The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-04

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in the best man of today"
Here is good advice to thin people who
want to grow fat. 1t seems contrary to
all our early training, but still is full OF
good common sense and comes from a
prominent physician. His suggestions
follow
IF you are thin and want to put flesh
on your bones. eat before going to bed for
the night. Physiology teaches us that
there is a wasting away tissue while a
person sleeps as well as when he is awake,
and this being so there should be contin-
uous nourishment. Food taken at dinner
or in the early evening is always digested
at the time of retiring, and the activity OF
the process of assimilation continues until
long after we are asleep.
IF the tissues are not nourished they
are pulled down by the wasting process,
and as a result sleeplessness ensues. On a
| full stomach, however. or with some food
to sustain the system, there is a building
up of the tissue.
Man is the only creature / know OF
who does not deem it proper to sleep on
spect, instinctively cries to be fed at
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ing that time as well as through the day,
and that left too long without it causes
a discomfort which it makes known by
crying.
There is no need for rest in the di-
gestiye organ provided the quantity of
food eaten is not above normal during the
t~wenty-four hours. Too long intervals be-
tween meals are bad for the stomach,
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sumption of work of the digestive organs
tend to enfeeble them.
"A moderate working of the organs
through the twenty-four hours is much
more beneficial. 1 would advise those suf-
fering from insomnia to take something to
eat before going to sleep always. A glass
of milk and bread, meat or any digestible
food will do"
Touching the sensational reporting
formerly done by women, it may be said
that such work has had its day." writes
Elizabeth G.. Jordan in the January La
dies Home Journal" "Women no longer
go dow in diving costumes, nor go up
in balloons, nor fall in front of cable cars
to test the practical working of the en-
ders. In justice to the women reporters
who did work of that kind, it should be
added that many of them-indeed, the
majority of them-were good and modest
girls, who accepted such assignments un-
der protest, n only because the editor
called on them for the work and their
living depended on their acquiescing.
With the passing of the sensational spe-
Gals should be chronicled the decline of
the woman's columns and the woman's
departments. They, also. have had their
day.
TT meet those and other changes, the
newspaper woman of the twentieth CEN
tury will be a new type aE1 much will
be expected of her. She will be a well
educated, well balanced, cool headed and
practical young person, with a body as
carefully trained as her mind. She will
know more about the English language
han do most of her sisters of today,
yet not a bit more than she will need to
know. The newspaper woman of the flu
ture will nave passed the experimental
stage of her professional work. Conces-
sions to her will be no longer made, ex-
cuses for her no longer accepted. She
will be out of the ranks of the amateurs
and in line with the professionals. She
must stand or fall by the same tests as
are given to the man at the desk beside
hers"
There m be no scrubbing if you want
your, nice oil cloth to last a long time.
Let II be swept with a soft broom, and
then on sweeping day, after the busting
is done, tie up your broom in a bag of
old flannel and dry-wipe the oil cloth. 1t
can be done in a few moments and will
make it clean and bright. If there is a
spot on it wipe it off in warm skim milk.
When it must be washed, mix a little
borax and hard soap in part of a pail of
warm water; rub it well with this, but
use no brush. Have ready half a pint of
warm water and skinned milk, and wipe
off the oil cloth with this and flannel.
Wash it as little as possible. When, at
last, it begins to look dim, have it well
washed and dried, and varnish it thor
oughly. You will have to keep the hall
unused for two or three lays while the
varnish hardens. Cared for in this way
a good oil cloth will last for many years.
The adaptability of women is one quail
ity greatly in her favor, remarks the
Housewife" Set down in the midst of
u~ncongenial surroundings, a woman's first
impulse is to improve them. She quietly
gives a deft touch here, s~traightens out
a little there, and though poverty may be
stiN apparent, yet order has succeeded
chaos, and she has Impaired to every
thing within her reach some expression
of home comfort. She carries the same
instinct nto business, and after a months
apprenticeship, if she succeeds at all, is
mistress Of the situation. Almost every
one can recall instances where women,
thrown Unexpectedly upon their own re-
sources, nave developed business qualif-
cations of a very high order which they
did not know they possessed, and would
not have known but for the need of doing
something.
Shoulder straps formed of several
strands of pearls studded at intervals
with clusters of paste and coral, are
charming, with a necklace of pearls and
coral draped from each strap to the
front OF the dog collar of black velvet,
upon which there are several slides of
paste. A white ostrich plume, spangled
with crystal and studded with paste along
it's midrib, springs from a small black
velvet bow in the hair, completing, with
elbow-long sleeves, the accessories for an
evening toilet worn by a matron who
dresses s~tylishly.