The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-01
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
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Have furs fixed this late? Nonsense!
Wait until next winter. 1t is entirely too
near spring.
The fair owner of the furs looked de-
cidedly crestfallen, says Dorothy Maddox
in the Philadelphia inquirer"
do you mean to say, Mary Ann, that
you really think winter is over?'
Practically" was the airy response.
We'll I neveri Why, I have ever so
many schemes thai fully intended carry
ing out, all of them winter schemes and
you sit here in cold blood and talk about
next winter
IT should say so. I thought everybody
with any progressiveness had nothing
much to do with winter after the holidays.
1 am sure / never have. This blessed
minute there is a seamstress sewing away
for dear life in my sewing room and every
thing she has under way belongs to spring
n summer. 1 used to fuss over the
house and my clothes and buy and buy
right up to the 1st of March and the
things l bought belonged to cold weather.
I found other women getting ahead of me
in their spring and summer plans so /
just dropped all that dawdling and now l
am among the first to get my matters
Strengthened and when the pleasant days
come instead of being cooped up in an old
sewing room l can get out of doors. l am
crazy always over real springy sunshine,
the kind with a warm sort of melt in it."
Here we nave the whole matter in a
nutshell. 1t is true scant recognition is
given, except, perhaps, by a few out
siders, to the weeks intervening between
New Years Day and the first spring
month.
They merely tide over seasons. What
has been done for winter comfort, either
about the house or with the winter cos
TUNES, is supposed to be nicely out of the
way by the middle of December. This
leaves a clear field for the great mid
winter festival and when it is well over
we turn as naturally as possible to adj
vanced hints for spring and summer
They come each year a little earlier
than last and by following them they help
us physically and financially. The truth
of such a statement can be tested any
day by going to the organdie counter
where women are found hanging adoring-
iy over soft tinted frabrics and buying
right and left. And later by seeing these
women taking the exercise that is SO nee
cessary.
1t is a mighty good idea to gallop way
ahead of the season, especially if the
mother of a lot of girls. The small maiden
is a very particular miss, and she needs
so many little garments to keep her from
being a warm weather nuisance.
Spring is enervating. We have days and
days when listlessness must sbe fought,
golden days spent in the house when ones
whole being cries out to be released from
treadmill duties.
The thought that hours so precious are
ours to spend as we please, the thought
that spring l~aziness may be pampered is
actually soul uplifting.
So many days last spring / met women
happy as larks because they could get out
II doors. During the dismal days of late
winter and early spring they had gotten
7sirough with piles of sewing and were
lsady when fine weather came for strolls
trough sweet scented lanes and along
c Intry roads lined with budding foliage.
great many women are like children
over spring time beauties-and when the
warmer days come they revel in a liberty
which gives time for selfish indulgences,
a liberty that unfinished garments puts
out of the question.
There is no longer an excuse for dilly
dallying. The major part of the ward
TOD6 To DG WOIn III IlluSI weather may
be completed by the time we have had
our last snow storm.
During the twelve months there is but
one really .'forehanded' season. We can
not plan in the summer for fall and win
ter. If we could we would not care to.
There is no particular incentive
And this is why a tour of the sewing
rooms will find in nine of every ten.snug-
IT, n Ir0ccx y VIC rat1ffin.
garments from material bought as last
summer was waning or goods that APP
pears in the first flush of it's career as a
novelty.
1t is all very satisfactory, and the more
thought given to it the more one is in
clined to let these last days of winter
take care of themselves and utilized pass
ing hours in preparing for the witching
days to come.
IN the trend toward perfection which
we nope n believe we are making in
these closing years of the nineteenth
century, we women are becoming more
and more alive to the fact of the impor-
lance that attaches to our understanding
-or Observation-Disclosures the science
of housekeeping.
Far from thinking it one of the easiest
of all occupations, one for which nc
learning or training was required, as it
"came naturally" to women's hands Qike
the bringing-up of childrenD, we are now
so far imbued with magnitude of its scope
and depth as to see hat domestic econ
omy must be ingrained in the mind while
the girl is young; also, if she is to develop
skill in cooking she must study chemistry,
or, if she is to become the kind of nurse
on whom a physician can rely as his aide
de- camp, she must know the physiology
as well as the pathology of disease.
In the same way a housewife-who is in
turn often called upon to embrace in her
own person the characters of nurse,
and general handy woman, knows the
value of some practical understanding of
sanitation when her house is suspected of
being faulty in construction, or an acci-
dent occurs.
One of the greatest sanitarians and
wisest physicians has said: 1.-THE whole
work of prevention waits and waits until
the woman takes it up and makes it
hers. . = . 1t is in those million centres
tina we call the home that sanitary sci
ence must nave its true birth. 1t is from
those centers that the river of health
must rise. We men may hold our con-
crosses year after year, decade after de-