The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

fresh.
One thing more. If floral decorations
are not too luxurious they give a better
effect, as lowers. like people, show off
best in uncrowded places aud grow dis
trait in freedom. >
The woman Home Companion says
that it is not i%nfrequently said that a
daily bath is weakening. This is such a
great mistake that it is difficult to UNI
derstand how it is ever made. A daily
bath is just as necessary to bodily puri-
ty as daily prayers are to soul purity,
and it Should be as conscientiously taken.
In some place, n at some time that
cannot be recalled, this observation has
come to my notice, and its truth made
its impression a lasting one.-"A lady
battles not to get clean, but to stay
clean"
1t Is true that remaining too long in
the bath may be weakening, but a quick
bath in either very warm or even hot
water, followed by a cold dash, has only
good effects. =
A refreshing and practical bath is one
in moderately hot water with a little sea-
salt in it-sea-salt is practical and cheap
pure white soap, a sponge and a cheese
/ cloth wash rag. Cheese cloth is both
practical and cheap, at the same time
sufficiently rough to remove all dirt and
not rough enough to scratch. The sponge
must serve as the shower-bath, and af-
ter the body is thoroughly dry, rubbing
corn-meal or bran over it makes the skin
soft and velvety.
The use of a bag of bran instead of a
/ r-o -, ~ Or ;c r,,,ob f oxyarod Inv tho French
women for the softening effect it has
upon the water and it's tendency to make
the skin delicately smooth and white.
But no bath is perfect in its results UNI
less followed by brisk and vigorous fric-
lions of the hands or rubbing with a
coarse towel.
AS to the ways and means by which
almost every woman can be made to
look beautiful in a photograph-here is
the SAY so' of Miss Beatrice Tonneson,
the Chicago woman photographer.
1.-The individuality of the woman who
wants a fine portrait of herself should
be studied carefully as though she were
to sit for an oil painting says Miss
Tonneson. 1.-THE o1d-time ideas about
fashions in portraits, the system under
which there was a periodical temporary
rage for a certain pose or effect, have
been completely supposedly. Nowadays
we strive to bring out the Best points of
every sitter, man or woman, and we
make special studies toward this end.
For this reason it is hare to generalize
concerning the best way to a a beau
tiful portrait, but a few little hints may
be of service.
when you go to ave your portrait
made take along your prettiest belong
ings, light and dark, for day and even
ing wear. Some may be admirable.
others abominable for you purpose.
Choose a day when you feel physically
well, in good spirits Out not bolster
ously SO. unless you are the happy pos
| SCISSOR of a face fairly summing over
with dimples and roguish merriment)
and when you have plenty of time. The
worried, hunted, careworn expression
which disfigures the faces of so many
pretty women will surely come out in
the picture if the ideas of train time or
a similar anxiety is haunting you. If
\ you want a pretty picture observe all
these rules, think of anything rather
than that you are sitting for your por-
trait, and leave the rest to the pho
tographer. The result, in nine cases
out of ten, will be a beautiful picture,
which is at least sufficiently like you
to be recognizable, and in the occasional
case it will be one of those two things
at last. And, above all, don't try to
! assume an expression which is not nat
ural to you. Such an attempt is worse
than ruinous to all efforts after a good
and beautiful picture
Wall papers this spring are all that
spring wall papers ought to Delight and
bright ana poisoning. Stripes and gar
lands seem to be a popular pattern,
!, though big bouquets and prim little nose
gays scattered here and there without
any apparent design are also to be seen
says "Harper's Bazar." The background
is generally white or cream colored,
against which the flowers, either of snowy
or delicate tints, appear to good advan-
Etage. Hydrangeas, geraniums, fuchsias,
v~erbanas, and other old fashioned and al
together spectacular blossoms are in
highest favor. But few of the once
fashionable glazed effects appear, and
! gilt almost not at all. The idea SENS to
be to make all wall coverings just as
artistic as possible. Cretonnes reflect
the spirit of the papers, being light IN
tone, gay in color, and much given to
floral designs.
Some sort of pretty rug is necessary TO
put beside the bath tub to step out upon
and it is quite essential that it should be
of some material in which the colors are
well set. There are on sale cork mats
and others which resemble Turkish tow
! cling, only they are of heavy weight, but
the rug to be made at home is frequently
in demand. One is made of coarse basket
canvas. with a plush like center, the en-
broidery being worked with thick ingram
or colored cotton, and each stitch crossing
over one thread of the material. The pat
tern may be worked all over or merely as
a border with a plain centre, but when
covered all over the mat will not be so
likely to show any discolorings of water.
"
The members of the British royal fam
! lily confess to a great love for flowers of
! all kinds. The queen has a special weak
ness for lilies of the valley and violets,
and cares to ave them about her rooms.
Her intimate friends, knowing her IA
vorite blossoms, send her these in profus-
ion upon her birthday, at Christmas and
| the New Year. Violets, the pet flowers
of the late Emperor Frederick of Ger
many, has become quite sacred in tile