The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

on a hundred things that need not infiu-
ence those of a d%ining-room, which has
been built and arranged for one ostensible
o~bject-that of serving food to the in
mates of the house, says "Harper's Ba-
zaar." Certain articles are appropriate
in a d~ining-room because they are neces-
sary, and not because, as in the case of
parlor bric-a-brac or Ornaments" the
taste of the householder may incline him
that way.
Moreover, a dining room, when once
furnished, is not apt to be continually
spoiled, like a parlor, by the introduce
ton of extraneous objects, new colors in
the way of cushions or h~angings, or gifts
of pottery or v~ariegated glass, which are
kept for politeness' sake, but which abso-
lutely destroy the original effects. A par
lor has to be gone over a dozen times in
the course of the year in order to rid
it of inharmonious elements which have
crept in, or in order to make way for
new possessions of value, new pictures,
books or sofas.
But once your dining room tables, side
board and chairs are purchased, they re-
main. The Introduction of new china or
glass or silver does not necessitate a
complete upheaval or Encouragement of
the entire room, but only of a sideboaro
or special table. A dining room, there's
fore, is always able to maintain a set
tied and long established look. The tradi-
lions of a family are better preserved in
this room than in almost any other in
the house. They are certainly always
more clearly suggested. 1t ought to be
the first room furnished, and then left
alone.
The color of the walls must depend Up
on the individual tastes of the owner,
and they can be of wood, hung with
tapestry or leather, painted, papered, dec
grated with china, pottery, brass, coats
of arms, pictures or carvings. Goats OF
arms may also enter into the glass OF
the loaded windows. There should OF
course be a dining table and chairs. this
table to be left bare between meals or
covered with a clotn-one that is never
white or suggesting the next repast.
A dish of fruit well arranged or a
jardiniere must always be provided for
it. There ought to be a sideboard upon
which silver can be placed; never the
small pieces, and never the spoons stuck
into a cup or glass. Neither ought the
tumblers and wineglasses to be seen on
it; they belong to the closet. Small white
mats and doilies ought not to be used
either one cloth to cover the sideboard
entirely or none. Too many bits of white
under the various articles on a sideboard
create a bad impression.
1t is unnecessary to add that the silver
ought always to be kept polished. Black
or carelessly cared-for silver on a side
board is a blot on the room and an
affront to the diner. There is often a
smaller side5oard upon which still more
silver is arranged, and on which just be-
fore dinner the inger-bowls are placed.
There must always be a serving table
for receiving the things coming in from
the pantry, on which the vegetable
dishes are placed or the butler sometimes
carves. This should be concealed by a
screen. or stand near one, SO that no one
at the table has a view of the domestic
proceedings. or sees the dishes handed in
or out from the pantry.
The dedication that Nansen wrote in
his famous book is apt just now.
He wrote ito her who had the courage
to stay behind"
He meant his wife, his very dearly be-
loved. charming wife, whose fortitude
dIQ bravery lG I'LL III 81 AloSii- 49,
brave explorer thoroughly understood
how much NERVE" it took to share the
anxiety without the excitement; to suffer
and not dare!
If only some of the soldiers in the
Philippines could truthfully use his
clause to dedicate their future books to
wives brave as Mrs. Nanseni For our
women are beginning to foIlows
+l,o+ 81 co11farc "a ATan-
lila are terribly harassed trying to find
quarters for their wives, who nave fol-
lowed them, trying to keep them healthy
and free from danger and annoyance
There is no comfortable way for the
women to live, writes one of the cores
pondents over there.
The officers say they would rather fight
Filipinos for a week than unit homes FOR
the women for a day.
Dozens of these wives come over to Their
soldier -husbands as a pleasant surprise,
but it is far from delightful after the
first day, for the soldier husband finds
there is nothing to do with them.
No man wants a woman about him in
time of danger. He feels that isn't her
place. and he is divided between duty to
light duty to watch her.
1t is inconsiderate of her.
1t is serious embarrassment to them.
One officer laughed at his fellows who
were in agony as to where to stow their
devoted wives. milne is under better con-
troll" he said. The next week there were
his wife and children o N the transport at
Manila. He is the joke of his regiment 10
day.
Garrisons are packed; the prisoners
have to be removed to give a bed to the
women; men are sleeping on the parade
ground who should be well protected, and
men who have been chivalrous have for
aged every night for q sleeping place who
should be getting the best of care for their
country's need of them.
1t does take courage Of a superior kind
to remain at home and wait, but Ameri-
can women are as brave as American men
if they would only take time and think!
49,
ut is now about sixty-five years since
for the first time in the history of our
country young ladies studied the higher
branches in the same classroom with
young 4.en, and publicly received the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin
college, the cradle of co-education,'
writes Edward A. Steiner in he Jun
ssWoman's Home Companion"
TN the year 1S41 three women grad