The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-31
c1deas for 0Nnmen

The idea Of editing aud publishing q
current number of some magazine tor an
evenings entertainment will WORK oue
well ia a perfect gale of fun, says tne
Home Companion" If the host
ess has beforehand familiarized hersell
with the plan of a popular magazine ana
tactfuliy assigns each guest the part they
will best perform.
Have it previously planned who shall pc
selected for editor-in-ehief. He must
have the assistance of a stenographer'
who shall do all the writing; also a desk
editor. who shall prepare a dummy OF the
nagcs of the magazine and arrange each
article in its proper place.
OF course, there will have to be an adj
vertising man TO solicit and arrange ad-
yertising. an illustrator (best a kodak en-
thusiast). a fashion editor, and, of course.
others. The mead of each department
should be privileged to choose all the as
sistants he wishes. which will bring the
rest of the company to work on several
departments. all of whom in toto will be
considered an editorial corps to advise
and suggest.
sTo facilitate the work of compilation the
hostess should have at hand a few copies
OF the most popular magazines. in whlch
the best articles have been marked. To-
gether with a lot of old fashion plates
fthe more ancient the bettsr) from when
to design unique costumes. Gather To-
gether all the kodak pictures posslole'
give these 10 the illustrator, from wnlch
to make Illustrations to illustrate stores
and articles chosen which cannot be act
ed out. A supply of silhouette paper VIII
come handy, from which the artist may
make shadowgraph groupings OF persons
present. to illustrate action described III
the articles. Silhouette heads adapted 10
some article on people of pubhc proml-
nenee make excellent caricatures. GIVE
an assigned time in which each depart
ment must select and complete its work.
The character and scope of the journal
is determined, first of all, by the edltoflal
corps. and the work is simplifled Wheh
some journal familiar to the whole COM
panv is copied. with idea to Improvement
of c~aricature. Certain familiar advertise
ments can be produced in tableaux or
charades, leaving the company to guess
the articles advertised
SO
A mock number could contain
/. Cover page-An artistic tableau-
Page OF 49,
3 A story-A short romance selected
from some magazine.
4. Poems-Humorous and pathetic
: Article on some general topie-using
kodak.
G. Music-some ~threadbare song or
waltz purporting to be DeKoven's or
Damroseh,s latest composition.
:. Fashions-Illustrated.
@ Illustrations
Q. Domestic Experimentation and
fictitious.
10. Obituaries-Faeetious and fictitious.
ii. Joke -column-Stalest jokes and puns
to be found
~ Last cover ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
The tableaux will more effectively SIM
ulate full page Illustrations if performed
within a large picture frame or in a door
way with a darkened room behind. The
s%ilhouettes should be pinned on a white
BACKGROUND. The magazine completed,
the edito~-in-chief reads it aloud, slowly
and distinctly. permitting his audience to
i~nterpolate comment and interrupt with
laughter. If the details are carefully
thought out beforehand the magazine par
tv wiz work out successfully to the enjoy
ment of every person present.
an the programme of daily tasks there
are some. very naturally for which even
the enthusiastic home-maker has no
TASTE, writes Constance Conrad in the
February ..Wolnan's Home Companion"
perhaps she even shrinks from the per-
formance Of these tasks. and would like to
shirk them altogether if her pride in her
own houskeepif.es would permit her to do
so7 and yet she knows that they are just
as important and essential as the more
pleasant duties in making up the sum of
her daily work. The unloved duties are
the trying points of each days work, and
are often left to the tired end of the day,
when they are doubly annoying. Taken
one at a time. while we are fresh, and
absolutely conquered, they no longer
serve as the bitter drop to our labors.
The tasks we call unpleasant often show
US the weak points in our characters, they
are the duties that call. for special pa
fence or caretaking. or a marked concen-
tration of thought and skill for a certain
time, and perhaps a perseverance we are
unwilling to give before perfection is
reached.
"A group of young housekeepers talking
of their home-making are almost certain
10 11leISp6iSS lHSll COhN dtic VIZ lin
things the hate to do Harry likes
pie. but 1 almost never make them, for I
can't bear to make the crust says one.
How do I hate to clean the lamps adds
a second. Is there anything more tire
some than %dusting?' continues a third.
Yet all these young women have won
prizes in school, perhaps have stood high
in scholarship in college, and not one half
the ~conquering force would be required to
learn to make good pie-crust. not "a third
of the patience would be called for in
busting beautifully polished new furniture
or the immaculate shining of lamps that
they have applied for years to tasks of a
different nature. Every unloved task
raised from its humble position to that of
successful accomplishment. and the pleas
ure that always accompanies such results,
adds just so much to the complete round-
ing of our characters. Achievement, af-
ter honest effort, is one method of draw
ing up the dropped stitches of life"
Although reliable dealers assure US that
never before has sterling silver been so
low in price, the cost of a complete table
service ascends beyond the reach of even
the well to do. Hence only the very rich
or the fortunate heirs of a line of plate
gathering ancestors sit at a board thus
equipped. says "Harper's Bazaar"