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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
The Useful steamer.

This Is not in praise of any patent
cooking apparatus, but an earnest trib-
ute to the plain, old fashioned steamer
that we've had with US these many
years. This humble utensil has been of
great help to me IN economizing fuel
and heat while preparing summer din
ners. To the numberless housekeepers
who use gas or gasoline stoves through
out the enUlre year it would prove .
greater benefactor.
While making soup or cooking beans,
peas, beets or other vegetables requir-
ing long time it is an easy matter to
cover the kettle with the steamer and
put in it one OF two shallow pans in
which potatoes, turnips, rice or tapioca
can be cooked as easily as in any other
way. Evaporated fruits are delicious
prepared in this, gradually absorbing
the water without losing SO much Of
their favor as when they are stewed.
Steamed potatoes, rice and turnips
will be found as palatable as boiled
food, and one is spared the fear that
the rice may stick. Many steamed pud-
dings are perhaps hard to digeat, but
not more SO than those coming FROM the
oven. That objection will not hold kood
against the hea1thful dish Of tapidca,
steamed just to transparency and SD
soned with lemon OF other tart fruit.
Ella May in Housekeeper.s
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Boys In New York.

Boys at heart are very generous and
helpful to one another. There are sew
eral streets in the more crowded districts
where there is enough slope for coasting
and where the pavement is of asphalt
They are great favorites, as may be sup
posed, to the owners of roller skates. OF
the crowds Of urohins who utilize them
only about one-half own skates. so to
ease the lot of the nonowners the boys
have invented a series of extraordinary
sports and exercises based upon one leg
ged skaters. The commonest game Is
where two boys, each with u skate,
go off together, each with an arm on
the others shoulder. They push them-
selves with the disengaged foot Or they
scull in a grotesque mannerto the high-
er part of the street, and then, turning
about, they coast down withgreat vigorz
New York Mail aud Express
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Smith Is a College For workers.

The ambitious students at Smith are
in large majority. They are of two
classes, and between the two a gulf is
set. The members of the one known as
t.grinds'' or digs have a hunger for
facts as intense as a miser's for gold.
Their delight is in acquisition, and
whether they work individually Or
gregariously notebooks flank them on
every side. They pack their brains as
they would a dress suit case, and the
future they view only as an opportuni-
ty of gathering yet more degrees. They
have their reward, but the student who
gets her knowledge by using at is the
peculiar joy Of the college. She regards
her notebook as a point of departure,
also conventional pleasures. Groups of
such girls are the direct cause of the
originality, freshness and healthfulness
of Undergraduate amusements. Alice
Katharine Fallows in Scribner's.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Our Women at Paris In 1900.

In The Ladies' Home Journal Edward
Box notes that American women are
arranging to make "another exhibition
of themselves at the Paris exposition
in 1900, proportionately similar to tho
painful "Woman's building at tho
Worlds fair i'll Chicago in 1898, and
urges that the painful mistake of Chica-
so be not repeated at the French CAPT
tai. ssIt was not" MIR. Box says, that
the women who projected the hen
house Cat the Worlds fair), as it was
irreverently called by many, were alto
gether to blame, nor was its failure due
to lack Of energy. The failure was in
the idea itself. 1t was unwise, and in
telligent women on all sides did not
hesitate to express their opinions. They
objected, and rightly so, to be elassed
apart and have their handiwork shown
as that of a set Of freaks. If their work
was good, they asked, why should it be
separated from the main exhibits sim
ply because it was the work of women?
What did their sex matter if the work
was of merit?
"There isl no sense, however, in maxi
ing this mistake for the second time,
particularly within the boundaries of
another country and for another people
to laugh at. The idea at Chicago itself
was wrong, and the idea for Paris is
equally wrong. tits significant that the
women who were foremost in the Chi
cago experiment refuse to have anything
to do with the Paris project. This
should speak volumes to the women
who are persisting in making this Sec
ond mistake. If SO direct a hint does
not suffice, however, the United States
government, with a full knowledge of
the result of the Woman building at
the Worlds fair in mind, should and
doubtless will refuse to allow Ameri-
can womanhood to be held up again TO
ridicule. The American woman's in
genuity can have adequate expression
IN the general American exhibit at the
Paris exposition in 1900. But her handi-
work must be shown with the handi-
work of men, and not apart from it.
The lesson must be enforced upon con-
tiI~tal Europe that in America merit
Is recognized irrespective of sex"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14

