The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-27
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in no other way have been explained by
the fingers as a vehicle. In handing
money. especially Of paper, d~oorknops'
banisters. car straps and a hundred Things
that everyone must frequently touch there
are chances innumerable of picking up
eerms Of typhoid, scarletina, diphtherla,
small-pox. etc. Yet some persons even
mt money and the like in their mouths
! Before eating or touching that which Is
eaten the hands should be Immediately
and ~scrupulously washed. We hear much
about general cleanliness as next to god
liness." 1t may be added that here in
particular it is also ahead of health and
safety. The Jews made no mistake IN
that except they washed they ate not
1t is a sanitary ordinance as well as an
ordinance OF good manners.
.sThose high cockatoos in the hair are
out of date, and how glad I ami writes
Edith Lawrence in the October Ladies'
Home Journal, mo more towering
plumes and aigrettes. Alice has been good
enough to go for me to the best halr-
dressers in Paris and find out wha the
! head-dresses are to be this winter AND
her answer to my question is-leaves'
Lovely. transparent green leaves, so per-
feet, my dear, that she says you can al
most see them grow They are quite ex-
p~ensive, but wonderfully and Deautlruliy
made. She writes me that they are made
| of ribbon and velvet. and are yeinea e1-
actly like the natural ones. II they are
large. only one or two are worn, with a
| small tuft of marabout feathers IN the
centre. If small leaves, a spray is made
of them and put at the left side OF the
head. OF course the leaves must be wired
to stand up and hold in place"
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The various devices adopted to serve as
= substitute for liquid perfume have never
been entirely satisfactory when it comes
TO the necessity of imparting an enduring
scent to a gown. The little silver hearts,
nerforated and containing the solid pei
lets of perfume. were rather ornamental
| than useful. even when there were no sub
stftutes for them. They are still in use
and dropped into the deepest r~ecesses OF
the corsage. exude a faint and not very
| enduring perfume. Most of the Paris
dressmakers put into convenient places
In a gown the small bags Of sachet pow
der of the scent affected by the wearer.
Nearly every woman who makes an ef-
$500 1850
fort to Keep up with these novelties in
daintiness has her set of little sachet
bags to be worn in the corsage, wen If
she does not have them sewed in every
dress.
The latest cure for insomnia is cheap,
healthy and efficacious.
The remedy was suggested by an old
doctor. to whom a despairing young
woman had gone for advice. O course
said the doctor. IT could give you plenty
of drugs that would put you to sleep,
but in the case Of a young woman that
is always to be avoided. The reason
you cannot sleep is because your nerves
are all unstrung.
That does not necessarily mean that
you must put your nervous system to
| sleep by the use of drugs. What you
want is mild excitement that viii lift
your nervous system out of the rut It
has fallen into. The best thing in the
world to do that is a long trolley ride.
If the route is eight or ten miles long
so much the better. One thing is certain,
you win either sleep during the ride or
as soon as it is over.
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If a woman wishes to see herself in
the deceptive mirror as others see her with
the eye, or as nearly so as possible. she
should keep the surface of her glass high
ly polished and have a plentiful supply of
white-not cream-gauze or fine India
lawn, gather the material at the centre of
the top and let it fall on either side.
framing the glass with soft folds of pure
white. When this is lone to artistic
satisfaction, peep in and see what an inn
provement it makes to the general APP
pearance.
A draped mirror always give a more be-
coming reflection than one with a hard
frame, and besides, the white draped mir
ror and the lace covered toilet table
makes a dainty spot In a lady's room at
( all times.
Up-to-date doctors nave for some time
sounded a warning against the all too
common invalid diet of toast and tea..'
Few things, say they, are harder for the
weakened stomach to digest than hot but
tered toast. Now the physicians warn
ings have received reinforcement from
the French chef, who says:-"T am no
doctor, but If / were I would not let my
patients eat hot buttered toast. 1 fully
believe it causes as much indigestion as
hot griddle cakes. In this country the
average woman eats hot toast with guam
titles of butter on it every day"
The use Of a delicate white ink to cor
respond with a white crest or monogram
is an exceedingly refined innovation. 1t
may be used with very delicate tints, but
is, OF course, most telling on paper of
some deep shade. Deep Russian blue or
sultan red shows to great advantage I'M
der white ink The very prettiest, how
ever, are The wedgewood effects in a var
iety Of shades of blue, the blue gray be-
ing the most effective The monogranls
and crests used with wedgewood blue pa
pers are of the tiniest. to carry out the
wedgewood effect in its entirety. Of
course nothing but pure white wax must
be used with this combination.
There is nothing more strengthening to
the feet thar salt. Blu bathing the feet
in salt and water, however. is not enough.
Put about a quart of warm mot hot) wa
ter in a basin. and add a teaspoonful Of
salt. Having first thoroughly washed
tha foot with wa RIM rvafer and SQan Marc