The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-13

generate INTO SnrlllneSS, oI even Suucoh
mess. For all-around, everyday use a
voice pitched low rather than high has
the best wearing qualities.
49,
1t seems a shame to connect thoughts
of poison with. for instance, such delicate
and lovely things as that baby of the
flowers, the snow-drop, as the narcissus
with its delicious breath, as the hyacinth
and the jonquil, says Harper's Bazaar"
But one is obliged to see to it that chill
dren do not put the bulbs of these flow
efs into their mouths. The oxalis also
is not a safe thing to put between the
! lips; and all the lobelias will produce
dizziness and general disaster. The
monk's-hood, too, and the beautiful fox
glove as well, are noxious affairs from
which powerful drugs are obtained, more
than a few drops of their extracts being
usually a fatal dose. Certain of the GRO
cuses, if eaten, even If nothing be sWal-
lowed but the juice will produce vomit-
ing; the bulb of the intricately beautiful
lady's-slipper poisons externally as the
noxious ivy, dogwood, and sumach do;
the quaint old acknowledgements, although
! not a garden plant, is another enemy to
health and life; and SO also is the marvel
lous Queen Anne's lace, which now and
then will creep in through the paling,
and looks so enchanting when far ana
wide it embroiders field and roadside.
The laughing little buttercup, that might
be a drop of visible sunlight, is by no
means as innocent as it looks; the COW in
the pasture knows enough to avoid 1T;
that, and all its cousins, the rich pro-
fuse paeonies, the dazzlingly blue lark
spurs and the rest, are full of toxic prop
critics. The oleander tree, that is set out
doors when spring comes and that lines
the streets of our various Southern cities,
is another i've of deadly poison. The SUI
perb catalpa tree, towering with its great
leaves and its masses of white and fra
grant flowers, is a charming thing in the
garden, but Its bark is exceeding injuri-
Gus; and the laburnum, that looks like
a fountain of gold leaping into the sun, is
poison in leaf and flower and seed; and
even the grass beneath it is best thrown
away when cut, instead of being fed to
cattle.
The time seems to have gone by when
girls evolved any fresh ideas. 1t would
not matter much if they were sometimes
foolish; it is good for is all to be occa-
sionaIly silly, because it helps to make
us. m natural; but, unfortunately, even
silly new ideas do not seem to be forth
coming. And this can only be attributed
to the unimaginativeness of modern girls.
Month after month, season after season,
goes by without our ever having made the
slightest endeavor to relieve the regular
routine of daily life. Weddings used
awhile since to exercise feminine ingenu-
ity to a great extent. Every bride was
fired with ambition to have some novel
feature at her wedding; she sometimes
allowed herself to wander a little too far
into the realms of the f~anciful. Now, now
ever, brides seem content to just wear
orthodox attire, and have the orthodox
number of attendants in fashionable garb.
They sigh for no effects and so no.
body bothers to suggest them. Again,
hostesses no longer seem. eager to find
novelties in the way of amusements Nor
their guests; and no one apparently
takes the trouble to invent any new meth
cd of killing time and creating diversion.
We can think back on the times when
feminine world was always being ruled
by some new idea, presumably-nay, as
suredly, conceived by women. But now-a-
days we seem to have laughed and edu-
O%S
Gated ourselves out of everything.
Here's an odd idea put forth by a com
mentator.
Do you agree with him?
Every age has its own style of face
and features, due possibly to the fash
ions of the, day, which impress them
| selves even in the expressions of the
human c~ountenance," he says. No one
who studies modern portraiture can fail
to note the resemblance that runs
through the works of the fashionable
painters.
"It is not merely their characteristic
style. but the Y p which they have
transferred to canvas, and which almost
borders on saneness.
'"These weTl-born, carefully trained
beauties of today are as much alike as
peas in one pod. They only vary in de-
grees.
"Of course the artist sidealizes;' he
would not be an artist did he not find
more in the face before his easel than
the sitter sees when she gazes in the
mirror. or her family and friends may
detect in daily familiarity.
..All the sumptuous detail of costume
also auQS u the NditStJ
but in pose, in expression, there Is trace
/ able only this one woman OF the emo
of the century, a creature OF superb
physique, clothed like a royal princess.
Compare her with the pictured woman
of 100 or 200 years ago and see how alto
gether changed is this eternal feml-
nine.' In fifty years time there will be
produced another beauty but one ven
lures to predict it will have as great
sameness as the beauty which commands
our admiration in the portrait exhibit
lions OF the present day, and whlch
shows that fashionable painters are
slaves to their subjects will"
1t is. a good mistress that makes a good
servant. i've heard folks say muttered
an old fashioned cook whose querulous
and faultlinding mistress had goaded her
into disrespect.
This is a wise saying which IS seldom
considered, but which contains CONSIDER
IDLY more than a grain of truth. Many a
good and capable domestic might be evoi-
we'd out of Intelligent raw material II the
EMPLOYERS were patient and capable on
their side; and many good servants are
1 lost to the world because they have mad
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