been dead several years Her three
youngest sons live with her, the eldest
Captain Meeks-being married.
Yes" Me said simply, my boys
have gone to tho war. They all wanted
to go, and What could L say? Icould
not pick one or two Of them out and say
Stay at home / love them all.
MIS-. Meeks reads all the papers for
tidings of the war and watches anxious
~ for the postman's whistle to bring
her news of her IA
My eldest son Joined the Seventy
first regiment about four years ago."
she continued, land then his three
brothers followed. They are all good
boys-good to their mother-and know
they viii prove good soldiers for their
country.
II believe in patriotism, and ! believe
it is every young mans duty to answer
promptly when his country calls for his
services. My boys have done it, and I'm
proud of them.
81 hope--I hope very much-and I
pray that they may ON back to me-
There Were tears in the mothers eyes
and her voice trembled as she said this.
The Meekses come from good fighting
Revolutionary stock. Captain Meeks'
great-grandfather fought with Wash
ington. 1t is a strong, healthy, long
lived family too. Not long since at a
family reunion there were representa-
tives Of five generations present. New
York Evening Journal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
An Earnest womax.

Miss Cecil Charles, the author and
writer, a Standardization was n of
the first women to offer their services to
the Red Gross society in a Cuban work.
She spent a year or more in Cuba, is
proficient in the language and considers
herself absolutely fever proof, having
lived much Of her life in South Amer
lea and gone through numerous yellow
fever sieges there. Miss Charles has
been an ardent worker for the cause of
free Cuba for seven years past, r since
the forming of the Cuban revolutionary
party by Jose Marti, whose fay1site pu-
pill she was. She has pleadea unceasing-
ly with tongue and pen in Asvor of Gu
ban independence. Now she says: 1.-THE
fight is nearly over. The construction
Of the new republic is our work1a
work that may be participated in by a
woman, I trust, without shame or
blame to her. Miss Charles says she is
ready to go into the most infectious and
dangerous localities on the island if
necessary. She is described as a young
woman Of delicate build, with a mild
face aud large, luminous eyes.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
a New Porch Chair.

A novelty in wicker furniture is a
wide chair or narrow settle, as you elect
to describe it.
1t has a very high back and is evil
IDENTIFY modelled after the high English
draft chairs that are popular in many
drawing rooms.
The new shadings of wicker furniture
combine almost every tint known, with,
however, the sealing wax red and the
forest green still much in evidence.
The durability and cleanliness of the
wicker furniture is adding markedly to
it's use as all around service, while the
possibility of relieving it with pillows
and cushions brings it within the limit
of upholstered comfort.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14

tect the repairs. Even you VIII have 20
look for the spot to find it.
An old stair carpet is valuable to put
down a better one, as it saKes the new
one, and the carpet fits better than over
the stair pads. Tho old carpet should be
moved a. few inches to vary the exposed
part or it will break at the edge Of the
steps.
Every economical housekeeper aspires
to make at least one rag carpet. It is
not a long task to accomplish if csle goes
about it Systematically. In cutting the
rags cut them round and round. Take a
stocking, for example. Beginning at the
top, cut round aud round in one UNI
broken strip until the toe is reached. So
with old ~fiannels, such as underskirts-
cut round and round. In large pieces,
such as the legs Of trousers, cut off the
corners SO as to make them oblong aud
proceed as before, cutting round and
round.
Old wool hats make good rugs. They
should be cut and woven at one end of
the carpet, then when the carpet comes
home cut off the piece for the rug and
hem it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Women Love Brave Men.

