The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-08
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
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our winter dollhouse homes, says Dorothy
Maddox in the Philadelphia inquirer
We settle ourselves in them as we set
tie our plants-in pretty healthy condi-
tion.
Women and plants by the way nave
been carefully cherished all summer in
order to build them up for the coming
cold weather.
..Fresh air. fresh air. has been the cry
since the beginning of Jun Women
and plants have lived in the open air.
But hardly has the. first autumn leaf
Suffered to the ground before they are
hustled indoors and subjected to a heat
that saps away their stored-up vitality
The change is a gradual one, to be sure.
That's the reason our alternating mousse
wives are not more alarmed about IL
They notice 1t first in their plants and
they send a postal to the florist 70 come
and see what the trouble Is.
TIL florist arrives, looks over the droop-
ing palms and fading blooms snakes ms
head ana diagnosis their failing health as
too much furnace heat
Then he carts them off to a plant sam
tarium. where they may possibly revive
away from the parching air OF a furnace
heated house.
The next hurry call is for the doctor.
He comes in, shakes his head, ana aso
saws TOO much furnace heat
The member of the family who has 1ail-
ar . victim to his American house-neal-
ing habit struggles along for weeks with d
wretched cold and is lucky not 10 sue
eurab in the end to a genuine attack OF
pneumonia.
slow. but sure are the devitalizing ef-
fects on our physical wei being.
we who are running with fiabpy cneeks
and shriveling skins to the masseuse &c
na+ realize that barrels Of cold cream ana
hours of patient rubbing win not remedy
tba results Of living in rooms charged
with dry. dusty air from registers anu
wbere ventilation is regarded as a CRIME
against comfort.
O,,r clothes are unreasonable. We are
as undressed as we are overheated. we
stick on a himsy frock, discard whenever
we get a chance heavy calfskin walking
boots for low-cut slippers, then we shlyer
and shake. order the carpenter TO put up
storm windows and turn the cook INTO d
stoter in. order that the heating appar-
arms down cellar may do away with the
necessity for heavy underwear.
ovarbeated houses are as much an AM
erican custom as the ice water habit.
7 tru,v believe the ruddy-cheeked Eng
,,sbwoman owes her rosy color to the
IN oxygen she breathes indoors as wen
as out. ~ uo
NV FIRST experience in an English nome
during an early spring gave me ABOUT
the most forIorn feeling / have ever
known. 1ao,.rd
II was like going from india to Iceland
leave NV well-heated-or, to nonestly
st;ck to my text, my overheated amer
- bone-for the unwarmed Engilsn
rouse. where an occasional log spa'lefeu
d,,bfnislv in the gaunt freplaces' OF q
bsnaf,1l of Goals blinked sleepiiy IN
arota not bigger than a coal noa-
g,on discovered that a visit 10 the
,a.a-s.sha set things all right, and wnsh
as snugly clad as the Enghsn "oin
found her house temperature posi-
lively refreshing.
r. take up this question of clothes-ahu
ue usually work around to It al ias'
oio+bes seem to be the beginning an
tra end of all topics women touch upon-
how shall we dress in order to pc "arii'
-. oso,ne that bulky feeling which Is
wonan,s a~boninationg
= casts like the mischief to get unaei-
80 that is thoroughly hygiene anu a.
the same time not clumsy Ihere -
Eaa,v s;lk suits that cling ideally 10 ene
60 and can be Numbered wlthoul
ahrirk;nv 70 mere shadows OF their lot
ei1e And there are combination
s1,i+s Galore which give perfect satlsiae-
-. INT most of them are the rlcn Wom-
ans choice alone
uar sister of moderate means eanarol
a~araf+bem. The cheaper grade OF al
a-ao1 garments she probably finds as irri-
.ats.r az nrickly heat; the half wool ana
half cotton kin is too BULKY
thread which clings is too COOL
e. much for the underwear proDiein'
nnvrles over it every winter and new
er arrives at a solution until she can pa'
well in cold cash for warm comfort
fsw .shivery shirt waists ieis oSel
from the summer wardrobe shouid u
he depended upon for the house. ines
arc trig and neat-looking, put are ons
endurable IN overheated rooms.
We N have our shirt waists OF ffencn
Aannel. but there's the cost again. anu
after all. what is even SUCH a garment
comnared to a mans busines suit "nich
he wears indoors2
Again we shiver and shake or-an order
goes below stairs for More heat rooms
chilly" rr
look at our Isle thread stockings our
,ow cur shoes. Women tell me they
couldnst get through a winter II they nao
IN wear heavy shoes and stockings rouho
the house 49,,
But there-I should have to beg OF my
editor the loan of the entire paper II |
attempted to balance our dress and our
furnace follies-
! am not even going to make such an
etfemnt. Each woman must think for
herself. and / advise her TO think seri-
o,,slv about this matter, that is, II she
has any desire for health. beauty ana
happiness.
Everyone may not know that there - q
right IS well as a wrong way OF mendine
winter Hannels. The artistic ana only
uroper method, according to the DE
sfgner.' Is 10 cut the worn portions neatly
ont and then kni. with fine wool a squars
iust a little larger than the piece cu'
away. The hole in the garment having
been buttonholed all around with similar
yooI. the patch may then be either
erocheted or sewn in. A patch so made
and applied viii not only look very mucf