The Jersey City news., 1899-10-14
In Wonan's World.


startling innovation The hostess records
the answers of the guests in book, and
the person who solves most riddles COR
rectly IS awarded a prize-as d consoia-
tion, presume, for dyspepsia.
Although this particular form of enter
tainment is a novelty, those who protest
against guessing as a horror, should re-
member that the idea Of It as a means of
amusement is no new thing and that to
some minds it affords reat delight People
who can remember social life in the lafer
sixties tell US of the great popularity that
riddles had in those days, and am afraid
that in the spelling bees which were so
much the rage afterwards. the hard words
were often little more than a trial Of con-
lecture.
Bad habits Of children give not a little
uneasiness to the mother but II not ac-
centuated by continual reminder they of
ten correct themselves A girl, perhaps,
has grown too fast and is not quite erect;
continual directions, however, to
straighten UP and to throw back her sllol-
ders never yet have been known to cor.
rect the awkward tendency, but rather TO
increase 1t. And 50 the child in endeavor-
ing to throw her shoulder back throws
her stomach forward, the figure and pose
being then made Infinitely worse. A
healthy degree of pride will straighten her
when she gets a little older and attains
to the age OF corsets, when the needed
support will be supplied. In the case Of a
boy who squints his eyes or makes faces,
seemingly without knowledge of the fact,
doctor should be consulted. The rem
edy is never found in continual correct
ing. as this will merely make the child
so self-conscious that the fau1t-if fault
1t beds increased. Awkwardness in
child is often much better for letting
alone. the child being made sensitive in
the extreme by continual reminder Of
his deficiencies.
A professor in one of the many medical
colleges of this city holds that there is
no need of buying and swallowing adver-
tised tonics, because they accomplish no
more than a judiciously selected diet will,
says the Chicago Chronicle" The pro-
fessor says that spinach is richer in iron,
which is the basis of most tonies than
even the yolk of an eggs while the latter
contains more than beef. The ordinary
dish of spinach and poached egg Is a
tonic as potent as one in which iron
forms part, without the harmful eff
feet of other ingredients that enter into
the medicinal compound. Plants imbibe
iron, and it is through them that we
should absorb 1t into our system The
mineral IS present largely In apples, lem
ills, strawberries, white beans, peas, po-
tatoes and most Of the red fruits and
vegetables
Stewed black currants, if taken daily in.
their season, will cure anaema that has
become chronic It Is the experience Of
mariners that while lime Juice is q pania-
tive Of seurvy- potatoes are a specific
Nansen in his voyage on the Fran had
no occasion to resort to the medicine
chest. The concentrated form of all the
fruits and vegetables that his men were
accustomed to eat in Norway was worth
a shipload OF drugs. It is the first in
stance on record of the escape of Arctic
explorers confined on shipboard from the
ravages of scurvy and it was due entirely
to the tonic effect of the food supplied.
The dainty girl according TO the Phila-
delphia sRecord has these characteris-
ties
She does not economics on laundry for
the sake of wearing a gold watch.
She does not find it necessary to bring
out lot of company toilet implements
and display them on her dressing table
when a, visitor is coming.
She does not wear pair of silk stock
ings with bargain shoes, or brocade
gown with a gingham underskirt.
She makes her undergarments from fine
cotton and trims them with simple frills
Of the material, or with an occasional bit
of honest crochet edging by her own
fingers.
She wears boots that are honestly made
from solid leather, and never in the ex-
treme Of fashion
She has dainty skirts in summer Of
linen or inexpensive pongee, trimmed
again with ruffles Of the same, that give
as excellent a stand Off effect as EN-
brcidery. at a third of the cost.
She has winter gowns of serge or cash
mere with flannel shirt waists for every
day warm beaver coat brown.
blue or black. and a neat hat. In the
summer she revels in cotton things in
expensive and always pretty.
She hasn't a single organdie or lawn
made over color in her wardrobe. be-
cause. with her slender purse, the color
could not be silk. and she knows the
tawdry effect of cheap limitations; on the
contrary. she has pletty of pretty mus
Inns, trimmed with ruffles or narrowest
Valenciennes. and several white lawns,
with sashes Of the same material.
She does not despise the India print for
mornings with white collar and cuffs,
white belt and our-in-hand.
She has also crash and duck skirts and
plenty of gingham shirt waists.
She is careful TO have everything she
wears scrupulously clean and whole. there
are no ragged shams to disguise, ana she
is not struck dumb with terror, as some
more smartiy gowned girls we may have
seen, BY an invitation to remain overnight
and share an impending gayety and the
room Of her girl hostess.
People are going about this year with |
extra covers to their watches, cases which |
show the face and appear to be made of
celluloid. They cost only trifie. and |
prevent the weather influencing the
works. a constant difficulty. What with
the differences Of time and climate travel
ing clocks and watches are often source |
of discomfort rather than comfort. A very /
useful contrlvance for hanging upon the