While the Louisville legion was be-
ing recruited and got ready to be
mustered in a we'll known Louisville
merchant said on an electric a one
day: Evidently boys are not rs brave
and anxious to fight as they were when
I was young, and I think it is due to
the fact that there are so many more
women teachers now than men. Women
do not believe in fighting, and they SO
teach" He was certainly very much
mistaken, for it is a we'll known fact
that every woman hates a cowardly
man, no matter how much of a coward
she may be herself, and the line, None
but the brave deserve the fair, must
have been suggested by the fact that it
is generally the brave who get the fair.
I know two mothers with only chill
dren who gave their consent without a
murmur when they saw their sons
wished to go with the soldiers. One of
them, seeing her sons deep distress at
being rejected by the examining officers,
made a personal appeal to Colonel Cas-
tleman, who was an old friend of the
family, and to her boys captain and
lieutenants to use their influence to
have him given another trial. So /
maintain with all due respect to the
gentleman of the car, and he is a man
whose opinions generally are worth a
great deal, that if the boys and young
men of today are greater towards than
those of other days it is certainly not
the women that have made them SO,
and I do not believe it is true that they
are .-Louis7ille Courier Journal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Some Knowledge of Business.

Some young girls just out of school
have this last season included in the
weeks round an hour at a bookkeeping
class. The course has been confined to
the sort of accounts a mistress of a home
would keep. including careful instruc-
tion in writing up a checkbook. The
opening Of the many banks up town has
had the effect of increasing the list of
women depositors. Many fathers now
put their daughters on IN allowance,
starting a bank account for them, and
letting them manage their money mat
tiers as a preliminary to tho care of the
property which will somed day be their
own. It seems a pity that the scheme
has been so long delayed. What a saw
ing it might have effected for the Amer
lean women now enrolled in the conti-
mental peerage!-New York Letter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
wilhelmina,s Dutch heirloom.

Willful Wilhelmina of Holland has
set a fashion for serpent ornaments
since her visit to Paris. But SO far tho
French jewellers have not succeeded in
initiating the superb Dutch heirloom
which the young queen wore among the
laces at her throat. The head of this
serpent is a single large diamond cut in
the proper form. The body and tail are
plant, being composed of tiny, invisi-
Bile scales, and are about five inches
long. They are striped with rubies and
between the stripes gems of many col
ors form the pattern of the serpent's
skin.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Blessings of a summer stove.

No heusekeeper who has NICE used a
summer stove will ever tolerate coal or
wood fires in her kitchen in hot wealth
er, though she sacrifice a dozen other
important wants in order to secure
immunity from their torturing heat.
Gas stoves are always a possibility in
cities, but in small towns and in the
country those for gasoline or oil only
are available. Both kinds have been
brought to such a state of perfection
that there is little Or nothing left to be
desired in their use. Oil stoves require
frequent cleaning and trimming to keep
odorless, so preference lies with gaso-
line. Every farmhouse in the land
should possess one, and the blessing
that each would bring during the eter-
nal summers cooking to some burdened
woman simply could not be measured.
They do not explode" az popularity
supposed, and, as investigation will
prove, every accident is directly trace
able to some act of gross carelessness
which, otherwise directed, would rem
der dangerous many things in common
use il the Observation-Disclosures Home
Companion.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
To Smoke out Mosquitoes.

London women have discovered a
very agreeable way of Kidding their
homes of flies and mosquitoes. They
burn sandalwood in the house. This is
an oriental idea. In London it is posi-
BILE to get the wood prepared for this
purpose. but here it is not so easy, as
American wonen have not yet taken to
the practice.
Sandalwood can be bought at almost
any Turkish Or Japanese importing
house. It is prepared for burning by be-
ing first cut into small pieces a half an
inch thick and three inches long. Then
it is baked or dried out in a slow oven
for "a hours. A piece of the wood is
put into a metal urn, lighted and allow
ed to burn until we'll af1ame. when the
flame is extinguished and the redhot
ember left to smolder until the wood is
consumed and nothing is left but a heap
Of fine gray ashes. During the smolder-
ing process the wood sends out a sweet
and aromatic smoke.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14

