The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-25

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stantial career, to be soberly prepared
fora career as worthy as any trade or
profession, and quite as likely to repay
Investment and labor-and until women
are put on a parity with men in the mat
/ Ter Of livelihood-until that inevitable
time the vocal Conservatives will turn
out twice as many women as men.
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The true end of education is to build
up character as well as to impart know
ledge. Technical instruction and the de-
velopment Of all kinds of marketable
skill are good in their way; but they are
not everything. Bookkeeping by aoupit
entry. and an ability to supply syliapies
ingeniously dropped out OF gutta perchas
have their different degrees OF usefulness
no doubt; but educationally they rank far
/ below the prayer a child says at US
mothers knee. / taxi it, says the ran
Mall Magazine" that we want hrst .
make Of our sons and daughters good men
and women. conscious citizens of no mean
cftv walking gently, modestly, cour-
/; aeao,,slv serving the State, ordering
4 theirs lives after some high pattern Ana
/, If NAV be further submitted that, having
iris aim. we cannot afford to neglect SO
potent an ally as poetry. NIhe aequlsi-
ton of good poetry said Matthew Ar
mold, that very practical thinker IS d
/ discipline which works deeper than any
other discipline in the range OF work OF
our schools.
more than any other it works OF IT.
self believe that if, for one half-hour
a day. a teacher were to read good poetry
aloud with his pupils, not fretting them
| with comments, not marrying them with
too frequent questions, but doing his pest
nv voice and manner to hold their atteh-
| ton. encouraging them to read IN their
turn pausing only at some salient beauty
or some unusual difficulty. above all CIV
ing the poetry time to sink in-I believe
Thoroughly that at the end of a year he
would find himself rewarded beyond all
his calculations. For a child's mind is
q wonderful worker, if only we trust 1t.
Do but interest a child in what ne nears,
| and he will go away and do plenty q
! t-hinking-out of school hours. too-thonsh
it be against his principles
The very rhythm of poetry is SO power
full Gas Plato pointed out) in winning the
| SOUL Ite may be %fanciful in me TO deem
IT in some way a veritabfe echo of that g.
yine order and rhythm-that music OF the
snheres-with which it seeks to harmonic
our lives. But I am certain of this-that
with its music. its rhythm in our ears. we
90 about our work more vigorously, be-
cause more tunefully, as sailors do wheh
! they work to a chanty chorus. Can we
| not SO persuade the schoolmasters that
mr. children may hear this music more
| clearly and more constantly than we?
Society women who use the deadly ar
senic water for the complexion are IN
creasing in numbers, according to a prom
inent physician of this city, says the San
! francisco .Chroniele."
Though arsenic is known to be harmful
madame eff society" forgets TINS IN her
earnest search for something to axe the
| place of the legendary Fountain OF YOUTH
| When the first tiny crows feet peglh "
appear she is suddenly reminded TO take
| stock of her charms. Late hours, ricn
| food and want of proper exercise nave
| lone their work.
The muddy complexion must be driven
away Int not at the sacrifice of social
designations which sum up her happiness.
| Somebody in her set suggests arsenic.
srBut it's ~poison!'
ssOh. no. Don't take too much of it. 1t
is large doses you should guard against.
A few weeks pass before the effects OF
the slow poison are visible. h clouded
skin has gradually given place to white
ness.
No unpleasant symptoms result for a
long time. and the customer of arsenic
-.1r =. Lrouy aff hpr pIlQrd When
the evils do come she does not for a mo-
ment attribute them to the proper source
The first effect of the arsenic waters Is
to gradually destroy the small blood YES
sells in the skin; therefore, unnatural
whiteness, which a delicate rouge IS
called in to relieve. Long continuation OF
the use of arsenic brings many Ills in
its train. The digestive organs become
sadly out Of order; loss of appetite fol-
lows. and madame finds her body is vast
ing. She sits before her dressing table
and gazes sadly at her white, a~ttenuated
countenance. with its fast-increasing de-
fects. Late hours and ~imprudent eating
all get the blame. Her physician is not
informed of the; arsenic waters. and other
prescribed drugs therefore. increase the
disturbed state of the system. Convul-
sions. loss of sleep. headache, rapid heart
action. de1irium and other terrible symp-
toms are the result often of a continual
ton of the habit.
Worse calamity of all, madame's lily
white skin, like the flower 1t resembles,
is not lasting in its fairness. If she is
wise enough to guess the cause of her
Illness and confesses it to her medical adj
wiser, she may be relieved. But she will
by thai time have destroyed her appear
ance to such an extent that she will never
regain what she has lost.
It would be an interesting subject
for research to try and discover the first
woman who decked herself with jewelry
Jewels of silver and Jewels of gold.
Such an investigation would probably
lead us very nearly back to the Mother
of all, for there is high authority that the
banks of the river that ran through Eden
were strewn with bdelium and onyx and
other gems, and if arms and other instru-
ments of metal were made before the
Flood, why not armlets and personal or
naments? Be- this as 1t may, from time
immemorial women have loved jewels.
and OF all Jewels diamonds. For gems
e~rations diamonds have represented the
fsfamily jeweIs' Of the great world. and
today diamonds are more in vogue than
ever. The fashion IS intelligible enough.