The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-08

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come sour. In order to do this wash the
soap out with warm water. Squeeze it as
dry as you can With the hands but do not
wiring 1t, as that would break the fbres
It is a good thing to dry sponges in SUM
mer in the bright sunshine. In winter
they must be dried by artificial heat, and
for this reason special care must re
taken to rinse them clean after using
them.
1t is a great mistake to shut a sponge
up in a close box. A sponge shut up in this
way with the least dampness is sure to
acquire an impure odor in time. The best
place to keep a sponge is on a hanging
earthen tray or in an open basket OF wire
near the bathtub, where is can dry and
is always convenient.
There is a great difference in the quail
ties Of sponges. A good bathing sponge
has rather coarse pores, but is soft and
strong in texture. The most expensive
sponges, however, are tiny ones, which
have the very finest holes and a silken
texture. They are used for washing lit
tie children and by surgeons.
It is always better to purchase a sponge
Of a wholesale dealer. who handles them
from the original package as they come
to market, or from a trustworthy drug
gist. The sponges that are sold by side
walk vendors, and are very white and
clean looking, are said to be often the
refuse sponges thrown away by hospi-
tails and afterward collected, cleaned and
bleached by acids by those who yend
them. A sponge that has not been
bleached is a brownish yellow or a light
yellow in color.
Now the h-ousekeeper is busy planning
how to beautify her drawing room for
the coming season. Not content with the
high lights of the chandelier or electro
lier. which depends from the middle Of
the ceiling, high overhead, in the conven-
tional Philadelphia parlor. she IS ar
ranging for a side Hight, lower down on
the wall, which will light the grand piano
and give a welcome change from the now
ubiquitous piano lamps. The lamp bust
ness has been overdone; the filing Of
them Is a WEAKNESS, and unless one has
a large staff of servants the care of the
parlor lamps creates a tedious addition
to the ordinary task Of housekeeping. A
lamp turned too low makes the atmos-
phere very unpleasant. and unhealthy to
inhale. A delicate throat soon suffers in
convenience from 1t.
A wall-bracket for gas lights is the
now fashionable alternative. These are
not precisely the queer tulip-shaped at
fairs which were torn away from the
walls some years ago to make place for
something else, but genuine antiques, :
or faithful copies of such.
The Flemish candle is now the ideal
sidelight. and very pretty and quaint it
is. Imagine three brass candlesticks with
swelling sides and fat bottom, set side by
side on a three-armed bracket. The
brass Is the genuine greenish yellow, per-
fectly plain and smooth as satin. 1t is
guiltless of craving. Where the candle
stick joins the bracket there is an S
curve, with something resembling a frus-
trated heur-de-lys in the centre Of the
original curve. The turner's are large,
comfortable, old-fashioned affairs, EVIL
IDENTIFY moulded by Flemish ideas of util-
ity. Thick white porcelain bobeches are
set about the opening which admits the
gas fame. These are perfectly steady and
cannot be knocked off The white is
Opaque and sets Off the satin-fnished
brazen surface below. A brilliant illum-
nation attends the lighting Of the "Flem-
ish candles The large dealers either
keep them in stock or SEND for them to
suit their customers.