The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-11

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very small plots Of ground, a great many
expedients have to be resorted to In order
to avoid numbering bed and dressing
rooms with furniture thai can be dispens-
ed with. Take, for instance, one Of the
many bedrooms which have no adjoining
dressing room, or, if there be one, its di-
mensions are no larger than those Of al
cupboard, though, being usually built over
| either the front or back part of the pas
| sage that does duty for a hall, it may
| have a window, and, possibly, a tiny fire.
| place.
If set apart for masculine occupation,
it will admit of a wooden rail and row Of
hooks for coats. a washing stand and a
looking glass fixed to the wall over the
fireplace, while the manteI shelf will serve
to hold brushes and combs, and all the
| small paraphernalia of a mans toilet.
Even il there be no mantel shelf, a wood
en- shelf can be fixed on small brackets
under the mirror, and win serve the same
purpose.
When there is no dressing room, space
can be economical in a similar manner.
Very often it is difficult to get in a
dressing table, as well as a chest Of draw
ers and a wardrobe, or a toilet table has
to be very small, and it is necessary to
find a position in a good light for the gen
tleman's shaving glass. But If a nice glass
can be mounted over the mantelpiece, the
shelf can be utilized as a very passable
dressing table, by having a proper linen
cloth laid on it, which is as easily washed
as an ordinary toilet cover, and always
looks clean and dainty. These cloths are
/ much used by French housewives, and are
generally rather less h a yard wide and
two and a quarter yards long. The length
however. must be regulated to some ex-
tent by that of the mantle shelf.
On three sides this cloth is henstitched
that is to say, the two ends and one side
are treated in this manner, and above the
hemstitching, about three inches apart,
lace medallions are placed, and the linen
is cut away from under them. Small
rounds, about the size of the top OF a
cIaret glass, worked In fine crochet, are
very suitable. or sometimes coarse lace
medallions may be met with. Crocnet
rounds done in colored ingram cottons
look remarkably well, and one Of the pest
combinations is to use a red and a piue
one alternately. Linen is the best mater
ial, because it is so much heavier ana
keeps in place better than any cotton TAB
ric, but for safety's sake it is well TO Sc
cure it by a couple of drawing pins hxed
firmly at the back. On this cloth the
brushes, the powder box and pun ana
many other items can be laid down with 9
sense of cleanliness that would not ap-
pertain to any covering that could not pc
removed and washed.
In a very candid and plain-spoken arti-
Gle on The Graciousness of High Breed
ing in the November sWoman's Home
Companion, Ella Morris Kretschmar
makes these pertinent remarks; Men
and women who by contact or travel
know the worlds best society need not pc
told that simplicity and graciousnsss are
the invariable characteristics OF the hlgh-
est breeding. If this fact could only reacn
the minds Of that class of people n tax
of .exclusiveness.' Of four hundreds, OF
the ,vulgarity of trade of not knowing
any one outside of our set, what a CRATE
full social change would be wrought Inat
cold state of the would-be elect IS put
the expression of an underlined. poverty
stricken soul. What is 'exclusiveness9 II
is that human policy which shuts human
beings off from the enjoyment of Their
kind, by which society gains, since an
inharmonious element is thereby removed.
How pathetic is the isolation OF the de-
ermined aristocrat. especially in a small
town where, other stirring interest lack
ing, human relations mean so much
Gould even a divine microscope detect the
difference between the naked souls of q
banker's and a g~rocer's wife? How IN
finitely stupid it is to draw lines in small
places instead of honestly enjoying all
there is to enjoy. If one has had superior
advantages, is there no obligation to give
pleasure, to make sunshine in others
lives because of that good fortune? The
time is at hand when intelligence VIII be
too widespread. progress to a more yigor-
Gus plane Of thinking too real to admit OF
men and women looking askance at one
another to make mental invoice of social,
financial or other probabilities? VIII it
not soon penetrate the dullest brain that
wealth. rank or leadership are powerless
as shields against unhappiness, or as
props to mental, moral or physical def
ciencies; that there is positively no honest
or sensible basis for judging individuals
excepting in~dividuality?"
The art of mending precious pottery
and statuary has long been an interest |
ing one. and one that has been followed
with more or less success; but it is not
until recently that it attracted particular
attention, through the work of a Boston
girl who makes a specially of repairing
all sorts Of porcelain,e statuary, fine cut
glass and precious pottery In one year
she patched up $500, 600 worth of fragile
ware, and as she got nearly 10 per cent.
on the value of the goods redeemed, it
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