The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-29
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
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tunate thing for some Of these exclaimers
that those who they address cannot look
into their homes and see the true reason
! for their restlessness and dissatisfaction
If they could their platform careers would
soon come to an end"
The time for teaching a little girl sew
ing by giving her dish-towels to rem and
sheet seams to overland is past, says
Harper's Bazaar A better way has been
found. and she learns happily, not grudg-
ingIy and with tears. The needle is no
longer pushed with painful effort through
rough crash and stiff sheeting. but slips
easily through the bits of old linen and
muslin that are destined to make some
thing pretty to stock the little needle
woman's doll wardrobe or bed, or her own
small tea table.
She is using her Imagination as well as
her fingers, and happy indeed she may be.
Is there any comparison, in point of In
terest, between a big dish-towel and a
dainty little one for play dishes-a small
oblong cut from the whole portion of a
big glass-towel and hemmed neatly?
A little girl will like to learn to darn
linen If the worn dinner napkin she is
set to work on is afterwards to be nicely
washed and ironed. and become one of
her own little table cloths. And could
hemming fail to b alllring when the
whole parts of another old napkin are
cut into squares for small fingers to make
into doll napkins? From pieces of old
handkerchief may be cut squares to be
fringed for doilies, useful on doll tables
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reaus with dainty knickknacks, a little
girl will employ many a scrap Of lace and
ribbon, and will learn to be skillful with
her needle.
How many hairs nave you on your
head? Not nearly so many as you think.
The general reply to a question of this
sort is, "Oh, Millions
The average number in a dark persons
head is O,000, and dark people generally
have coarser hair than others. Some run
to 100000, but his is exceptional. Black
or dark brown hair turns gray soonest,
and are nearly always much fewer in
number than those of a fair person.
Red hairs. however, are fewer than
black. Sixty to eighty thousand is a
good average, and the redder the hair. the
coarser, as a rule. Red haired people
very seldom go bald. The color is very
healthy. 1t doesn't turn gray easily
either.
Golden hair, or light brown, is the
finer. and long, tow colored hair the finest
Of all. Brown hair averages about 10000
per head, and tow colored 800, 600. All fair
hair is much finer than dark, and gener-
ally grows longer.
Chestnut brings up an average of $780,
600, and generally hangs on the scalp a
long time.
According to the correspondence of an
English lady writing to friends at home,
housekeeping in Hawaii does not admit
of aristocratic exclusiveness. People who
put on airs there do not nave a.good time.
The servants insist upon calling the mas
ter and and mistress by their first name
and say:-'William Henry, dinner is
ready" Isabel Augusta, what time do
you want lunch?' sJane Maria, I have
shaken the rug" Thomas john, here's
your umbrella. perfectly dry The re-
suit is that one clever woman having been
warned by an old housekeeper of the To-
cal custom. determined to outwit the Ha-
Wdildll StFfdVl- % she UdQt HGI AuSDdlu
under no circumstances to call her by her
Christian name and arranged that neither
should she mention his But ala for her
clever and original plan, at the very first
dinner she gave, her guests in the draw
ing room for the mauvais quatre d. heure
were treated to the announcement by a
man ervan who opened the door and
said:-.Dearest love, your dinner is
ready
A Frenchnan whose school of grace and
beauty has become world famous was
fond of writing and preaching and pray
ing against the u%nthinking way most
women wear Jewels. Only beautiful, ta-
pering fingers can afford to be laden with
jewels, he said and the clasping ola neck
lace around any but the fairest throat he
thought an extremely rash proceeding.
Jewels, like patches, were to call attention
to adjacent beauty, not to distract atten-
ton from defects. The bony neck with
out any adornment might pass unobserved
but made conspicuous by glittering bau-
bles was an unpleasant sight. OF dia-
monds placed in the ears or near the face
of a sallow or worried looking woman,
the aesthetic Frenchman could find no
words to express his disapproval. He
could not conceive, even in the face of
ocular evidence, of any woman being so
reckless and so blind to her own inter
ests.
Descriptions of elaborate spreads are
not of value to the h-ousekeeper in general
as every woman who entertains in mag
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