The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-02

tered from Puerto Rico to Manila. says
frank LesIie's Popular Monthly A Nurse
now receives under contract forty dollars a
month, and fifty dollars if serving out
of the States. An army uniform has not
yet been adopted, but IS in contemplation.
Steps are being taken to place the woman
nursing corps of the army on a permanent
and satisfactory basis. But it is very
true, as DR.. MCGEE says-sThis is a thing
(which it is impossible to do empirically,
or at one stroke"
With our increasing responsibilities in
other lands, responsibilities. which entail
the keeping Of a large force of our soldiers
in countries and climates generally alien
to them. the continued maintenance of
the corps Of women nurses seems nothing
more or less than a human necessity. The
woman nurse during the recent campaign
proved herself capable of rising above the
most trying and unusual conditions. She
has been a success; more than that. she has
been acknowledged a necessity. Nursing
IS distinctvely a woman's vocation. 1t is
a profession which, under all ordinary
and most extraordinary circumstances
should belong to women. ASK any Of the
soldiers who lay i'll or wounde In the
hospitals during the late war what they
think of the woman nurse. There will
be but one answer to every query. and it
will be seen that the moral strengthening
and support of a good womants presence
Is, in time of war and suffering, as great
as thai Of her professional skill.
Don't trust your mirrorl
EVEN there, say a scientist, no one
can ever see herself as she appears to
others who do not look through a glass
darkly.
In the first place. he argues ssthe
rejection in the mirror does not give the
likeness with any attempt at accuracy.
The hair is wrong In tone.
The eyes are not correct in color. and
our compilations are hopelessly libeled.
IL the looking glass told the truth. var
ious complexion worries might greatly
decrease. for any fair skin looks gray
and pallid in a glass. Many women ruin
their splendid compilations by trying to
improve them, because they look bad in
the mirror.
You may be certain that however
plain your face seems. it is not SO plain
as it appears in the t~ell-tale mirror.
Secondly you cannot assume your.
natural expression while peering in a
looking glass.
The eye must be in certain position
before you can see at all. and the eye.
so far as expression is concerned, gov
ems the face.
THE consequences is that you can see
only one of your expressions in the
glass, and that one of tentative exami-
nation.
All the other expressions by which
your friends know you, favorable or
otherwise, you have never seen"
How true it is that the bread of for
giveness. once cast upon the waters.
never fails to return, though often latter
many days"
The cat has served to teach mankind an
all-important lesson concerning the work
ing of the stomach. The * rays directed
upon a cats stomach have demonstrated
that any irritation or disagreeabIe nerv-
Gus excitement arrests the process of d.
gesuon- DR.. Fritz Lange, of Munich, who
makes a special study of the stomach.
performed a series of experiments, which
resulted in this interesting discovery. Al
ter the cat had eaten, the x rays were
turned on, and DR.. LANCE watched the
m stomach through a fuorescent
screen Then he irritated the cat by pIac-
ing a live mouse just beyond it's reach.
DR.. Lange was able to observe that d.
gestion was absolutely Interrupted by the
irritation OF the animal Briefly stated.
the lesson for man is: Don't let anything
bother or interrupt your dinner.
OF all fruits the apple takes the chief
rank. One of its greatest advantages is
It's almost universal adaptation to all eli
mates It requires also no especially good
] soil, and in unfavorable weather yields
a proportionately larger return for the at
tention bestowed upon it than any other
fruit Another great advantage Of the
apple is the ease with which 1t is pre-
served OF all fruits, too, it is the most
nutritious, being the richest of all in
sugar and albulnen. The fattening quail
ity of sweet apples is proverbial among
farmers, whose children are especially
noticeable for the plumpness of their
forms during the season of this fruit.
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Sleep starvation is a common fault. es-
pecially of the young. Dancing all night
TWO or three times a week and working
all day is possible for a time. but there
is harm in it. In general it may be said
that only one who has to be alarm
clicked out OF bed every morning isn't
getting sleep. The evil effects may not
at once be felt, but they exist, A per-
son Should feel perfectly rested upon
rising In the morning.
If the kitchen floor Is of hard wood and
the polish is of the right kind, 1t is only
necessary to use clean, warm water. and
a wooden cloth and dry thoroughly. Paint
ed floors should be washed with.a cloth
wrung from hot soapy ammonia suds ana
wiped dry. Linseed OIL applied to a poi
ished floor after it is cleaned with kero-
sene oil is the only treatment for unvar-
nished wood floors.
A handsome, vet inexpensive fireplace
at a seaside cottage is built of bricks.
painted a pretty sage-green, with gray
ish-white lining over the mortar. This.
is to match the coloring OF the room Ia
house place), where the walls are paper
ed with green paneied with a darker
shade Of the same. Wicker furniture,
plenty of cushions. a few little tables and
one or two water colors OF marine and
rocky scenery complete thesdetails Of a
most attractive room.