The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-09
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
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cate not larger feet, but a larger amount
of tina valuable article known as COM
mon sense. The pinching shoe formerly
| worn, some two or three sizes too small.
has ~joined@the hustle, the crinoline and
other follies of the past. When women
took to athletics extensively, first to the
bicycle and then to golf. they found that
the dainty pointed shoe was out of the
question, and adopted the athletic shoe
with the rounded toe, and of a comfort
able size, which their brothers had worn
in their athletic exercise for some time.
Then the women realized that the COM
| fort of the athletic shoe was more de-
| sirable for all occasions than the doubt-
fn1 beauty of the pinching shoe. Dry
goods dealers say that the freedom of
movement needed in athletics is also in
creasing the size of woman's waists. 1t
is not unsafe to predict that fifty years
hence the women in loose, roomy cos
tunes will gaze curiously at pictures OF
the women of a few years ago wondering
what induced them to squeeze themselves
| up as they did.
Beneficial as the change in style of shoe
is, it must not be taken as evidence that
the power of Dame Fashion has at an de-
clined, or that a simple appeal to reason
has suddenly acquired a potency I'M
dreamed of in former times Dress re-
formers had persistently sought for
years, both by precept and by example,
to persuade women to wear the costumes
they are now rapidly adopting; but it was
not until Dame Fashion issued her revo-
~lutionary decree that women should prac-
tice athletics that anything was accom-
plished on a large scale. Then the women
eagerly put on costumes heretofore con-
sidered hideous. Maria Bloomer may be
turning over in her grave at the thought
of the progress she did not live to see;
her cause came to its aid that hat prog
ress became possible.
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To the average child there are two de-
lights so great that the sophisticated man
or woman of the world can hardly COM
prehend the bliss they cause, says "Har-
per's Bazar.'' One is to eat ice cream;
the other, to eat candy. One woman con-
fesses that when she was a small girl,
and was told that heaven was a place
of absolute bliss, she instantly decided in
her own mind that in that place there
would be gallon f~reezers of ice cream al
ways standing open, and that the trees
would bear on their branches, and drop
upon the ground below, thousands of cam
dies.
1t is a pity that an article whose wise
use gives so much pleasure and works SO
little harm as does good candy should
nave been abused until it has become an
evil. Some parents feel that to keep their
children in health they must forbid them
to eat candy at any time, while other par
ents permit it to be devoured in such
quantities that their ignorance can be
their only excuse for the sin of allowing
such Indulgence.
Dentists n physicians unite in the
opinion that pure candy, eaten in proper
quantities and at proper times, can do a
we'll child no harm. Good candy may be
now procured from many dealers, the
purity of whose bonbons has justly won
for them reputation. Let the mother puy
these candies and portion them out to
her little ones, a few at a time, ana
always right after a substantial meal
One mother calls her boys n girls 10
her room every day after their simple put
hearty MONDAY dinner and gives TO eaen
a few simple candies, such as cream pep
permints. chocolate creams and maple
! creams. Nut bonbons are never allowed.
! The children are satisfied with this meth
| cd of taking their goodies, and teeth and
! digestion are not impaired by the prac,-
! flee. of course, if a child is not well
the candy is not allowed, for this mother
! believes more in diet than in drugs.
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"Be sure to allow the big boy of the
family to say just how he wants MS
room" writes Mrs. John B. Sims in an
article on The Sleeping Room on the
FARM in the January Ladies Home
Journal, do not make the mistake OF
putting the boy off with just n OLD
thing; many a boys life has been made
miserable by a constant migration from
one sleeping place to another, winding
! up with a bed on the floor just to make
room for some more important member
ofthe household. Give him a room OF ms
| own. and do not ask him to leave 1t. The
furniture in one boys room whom kno"
is old pax; the old-fashioned OUNCE is
| covered with figured cretonne in brown
and gold; the big easy-chair matches II
The windows have draped curtains OF
| .Iapanese art cloth in dull red and gold
even the ioor-covering corresponds. One
NAV be sure that this boy has bonnie
brown hair and eyes, with cheeks like the
sunny side of a fall peach. That he Is
| orderly we can tell from the arrangement
of his collars and neckties in the tor
drawer of his dresser; that he loves pic
lures. from the small reproductions of the
good ones which adorn the walls. His
grandfather's sword. and his great-grand-
fathers picture, taken with the drum
which beat time for marching feet in 1872
serve as constant reminders to him of his
duty to his home and country, and I'M
consciously he tries to live up to his
heroes"
When the plants are received through
the mail. exercise care to keep them al
fresh as possible, and instead Of layins
i them out in a row for inspection will
the roots exposed to the drying influences
of the air, keep the box or package un
opened until the soil and pots are all ready
for the reception of the plants, says ths
ssWoman's Home Companion" Take thu
plants from the wrapping of moss abou
the roots one at a time, potting them a.
they are taken out. If the plants arriv'
dry and somewhat wilted, which in yer.
warm weather and with careless packing
sometimes occurs, immense the plants
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