The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-19
4 IDEAS for da ofnen


A little garden of its very own, where
It may plant and dis and pull weeds up
and potter about to its hearts content. is
a very great boon to d little chila. For
children love 70 work and like. 10 make
play of their work, work of their
play: they yearn for activity; they desire
to possess something which they may ID
with as they please, says Harper's Bazaar.
Usually the home garden is aot as at
tractive to a little child as it might be,
because there are too many doa'ts and
thou shalt nots about 1t. Little fingers
must not break off the flowers, little feet
mus not trample the turf. little play
mates must stay away. for their games
and romping may do mischief. In the
country there are always the fields over
flowing with daisies and clover. ana the
lanes where one may wander along look
ing up through green branches TO the sky;
but a city child has only q back yard with
narrow flower borders around a square
plot of velvet-green grass. aflimited realm
indeed
Even here however. the sensible mother
may contrive a little garden for the chill
dren, or a small bed for each child. where
seeds may be sown, and such homely fay-
orites as petunias, four-o'clocks lady's
slippers and pansies grow without much
care. A few hardy pinks. or the old
fashioned ribbon grass, a verbesa, a lily,
larkspur, perhaps a monthly rose, a few
sweet peas, and rhe ehild's sense of beauty
will be cultivated. and he will have what
we all want most, when we thing about
it-howers to give away.
1t is 50 lovely to have a flower from the
child's own garden for papa's b~uttonnole,
for mammals plate at the breakfast table,
for the dear friend who is going on a
journey and would like something sweet
to look at in the cars. And there may be
a flower mission, and the child will be
glad to contribute from his garden for the
pleasure of sick people burning up IN nos
pitfalls, burning with fever, tossing in pa1a;
or of blind people too old and too wresched
to enjoy much more in this world, put
cheered up by a flower; or of little chill
dren who like in crowded tenements n
never have much fun, and are made glad
when flowers come into their lives.
A part of every ehildfs training should
be to give pleasure Systematically 70
others. and this is best done by teaching
little people to give away something which
they prlZt, uOl III liz AiPo4~N
prodigality, but because every one is re-
sponsible for the happiness or misery OF
every one else; and we are all bound IN
one bundle, and only by giving consci-
ertiously and according to rule do we
ever learn to be generous ana kind and
~considerate of some one or something be-
yond ourselves. The child's garden may
train him to spontaneous kindness as
hardly anything else which he owns can
do.
Have some long. long tumblers, :oo-the
huge kind. Squeeze the juice of one " hole
lemon into each of these tumblers, SWEET
en- it. and then i'll the glass half full Of
cracked ice, not big pieces, but finely
pounded-"cracked" III short. Pour a
pint of club soda into that. after yon have
shaken up the lemon, sugar and icstin a
shaker If you like), and there IS no better
drink. for a long one. in the wide world
Remsen coolers and whiskey sours and
gin fizzes do not compa with a soda
lemonade. if it is made in the right way.
Most homemade brews suffer in eon,par-
ison with the shop-made Tor bar-made)
ones but soda lemonade is twice as good
made at home. Unless you persist-and
then ~watch-they viii give you horrible
lemon strip for the real thing, ana strain
all the ice off. Then they squirt the CON-
mon soda-marble madAfrom the foun-
tain. and you haye a nice, Eabby, lifeless
drink. A~pollinaris, of course. may Re
substituted for club soda, and many,
again. prefer lfthia. The fizz is the main
thing. Sweety, swammy draughts, like
soda water with ices and thick sirups. are
so e~nticing to the youthful palate that it
is no use i~nveighing against them Thank
heaven they cannot be made at home
For dinner beverages a quart of Ameri-
can champaign, or hoch, poured at the
proper moment with an equal amount OF
soda or lithia water on a huge lump Of
ice in a large jug Is as refreshing as can
be imagined, and American claret, with the
same carbonated waters and ice. some
persons prefer. As these wines arr cheap
er Than beer in bottles, it may be seen
that the taste for them is not at al INK
urious.
Al fashionable New York woman has the
eccentric, though pretty, fancy for a Tea
Room for all Nations. " This week It IS
a Japanese tea ROOM: last week it was q
Russian tea room. By a few simple de-
vices she changes the room from one ma
tionality to another and so imparts 70 It
an ever varying aspect.
This week, the woman whose tea room
is the bay window, has pots of artificial
Japanese plants set Upon the shelves
around the window, and upon the aoor,
which is covered with mating. A rug OF
mating lies at the entrance As the
guests enter the room they are greeted by
a little serving maid in native costum
who prostrates herself to the floor ard
bids them enter. This they greatly enjoy
and their approach to the room is begun
with laughter and ~pleasantry-a happy
beginning for an afternoon call.
The dress of the little maid is in bright
Japanes silk with an Immense sash Of
oriental silk. She wears her hair in JAP
anese style, with pins stuck in IT. 1t might
be mentioned that the little maid has
never been to Japan, and that she enters
into the spirit of the little afternoon play
with enough heartiness to make 1t a sue
cess. She brings in the tea and late- bids
the guests adieu with native courtesy.
The curving quilts with which nineteen
out of every twenty Of this seasons hats
are ornamented are an easy prey to the
breezes OF gentle spring. Ever 50 little
a filtration with ever 50 seemingly fnno-
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