The Jersey City news., 1906-07-02


Even where there is family library lib
orally furnished with writing table and
writing desk there is feeling Of eom1
fort connected with having ones own
correspondence where it will not be hans
died by anyone else. In u home of lini-
tied house room ii is of even greater inn
portance. Letters are among the most
sacred Of our possessions. and common
catchall, as the drawer of the library Ia
bic or the family secretary. where there
is a heterogeneous mass of papers and
business letters, is poor place for one
private correspondence
Not that any one in a family circle
should have many secrets in which the
rest do not share. The exchanging OF
condolences is the cornerstone of family
| life. Without it the home relations
would mean no more than that of mere
acquaintanceship. But letters are mem
entoes of personal experiences and
should be held sacred by each individual
Ones writing paraphernalia is much
like ones cothes-a matter of indivi-
dual taste. Pen, ink and paper that ap-
peal to one rerson may be distasteful to
another and still be in perfectly good
form. So a private receptacle for these
things is real necessity.
Such attractive little pieces are now
found in the escritoire, or individual
writing desk, that they would tempt one
to forego many other pleasures for the
sake of having the exclusive ownership
of one In mahogany they are found
with additions that serve to emphasize
their Importance as we'll as the fact that
occasional privecy and seclusion are de-
manded by human nature.
The top of the desk is surrounded by
small glass-door case large enough to
hold five or six ordinary size books. One
handbooks and those included in a read
ing course easily can be condensed to
that number, and then they are at hand
and ready to be picked up whenever
spare moments occur. When these have
done their service they can be replaced
by the next ones.
Below the desk, in the space that usu-
ally goes to waste. is a magazine rack,
so that the latest publications can be
always within reach. And even with
these appendages the desk is so little
So dainty-that one would not feel that
it materially had taken from the space
of even small bedroom.
Much of the neglect and dislike con-
necteo with carrying on purely friend
~ or private correspondence could be
overcome. especially in the young who
are just forming their habits, if each in
dividual were thus equipped in her own
room. Letters TO be answered are there
at hand to be referred to, ones own
style of writing material is convenient
and the scaredness of ones own cane
tum sanctorum is conducive to inspira-
alton and lucid writing.
In this day of strenuousliying it is inn
portant that each person should know
how to withdraw at stated intervals into
strict privecy, for it is ever out OF
silence that our higher nature speaks to
us.
This is the month for making the rose
jars which were once the delight of our
grandmothers and are just as much OF
a pleasure for ourselves. With a rose jaI
in the house you may enjoy all the fra
GRANGE of the rose garden of June days
when the snow covers the garden. Here
is theold fashioned way of making a
rose potpourri:
Gather the rose pedals as soon as the
dew is dried from them. When half a
peck is collected pack down in jar OF
bowl with alternate layers or fine table
salt. Cover the vessel with the top that
fits closely. Every twenty-four hours re-
move the cover from the jar and stir the
contents up well from the bottom. This
should be done each day for week, at
the end of which time three ounces OF
all-spice may be added. Mix and sti9
them ass each morning for three days
more, adding every day quarter of an
ounce each of allspice and ground cinna-
mon. Turn the potpourri into the erna'
mental jar in which it is to be kept and
stir into 1t the following ingredients, an
coarsely powdered: One ounce each oi
cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspict
orange peel lemon pee, anise seed and
root. TO the mixture may now be added
| six grains of oil Of rose geraninm, of la
yender, rosemary and any other essen
| tial oil that is like. The potpourri must
be allowed to stand for q month to ripeu
after it is made. Except when the jail
is opened to allow the odor to perfume
the house, it must always be kept tightly
| closed.