The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-02

few minutes De1ore the cloch seruch ..
That's all"
"Allr" said the dazed lawyer. EXCUSE
me, Judge; l must get my breatht before
1 call the next Witness"
ST. is wise in one respect, is this
bachelor girl" Ruth Ashmore writes IN
the April Ladies' Home Journal" She
has learned the art of gathering years
gracefully. She appreciates. as she loses
her youth. that she must pay more re-
gard to her appearance. and that in hfe's4
picture she must always be a fig1re that
looks well. Here the bachelor girl rises
superior to the old maid. for with all the
old maids gentleness she was a bit IN
clined toward dowdiness. The 1acnelor
girl impresses you, when you meet her,
with her naturalness. Perhaps, as you
grow to know her well, you may WISH
that her natural manner did not tend
toward brusqueness but at least she Is
truthful. She is a woman of business
and she is gradually learning that to sue
coed. alike in business and in society, she
must follow the example of her brother
and not carry her workaday worries or
lows into her social life. She must dearn
| the art of being a grub or a butterfly as
time and place demand. She is fond OF
j pleasure, and being healthy and happy
she is kin and charitable"
So
Sir James Sawyer, who has lately been
~discoursing on longevity to the members
of the Acock's Green institute, Birming-
ham,, rightly insisted on "a sufficiency or
sleep" as one of the things needful TO
make a mans days long in the land But
what is a 'suficiency?" Sir James defines
it as one-third of the twenty-four hours.
For what Matthew Arnold called the
average sensual man" that is to say, the
man of normal physiological needs ana
| cravings, this amount is probably not TOO
much. But some of the greatest workers
of our day rave done with much less than
eight hours sleep, says the British
| Medical Journal"
DR.. James Legge, Professor of chinese
in the University of Oxford, who has JUST
| died, at the age of eighty-two, was, 1t IS
said. in the habit of rising at three A. M,
| and allowed himself only five hours OF
sleep. BRUNEI, the famous engineer. for
a considerable part of his life, worked
| nearly twenty-four hours a day. Friends
and assistants have left it on record that
he hardly ever went to bed, and yet never
seemed tired or out of spirits. After work
ing through a great part of the night ne
| slept in his armchair for two or three
hours, and at early dawn he was ready
Nor the work of the day. Sir George a
Elliott, afterward Lord Heathfeid, who
was in command throughout the siege OF
| Gibraltar, which lasted four years, never
| during all that time slept more than four
hours out of the twenty-four. He lived
to the age of e~ighty-four.
Tears are good for women, says DR..
Campbell in the Hospital" The beneficial
erect of a good cry to a woman, he as
serts, is partly due to the increased depth
| of respiration and the improvement in the
often languid circulation thereby induced,
but to a large extent it is the result OF the
| muscular exercises involved, by which the
| general vascular tension, and especlally
the blood pressure in the brain. is much
reduced. The profuse flow of tears no
doubt also acts strongly on the cerebral
circulation in still further reducing ten
sion. The sobbing movements, again,
have a good influence upon the venous
circulation in the abdominal and pelvic
viscera. while the exhaustion produced
tends to cause sleep, and thus to give the
utftOuS SYSTEM 10 pcSt
! peration.
The women of China evidently mean to
vie with their European sisters. News
comes from Shanghai of a Chinese la
! dies dinner given by ten ladies of dis
tinction from different parts of the
| Celestial Empire to some fifty European
lady guests. among them being the wives
of foreign consuls of different nationals
ties. a few missionary ladies', and the
ladies on the Committee of the Tien Tsu
| Hsui Natural Feet Society. The din
ner was served in regular European
style, with flower spread tablecloths,
! champagne, and instead of the usual
chop sticks, knives and forks.
Overheard at the matinee
sIf / were thrown on my own resources
I'd take to parlor lecturing. There's lots
of money in it. n the very first thing
I'd do would be to cultivate an English
aocent-the real Londonese article"
"And what subject would you study up
for your lecturer"
"Oh, I don't know; that wouldn't matter
much. The accent is the main thing.
Get the real article in that line and you
won't lave to worry"
"
seThe Times of India declares that tea
drinking is the curse of Thibet. THE
people," it says, have such an Unsuitable
craving for the beverage hat they will
sell their houses to procure it. If ever
an apostle appears in Thibet to regener-
ate the nation he will have to preach a
crusade in favor of whiskey drinking in
order to wean the inhabitants from the
national vice"
Lemon juice in a tiny cup without
handles and from which it is ladled with
a little silver spoon, is often handed
around at the five O'Clock tea service. in
stead Of the sliced fruit. A little tray
frequently holds the cup of lemon juice,
the tiny individual decanter of rum and
the little bowl of lump sugar, that choice
may be had of the different condiments
O-ld-fashioned garden favorites-peri-
WinkIe with blue eyes,, cowslips, heather
and Chinese pinks-bloom among the
grenadine gauzes that veil the spring
straw hats. One must be hard to please
who cannot find anything to ones taste,
for the assortment of artificial flowers is
large, the colors correct and the work.
manship excellent.
In cleaning the glass of pictures a