The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-25

church. or working girls home, or home
for convaIescent children The difficulty
is to provide small articles which shall
not be too expensive to find a ready SALE
and which will be q change from the as
pect of "ever-lasting fancy work and
cake the popular notion of a ladies'
fair.
4 supply of silver and silver-gilt veil
clasps is a seasonable novelty. Pretty
belts and buckles are also desirable. No
one really wants umbrella straps, but be-
cause they are small and Inexpensive
they are bought up by the t~houghtless,
and bestowed upon patient relatives and
friends when anniversaries come around.
Envelope openers, emeries and glove
members find ready sale as a rule BIZ
cycle municipalities might achieve popu-
Iarity. A letter scale, a collapsing drink
ing cup. cuff pins and links, and all kinds
of fancy pins are welcome trides.
Among articles made by the piazza girls
are ribbon chatelaines to pin by ones
side "a housewife set, or a mere land
kerchief holder. laundry bags of pink or
blue or buff linen. fancy candle-sticks
s~unbonnets, photograph cases. veil cases,
daintily embroidered in white silk floss on
white linen, handkerchief and glove cases.
A great furore attends the sale of en-
broidered covers for books or magazines
Rich pieces of brocade are generally
used. as they look better than palmer ma
terials. unless velvet is used. Be care
full how you choose your eolors for velvet
covers-no merely fashionable tint will
pass muster here. A crushed raspberry,
sage green, Dewey red (as pomegranite
or Spanish red has been rechristened by
a patriotic upholsterer), or chestnut
brown looks well. Citron yellow and olive
or turquoise blue or the duh, delightful
tone of color known as 'told blue, are al
ways successful in book covers. Fu-ni-
ture guimp is used to bind the stitched
edges. If you cannot get broeade use
manufacturing silks or velvet or moreen
In the colors mentioned above.
Golfers will be glad TO have extra score
cards or a few more golf balls. Baseball
scores and neat little holders for billiard
chalk are among the articles men like to
acquire. Do not forget pretty hat pins
for women, and a few chains of alternate
crystal beads and silver links for the
girls. japanese articles have an assured
sale. Fans trays and umbrellas are not
so much wanted as the genuine kinono
in crepe cotton. You will be sure to sell
these if you are lucky enough to procure
them at a veritable japanese store.
Amateur artists will fashion lamp
shades. candle hades or paint little
sketches on a lady's fan. Soft pillows,
shade hats already trimmed. busters,
scrap baskets and fancy articles for a
lady's toilet table or work basket no
doubt will be duly provided. Some girls
do fine embroidery on linen to initiate
Dresden china. the colorings, of course,
being only blue on white. A quick wit.
a little knowledge and clever fingers can
work wonders in preparing an assortment
of useful and fancy articles for such a
sale
Good air being as necessary during the
night as during the day hours, you should
accustom yourself to sleeping with the
window open, if it be only an inch at the
top. Begin at once. and do not leave off
the habit when the weather grows cold.
Instead Of causing you chills the fresh
air will keep you in health and prevent
you catching many colds which you would
otherwise have.
Water is an excellent drink, but only
when it is pure. Do not use for drinking
purposes water which has stood in your
room ali night. Water takes up all im-
purities of the air. and therefore it
should never be drunk if not quite fresh.
Take a daily bath. If you are strong
enough to indulge in a cold sponging
every morning on rising. you will find II
very invigorating, especially If a little
salt or a tablespoonful Of ammonia be
added to the water. If you feel chilly,
ard q good rub with a rough towel does
not cause a pleasant glow to your skin.
you may be sure that a cold bath is not
good for you. In that case you should
take a lukewarm one. Remember that
though pleasant frequent hot baths are
very weakening.
Never keep soiled linen in your bed
room. If you nave to do so. let the re-
ceptacle be a basket or bag, not a cup
board or drawer. Darkness and ~airless-
ness are favorable to the growth of dis
ease germs, and these are often unknow-
tngiy cultivated witt soiled linen.
To get a plaything for the little folk
tbs is cheap and at the same time sat
isfaetory. invest in a carload of SAM
Have it dumped in some place selected
not only with an eye to its effect on the
landscape, but 10 the advantage of the
children as well; then turn them loose and
see how they will enjoy it, says Good
Housekeeping"
Don't be afraid they will spoil their
clothes. You wrong your child, boy or
girl. If you keep it so dressed that it Is
not at liberty to romp and play in the
Dirt. The o~veralls which so many are SEN
sibly putting on the little boys for their
oitdoo play are an excellent idea; now
dress the little girls in some way to Sc
cure them like f~reedom-but, if you do
not do this, let them still be free to enjoy
themselves on mother earth.
For these mothers who have a horror
of genuine dirt. the sand pile possesses
the virtue of being comparatively clean,
and although it must be confessed that
possibilities for soiling clothes here are
not lacking, 1t is also replete with possi-
biiities for enjoyment and instruction.
1t is no wonder that children like to
play In the sand; is there not a fasclna-
ton in the mobile mass which seems half
solid. half liquid? Wouldn't you like to
be a child for half a day and spend 1t at
that yellow heap about which the little
workers are gathered with a surprising
array of utensils2
For there will soon be a strange con-
glomeration about that sand pile. Old
pals and kettles, tin ans and cups. dip