The Jersey City news., 1902-04-26

In Woman's World.


I tion. Here are the views of an expert o.
the subject:
First of all the walls must be plainly
| papered. A soft gray or olive is best. lha
| will be shock to those who believe IL
big pink roses and nodding scarlet poppie.'
as the height of the appropriate to make
| room attractive.
People who know, however. almost un-
reservedly unite in decrying Powered and
| highly colored paper as trying to nerv-s
| and eyes, and in commencing the olives
and gray as especially fit for children who
are active and restless and need quieting
surroundings.
! II there be a border above the rather
low-set picture moulding the paper may
| be a deep cream above tnis. or, If one
! likes it may have a simple and unobtru-
sive little pattern of rosebuds or morning
gories running over 1t. The moulding
| should be of wood to match the woodwork
! of the room.
The pictures are next to be considered.
| Take down and throw away all the pic-
(, lures of children in nightgowns, children
in roses. children with puppies included.
| Take down all the little paper dolls anu
| .he rubber brownies and the juvenile Ger
| man favors that hang everywhere, gatE-
ering dust and offending the ewes Place
| these among the children's tovs. If they
| like them-and they probably do ike
them; but do not have them on the walls.
| Go to some shop where inexpensive
copies of the old masters are on saie.
Carbon copies and photographers OF the
| best things in the world may be obtained
| at prices ranging from so cents to 81 not
| to speak of the penny prints. The pi :
| tures. which will be appropriate and
| which the children will come to love, are
! endless.
| There ought to be first a sistine Ma
| donna. IF you can, let this rot he
small picture Let it hang well down
| from the moulding by long wire. so
| that if they like the children may climb
| on chair. and as half of them VIII,
talk to the child and touch the g;ass over
the little face and hands.
! Then there are children by Van Dyke,
copy Of Guido Rents Aurora. etc.
Studies in animal life such as the Land
seer and Rosa Bonheur pictures, or any
+, others to teach love and care of animals,
ara especially to be commended.
The casts afford a variety of subjects
to delight child, the Della Robhia
studies, the Donatello Laughing Boy" !"
the St John. the Singing Boys. and
bits of friezes to be hung above the
door and in shadowed corners. Teach
the child the value of the dark frames
| against the drab or olive background
and how a dark corner is 1ightened by a
bit of white plaster.
Study the pictures and casts for
which they most care, and add to the
sort which most appeals to them En-
courage their comments and questions,
tell them stories about the characters
| in the pictures. and little by little teach
| them the artists and something about
| them All this can be done at night
when story-time comes, and the children
will never know that they are having
the most important lesson of the day.
AS the children grow few years
older nearly everything that is best in
drawing and sculpture may be introduced:
There can be no objection in the world
to the Winged Victory" and the Venus
de Milo and the Apollo"
It is hard to understand, in any way,
the temperament of a woman who can de-
liberately alright a little child, and every
mother. no matter what may be the in
convenience to herself, should make it a
point of conscience to Immediately dismiss
servant who had been guilty of threat
ening her charge with horrible stories of
bogies and black men, says the New YORK
Commercial Advertiser" The child, met
on every side by the unknown, has no ex-
perience of it's own by which it can
counteract these stories, and the curious
shyness' which many children have in
speaking of themselves leads them to
suffer in silence. During the day, and
when they have companionship, these
fears are forgotten. 1t is at night that
the poor innocent falls a prey to its
alarms.
Some children appear to have an inborn
dread of darkness which has arisen with
out any suggestion from others, and
such children should never be left in COM
plete darkness. Pleasure in light u
shown at a very early stage. A baby less
than a month old is plainly interested in
light; it will cease crying df such erying
is not produced by pain or hungeD on
catching a view of an electric or gas
light Many people think that babies have
no pleasures beyond those Of food and
warmth, no pains except the nrick of a
pin or an ache under the pinafore. ~
are mistaken. A child of three weeks old
was seen the other day to fling up both
arms and knit its tiny brows with sur
prised alarm at the sudden clash Uf brass
rings as a curtain was drawn nearby.
Thus 1t is evident that from almos' Its
birth a child should be the object Of the
greatest care as regards treatment which
may affect its happiness and nervous sta
bility.
The ceaseless terrors of little childrtn
are SO varied that it is impossible to In
dicate any treatment for tnem, excepting
those suggested by the mighty and all
important sympathy of mothers. whose
arms should be delicious haven Of peace
and security to the most perturbed little
being, and there he can often be induced
to open his heart freely.
Dr. Tuily, in his Psychology Oh Chic
hood, gives curious instance of the en-
tire inconsequence of chlldren's fears. A
little girl Of four years old was found
with eyes wide open and full of tears,
her arms outstretched for help. in abso-
lutte terror of small woodlouse which
was slowly creeping toward her The
next day the child for the first time, vis-
ited the menagerie in the park and
there showed not the slightest alarm at