The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-25

In WOman's World.


low bodice, what is usually called a
sweet SMILE" AT home your seraphic-
looking beauty is too often a parsimoniolis
shrew. and almost ungovernable vixen,
~Thackeray never drew a truer portrait
than Rosie's mother in 1.-THE Newcomers
a lady who was all smiles and sentiment
in public with her daughter. and all tenn
per and fury when alone with the luckless
damsel. Except in the too famous case of
Carlyle, it is generally the people with the
sad faces, the grave demeanor. who are
the least stgey i'll to live with" This
smirking habit. to be sure is essentially
western and modern. The older races,
such as the Arabs and Hindus, nave al
ways a grave and dignified demeanor. A
well-bred Turkish gentleman never
laughs and very eldom smiles. GAS the
cracking of thorns under the pot" says
the Oriental philosopher, is 1.-THE laughter
of the fool"
A vigorous note of warning against that
essentially feminine habit of holding pins
in the mouth has just been sounded by
DR.. A. Monae Lesser in his lectures to
the Red Cross nurses. Don't do it, he
4 ouSS, y 81 IltuCH 1IOLl lear III swirl
lowing or inhaling it-for that would
mean only a surgical case-but from fear
based upon good %grounds-of c%ontagion.
tuberculosis and many other diseases can
be transmitted in no easier way. Under
the head of the pin all kinds Of germs
may be located, and irritating the tongue
ever so little renders one liable to con-
tract disease" Even a new paper of pins,
he declares are not above suspicion. In
Europe. especially. boys prowl about the
streets hunting for pins, which they car
ry to the factory and sell to the manufac-
! turer. These are laid in rows and go in
with the new pins. looking as innocent as
their fellows. though they are far from
what they appear. The unfortunate habit
women have of putting pencils in their
mouths was also placed in the same cate
CORY of dangerous and 80 be avoid
ed
VIII you have a quart of fresh air left
each morning with the rolls? Will you
take it up on the dumb waiter with the
morning newspapers and the milk? Will
you quarrel over the air bill as you do
now ever the gas bill? Will you fiercely
L QCAio0itS AilG 81 OttiDdll do YOU dO HUN
the ice company?
All these things may yet he. There has
been a suggestion made to the L%ondoners
that a fresh air company would make life
more durable in the English metropolis.
The smoke permitted to rise from the
cfty's myriad chimneys is a source of con-
slant annoyance to the lovers of cleanii-
ness and freshness. A proposition to nave
pure air supplied to the Londoners as
pure water has been made.
A close friend of Mrs. Cleveland tells
this story of her in an anecdotal biogra-
ply of the former mistress of the White
House in the June Ladies Home Jour
nall Mrs. Cleveland used to be some
what sensitive over the general regret
SO freely EXPRESSED before the birth of the
last child that there was no boy in the
family. 1t seemed to her to imply a lack
of appreciation of her three little girls.
A friend. who is married and has a son,
visited TIE White House one day, and
when the children We're brought in she
! exclaimed, What a pity they are all
girlsi
Quick as a fash Mrs. Cleveland kneIt,
put 1er 1I1DS ABOUT Tie ClllQEeH diku re-
torted: s'That shows-thAt you do not
know how nice little girls are"
Bedroom china for country houses is
| quaint and summary rather than artistic.
Broad. deep basins of cream white or buff
colored china. and squat, grotesque little
ewers for hot and cold water are decorat-
ed with prim wreaths of blue corntloweTs.
stiff punches of daisies or decorous rows
of red peoples encircling pitcher ard ba-
sin. White china, scattered with old
fashioned wild roses. yellow prlmroses
and violets. are also seen. and p~rettier.
but less popular, the familiar bouquet of
roses tied with blue ribbon.
The hat turned straight back from the
face vies with the down-tipped one for
popularity. 1t might seem that only the
very young face should risk the straight
back hat, but that should also be remem-
bered of the down-tipped brim. The girl
of eighteen, whose pretty little nose APP
pears in danger of being scraped by the
brim of her hat, looks attractively saucy
when she peeps under the brim, while a
face hardened by a few lines takes on a
tough aspect quite terrifying under the
same brim. If the hair is turned back in a
really pronounced ~pompadour. is soft and
of pretty color. the turned back hat is
really becoming to almost any one, and
the stunning dowager with a handsome
roll of white hair over her forehead has as
much reason to be grateful to her back
turned hat as has the pretty girl. These
hats should be simply trimmed, the line
Of the brim constituting the effect.
Begonias of all kinds grow best In a
soil that is quite rich, somewhat sandy
and porous, says the "Woman's Home
Companion A soil that is heavy, soggy
and apt to become sour cannot be used
with good results. The matter of drain
age is also an item in the culture of
begonias not to be overlooked. In pot
ting the plants provide ample drainage
by placing broken pottery, cinders or
some such matter in the bottom of the
pots.
Flowering begonias can be bedded out in
the summer with success, If plenty of wa
ter is given, and a fairly sunny, warm To-
cation selected for the bed. Those of the
Rex type will do best if plunged in a par
TALLY shaded location. Both classes
should be protected from hot, drying
Winds, and should never be allowed to
suffer for want of water. II