey lie in
contact with baskets of clean linen
on their way to delivery. The risks in
each of these cases are no doubt slight,
but their reality can hardly be contested;
and when there is added to them the
risks Of infectious sickness in the laun-
dry establishment itself, the wisdom of
taking such precautions as may be prac-
ticable is obvious. M. Deschamps, who
is inspector of epidemics in the Seine de-
partment. relates, for instance, a case Of
diphtheria which could be explained in no
other way. The industry is one in which
it is difficult to control the small estab-
Iishments without almost making their
work impossible. So far as practicable,
the use of mechanical means of washing,
and the provision of a separate room re-
served entirely for the operation of sort
ing, which should be conducted in a moist
atmosphere, are to be recommended.
Boxes of dirty linen should be washed
after each time of use, and all possible
pressure should be brought to bear on
persons in whose houses the disease oc-
ours to permit their things to be disin-
fected before they are washed. DR.. Vallin
points out that some prejudice would be
liable to exist against disinfection If care
were not taken to decompose with dilute
p-ermanganate or other liquid any stains
which the process OF dlsinfection by heat
would otherwise fix.
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