The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-10-29

q combination of narrow Lodges or
shelves, graduating from the entire width
of the room to a point at the top. On
| this are to be t~astefully and artistically
| arranged every sort Of vegetable and fruit
| which can be begged, borrowed, or
stolens' from the whole country around.
! AT the bottom will be potatoes, pumpkins,
| squash, in fact, all the larger and more
bulky things. Then, all the way up to the
top. a sort of beautiful pyramid win be
| made, carrots with their brilliant FOLD,
eggplant with its beautiful purple, cel-
| cry with its delicate white stalks tipped
| with green, beets, oranges, vegetable
rows. grapes-all ~hobnobbing together in
| close proximity, and trimmed off with
punches and sprays of parsley and water
| crass-will be there. The girls insist that
| nothing like it was ever seen. They have
| got hold of a good idea for decorating the
walls. They have brought some fine wire
netting, and will suspend it from the top,
and will then cover the walls entirely
| with branches of autumn leaves, and
| golden rod, Mlchaelmas daisies, and any
| other autumn wild flower they can get.
OF course, there will be ice cream and
| cake to sell, a fancy article table will be
dllOlllEl a. ~ AAlNA chitA .
will be good music, both vocal and in
strumental, which will be rendered by
| some of the girls who are the promoters
Of the scheme. The festival will be open
| from II A. M. to 10 P. NJ. and the end of
the evening is to be made amusing and
interesting by the auctioneering off Of
the fruits and vegetables which played
such an important part in the decoration
of the school house.
No straws Of Circumstance indicate
more truly the radical sincerity of the
Hull-House settlements views upon so
cial democracy thai does the fact that
the ring of the door bell is quite as likely
to be answered by a university professor,
a writer or a lecturer whose name is
known to the scholars of the English
speaking worldsas by a person in humber
position, says the sWoman's Home Com
| panion.' The duty of attendance upon
the door is administered with a disregard
of social conventionality, which affords
an eloquent Introduction to the demo-
cratic spirit of the place. The fact that
the strange stands equal chance Of be-
ing admitted by Miss Adams in person,
or by a '~neighbor girl who happens to
be within sound of the bell. indicates both
the scope of the hospitality which char
acterizes Hull House and the complete
ness with which social distinctions have
been obliterated in this famous home of
culture and democracy. 1t matters not
into which room the visitor is first usher
ed. the initial impression of the place
is generally a recognition of the good pic
lures with which the walls are every
where hung. These are palpably a part
of the establishment Without them Hull
House would be less than itself, and there
is not a painting, drawing. photograph
or print in those rooms which are open
phase Of the settlements life. Each has
been ~thoughtfully chosen because Of
special elements of fitness.
So
Mistresses stand In need of reform as
well as maids, and the time has come
when housewives must realize that the re-
lations between them and their servants
cannot be those of slave and his owner.
says the Ladies Pictorial, Moreover.
the sooner it is realized by every mistress
that all the cardinal virtues are not to be
found in a single individual, the sooner
will she establish the domestic peace of
her household. Even were it possible to
find young women so richly endowed BY
nature that no fault could be found with
them, they would be worth more than a
few pounds per annum to any family. Di-
rectly we produce servants with angelic
tempers and an abnormal love of work,
who never want rest or holidays or a
watchful eye over them, then may we
rest assured that wages will go up by
leaps and pounds. and truly they will
be well worth whatever they demand.
! But until the millennium comes we have
no hope of finding domestics of this type,
and meanwhile our best chance of seeur-
ing better service is to realize that, as the
mistress is the pivot Of the whole domes-
tic machinery, she ought to come much
nearer to perfection than those she
governs. And the best mistresses are
those who do not look for perfection in
servants, and yet strive to bring then
by easy stages to that ideal state. What
is more and of the utmost Importance is
that mistresses should not blind them
[ selves to the fact that their maids are
of like passions with themselves. They
need to be considered in little matters
| sometimes. Their work is m~onotonoUs,
iucll looAS itA6s JIG dttco many HiN
their temptations often very great. All
these things are very frequently forgotten
by those who employ them, with the re-
suit that domestics resent being treated
as machines, and rebellion ensues, There
is, however, a wide distinction between
showing consideration to employees and
pampering them. There is no need what
ever to treat ones servants as If they
were distinguished guests; but. on the
| other hand, it is fatal policy to show
| them less consideration than ones dogs,
and to act towards them on the principe
that as much value as possible is to be
got out of them for the lowest possible
remuneration
This lifting of the eyebrows is a sense
less trick which IS thought to give ex-
preston to the face. It is on a level with
the many other so-called tricks Of express
sion, really nothing more than the contor-
lions of the facial muscles. 1t is rare to
find a woman who can carry on a con-
versation with an even counterance and
without wags and mods of the head.
Only Southern women seem to thorough
~ understand the meaning of the word
strepose,' and to carry it into every act
of their lives. Repose of face, repose OF