The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-13
for dMo1nen

Roughly estimated, there are from
5000 to 1000 Americans in Berlin every
year, not transients. but people who re-
main at least during the winter months
Ii is safe to assert that fully two-thirds
Of this number are students of music,
the German capital having completely
distanced every other German town in
this particular.
There are 120 Conservatives for music
in Berlin, besides an immense army of
teachers. and these facilities for learning
are supplemented by the eight or nine
hundred concerts of all kinds which
take place during the musical season
from October 1 to May 1.
The American student. particularly
the girl student, has taken possession
of these c-onservatories and concert halls
in a way that does credit to our national
enterprise and perseverance,.
A cir student can reduc living OK
penses in Berlin to $50 or over $40 a month,
with no greater hardship than a little
careful management. For the a of
those who may be contemplating making
the experiment. 1 will give the exact
figures.
That quarter of the town in which
most of the con~servatories are located.
and in which the musical student pre-
fers to live, to save time and expense in
going to and from lessons, is eminently
respectable. Here you cam get a small
room for % or 80 marks a month, say
81 or 81 so. and room quite large enough
for two people for so a month. There
is a slight fee monthly for service and
lights. firing is extra, but not expensive.
A kitchen outfit of a little alcohol lamp,
a kettle, a saucepan or two and the nee
essafy dishes will enable you to prepare
your breakfast and supper at very slight
cost;S5 a month will cover this item. and
you will not live badly either, if you are
a good manager.
For this price you can allow yourself a
good pitcher of nourishing cocoa. with
rolls and butter for breakfast, while for
supper you have brown bread and butter,
some kind of sausages or cold meat or
eggs cooked in some way. with cheese, a
salad now and then and an occasional
bottle of beer or glass of milk. as you
Prefer.
The cold meats and sausages you buy
in small quantities, de~liciously prepared,
all ready for use, at one of the fascina-
ting delicatessen shops.It is cheaper and
allows of more variety to manage in this
way, for two than for one, of course, but
the figures given here are possible even
for one person alone.
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Dinner you can get at a number of nice,
quiet restaurants. at any brice, from 20
cents up, if you are a regular customer.
For the lowest price you have Il meat
s. sand vegetables or a roast with salad and
cempot; for 50 cents or 40 cents you can
get a good four-course dinner. You are
obliged to order something TO drink, but
a glass of beer for 3 cents win do or a
glass, of wine. for 10 cents, If you care for
it. A good way to dine is to go to some
rice boarding house, where you can be
taken on as table boarder, for Dime
alcre, at about Is to 40 cents a day.
If you do not care to live alone in the
manner just described, there are pensions
where you can obtain room and full
board from $50 a month UP. Some private
families will take students to board at
about the same rates, which can be a
very nice way of living. if you have the
good luck to ind nice people.
The tuition fees, are of course the
greatest expenses to be borne by the
musical student. The great masters
charge anywhere from IS to $40 an hour
for private lessons. but the conservatory
les are very much lower in price. The
Royal High School for music offers
yearly several free scholarships, for
which students of all nations are free to
compete Concerts are a heavy item. too,
for we must hear them, but they are
very cheap in Berlin to American ideas,
and students can almost always get a
reduction.
With the proper amount of time and
care much may be done in the way of
combating that natural enemy of woman
kind-wrinkles, says the Philadelphia TN
quirer."
In the first place never by any chance
wash the face in hard water. The hard
est can be softened with SO little trouble
just a teaspoonful of ammonia in a
pitcher of boiled water over night. and a
bag of oatmeal placed in it in addition.
This simple wash used in the morning
will keep the face in fine condition.
Pure elderfiower ..........-.. l pint
Borax ounce
Eau de cologne ...-....-.-.... l ounce
Apply with a soft sponge, then dry your
face with a very soft towel, and give a
final finish-not a polish-with a soft
chamois leather, which will effectually re-
move all moisture.
For the rows feet use a little pure
fresh cream, and putting a little on the
first and second fingers. work it well into
the burrows from the eye outward and
downward, not upward. Olive oil is also
an excellent emol1ient, which can be used
in the same way, as we'll as for those lines
underneath the eyes, which must be
smoothed out by a seni-eircular move
nlent of the fingers, commencing from the
inner corners downward; do this for five
minutes every night, after having cleaned
your face first in tepid, then in cold dis
titled water, into which latter has been
put a little of the lotion given above.
Those lines which come on either side of
the nose must be rubbed toward the cheek
while those across the forehead must be
smoothed out from the centre of the fore
head outward, not up and down.
An ~astringent lotion, in addition to a
course of facial massage, is of great bene-
fit. The following is especially recon-
mended:
Powdered tannin, ] ounce.
Rosewater. 5 ounces
Glycerine, 2 ounces.
Remember, too, that ~ugliness turks in
smelling salts. One of our most beautiful
women on the stage speaks of having no.