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

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ing out OF town and getting back again
the prime mover has her nerve force torn
to smithereens? says Dorothy Maddox, in
the Philadelphia Enquirer"
We must join the general scrambl to
get somewhere. 1t is a mania that de-
scends upon us as regularly as a hot
wave. and the only escape from the many
penalties paid for being crazed is a level
headed way of going about things.
The giddiest summer cannot even up a
certain debt contracted in work and vfor-
ry. Our great Ignis Fatuus is the sea-
shore cottage. 1t lures us on. no matter
how busy we have been keeping house in
town. We want to be at liberty to do as
we please. and we claim that in ones cot
tage and nowhere else can this delightful
programme be carried out. If we'll mean
ing advisers hint of company and the var
ious other trials there is for an answer.
but the comfort Of ones own hammock
on ones own piazza in a wrapper" A
happy-go-lucky way of putting II that
stops all Bettyisms.
. No use of talking the simplest summer
outing requires lots of backbone. and
when the move includes a change for
three months from one home to another.
with a good sized family trapsing at ones
heels, then look out.
The work and the worry fall on the
h~ousekeeper. She must shoulder the bur
den; a clumsy one no matter how many
people there are to help.
A friend of mine went into her cottage
last season hind side before. She laughs
over it to this day. Tears always seem
to be more to the purpose when I listen
to the narrowing tale. Things never did
get uilitp StrqiCbfpOad ont tho anfirp Goa
son. and she was at the shore for three
months.
There was lack of system from the time
the first towel was packed until the last
tin. dish had been taken from the pack
ing barrel.
The cottage was supposed to be fur
nished. but like all summer homes, things
had to be carted from town to complete
It's comfort. My friends plans this year
are beautiful to contemplate. Each trunk
will be labeled so hat the wild and har-
rowing dump. that takes place generally
when the shadows begin to grow long
and slanty. may not be fraught with so
many terrors.
One large steamer trunk has been set
apart for table linen, napkins, doylies.
pantry towels, etc. Another cabin trunk
holds sheets, pillow cases and bath tow
els. There are special trunks for bed
spreads, comfortables and blankets A lot
of lavender is strewn through the bed
linen. This is a good idea, as articles
absorb sea water until they are impreg-
mated with an odor that to many persons
is most Objectionable.
Each day the cottager adds something
to her memory list" as she calls it. A
hot water bag, cheese cloth for cleaning
purposes. chamois,a bundle of scrub rags,
brushes-in fact. all the innumerable
small articles that a well kept house re-
quires and which are many times as hard
to pick up as If one were living in the
moon.
Bathing garments. heavy underwear,
have been put in bags, the bags marked,
and when there is a call for them there
will be no need of a clothes cyclone to
find them.
NO more unnecessary backaches for
. me.
This is said with a meaning. The sensi-
BILE plans. as they go forward surely
ought to economic vitality. Why not
husband nerve force? It is the best stock
in trade any woman ever had. If she
allows recklessness or ignorance to rob
her of it she may expect her punishment.
Just the business of scratching around
on the bottom of a dozen different trunks
to find something needed at the moment
is baek-breaking. I watched a poor. wor-
ried dear last season go through six diff
ferent bags to find some silver spoons that
everybody sat waiting for. We were all
half starved. but the first supper at the
shore could not be served until the spoons
were found. A memorandum. spoons in
such a satchel." was all that was needed.
Very simple. easily done; a scribble of a
pencil. The mistress of the spoons was so
furfied that she could not eat after they
were fshed up out of chaos.
Nothing in the final move from home
should be left to chance. not even our
health. System must control the smallest
detail. Speaking of health, it is a rafting
good idea before leaving home to adopt a
course that gets the body into fine work
ing order.
A little care for a few weeks in diet,
sleep, exercise, prepare a woman to be
an 1gel when she needs angelic qualities
to ID people from hating her and to
kee or from hating herself.
\. re is such a wise old soul. Her
spring physics are just about right. A
better stocked pharmacy we could never
find than that provided these May days
for her ungratefu1 children. Cooling vege-
tables. fruit. OH there are so many,
many lovely helps for jaded organs. Get
rid of biliousness by drinking before
breakfast a little sweetened lemon juice.
and take all the lovely green things that
arrive with the robins and the bob-o'-
links.
Then with a clean stomach and a clear
brain and a little system see how we shall
go about our summer outing. Our nerves
will be steady, our heads free from aches
and our hearts as light as that of the
smallest youngster in the family.
During the day every one should take
q few minutes sleep. preferably directly
after the noon meal." writes Edward B.
Warman. In his .'Five-Minute Talks on
Good Health" in the June Ladies Home
Journal" The time given to 1t may seem
too precious for one in business, but 1t
will be more than compensated for by the
mental and bodily condition that follows.
Sit in an easy-chaif. Lying down directly
after a meal crowds the digestive organs
and makes ones sleep restless instead OF
restful. Rest the head comfortably. TIP
the chair to a pleasant angledor the body.
mot enough to have the weight of the body