Very tempting indeed to the woman
who loves the delicate and dainty pro-
auctions of fashion are the new robe
dresses sent over in boxes and formed of
the finest and sheerest of white mulls
and india muslins. The skirts and the
unmade waist fabrics are trimmed with
exquisite lace insertions and embroider-
ed frills and nounces and rows of fine
tucking, sometimes with only n very
handsome rufie at the hem, but with
each seam of the narrowly gored skirt
covered with a band Of the insertion.
All the fuIlness that formerly charac-
terized the making of muslin dress
skirts is removed from about the hips,
making it possible for many women to
wear them this summer who have not
elected for them III account of the great
number of gathers at the top Of the skirt.
They measure from 81 to 4 yards at
the hem and are narrowly gored as they
near the top Of the skirt. Tamboured
swiss muslins are similarly fashioned,
and other sheer textiles come in boxes
with rufies edged with colored en-
broidery, and material, frills and in
sertions for the waist to correspond.
The most expensive models are formed
Of soft, exquisite India textiles in white,
with deep eabroideries wrought direct
" upon the goods. Other skirts are
nearly covered with superb lace traceries
in point and duchesse patterns, and
sprays, bands and borderings in vene-
tian and guipure designs il applique
New York Post.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
A New Crusade.

A lecturer on ventilation points out,
what everybody has known if he has
thought of it, that air is more necessary
than food. The body can exist longer
without food than it can deprived of
pure air. The new crusade, according
to this speaker, is to be preached in
favor of ventilation. In protecting ones
self against a draft it was asserted that
to have d window open at the top and
bottom both madea draft much less IN
likely than to have it open from n end
only. Paper should not be used behind
summer pieces in fireplaees. Let there
lie room for the air to percolate through
the open ironwork, and the register open
in summer, provided the cold air box is
perfectly clean and the air supply comes
from out Of doors, assists by creating a
current in the ventilation of a room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Cracking Shoes.

"Now that the summer is again upon
u.s., {" explained a shoe dealer to a Star
reporter, people are asking as to how
to prevent shoes from creaking, for, as
you know, shoes rarely ever creak ex7
cept during exceedingly dry weather or
in the summer time. There are all kinds
Of cures for this trouble, but the sim
pIest. l think, is to rub a few drops of
coal oil in the soles, near the edges. If
this doesn't stop it, the next best thing
is to bave a shoemaker drive a few
wooden pegsin the soles. The combina-
ton of both will surely keep them quiet.
Sewed shoes of the best makes often
creak as much as cheap shoes. The diff
Guilty comes from cutting the inner and
outer soles. If they arc not exactly the
same size, they are liable to creak.
Water. hot or cold. is only a temporary
remedy. for the shoes are just as liable
to creak as soon as they get thoroughly
dry."-Washington Star.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Boarding Homes For women.


Over five pages of the last bulletin Of
the department of labor are devoted to
an exhaustive statement concerning
boarding homes and clubs for women.
The article has been prepared by Mary
S. Ferguson.
The report covers 80 homes and clas-
SITES the occupation Of the inmates as
far as these have been ascertained. The
Margaret Louisa home in New York is
given separately, because this is a very
successful temporary home, having near
ly three times as many inmates as all
the other homes that have stated their
classification. The number of boarders
in this home during the past year has
been 6, 022. OF these one third are
teachers and governesses. There are no
domestic servants, while these form
more than one-ffth of the total in the
other homes.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
STORIES or WOMEN.
SHE GAVE FOUR SONS TO F~lGHTsFoR
THE GRAND DIP FLAG.

Our Women at Paris In I9oo-To Make
Carpets and Rugs Wear-Women Love
Brave Men The New Robe Dresses.
Blessings of q Summer Stove.
Mrs. Margaret Meeks, a widow, into
whose hair the streaks of silver are be-
ginning to steal, has given what she
could to the war-her four IN
These stalwart young men-the wild
owls only children-are members of
Company I of the se%venty-first regi-
ment.
Here are the names of the four brave,
patriotic brothers: Captain William E.
Meeks, Sergeant Elmer @. Meekss Pri-
vate Ludlow G. Meeks and Private Ben
jamin G. Meeks.
Upon a table in the parlor of Mrs.
Meeks' home, at 70 West Sjxty-eighth
street, are tho pictures of these four
boys dressed in soldier uniforms. Their
mother, who looks at the photographs
through yelling tears many times a
day, has arranged a silk flag about them
with tender, loving fingers, as a back
ground.
If she must ever see n Of her boys
in his shroud, she would that it be of
the stars and stripes.
Mrs. Meeks is a large, well preserved
woman of 55 years. Her husband has
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14

