The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-30

In the travelling cases one can go to
almost any limit of extravagance or
purchase a very small bag for a mod
est figure. suit cases in crocodile 1eath-
er. lined with the same skin. are filed
up with every convenience that the most
fastidious dandy could wish for.
Plain silver, crystal or gun metals are
the most popular fittings for these
cases. For the bride there are lovely
bags fitted with silver n repousse
gilt, ard suit cases n little smaller han
those used by men.
They hold more han the ordinary bag
and are lighter to- carry. "A very apr
propriate gift for the bride and groom,
who are going to spend the coming
months travelling or cruising, would be
a tea basket. which is pretty. light land
very small considering all the things IT
holds) and charmingly fitted up with
everything necessary for two hungry
cyclists or travellers.
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Anything that draws the home-keeper
from a healthful. loving, faithful interest
in her home affairs must be unworthy OF
her pursuit, says the "Woman's Home
Companion" Let a woman join a study
club if she finds hat it will be helpful to
her: but If she find that this will force
her to neglect things that would tell upon
the home comfort, there are books that
will furnish what she needs for the pur-
pose of mental cultivation, and perhaps
her usban could. after she has rested
of an evening. join in the study, anu 50
the two would have the pleasure of a joint
interest in a subject But let the woman
who chooses the reading-course beware Of
taking up a work because It has become
the fashion. Her own intellectual need
should be consulted. She must learn to
select for herself; to see with her own
eyes, and to decide through her own judg
ment. Her home must be an expression
of her own taste, and must prove the
fact of her economy of time and strength
and money. She must not feel herself
superior to the most careful planning,
nor reject the most trif1ing means toward
accomplishing success in nome manage
ment; indeed, she should be proud of
an ability to make a nickle go as far as
possible; and so oil the machinery of SER
vice hat it seems to run itself.
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It is worse thar folly to deceive a child
with the pretence that nauseous medi-
cine is palatable: the deception may
avail once. but tho little one loses all
faith in the assurance, and it counts for
naught. Far wiser to tell him honestly
that it tastes bad. but it is to do him
good. and that as soon as it is taken he
shall have something to take the taste
out of his mouth something. if pos
sib1e, which he especially likes. The
pellets in which so many of the modern
medicines are given are far easier to
take thar were the huge pills of the last
generation. and it is not often that a
bitter desc is absolutely necessary.
When the little patient must be forced
to take the dose, do so quietly and firm
ly; hold the hands and nose while the
spoon presses down the tongue. In the
effort to breathe the medicine. which
should be in LIQUID form. will be swal-
than a spoon, and less apt to spill the
contents. 1t may also be used as a
means of compulsion by turning it up so
as to stop the supply of air: at the first
gasp for breath the medicine will be
taken. and the glass may be removed.
Often a struggle with the patient will
do more harm than good; moreover.
medicine thus given is apt to be rejected
by the stomach In such case the ply
stefan must be appealed to. 1T is easier
to coax a child than to drive it. and
patient, gentle reasoning is seldom with
out effect. Force should be used only as
a last resort.
When black materials begin to look
gray or rusty. says the Ladies' Home
Journal brighten them by sponging IN
the right side with equal parts of alco-
ho1 and water, and. while damp, iron on
the wrong side. Mud will often leave a
stain, which may be removed with naph-
tina after it has been allowed to become
thoroughly dry. Black silk warp goods
will shine as they wear, and expose the
silk threads; this shine may be partly re-
moved by sponging with alcohol and wa
ter, though it will likely return; if it does
the silk must be redyed. Colored CASH
mere, serge, albntross, etc, may be clean
ed by ~sousing in a fluid composed of one
d-essertspoonful of beef's gall to a pail of
warm water; use less gall in the rinsing
water, ufy III d SHduy pace, anu iron On
the wrong side, when nearly dry, with a
moderately warm iron.
A country house bedroom looks very
English when fitted with cretonne dra-
peries. These include short straight cur
tains at the windows attached by rings
TO slender poles, so hat they will slip
back and forth. Spreads for win brass
bedsteads, that are also a necessity for
the English aspect. are of the same Gre
tonne. covering pillow and hang, just
clearing the floor, at the sides. The couch
or window seat is also fitted out in the
same cretonne; a little writing table is
drawn up at one side of the fire place
n the dressing table with one or two
low chairs finishes the room Such an
apartment had the steam heat arrange
ment concealed for the summer under a
long. low cretonne covered seat. This
was fitted on a frame and set over the
pipe coils in such a way that they were
not visible.
The dinner was a yellow and violet af-
fair-a center piece of yellow roses. sur
rounded with a wreath of smilax, into
which had been thrust at intervals, c1us-
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