The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-20

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Camping out in the woods for a month,
q week, or even a day, is not much fun
unless you cook your own meals. OF
first Importance is to know how to make
a fire. If you are in a great hurry to
build a fire and only want to use 1t for
one or two occasions. the following is the
best way to go about t:-Pile up stones,
pyramid shape, to a height of about two
feet; then cut a green sapling ~(beeause
a green one will not burn eastlyl, and
rest it against the pile of stones. One
end, Of course, will rest on the ground,
and this end should be weighted with a
big boulder or a pile of small stones,
while the other end should extend about
a foot beyond the pyramid of rocks on
which it is resting. Now hang the boiling
pot or kettle IN the end of the sapling
and build your fire of dry wood just be-
meath. Where you are intending to spend
several days or weeks in one camp a
more elaborate outdoor kitchen can be
arranged without much labor.
First cut two green saplings. about
eight feet high, with crotches at the top
of each. Drive these into the ground
about eight feet apart. Along the top of
these uprights place another sapling held
in place by the crotches. A fourth sapling
is now required, which should be about
five feet long, and with the branches so
Topped off as TO leave a crotch at each end.
One end you hook over the horizontal sap
ling. and on the other end is hooked the
kettle.
When there is a strong wind blowing 1t
is often a good plan to build a sort of
semicircular wall of stones, about eigh-
teen inches high, to windward of the fire.
This helps to concentrate the flames on
the bottom of the kettle, for the flames,
being blown against the stones, are forced
straight upward instead of blowing hither
ana thither and so wasting time and heat
in the cooking.
Sometimes with a roaring fire the heat
is SO intense that in the operation of cook
ing fish in a frying pan, for example,
you feel it is nip and tuck whether your
face or the fish will be cooked first. In
such a case you want to cut Town a long,
slim sapling and split it up for about a
foot or eighteen inches Shove the handle
of the frying pan between the halves and
bind it light with wire. Now drive a short
stick with erotched top into the ground
about three feet from The fire and on its
top rest the long improvised handle of the
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it and relieve you of the weight.
If you are stewing or boiling some por-
ridge. or anything with a lot of milk in
it, you will have to exercise caution not
to let it get scalded or burned. The best
plan is to put a little water in the kettle
and then drop in a few pebbles. On the
top of them rest the stewpan or other re-
ceptacle containing the food you are cook
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ing or scorching.
1t is a wonder to me that the Partisan
woman has any good looks at all, she is
so gullible in regard to beautiiers, re-
marks a foreign correspondent.
Make you beautiful, a~teliers are as
thick on the boulevards as Jersey mos
quitoes on a summer night. They are
also well patronized, for the Frenchwom-
an yearns to be lovely She is the most
charming woman in the world, but sell
6om feaTiy beautiful. The matchless De
Merode and the bewildering Anna Held
were a disappointment to Americans be-
cause Americans are used to pretty wom-
en-. Here they are a novelty, and the
Parisians are duly thankful for them with
a Partisan exuberance that deludes the
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fancying them marvels until they see
them. The fashionable Parisienne is a
mistress of sle chic,' but when you have
summed up her usefulness as a clothes
horse you have only said very little for
her figure, a great deal for her no.
diste's padding and a good deal for her
native wit and taste. Just at present
the women here are daft over the mer-
ftc of Tho rnco ho+J, rr4orn ur11 ora ,aarr
to it claim that it does wonders for the
skin. Fresh roses are taken, dozens of
them crushed and thrown into the bath
water, where they stand for awhile be-
fore being used. There may be magic in
the rose cure. but it is quite probable
that a little rose water in the bath would
be quite as efficient and much cheaper.
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Dolldom has fallen under the eye and the
scalpel of the scientist, and he and his
learned brother, the critic, have lately
made much ado about little girls and their
interest in their dollies. which they per-
sist in regarding in the light of a mys-
terry. A point which gives the learned
men great disquiet is why girls care for
dolls. One sage maintains that because
dolls are very rarely made to look like
babies, that their potential maternal in
stinct has little to do with the case. An
other savant Of equal magnitude deduces
entirely unlike conclusions. It does not
appear to suggest itself to any of these
intellectual headlights that convention
may ave imposed the doll upon the lit
tie girl, when, if left to a free choice OF
toys from early infancy and encouraged
10 outdoor activity and interests beyond
the four walls of home. the small maid
might have been. like her brother, only
an occasional Individual interested in
dolls.
1t is so much the rule to select a doll
for the tsniest girl the fact is ignored
that a habit of doll is ~inculeated in every
girl, and every possible stimulus applied
10 keep her interested in this class of
toy. Give a little girl blocks, whistles,
drums, trains of cars, and tell her only
silly Cissies play with doils-which is the
way boys are taught to look down upon
doll-playfng-and note whether she de-
velops a doll mania. 1t would be safe to
hazard she would do nothing Of the kind.
The tomboy is the natural healthy little
human child, and the one likely to be
the popular ideal in a more enlightened
age, which viii regard with pity the SEN
timental doll-playing little girl that the
conventions Of today exact shall be the