A little 5~-year-old girl attended a
children's party last week, and as it was
one of her earliest ventures IN the small
world of fashion the circumstance was
invested by her with corresponding im-
p~ortance, says the New Orleans Times
Democrat. 1t was not so with a l2-year-l
old acquaintance of hers, however, TO-
whom children's parties had come to
be ranked in the list Of rather onerous
social obligations, and a few days later
when she met the little 5-year-old she
remarked, 81 did not see you at the
party at Mrs. MS"
"Y1u uidn't see me? Well, you must
be color blind, for I was1there and hads
very nice time
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Mrs. Breed In Japan.

Mrs. Alice Ives Breed, vice president
Of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, during a recent trip to Japan adj
dressed a literary society of 200 men
and women of different na~tionalities in
Yokohama This club meets every fort
night and has a literary and musical
programme. After Mrs Breeds address
she was asked to form a club of foreign
ers, and afterward in Tokyo, when she
addressed the Japanese women, she was
asked to help them in forming a club
also. Mrs. Breed spoke Of the queer
c-onveyances in which she travelled in
different cities. She had been to the
theater in Venice in a gondola, to church
in Hongkong in a sedan chair, and
when in Japan went out to speak at a
club in a jinriksha.-Boston Woman's
Journal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
A Product of Good work.

Miss Marian Cowan, a registered
pharmacist of Lynn, Mass, is the only
woman who has read a paper before the
Pharmaceutical association. At the re-
cent annual meeting at Greenfield she
read a paper, entitled Microscopic Elk
animation of Kamala and Powdered
Elm Fl. NJ. Whitney of Andover,
president of the National association,
awarded praise to Miss Cowan and add
ed that she was a product of the good
work done at the state college of phar-
macy
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Baked Apples In Cans.

An economical and ~relishable early
summer dessert may be made from bak-
ed apples, which should be canned and
put away against the time when fruit
is scarce. Bake a quantity of apples
and when they are done have ready a
kettle of rather rich strip. Fill fruit
jars with the apples; then put in sirup
until they will hold no more, Put the
cans in a kettle Of boiling water, and
when they have boiled d hour close
the covers tightly and boil 20 minutes
longer. Cool and pack away in papers
and keep in the dark until Wanted
New York Ledger.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14

thusiasm we the great engagement.
He described the now oft told story Of
the battle, and added:
"This is the greatest adventure 7
shall even have. No idea when-I shall
return. 1 am all right and healthy as
ever"
Young Morse had been working in an
Oakland dry goods store as errand boy,
but tired of the work, and after much
pressure his mother consented to his
entering the navy. Hewas sent to Hon-
olulu to the Bennington and was SUISSE
quently transferred to the Baltimore in
time to pass through 1.-THE greatest adj
venture Of his life. San Francisco
Examiner.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14

Remember that cabbage, green's and
savoys to be good must be cooked in
plenty Of boiling water. with a table,
spoonful Of salt to every half gallon.
Boil them with the lid of the pan and
very fast, constantly pressing them
down under the water. If the water is
very hard, add a very small lump Of
soda to q large potful Of water. The
stalks when thick, should always be
split il tours
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-14
Little Brother,

Little brotherss Just a darlini
Guess you'd think 20 too
If you came TO our house
An heard him coo an COO.
just sits In his carriage,
Squeals an jumps an sprirgA
Reaches out for all his toys j
His rubber doll an things.
His eyes are blue-like mine arss
He hasn't any hair;
His cheeks are pink, like roses,
An he's so fat an fairi
An when he laughs so cunnin
An hrs dimples / can see
I think hes Just the incest
Little brother there can be.
But when says "Hushi' to ne
I know what's comm then,
An-so I take my little cart
Out by the rabbit pen,
For she's just laid the baby down,
An / can't wen peep.
Iguess I'd better play outdoors
While brother goes to sleep.
My says that / must be
The coolest that I can,
For little brothers watchin me
AS I grow up a man.
So I'm the coolest l know how
An try to please my mother.
An when I think of bein bad
I member little brother.
Helen Hathaway.