The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-18
ALL KINDS OF DAUGHTERS.
YARIETF OF TASTES IN LdRGE
FAMILIES OF GIRLS.
Dancers, Singers, Decorators and the
Practical Sisters, Too--A Consideration
of Their Several Chances of Securing


Husbands.
For some unknown reason, the girls
in families where there are a number
of daughters are apt to be left to
grow, live and die in single blessed,
ness. Whether it is that the beauS
are not enough pleased with any, oil
too we'll entertained with all, there is
no telling. And it is said that when a
man occasionally does select N OF
these maidens blest with a number OF
sisters, he is usually much disap-
pointed later on with his partner.
Expecting to find in one a combine
ton of the good qualities and gayety
that were distributed I'VE the flock,
his hopes remain unrealized. SIT
l. The variety of tastes sometimes seen
in one of these families is remarkable.
One of the girls perhaps will be of a
domestic turn of mind. She will keep
an V on the kitchen, make the cakes
and desserts, and see that the table is
properly set. She is undoubtedly the
most important person in the house,
for if the table is right, other things
right themselves. This particular sis
| ter would be an excellent choice for
any man, but as she has spent more
| time in helping mamma than learning
to play on the banjo, and it has per-
haps never occurred to her to plaster
her face with Recamier cream or bis
| muth, she is not often considered.
Then there is sure to be one of the
girls that has quite a taste for sewing.
She can alter a dress or retrim, or
| turn, and when it comes to trimming
a bonnet no one would know that it
hadn't been done by a milliner. She
is a real saving and comfort in the
house.
1t is a poor family nowadays that
can not boast of one decorative
daughter. A picture or a fan can not
possibly be placed on a wall when she
Is out, and there is no one else in the
house who can touch her in the way
of arranging flowers. or making a bow
and pinning it to the mantel lambre-
quin. But it is said that everyone
wants to be making money now, and
girls with a decorative taste are in
such demand that they are apt to re-
ceive some outside offer that robs the
family of their services.
Some four Dr. more years ago q
mother and daughter, quite alone in
the world and with rather a slender
income, went to pass the summe at a
seashore resort. The girl brought a
few clam shells up to the boarding
house and amused herself painting an
owl ON one of them. A lady in the
house amazed her by offering to pay a
dollar for it. She gave her the shell,
but the next day some N else saw it
and offered her $15 to. paint a dozen
for his shop. From that day to this
she has been constantly employed by
different large firms, with an increas-
ing income every month.
But this is only a depression. Let
us return to sisters. There is one
sister who loves books, and has lit
erary ambitions, generally ungrati-
fed. She wears spectacles, and her
matrimonial chances are impaired by
the fact that all the men are afraid of.
her. a{netst IA aa
The dancing sister and the singing
sister are varieties of the same species.
They both have gay laughs, bright
eyes, winning ways, and short tenn
pers. They are always popular as
partners so long as it is not for life.
But we might go on forever. There
is the practical sister who lays down
the law for the family, the senti-
mental sister whose feelings everyone
has to be on the look out for, the pet
sister who needs nothing in the world
so much as a good spanking, and the
victim sister, the Cinderella of all the
rest, and, of course, if a man must
marry anyone at all, he had better
choose her, for then all the other sis
tiers will be mad, and will treat him
with refreshing GOODNESS, and thus he
will escape the awful fate of marrying
all the sisters instead of one, and the
father and mother to boot.