The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-07

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WOMAN'S WORLD.

onr winter dollhouse homes, says Dorothy
Maddox in the Philadelphia inquirer
We settle ourselves in them as we set
tie our plants-in pretty healthy eondi-
ton.
Women and plants by the way. have
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 June. Women
and plants have lived in the open air.
But hardly has the first autumn leaf
huttered 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 house
wives are not more alarmed about 1t.
They notice it first in their plants and
they send a postal to the florist to come
and see what the trouble Is.
The florist arrives, looks over the droop-
ing palms and fading blooms, shakes his
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, and also
saws. TOO much furnace heat"
The member of the family who has fall
az, . victim to this American house-heat-
ing habit struggles along for weeks with a
wretched cold and is lucky not to sue
cuub in the end to a genuine attack OF
pneumonia.
slow. but sure are the devitalizing eff
fects on our physical well being.
We who are running with fiabby cheeks
and shriveling skins to the masseuse do
not realize that barrels of cold cream ana
hours of patient rubbing win not remedy
the results of living in rooms charged
with dry. dusty air from registers ana
where ventilation is regarded as a crime
against comfort.
Our 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 SILVER
and shake, order the carpenter to put up
storm windows and turn the cook into a
stoker in. order that the heating appar-
atus down cellar may do away with the
necessity for heavy underwear
overheated houses are as much an AM
erican custom as the ice water habit
7 truly believe the ruddy-cheeked Eng
l,shwoman owes her rosy color to the
nure oxygen she breathes indoors as wen
as out.
NV first experience In an English home
during an early spring gave me about
the most forlorn feeling l nave EVER
known. -
II was like going from India to Iceland
IN leave my well-heated-or, to honestly
stick to my text, my overheated Ameri-
80 hore.for the unwarmed English
fo,,sa where an occasional log sputtered
a,,hfouslv In the gannt freplaces, or a
bandf,,l of Goals blinked sleepily IN q
CRATE not bigger than a coal nod
T saon discovered that a visit to the
axa~sssher set things all right, and wnsn
T@e as snugly clad as the English WON
an found her house temperature posi-
lively refreshing.
~ take up this question of clothes-and
NO usually work around to 1t at last TOT
olo+bes seem to be the beginning anu
40 and of all topics women touch upon
how shall we dress in order to be warm
vat escape that bulky feeling which Is
woman,s aboninationY
- ca=+s ike the mischief to get unoer-
,uear that is thoroughly HYGIENE anu d
- time not clumsy. There are
haavv silk suits that cling ideally to the
aa,,ra and can be Numbered without
shr;rk5nu TO mere shadows of their 1or-
n,ar size. And there are combination
suits galore which give perfect satislac-
lion h,t most Of them are the rich wom-
ans choice alone u
Her sister of moderate means eaHAo
offord them. The cheaper grade OF an
vol garments she probably finds as lrrl-
tat,nq as prickly heat; the half Wool anu
ba1f cotton kind is too bulky; the USE
thread which clings is too cool
e. much for the underwear problem.
sbe nnzzles over it every winter ana heV-
er arrives at a solution until she can pay
well in cold cash for warm comfort.
tsw .shiyery shirt waists left over
from the summer wardrobe should not
he depended upon for the house. ihes
ara rig and neat-looking, but are Only
endn~ahle IN overheated rooms
VIZ m have our shirt waists Oh Frehcn
aannel but there's the cost again, ana
after all what is even such a garment
oomnared to a mans business suit whlcn
he wears indoors?
Again we shiver and shake or-an order
goes below stairs for More heat. rooms
Look at our Isle thread stockings our
low cut shoes. Women tell me they
couldnst get through a winter if they had
10 wear heavy shoes and stockings round
the house.
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
attempt. Each woman must think for
herself. and / advise her TO think seri-
ouslv about this matter, that is, If she
has any desire for health, beauty and
happiness.
Everyone may not know that there IS a
right - well as a wrong way of mending
wintc1 Hannsls. The artistic and only
uropcr method, according to the DE
signer." i 20 cut the worn portions neatly
out aad then kni: with fine wool a square
just a little larger han the piece cut
away. The hole in the garment having
been buttonholed all around with similar
ysool. the patch may then be either
crocheted or sewn in. A patch so made
and applied will not only look very much
az the arfoinaI flannel f,tst will wear