The Jersey City news., 1903-01-23

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girls. needs grew, until when the older
sister married at twenty she was receiv-
! ing 81 week, which amply supplied her
i moderate needs.
| How manifold were the lessons taught
/ by the rigid economy this small allow
ance necessitated. The saving between
seasons, the scanning of bargain adyer-
tisements, the considering and reconsid
/ ering of the style of dress--how differ
ent from the customary careless habit of
the teasing girl. A peculiar feature of
this experience was the actual envy of
many girls whose parents spent two or
three times that little allowance on their
dresses, but who considered it price
less privilege to handle the money them
selves and make their own purchases.
Parents, it can be done. 1t has been
done. The only requirements to solve the
''pin-money" question are absolute
business methods, and a tactful supervis-
ion for q few months. But the implac-
ability of law of nature must be ad
hered to to make it successful. No one
| learns SO quickly as a young girl the art
| of wheedlng. and no one can practice ii
so successfully when once she has learned
that it will work
AT a recent meeting of an art club at
which We're twenty-five members it was
impossible to find one real happy-looking
woman. The lines of anxiety, the puck
/ arad hrau-s, ond d,on,:,er ,,ao,,+he ,,,ado
one member feel that she would like sud
denly to fash a mirror into each face and
say: 'Can't you look a little more pleas
ant, for the sake of those around your
Think of sitting opposite woman twice
perhaps three times-a day, and seeing
always look of care and worry. One
couldn't blame a man for getting dis
c0ulaged. The same thing can be seen
in cars, at lectures and in fact every
where, and even some young girls and
children have the same disagreeable ex-
preston. If this careworn look has be-
come such part of the present genera
ton that we cannot part with 1t let us
us at least impress future generations
with the fact that it is not only a lthous-
and pities to spoil the freshness with all
these needless. lines and frowns, but a
real wrong besides. One expects to look
oldey at 40 than at 20. yet heed one look
as though she alone had all the hard
times.
While Europeans discovered long ago
that the fruit of the chestnut tree offered
infinite possibilities in the way of bread,
-four, sauces, purees, forcemeats, en-
trees and sweet dishes for dessert.
Americans have but recently grasped
the fact that soup made of the nut
is both delicate and nourishing. 1t may
be cream soup or simply with stock
liquor, in which the chestnuts are cooked
well seasoned and slightly thickened.
In the latter case peel almost seventy
nuts, cover with boiling water and let
them stand five or ten minutes to loosen
the brown skin Rub each nut between
the thumb and foreinger to remove the
skin, then cook gently in well favored
stock until tender enough to rub through
Il sieve.
Dilute with the liquor in which they
We're cooked and serve very hot The
cream of chestnut soup has made body,
a quart of milk and a half pint of cream
being added after the chestnuts are
cooked in salted wafer and rubbed
through hne strainer Season, adding
a tiny bit of sugar, if preferred Have
a beaten egg ready. and after the soup
has left the fire stir the egg into it.
IF f1,a ,of-
little more milk or the water in which
/ the nuts were cooked If too thin SIM
mer little longer before the egg is
added
Those who prefer it are having cush-
ion and pillow covers done in the sewing
machine art embroidery. One attractive
example is a large square pillow of pale
tan colored satin, with an embroidered
centre design of one of the muses. rising
from bed of roses, with a harp, the
strings of which she touches to the strain
Of Gather the Roses While Ye May
Around this, bordering the pillow, is a
@rland of roses, buds and foliage.
through which cupids are floating and
playing 'hide and SEEK" and languid,
dreaming maidens are reclining.
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Accustom a child as soon as it can
speak to narrate his little experiences,
his chapter of accidents; his griefs, his
fears, his hopes; to communicate what
she has noticed in the world without.
and what he feels struggling in the world
within. Anxious to have something to
narrate, he will be induced to give atten-
tlon to objects around him, and what
is passing in the sphere of his instruc-
ton, and to observe and note events will
become one of his first pleasures; and
this is the groundwork of thoughtful
character.
The most popular tea tables are the
two story Kind, which are not only
ornamental but convenient both for the
service of dainty repasts and the dis
play of bric-a-brac. One of this kind.
which is oblong. has d narrow shelf raised
ON slender brackets ten inches above its
top and half encirclng it Another has
a second top elevated foot and a half
above the first On the upper one is tile
mahogany edged glass tray equipped
with the tpn. service RplAw nra fl,a