The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09

tie gentlemen, remember that the follow
ing things should be DONE
Hat lifted in saying Goodbye or
How do you do7'
HAT lifted when offering a seat in a
car or acknowledging a favor.
Keep step with any one you walk
with.
Always precede a lady upstairs and
/ ask her If you may preeede her in pass
Ing through a crowd or public place.
that off the moment you enter a street
door and when you step into a private
hail or office.
let a lady pass first always, unless she
asks you to precede her.
in the parlor stand until every lady is
seated and stand until she takes a seat.
Look people straight in the face when
speaking or being spoken to.
LET ladies pass through a door first.
standing aside for them.
I'm the dining room take your seat after
ladies and elders.
Newer play with knife. fork or spoon.
not take your napkin in a bunch in
your hand.
Eat as fast or as slow as others and
finish the course when they do.
Rise when ladies' leave the room and
stand till they are out. If all go out to-
gether gentlemen stand by the door till
ladies pass out.
special rules for the mouth are that
all noise in eating or smacking Of the lips
should be avoided.
Cover the mouth with hand or napkin
when obliged to remove anything from it.
'trse your handkerchief unobstrusively
always.
Always knock at any private room
door"
Boys and girls parade up and down
the streets of New Orleans on Christmas
Eve. making a discordart din with tin
trumpets and various other INSTRUMENTS
of torture; pausing once in a while TO
join some group around a bonfire and help
shoot more firecrackers." writes Julia
Truitt Bishop in describing Christmas at
New Orleans in the .Iuly Ladies Home
Journal The older people take part
more reckIessly. and there is great excite
ment over the shooting of firecrackers.
which EXPLODE before one is ready for
them. and scatter the laughing crowd.
Standing in the upper galleries. one may
see the entire city crossed and recrossed
by q shining network of fire. It IS Xix, 4
sceno from fairyland. this midnight sky
of Christmas Eve. The rockets shoot un
through broad. tronical palm leaves. and
part the glossy foliage of the magnolia in
their swift flight. while the splendid
branches of the unehanging live oak
/ throw the earth beneath into deererl
shadows because of the fiery trails in The
skv above.
The finn begins again betin1es the next
mornine. with greater enthusiasm then
ever. Now. indeed. the juveniles grow
reckless. and whole necklaces Of tire
crackers go off ct ono how. ard tho boys
who were frecrecier boys Yesterday are
skyrocFet boys today. As ni~ht comes on
the frolic has risen to a deliriilm Of fun.
Stacks Of brilliant fireworks and bolster
ous irAerackers go off at once. An OK
travaaance of iov takes possessian of the
younger no~poulation. ard the streets are
ablaze with evnlas'ves and the air is
heavy with powder
NJ. SERGE Belaguine. a Russian ex-
plorer of Brazil. states in an Interview
recently Published in the "Gaulois'' that
II p wv titE FtN SHY Fdt ~ - t'tE-
covered a forest of flowers that prevent
ed him from approaching them. With
| every Difference to M. Balaguine. that
forest seems to have been discovered
before. Two years ago there appeared
in a San Francisco paper an account
provided by a bulb hunter returning
from the same region. who declared
that after noticing in a forest an odor,
vague and sweet at first, but which in
creased as he advanced. ultimately he
reached a clearing. and there. straight
ahead, was a wilderness of orchids.
Trees were loaded with them, they trail
ed on the ground. Mounted in beckon-
ing contortions. dangled from branches.
fell in sheets and elongated and expand
ed rs far es the eye could reach. A
breeze passed and they swayed with
it. moving with a life of their own,
| dancing in the glare of the equatorial
sun, and as they danced exhaling an
odor that protected them more sheerly
| than a wall. In vain did that hunter en-
deavor to approach. There was a veil
of perfumed chloroform through which
he could see, but through which. try
as he might. he could not pass. 1t held
him back more effectually than bay
onets. and it was torture to him to see
those flowers and to feel that before he
could reach them he must die. suffoeated
by the very ~splendors of which he was
in search, poisoned by floral jewels
such as no one perhaps had seen be-
fore. At the time the place was known
as the village of demon flowers.
We are almost constrained to say fare
well to the freckle, says the Chicago
stJournal." The girls declare 1t must go.
The pretty little dots left by the kisses Of
the sun nave been hunted from pillar TO
post through many a long campaign, Of
ten unsuccessfully, but the time of tie
most obstinate Of them seems to be per-
ilpusly near. The girls are going to think
them off. It is the latest discovery of
occultism, and it will be brought into SER
vice in hundreds of resorts this summer
| we are told. Those who consider them
selves afflicted will form .circles" and sit
around and think, and think, and think.
and by lint of taking thought they will
improve compilations. But will it improve
them? Is it a demonstrated fact that the
freckle is a thing of ugliness? hin OF
all the women you can remember and see
if it is not true that the one whose ma
turaI endowment of good health. good
humor, graceful vivacity and wholesome
wit was accompanied by a healthful ar
L . e.xaI~1~. 1ii1a 4f,oro IN fha darth he ne