The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-10
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have not spent as much time in keeping
up their studies as they might, and as
they promised they would when they left
school, have dubbed together AMI taken
q furnished house on the west bank of
the Hudson. Their intention is to go
there for ore month, from the first Of
June to the first Of July. take a Young
woman with them who will act as chap
eron, and al the same time give them les
sons in botany. astronomy and English
literature. says "Harper's Bazaar
Each girl has subscribed SO much
toward the general fund for the running.
expenses of the house AMI house rent.
The cottage they have taken has been
vacated by its owner, who has gone
abroad for the summer. They will pay
$50 for the month. One of The girls will
BIZ treasurer. receive and settle all the
bills. and strictly keep receipts for fu-
ture reference. Another one of them has
promised to keep house. They have en-
gagged two ~servants-a cook and house,
maid-and they intend to take up some
good lamps and a few of their photo
graphs. etc. to give their little nest a
cosy appearance. For a very mall
amount they find they can hire a neat hit
tie trap in the village to call at the cot
tage every afternoon and lake some OF
them out for a drive.
The plans for the June outing are all
completed. and the girls are looking for
ward with delight to the project. They
have mapped out their days most system
atically. and if they carry out all the
ideas of study, sewing. reading aloud and
pleasure which they have in their heads
and down on the calendar. the experiment
will no doubt be a most enjoyable one.
They have calculated pretty closely
about how much the expenses will be.
but of course cannot tell until after the
first week just how much it viii cost
them. They will pay the teacher s25, the
house will cost them $50. servants wages
will amount TO about $35, the hiring OF
the trap for driving will be $40, and the
living expenses from SIPS to $3.50 for the
month. This will make $3.50 in all, making
$40 apiece for each girl to pay, not count
ing her travelling expenses.
This. of course. is q very liberal allow
ance, and no doubt a party of girls more
economically inclined could manage it or
less. They could dispense with one SER
want easily. and do the homework. or
some of it. themselves, with no dstriment
to their health or pride of station" Bus
these particular seven girls are not going
to economic. as they need rot. They wish
to devote most of their time to study, and
it is mainly for that object that they are
going. The idea is a very charming one.
and heartily indorsed by all their friends,
who wish them every success in their UNI
dertaking.
1t has been often shown how easy a
matter it Is for a girl TO CONVEX an ugly,
%uninyiting looking room into the most al
tractive looking den possible. Thist is
decidedly the season for r~enovating. III
an old-fashioned country house, not far
from town. where a large family of chill
dren have been brought UP. the sweetest,
prestiest little den possible mas just been
arranged in what was before nothing but
a storeroom upon the third floor. The
daughter of the household, the eldest
daughter. who has a great deal Of taste,
has fitted up the room as q study room Or
den. as one chooses to call It, for a sur
prise to her younger sister. who comes
home in Juno from school. She has done
it nearly all herself, with the exception Of
the papering on the walls and ceiling and
the covering of the furniture.
The colors are green and white. The
whole room is papered with a chint paper
white with large green iowers-the cell
ing papered in a plain paper of the same
shade. On the floor is a lovely green mat
ting with small Japanese figures through
1t: a square rug in the centre to corre-
spond. The furniture in the room consists
only, as there is not much space for any,
thing very large, of a long wide divan
made out of a packing-box. On this is a
mattress covered with green and white
chintZ. and innumerable cushions of all
sizes and colors. In the middle is a small
square table. with books and a students
lamp. IN one corner stands a writing
table covered with dark-green felt, will
a full and complete writing set on it.
photograph frames and portfolio. On three
sides of the room plain pine shelves have
been put with brackets on the walls-four
shelves for each bookcase. These are
painted in dark green enamel paint, with
no curtains in 'front.'; on the top are racks
for picture frames, a few vases for flow
ers, and on the shelves below looks. A
rocking chair and two or three small
chairs complete the furniture of this at
tractive room, with a small tea-table at
one side. The day the happy owner of the
den arrives from school her sister intends
to awe every vase filled with mignonette,
and then her color scheme of green and
white will be carried out completely.
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That a~ll-powerful ST." Have you gotten
IT well under control? If so, you have
gained the prettiest sort of a triumph
over self and deserve the reputation for
graciousness which elimination of the
staggering pronoun alone can give you,
says Dorothy Maddox in the Philadelphia
Enquirer
If you are still clinging with crab-like
t~enacity to the delusion that the great
ST am" is interesting to the world you are
q bore. 1t is impossible for any woman
to win for herself a cosy nook in any
body's heart SO long as she pushes self
to the fore.
I frequently hear this summing up Of
a woman's charms: Ssh is not pretty,
no. not especially brilliant. but there is
something about her so lovable.'
That woman is utterly Indifferent to
her individuality. She SINKS it in that
of others. She is gracious and her gra-
ciousness secures for her a welcome and a
right royal one from old and young.
She has the prettiest possible way of
listening to others. No personal topic.
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