The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-06
They Do Almost Everything
Now, Even Run Western
Steamboats,.
THE PRETTY TYPEWRITER.
Height Of Adam and Eve---A Small
Boy Upon Dogs and Cats---Per-
sonal Notes Upon Ladies Of Jer-
sey City.


NEWS presents has compliments to the
ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
fnofteS their cooperation in making
this column q feature Of general inter
est and utility. Information and sag
gestions are earnestly solicited, and
assurance is gSoen that all c%onnau7d-
cations aoiU receioe immediate and
careful attention, and aoiU be regarded
as strictly confidential If the ac1iters so
desire.
Every possible sort of business is
now conducted by women. Ii a stran-
ger happened to be let loose on the
lower part of Broadway, New York, as
the business places were closing, and
should notice the fiocks of women
pouring out of the buildings, he might
easily imagine that the entire business
of the city was conducted by them
A young man started a few years
as a st-enographer, adding typewriting
to his accomplishments when the
writers came in. He began on quite a
large salary, which has been growing
small by degrees and beautifully less
each year, as different young women
have been given portions of his work.
Now he says he will become a priest,
as that is the only business the women
are not monopolizing.
The lady captain out West finds
plenty of passengers for her steam
boat. Gradually she will perhaps
have an entire crew of girls, which
would be much ~pleasanter, as the skip
per is a woman
Boating is the most fashionable
pursuit Of the day. A persons social
position is almost established If he IAN
buy an expensive steam yacht, and
especially if he can take his family
on a trip abroad. The girls are all
crazy about boating and to have a de-
lightful boating costume, and to take
their best young man out for a row is
the height of their ambition. Phila-
delphia girls are expert oarsmen and
can be seen in summer rowing on the
lakes at Asbury Park and other re-
sorts.
Miss Nellie Hewitt can handle the
oars as well as any New York girl.
Miss Breese is thought to manage a
boat admirably. Miss Elise Perkins,
who was brought up at Glen Cove, is
saidto handle a boat like a City Island
FISHERMAN. No one need be afraid,
however timid on the water, to trust
himself to Miss Endicott. Miss Otis is
an admirable rover. Mrs. Osborne
can manage any boat, and so can Mrs.
George Griswold, and there are lots of
other ladies in New York and Jersey
City that can handle the oars.
Perhaps the reason the American
shipping has declined gradually has
been because it has been in the hands
of men. With the new state of things,
the handsome women gradually put in
the ships as captains, and the vessels
manned" by nice looking girls, the
new, reformed American navy will be
welcome in any port.
A very pretty boating costume of
white serge, lately finished, had the
skirt laid in box pleats and was faced
around the bottom with red serge
eight inches wide. Small anchors
were embroidered in red at intervals,
partially on both colors. A side panel
of red had embroidered on it a few
large white anchors. The blouse had
red revers and large anchors. The
sailor hat to go with this suit was of
white felt, with red ribbon.