The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27

explains why. when a person cannot sleep
in his w house, he frequently finds
himself perfectly we'll able to sleep in a
house at the seaside or in the mountains
1t is a mistake to suppose the cnange of
air promotes sleep. When a person is said
to benefit by change of air it merely
means that he has removed from a house
in which the years supply of sleep was
exhausted to one in which there is still
sleep enough for the use of the inmates.
This is the true explanation of the mys-
terry of insomnia. Youn cannot squander
your sleep in riotous maps and still have
enough to secure for you peaceful rights.
That indefinable quality we call style is,
in a measure, born with a woman, al
though a very fair imitation of it can be
! secured by care and patience, says the
Philadelphia stTimes." 1t is not what you
wear, but how you wear it, and that fact
cannot fail to impress itself upon you if
you will observe with care each woman
you meet. You will get, in time, to be
able to pick out just the point in which
each excels.
! One of the best dressed, and, conse-
%quently, most stylish, women in Phila-
delphia has reached that position in four
years. l distinctly remember my first
sight of her-plain of face, but handsome
in figure, and dressed in a neat, up-to-
date manner. Nothing alarming about
that, you see, because there are hum
dreds of women just as well off. Bit by
bit she developed until observers began to
talk of the change, and today she has no
equal. She belongs to the world of busy
women who earn every dollar they spend,
and not to the leisure class, SO the change
is more remarkable. How she accomp-
lished this remains a secret, which she
| carefully guards. But this | can say,
more than one-half of the responsibility
belong to the carriage of her body. She
must sit up nights to attain that perfect
| command over her muscles which looks as
if it were natures gift.
The woman who keeps her shoulders
well pack has no wrinkles in her bodice.
If she poses the upper part of The body
easily and lightly on the hips she keeps
| her waist line well defined and allows the
front breadths of her skirt to hang in
graceful folds. Squirming about in ones
best gown will ruin its effect, so he's tyl-
ish woman c~ultivates repose. When she
walks she holds her chin well in and her
head slightly back, allowing the shoulders
and abdomen to assume their natural and
i or0Sar positions. | don't know that / ever
said this before, but il did, no matter,
Tor { is true. There is no need OF a wonn-
an woboiing. through the latter part OF
her life with a protruding front that is des-
~truc1ive TO the hang OF her gowns. 1t is
purely a question OF poise, and a proper
one IS lust as easy to maintain when once
it has been found. is my objection
to the uncorsetted figure-so few women
t9will take the trouble TO avoid a general
slumping in the Iigure. Women OF the
stage, who regard their forms as part OF
their stock in trade, avoid this, and are
a joy to the eye, particularly when some
artistic eye drapes the cloth of their
dresses with special reference to natural
Ines.
An irate man returned from a stereop-
ticon lecture lately with a loosed and
raging tongue, says the "Woman's Home
| Companion Usually he was a calm ard
I, reticent person, but he sat during the
whole evening behind a large hat, and nc
was righteously mad" And them ne
went on, with increasing choler, there
was a dead bird on her hat, and an ais-
rette bes. des. What is the use of your
Wanted women's elubs?' he rallied. you
talk about the c.vilizing effect they have
on women-how they inform and broaden
the mind and all that. l grant the hats
seen.
Lecturers and writer's and ever legis-
latures are constantly reiteraIng III.
truth that our song birds and the piumage
birds are being exterminated, n that
insects are destroying the crops IN cohse-
uuence, but not a bird less do we see on
i the women's hats. Mrs. Olive Thorne
Miller brings tears to the eyes of her au-
5ierca whenever she tells the story of he
aigrette. vet most of the well bred and
cultured women still wear aigrettes."
This matter of the wearing of birds on
their hats seems to be an especially hard
one for our women to comprehend. one
gentle, charming lady met a friend on the
street one day not long ago, and said,
II am in an awful hurry. l am on my
way to AS. They are selling humming'
birds there for a dollar a pair-perfectly
loyely-and I'm afraid they'll be gone.
There's a terrible rush for them
.You don't mean to say that you are
going to have a pair Of dead humming
birds on your bonnet?' her
shocked friend.
Certainly. 1t will be just as becoming
and as stylish as it can be. Don't look SO.
If 1 don't get them somebody else Will
They are lead anyhow, and | might as
we'll wear them as anybody.
with this ridiculous bit of logic she
nassed on. The next time her friend saw
her she had a pair of pathetic little hum
ming birds just above her bright, merei-
less eyes.
Science and common experience agree
in teaching that sleeplessness is the re-
suit of over activity Of the brain, says a
writer in the London Spectator" We are
Ltold. and we know. that we cannot go TO
sleen unless we are in a quiescent state.
But I think that we do not sufficiently
recognize how much power resides in Us
for chasing away the ideas which as
soon as we lie down in the hope OF rest,
crowd into the brain and keep it awake.
Those suffering from insomnia are apt IN
dienantly to deny hat they possess this
mower. OF course, as for everything else,
practice is required in its exercise; but
some persons nave a wonderful facility
in sleeping at will. The stock remedies
for sloanlessness such as counting sheep