The Jersey City news., 1901-10-19

make her guests feel welcome Upon
their arrival she exclaimed Az lasttF
and when they took their leave sne s4lo-
sAlready2. If taken literally, we should
deprecate the fiattery. Flattery is insin-
cere praise, and wrongs him tfat siHes
and him that takes 1t is sometimes
kinder TO accept a compliment than to
parry it. says the New York '1ieralsi
One may say THANK you. it IS ress-
ant TO be seen through such kind or
PARTIAL eyes, or perhaps. 1T IS a COM
fort to know that friendship Is rartly
blind as well as the NEUROLOGICAL boz
or any nonsense that serves to show That
one appreciates the spirit that prompted
the kind expressions, however wide OF tne
truth.
The frequent repetition Ct the nams q
the person addressed liclds subtle eom7 /
pliment, implying more cornplete concen-
tration of the speakers .Eought upon ny
or her personality.
De Quincy says More is done fer Il 3s
benefit Of conversation BY the sinr3
magic of good manners than BY all varie-
ties of Intellectual pow
1t is the sympathetic and Responsive lis-
teners that call forth the pest efforts of
a talker. For such are reserved his choic-
est stories, his finest thoughts n
A ready smile acts as inspiration. and
interest shown in the nversation Of
others stimulates and yivifles ihcjr
thought.
To a good listener the diffident will
say what they think, and the verbose
will think what they say.
There is nothing more try.ag tran to
find that ones eonvers1ioa is receiving
but a divided attention, and nothing more
/ rude than for person 20 pick up q
book or paper and look over it while pre-
tending to listen to what one is saying.
Vanity Fair, ever an iconoclast, thus
destroys our illusions concerning profess
/ sional beauties:
''The longevity of beauty regulations is
e tedious and expensive boom TO keep up.
and the smiles of a pretty woman are
justly described as the tears of the purse.
Necessity being tnot the mother; mater
nifty is out of fashion just now) the sister
of many inventions, We discovered eyer
new treatments for the cure of advancing
Time. One lady, known alike to rich and
poor, fearful of losing the faultless out
line of that cupids bow. her perfect
mouth, has had it preserved forever by
/ family drawn a thin red line round her
| lips. Another dame, whose beauty draws
us with a single hair, and whose ruddy
looks are a matter of much notoriety,
when she finds the sunset hues fading
goes to st. Peterburg to be redipped, and
comes back positively dazzling.
..Then, again, a certain talented COM
plexion devotee, noting the hateful marks
of the crow to be visible to the naked and
| unenamored eye, resolved to eradicate its
footsteps. Twice year she visits a. Par
! isian skin specialist, and has every atom
1 of the facial skin removed. and then, re-
| clining on a restful couch in a darkensd
ROOM awaits the day when the new skin
shall come again like the flesh of little
child. This treatment has one drawback
/ lit gives the skin, wrinkleless now, an
animated, corpse-like pallor, which even
cosmetics will not cheer up. The effect of
/ this complexion at black reunions has
been surprising. But perhaps the lady
mistook amazed curiosity for that admira-
| tion whic his to the professional beauty
as the breath of her nostrilsi"
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| You can afford the expenditure of =
little time and strength given to dilettan-
tism, says the 'Woman's Home Com
panion.'' If our girl has no decided talent
for music we should not enforce thu
harsh decree of entire exclusion of music
| from her education. Every creature has
need of the privilege of making a little
melody. Egotism in petty talents is in
deed something to be treated with rigor.
Children who exaggerate the value OF
their attainments must be taught the dis
| tinction between a vocation and an avo-
cation; the one exacting special ability
and a life's devotion, while the other is q
species of personal relaxation, with which
] the world has nothing to do. Every one
needs both--a vocation as the means OF
securing the material blessings of life; an
avocation into which the suggestion ot
/ profit does not enter Sometimes the lat
ter is called a shobby''; but it does not
express the same sense of an engagement
so leisurely as to be playful Hobbies are
often pursued with q fixity and fierceness
which involves a formidable output OF
energy, but about an accomplishment that
futile its natural mission there is a fairy
like lightness. 1t is taken Up and thrown
down at will.
At this time of year ones gowns are
beginning to suffer and inexpensive novel;
ties are welcome Particularly pretty and
wonderfully inexpensive blouses may be
fashioned thus:-Buy from about four
yards of plain ecru-tinted net and about
the same number of yards OF insertion
/ lace some 2lz inches wide. Tuck the net,
inlet it with lace and make 1t up into .
loose blouse to be worn over a tight
fitting, Iow-necked. short-sleeved slip OF
white cambric or glace silk. A. the
blouse is SO transparent the slip should bs
carefully Tilted and prettily trimmed at
neck and armholes with lace threaded
with white satin ribbon.
Quite the latest novelty In lingerie is the
ssgarter petticoat,'' occasioned by the
sheath-like character of the new fall
gowns. The new petticoat really belongs
| to the genus pantalettes, and comes ia
pairs, to be fastened just above the knees.
Thence the garments descend the bottoms
OF the skirt in many frills of taffeta. this
supplying the needed background for the
founced skirt, without interfering with
the close fitting effect of the skirt around
the hips which fashion demands.
Be careful to limit the amount of water
| end fi,lids which YOU take during meals.