The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-19

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ner should never attempt 70 curve or sla'
a ball. He must be satisfied to DOW
straight down the centre until he has &c
CURED such mastery over his delivery
that he IS able to practice the style adopt
ed by experts. He will then have TO ms
the one he likes best and act accoraingiy'
go
A bright Philadelphia girl who has beer
an invalid for the past few weeks en-
ployed the long hours of recovery II
building a delightful set of puzzle cares
says the Philadelphia Press Every
woman who likes novel work that needs q
dash of cleverness will want to do ike
wise. Here is her method
First. she cut, from stout. blue gray
cardboard a hundred cards about twelve
inches long by eight across. When these
we're nicely trimmod along the edges me
first step in the work was over.
TIL idea is that each Of these cards
must give by signs and pictures the name
of some well known song.
The pictures are usually clipped ana
pasted, If one can draw and color q ut
tie. so much is gained. In this SET q
which l speak the pictures aaa eeeh
clipped from various magazines ana pa
pcrs. Many are arranged il deiightfuliy
artistic effects. A number Of others eon-
tanned pictorial runs which, when guessed
brought out a good laugh
There is quite an art in the arrange
ment. but a little thought will suggest
clever combinations. For example
The "Banks of the Wabash would be too
easily guessed if the pictures clipped rep
resented the borders of a stream. But
suppose Won nave selected cuts OF the
Bank Of England. with one or two other
celebrated financial houses-the guessing
VIII have 10 be much more spirited. Eaeh
word insthe title must be accounted 10Y.
But puns and misleading ideas Of all kinds
are desirable,
TIE fun of such a puzzle set needs no
explanation. When you have guests ana
the conversation threatens TO flag get
/ them round the table and nut them 70
guessing. Tn fact, the puzzle cards are
often made the excuse for an evening
catherine. inexpensive prizes are pro-
vided and light refreshments passed
ANY subject which is capable Of sufii-
| Gent variation may be used Tne titles
of books, geographical names, great men
| and women, etc.
Begin a set when YOU have a spare
| hour. It is well worth the time ana
thought.
war is bringing strarge experiences to
many people, says "Harper's Bazar-
Some of these aspects may seem rather
frivolous, compared with the solemnity
of death and conquest. but they never
theless have their own place among the
| details. For instance. it was strange
enough. those melting days last week. to
| read that certain society women. leaders
of New Yerk's smart set. were still in the
CITY. They were women who are devoting
| themselves to helping the Red Cross 80
ciety. Their interest in the war has not
been merely sentimental, It has been
practical and self-sacriieing. New York
houses which, within. have scarcely seen
the light of a summer day. are blinklng
with astonfshment through unshuttered
windows. while their mistresses confer
with fnanciers, government officials,
nurses. reporters, and a strange process
sion of persons in the half-darkness OF
the rooms. Probably to the world at
large it seems of little moment that GER
tain women of wealth and fashion should
stay in New York when the weather clerk
is giving object lessons in Cuban tenn
perature. To the women themselves, how
ever. the summer of 1898 will be quite
| apart from the rest of their days One
can imagine them in years to come, on
the deck Of a yacht, on a Newport YER
anda, or some chilly morning in Bar
| Harbor. %reeounting to an eager audience
the incredible experiences of the sum
mer I staid in town"
SO
It is no unusual thing this summer to
meet the barefoot boy at every turn
| among the smart set. Master Millionaire
has discarded shoes and stockings for the
hot weather and trudges through country
| grass and over seashore sand in the full
| blissfulness of barefootedness.
This is an eneroachment of the custom
| which has prevailed in the South for
| many years. There the. children Of the
| best families run unshod all through the
summer. Far from making their feet
| large and ~unshapely. as some have sup
| posed. this freedom from footgear allows
q natural development and prevents
troubles of the feet. One tail and grace
| full Southern woman. who never knew a
| summer in shoes until she was half
| grown. wears now a doubleA. a size
| which anyone might IVY for few feet
are narrow enough to carry it.
The h~ealthfulness of this new fad is in
| disputable. The principles of air baths
| are contained in it; all the foundations
of physical culture are its f~ootholds. A
radical physician has lately declared that
infants ought not to be burdened with
any clothing at all for a time. SO that
| their little bodies could absorb all the
| oxygen possible. The barefooted child in
summer is a grown-up edition of his
| scheme.
The novelty of it attracts children at
| once. the freedom of it holds them and
its h~ealthfulness recommends it as a de-
ightful experiment.
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| Matrons as well as maids nave all but
| cast away their shell side combs and for
the sumnae at least few heavy jeweled
head decorations are seen. A tiara even
| at a Newport dinner party. unless an heir
| apparent TO a throne is present. is voted
| estentatious and the wives of millionaires
tuck into their high piled tresses the
| finest platinum wires so strung with dia-
monds and gracefully twisted as to re-
| semble the a%ntennae of a butterfly. Some
| times the skeleton wings of a butterfly
! form the base from which the glittering
feelers spring. Big jewels. rich and i'm
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