The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-20
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onial mahogany, as he wanted to have one
such piece in his house, and | declined
to do so until / had explained to him the
cost, said a scenic artist. whose house
is one of the show places. in a town near
New York. II knew that his furniture was
oak and upholstered stuff, and that just
so sure as he placed with it a good ex-
ample of Did mahogany his troubles would
begin. The mahogany would kill his oak
and in course of time would mean the
refurnishing of his house.
.sHis was a case of ignorance being
bliss and I did not propose to upset his
household. I have seen the old mahog-
any disease work its way into many
households, and in many cases the re-
suits have been disastrous. Talk about
having a mortgage on your house. Why,
that is nothing compared to the annoy
ance of finding that you have a lot OF
modern oak furniture on your hands, too
good to throw away, when you have
once begun to collect old pieces. 1t has
taken me nearly ten years to live down
a collection of oak furniture which / made
in st. Louis. and which has hung over me
liz the shadow of a great sorrow
IT was boarding in ST. Louis and doing
work on a big production, when my wife
and I decided that we didn't like boarding,
and that we would try housekeeping had
no time to spend in looking for a house. SO
we took the first one that we could find.
We spent just one afternoon in furnishing
it comcietely-dishes. draperies, rugs, car
pets, and an outfit of very new oak furni-
ture. The result was just what might have
been expected. Our house looked like a
Grand Rapids showroom. We moved to
New York. leaving behind as much of our
oak furniture as we could, but when wegot
settled here we found around us a lot OF
il which was too good to give away and
which we could not sell.
IT had picked up by that time a few old
pieces of mahogany, and the more l
studied them the more l dispised my oak
Then l built my house and was forced
to move some of those pieces into it. /
have been crowding them out by degrees
ever SINCE, however, and now l haven't
got one modern oak piece left. In the
meantime 1 have watched friends struggle
with their modern furniture after they
have picked up an old piece or two, and
their troubles have been like mine
when my friend asked me yesterday
to select an old piece for him | told him
what I nave told you, and I said that II,
after thinking it over for a week, he still
wanted to make the plunge. / would help
him. He will probably want to begin on
an old chest of drawers, for that is usu-
ally the opening wedge, and then old met
al andirons. tables with claw feet and
corner cabinets will follow, ending will
chairs. and the latter will keep him poor
for the rest of his life. It's like he's opium
habit and you can't shake it off,
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In health. as a rule, to live generously
is to live wisely, says Harper's sBazar.'
A dish which includes a variety of di-
gestible articles of food supplies a reserve
fund which enables the system to meet
emergencies, and to avoid the possibility
of physiological bankruptcy" Hippo
crates observes that "a very slender and
restricted diet is dangerous to persons
in health, because they bear transgress-
ions OF, it with more dificulty."A sound
digestion seems to possess. within certain
limits. a capacity for adapting itself to
circumtances-at any rate, for the time
being. When taxed beyond endurance, like
1.-The whirligig of time" it works its re-
venges."
Another fallacy is that we SHOULD eat
what we do not like; or, as many Unhappy
children are taught, 1--WE must eat what Is
good for us, whether we like it or not.
In other words. we must disohey the in
stinct whereby nature protects our idi-
osyncrasies. Even poor Richard, who is
generally so sensible-and who is by no
means am ascetic-enjoins his reader:
"Wouldst thou enjoy a long life, a healthy
body, and a vigorous mind, and be ac-
quainted also with the wonderful works
of God, labor in the first place to bring
thy appetite to reason" Gas if the physical
laws of life are to be ignored), and bids
him ''eat for necessity, not pleasure"
A healthy appetite Graves and digests the
food material which the system requires.
If we know that in infancy milk is essen
tial to the human organism, because be-
fore the age of six months, or there
abouts, the physiological machinery" is
not prepared for the digestion of starchy
foods; that in childhood sugar and starch
and fat are required to supply the ele-
ments especially needed for growth; that
in youth bread and meat in abundance
are necessary to meet the increasing de-
mands which development imposes On
the constitution; that in mature life, when
the brain is most exercised, digestible
phosphate salts are needed to repair
wasted tissue; that in old age less food is
required, and bread, as the -nonogenarian
Sir Isaac Holden asserted, renders the ar
teries like furred beilers"-if we find, in
brief that every period and condition of
life has certain exigencies in which reason
must take instinct for her guide-we
should listen to the voice of instinct, re-
alizing that the appetite is subject to a
'law Of its own" This law does not in
volve the fallacy that instinct is not to be
trained or disciplined; it only requires
that the function of instinct be given due
recognition. In the words of Shakespeare
we should let good digestion wait OF APP
petite. and health ON both"
options and buckles are both worn by
women. but must have a reason for their
being. either as objects of use or decora-
ton; they are INST to ne put on at hap
hazard, given something to apparently
hold in place. says the Ladies' Home
Journal The jeweled buttons may be
found to match almost any gown, as they
are made to represent amethysts. carbun-
cles, emeralds, turluoises, opals, sap
pEires, crystals. etc. The one-sided blouse
fronts fasten with four such buttons. aud