The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-22
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WOMAN'S WORLD.


The girl who has a brother has not
only a constant source ~of.supply for neck
ties. studs and collar buttons, but she has
a constant and unflinching critic, says the
Puritan
She has NOT only an escort who is
obliged to be more or less at her~beck ana
call, but she has an always ready antidote
fer overdoses of hattery.
She has mot only a natural and con-
tinl4ous bringer in of admirers-we all
know that Lizette's sadorers are explained
away as ssBrother Franks friends but
she has a perpetually open dictionary by
which to understand said admirers.
When a brother. with the awful frank
ness the relationship permits, remarks
N.Y., You're red as a beet" the nut
brown maid of the next masculine conner
is not likely 10 have the baleful influences
ii might have had but for the previously
administered antidote. When a brother,
with all the brutal force that is in him,
says to one. after what she considers a
particularly vivacious evening: Say,
what made YOU so hysterical tonightY
lie fattery on her airy style Of conversa-
ton which preceded the fraterpal critic
Ism is generally ceuBteracted.
A brothers agreeable comment. You
had on a regular dying calf look when
yau were talking to Slushersi' may be vul-
gar and may strain the family relations
to the verge of breaking, but it is a mar
Vicious %enlightener as to how one really
appears VIXEN she thinks she is being a
good deal like a aBufne-Jones picture Tor
the aesthetic Slusher's delight. And q
frank Louise, you were dreadfuly rude
aad ill-brsd TO Mason" gives one an i'm
partial view Of ,0neis attempts at repar-
tee and badlnage, which IS as s~alutary
as il is d.sagreeable.
But 1t is not only BY direct criticism
that brothers save their sisters from
snares and pitfalls. It is when they inn
aaIne themselves TO be least concerned
with the elllightment and education OF
their womankind hat they do the best
work in those directions.
Neither is the value of s~isterly criticism
to be underestimated by the h~ghtzmiad-
ed. One has Only to study the sisteriess
young man to realize how great It IS
The sisterless young man is probably
wearing flowing red neekties because he
thinks he has IN artistic soul and loves
pure color. Or he is wearing green ones
in bland ignorance of the effect of green
upon his complexion, because he thinks
he Is an aesthte n loves subdued color
Or he is wearing etring ties of the vim
tage of 1887. when every properly s~sistered
man knows that those of 1889 spread at
the ends in a way undreamed two years
ago.
The sisterless man talks too much or
too little. He either flows dulcetly on in
a fashion which shows that he has never
heard a rude, unweleoMe ron. do shnt
up. Bob. from womar,s lips, or he is
mute after the manner of the oyster, and
Of those to whom. 1t has never been said:
GOOD gracious, can't you wake up and
talk a little?"
sis5erless youths take their own opin-
Ions with amazing seriousness. They sit
In the seat of the instructive and dis
course on what they know and believe
and think. They regard their criticisms
az the final settlement Of all debated
questions. They have never heard in dull
Get feminine tones: Why. Arthur, aren't
You over 1872 That is the age when the
critical faculties are at their best. you
know. and yours are in such excellent
condition."
There is nothing quite so ~blighting to
ali forms of youthful affection as the
jeeEs of a contemporary of the opposite
sex. And it is only a brother or a sis
ter who is willing to risk a temporary
loss of favor by supplying those jeers:
Hence it is; except in rare cases. only
the brothered and the sistered who have
learned to some degree 10 keep their af-
dections in allegiance.
There is just as great a chanee for Ill
ness and disease in being too warmly
clothed as in being insufficiently gar
mented. The child whose head IS moist
with perspiration from an oversupply
of flannel has it's vitality weakened and
its resistance to colds considerably les
sened.
To keep the bodysin normal condition is
the object. Be neither too warm nor too
cold. Turn on all the steam radiators If
you will, but see to 1t that there is good
ventilation in the house and that the air
is never heavy and foul. else you win soon
find yourself in an -~erervated, headaehy
state that is neither hsealthful nor coldu-
Give to beauty. 1t is a fact undiSputed
that every autumn and spring when the
changes in house heating take place the
list of sick folk stretches out like an
endless chain. IT is a difficult matter to
regulate ones clothing to the fluctuations
Of tickle weather, and the body is in per-
feet condition for any sort of disorder.
This is particularly true of children. At
the first cold snap heavy lannels, instead
Of medium weight ones, are put on the
little youngsters. Then the steam heat
begins and the summer takes a new lease
of life. and we have a few clustering days
during which the little people simply
swelter. They get warm, then cool. and
the result is a sick baby and endless
hours of anxiety, perhaps the like Of
which no mother wishes TO go through
4 second time.
In the matter of clothing it IS too fire.
ouently the case that one wears gar
ments altogether too warm for the house
and not warm enough for out of doors.
Often the winter garments are really
heavier than they are warm.
1T Is an effort 10 carry around heavy,
cumbersome clothing.
Few of US who are not endowed with
a goodly supply of shekels can afford silk
undergarments, SO we will not consider
them.
A good cotton or a thin merino william
swer nicely. II one can be warm with
out the long sleeyed vests all well and
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