The Jersey City news., 1905-10-30

proportions. Nails that are as round as
the little mud biscuits that the babies
are so fond of making can be made to
grow narrower and longer by this careful
filing. Never shape to a point. This is
too much like the ChilaHsan's style of
not manicuring.
After the filing and the sefubbing take
an orange wood stick which has been
properly sharpened, dip it in good nan
bleach (you can make your own of equal
parts of lemon juice and rosewater, if
you wish) and go under the ends of the
nails and also about the cuticle-which
the bleach will soften nicely. Press the
cuticle away from the nail so that the
little white crescents are plainly seen.
When cleansing the ends of the nails
with the stick endeayor to make the
white line even and nice. Callous places
at the sides of the nails should be re-
moved very gently with the cuticle knife
in order to avoid those detestable and
dlstracting troubles, hang nails.
Clipping away the cuticle at the base
of the nail ayails little. Applications of
cold cream or white vaseline every night
will soften this growth. and pressure
with soft towel Immediately after bath
ing will gradually and painlessly remove
most of it. Any one who has ever suf-
fered the old-time manicuring methods,
when shipping and gouging and digging
We're considered necessary, will rejoice
that the French method, which is deli
cacy itself, has found it's way TO US.
To return to the manicuring question::
After the fling, the scrubbing ard the
use of the orange wood stick and the
cuticle Knife, a tiny suggestion of pink
nail paste should be used. Follow with
fluff of nail powder and polish well
with a chamois skin buffer.
When the polishing is done, the fingers
should be dipped in bowlful of warm
CASTLE suds and the powder, removed with
the nail brush. After the drying there
will frequently be rough places about the
edge of the NALL The pointed scissors
can be used to remove these. Sometimes
tiny shreds of the thin lining of the nail
remain after fling. The file brought
quickly from the under portion of the
nail will take these away quickly. Give
a final polishing by rubbing the nails in
the palm of the hand, and the task is fin
ished.
To have your nails well kept requires
constant attention, little filing and pol
ishing every day. 1t is only matter of
few monments-to file a little. to scrub
with nail brush, to cleanse with the
orange wood stick, to press back the euti-
Gle (which is kept soft by applications OF
cold cream at night and to give a quick
polishing with the buffer. Then your
nails are always in good condition.
There is a revival OF the bicycle craze
in England. All the bicycle factories are
working overtime to keep up with orders.
1t is happy revival of sensible
craze. Would that it might extend to our
own country.
A good strong revival OF the bicycle
craze would revolutionize the lives of
millions of people. 1t would put oxygen
into their lungs, color in their cheeks and
new life in their whole bodies.
1t would take hundreds of thousands
of young men from the city streets on
Sundays out into the fresh air of the
country 1t would take hundreds Of
thousands of young women from the
narrow confines Of home and from the
silly rounds of social gaieties out where
the world is big and bright and beautl-
full, says the Chicago Journal.
A bicycle craze would make millions
of city people acquainted with the preg-
nant fact that their own block is NOT the
whole world, and that beyond their
streets are other streetsSand lanes and
fields and groves. and that beyond their
social set is a boundless domain of happy
humankind
1t is impossible to6estimate the good
the bicycle once did for the people of
our cities Many a man and woman
owe their fine health to-day to the esfact
that they once were victims Of the
'.craze. . The lives of many more were
made fuller Of Snnshine BY It. Not only
the lungs, but the hearts of nnnumbered
men and women were opened to inhala-
I tions that We're fresher. clearer purer.
A revival of the craze would bring
these inestimable blessings to millions
now growing into manhood and woman
hood. 1t would give broader view, betE
ter health and brighter spirit to the man
hood aud womanhood Of the future.
Get wheel and pedal out into tne
country. 1t may not start i craze. but
/ it will stir up your blood and spirit. and
/ iust now. when leaves are turning and