The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

In Woman'S World.


!, spond to the question, it was particular
to see that every one was represented.
The poorest and the richest were given
an equal opportunity to express their sem
timent. Out of 500 replies received, sew
en- gems were selected, as follows
/. Home-A world of strife shut out, a
world of love shut in.
2. Home-The place where the small are
great and the great are small.
8. Home-The father's kingdom, the
! mothers world and the child's paradise.
A.. Home-The place where we grumble
the most and are treated the best.
5. Home-The centre of our affection,
round which our hearts best wishes
wine
6. Home-The place where our stomachs
get three square meals daily and our
hearts a thousand.
Z. Home1The only place on earth where
the faults and failings of humanity are
hidden under the sweet mantle of charity.
In general. every answer pictured 1t as
something beautiful. The rich man loved
it because it was a place where he could
cast off the stiffness of f~ornality and
caste and enjoy life as his natural senses
dictated. TIL poor man portrayed it as
| a haven of rest and comfort, where he,
found rest for his tired body and content
ment for his heart. Those in moderate
circumstances agreed with the extreme
above and below them. There is a good
lesson in this subject, for occasionally
one finds a pessimist who can see none OF
the beauties of a home. The man is not
poor who possesses a home and a happy
family or happy surroundings.
49,
Do children hin before they can talk?
Professor Ribot, the great French psy-
c%hologist, says that they do. denying the
old fashioned notion that we must think
in words or not at all. He bases his con-
c~lusion, says a recent article in Persons
Weekly on the systematic study of the
children Of scientific men who have re-
corded the growth of their intelligence
step by step.
He cites the case of the child of Preyer.
aged thirty-one weeks. Preyer was a
famous student, writer and scientist. His
ties, water jugs and other transparent
vases. with white contents; it had thus
seized upon a characteristic mark Of. one
thing that was important to it, to wit,
milk. AT a later period it designated
THESE py the SyltdDie fnOfH.
Another illustration is that of a boy,
aged less than one year and incapable of
p~ronouncing a single word, to whom a
stuffed grouse was shown with the word
bird uttered to identify it. The child
Immediately looked across to the other
side of the room where there was a
stuffed owl.
Another child, having listened first
with its right ear, then with its left. to
the ticking Of a watch, stretched out its
arms g~leefully toward the clock OF the
m~antelpiece.
Darwin related these observations of
his grandson:-"The child, which was just
beginning to speak. called a luck 'quaek, :
and by special association it also called
water 'quack.' BY an appreciation Of the
resemblance of qualities it next extended
the term squack' to denote all birds and
insects on the one hand and all fluid sub
stances ON the other. BY a still more del
cafe appreciation Of resemblance the child
eventually called all the coins 'quaek, be-
cause on the back of a French sou it had
once seen the representation of an eagle"
Preyer says Of one Of his children that
it was impossible to take away one of his
n~inepins without it being discovered by
the child, while at eighteen months he
knew quite well whether one of his ten
animals was missing or not. Yet this is no
proof that he was able to count up to nine
or ten.
AT seventeen months Preyer's child.
which could not speak a word, finding
that it was unable TO obtain a piaything
placed above its reach in a cupboard,
looked about to the right and left, found
a small travel ng trunk, took it, climbed
mp and possessed itself of the desired OBJ
ject. Here there is certainly an element
of invention.
sHaH way between Munich and Salz-
burg is the third observation-disclosures
built by Ludwig H." writes Professor ].
II. Gore in the July Ladies' Home
Journal"
s'This great structure is incomplete, for
tunately for overtaxed Bavaria, for no
one could surmise what its cost would
have been. One room ~alone-the renown-
ed Northumberland not be duplicated
for less than a million dollars. The
vauited ceiling is one great ~allegorical
painting. the rounded cornice is covered
with a score of richly framed mural
painting, the walls are panels of ham
mered gold of intricate designs, and even
the floor is of a marvellous pattern. the
only suggestion of the purpose Of this
wonderful room is the straightforward dol
lar bed with its canopy more magnificent
than any that covers a regal throne In
the gorgeous dining room he had erected
a disappearing table, which dropped
through the floor when a course was fin
ished. and in its place came up another.
set and served. He desired this SO that
servants would be unnecessary in the
room and the most secret State matters
could be discussed in safety. Many peo-
pie sought in vain to see the famous
room at Herrenchiemsee. Once an actress
pleased Ludwig so much by her recitation
that she thought it an opportune moment
to request permission to see his most
poetic bedchamber.' She was coolly dis
missed for her effrontery, and the SER
wants were ordered to furnigate the room
in which she had been received"
On arising in the morning the eyes
should be bathed gently in cold water
twenty passes are said to be decidedly
strengthening. says Harper's Bazaar"
While using them closely they should be
rested at intervals of an hour or two. for
the strain of constant reading or sewing
is like that of extending the arms at a