The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05

is perfect, or that half his audience turn
away and say.-"Win nobody tell him?
We forgive him because he has some
good things to say, but we shut our eyes
while we listen!'
And that which Adolphus does is to be-
gin by making an explanatory remark,
| like art is long" perhaps. Then ne
pauses, scrapes his throat, and standing
for at least fifty seconds with indrawn
| lips. he rolls his eyes about over his audi
ence to~see how his statement has been
accepted. : r
/ knew a Clergyman long age who new
er gave out his text without pausing d.
rectly after to use his handkerchief IN
that good old-fashioned. way which
meant a long ~resounding blast through
out the church.
Mrs. Dayton never says anything about
domestic, political or religious affairs
without lifting her hands and wriggling
her fingers before you. Mr.. Garrison
never addressed a.pretty woman without
cooking his elbows or getting a little
strut in his walk. Mr.. Edmunds fills out
his chest and ~straightens his shoulders
when he sees one coming to whom ne
must take off his hat. Old General Ran
dolph never to the day of his death gave
up the habit of folding his napkin, put
ting it into a silver ring, taking a last
drink of water, and then wiping his. lips
with the with the napkin he had just
folded.
Habits are the result. of mental condl-
| tions, and our responsibility for our chill
dren, is very great along these lines.
Lack of training always tells, and the
duty of the parent becomes a serlous one
when the first SYMPTOMS of peculiar per-
sonal habits appear.
1t is easy to correct the child when
young, not by severity or by making It
self-conscious, but by making 1t repeat
an action quietly before you, without the
trick of manner or of voice which had
married it.
1.-THE home market. at first, is always
the best market, if the place number hve
hundred individuals contends lnez Red
ding in the course of a thoughtful article
on Finding a Market" in the March
sWoman's Home Companion" reasoning
that there should be 40 more false pride
in trying to sell to ones neighbor than in
selling to some one at a distaece. False
pride is generally the greatest stumbling
block in the way of the woman who wants
to earn money at home.
eff one wishes to dispose of fancy ar
ticles of any sort, it is better, if capital
permits, to first make up quite a goodly
number of articles. instead of depending
on a few samples and a glib tongue.
the articles once made, a young boy or
girl may be found to make a house-to
bor,ca &C on commission MA At a
church fair one would probably be given
permission to put in a table and sell as
many articles as possible by paying a
small sum for the privilege. Parlor sales
of fancy articles are usually well attend
ed. If you can succeed in some such way
in first introducing your articles. the way
to success is sure, If n is willing to
work hard and well. Even in small
places, cleaning lamps, polishing shoes,
Misunderstanding and such occupation
may be carried on successfully. The only
way to do is to provide yourself with the
necessary tools and then call at every
house in the town. You may only re-
ceive a few orders at first, but one piece
of work we'll done will surely bring you
two more. Don't despise small things
until you are independent, then turn over
the work you do not wish to some
worthy girl who will be glad of it.
Don't write to some person in Boston
or New York to know If there is a mar
ket there for some work for which you
think you are especially fitted, or which
you think you do usually well. In I'M
dertaking any new work there are al
ways many details to be learned of which
the beginner never thinks. There are
avenues open in every city for the sale
of everything grown or made, but with
the best to select from there is but little
opportunity of disposing of ordinary ar
| ticles. If you study to satisfy the home
market you will learn, slowly but surely,
how to do, the work in the best possible
manner and ascertain just what the pur-
chasing public demands. 1t will be a pre-
| paratory school of work, and it is better
to graduate from it before. attempting
anything higher"
The tea kettle has a story to tell, be-
| sides its singing, which is such a merry
| sound. Most folks agree with the poet
who wrote
oh, there's naught else SO dreary
IN my household found
AS a cold and sullen kettle
That does not make a sound.
But the tea kettle reveals other secrets
in the home beside the lack of love. Lift
the lid and see if there is a coating of
slime all over the inside. If so, the house
wife is either negligent or ignorant. She
| cannot know that one of the secrets OF
| good coffee or tea, is a clean tea kettle,
| and she does not understand that, though
| only water is cooked in the tea kettle,
| this very cooking of water is a real
| science and tea kettles must be kept
| -scrupulously clean like other cooking
/ utensils. Water boiled in a slime-coated
| kettle will not have the same flavor as
! in a clean kettle. There is a world OF
| reason in a small tea kettle for then
| from necessity it must be often filled and
| there is more chance for obtaining fresh
| water for cooking purposes than where
| the tea kettle is so large it is seldom
| emptied. The inside of the tea kettle is
| worth consideration when one stops to
| think how many-times daily boiling wa
/ ter is needed. There is danger to health
in some tea kettles.
On the other hand, boiling water is rec
| commended more and more. A cupful
! in the morning is declared to aid diges-
| ton. Slipping hot water is one of the
| latest remedies for a cold. Let the real
! housewife then see to the cleanliness OF
the kitchen tea kettle as we'll as to the
| daintiness of that on her 5 o'clock tea
table