The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-08
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WOMAN'S WORLD.

physical culturists lecture until weary
about the Ugly protuberant abdomens, dis
placed viscera, and strained nerves. TIT
cause lies in Nhe narrow toed, high heeled
shoes to which women have been slaves
since the time of the C~rusades. 1t hurts
to walk properly, unless all corns are re-
moved, smooth stockings assumed, ana
broad toed shoes worn from that moment
on. A badly darned stocking is like a tack
in the shoe. Weak ankles should be rested
every day by placing a pillow over the IN
step as one lies face downwards on a
lounge. Salt and water massage is good.
and the gymnasium teacher advises walk
ing, whenever possible, upon tip-toes; this
can be done in ones room or when work
ing about the house.
Very soon, with rest, exercise, cleanli-
ness. and m care, these patient
little slaves, which we Systematically
neglect, although we depend so much on
them, will reward US with renewed
strength.
1.-The common opinion that factory dis
tricts are necessarily ugly and uninviting
has usually led residents of those districts
to accept the existing conditions as inev-
table, writes E. l.. Shuey, in the
March "Woman's Home Compan fon, > cit
ing a notable instance to the contrary.
Yet it is an interesting fact that a fac
tory and a factory community in one of
our middle western cities has done more
than any other institution or section to
illustrate what may be done by unity of
effort, and by the simple use of those
vines and shrubs which may be culti-
waited in every locality. A few years ago
it was as %uninviting as any similar place,
but now it has vines and flowers and
gardens in every corner; front and back
yards. fences and walls, windows, door,
ways and verandas show the pleasing
characterization of green foliage. How was
this accomplished? First, the owners of
the factory cleared up their own grounds
and planted vines and shrubs everywhere
possible. This example of neatnes was
followed by many householders in the
district. Then a few public-spirited ones
united in an organization, each member
of which was not only to make his own
grounds beautiful, but was to induce at
least two others to do the same.
THE rules followed in planting were:-
1. Open lawn cen~ters-1eaving the lawn
clear for a good view. o. Planting in
masses along the borders. 8. Planting in
curves rather than in straight lines. Add
to these rules the precept that fences are
unsightly and SHOULD be covered with
foliage; that walls and porches should be
made picturesque by vines, and that the
rear yard should be kept in as good con-
dition as the front. The association ex-
tended an invitation to the people of the
whole community 10 join the movement,
and it grew rapidly. It soon became
popular to plant vines and shrubs and
cultivate flowers. The employment of
such vines as the -morning-gIory. moon
flower, wistaria, ivy, trumpet-creeper and
| -honeysuckie, and of shrubs like spiraea,
deutzia, wiegala, barberry and others
has completely changed the appearance
of a neighborhood tina was formerly dull
and uninteresting."H
1t was the best regulated family ever
knew of, say the Cincinnati Inquirer
| h not pretend to say that it was the
~happiest, for of that I do not know, but
it was the most orderly. Everybody and
everything was in the proper place at the
proper time and not n bit of ~wrangling
or strife was ever heard of by the neigh
bors, who took a more han ordinary in
terest in the remarkable household. The
family consisted of the father, mother
and one daughter, a sweet, cheerful miss,
who, when I knew her, was about fifteen
years of age. She was the ruler of the
house, the darling of both parents, but
in 40 way spoiled by the affection be-
slowed upon her.
Stranger than the perfect peace and
tranquility that peryaded the home was
the fact that husband and wife lived EN-
tirely separate lives and never exchanged
a word. 1t was the talk of the locality
that they had not spoken to one another
for more than ten years.
"Why?" I could not help asking my in
formant. He told me in mis- own way,
making a rather long story of it. and re-
vamping a great deal of local history,
that they married after a brief courtship
and found, when too late. that their tenn
peraments were u~ncongenial. They sim
ply could not get along together.
But why did they not separator"
well, you see, there was the child.
They were both devoted to it and neither
could be reconciled to the idea of parting
Lfrornit. Each understood the others love
for the little girl, and SO they determined
to forego a legal separation. They were
not jealous of their baby's love and
neither tried to poison it's mind against
the other. 1t was the one thing that held
them together. And as she grew this
came to be more and more the case, I'M
til now, fully conscious of the influence,
she exercises it with a cheerfulness, a
sweetness and a tact that make her in
deed the mainstay of the household.
When they breakfast, for instance, the
father will say: Please tell your mother
[ should like another roll or perhaps the
mother will remark: Ask your father II
he will not have another cup of coffee
I'm all things she is the authorized In
terpreter and she alone is responsible for
whatever of peace and happiness there is
in that house. I don't know what would
be the result if anything should happen
to her, but I am sure that if she lives
she will one day bring about a happy
reconciliation"
Some of the corsets seen in the shops
are extremely costly, One. a coInbina.
ton of white brocaded satin, val lace ant
rhinestone clasps, is marked $40, and Il
intended for a bridal rousseau. Another
is of black silk plentifully besprinkle,
with tiny golden polka dots; this is 1aces
with yellow ribbons. Still another is .
Roman striped silk deliberately trimnne'
with fine lace, as gay a bit of lingerie a.
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