The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-29
COLONIAL STYLES.
The Washington Centennial
Has Its Effect on
the Fashions.
BUT MOLES ARE OUT OF DATE.

More Men Than Women in the
United States, but the Girls
Have the Preponderance in the
Cities.
The Editor Of the JERSEY CITY
NEWS presents has compliments to the
ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
incites their corporation an making
this column a feature Of general inter
est and utility. Information and sag
gestions are earnestly solicited, and
assurance IS gi0en that all conmoaad-
cations aoaW qeceSoe immediate and
careful attention, and aoSU be regarded
as strictly conJfdentia1 If the aca5ters so
desire.
The humor of the moment is to go
back a hundred or more years-per-
haps because it would not be conyen-
lent to go forward even fifty.
New houses are being built in the
Colonial style, and the furniture in
them is of the same date. Bureaus
are lifted q foot from the ground, and
the chairs are of the same designs as
those used by u great grandfathers,
or, if we did not have any, somebody
else1s great grandfathers. Empire
and Directoire frocks are struggling
for supremacy with the women, and
even the men want to be allowed to
wear silk stockings, buckles and knee
brooches when in full evening dress.
This may all be out of compliment
to the approaching centennial o.
Washington's Inauguration.
1t is of interest to know that there
are quite a number of relics in the Ma
tional Museum at Washington which
might serve as models. They are of
great interest to the ladies of this
period as illustrating the private life
and domestic of a bygone
age. They cast odd sidelights, too, on
the character and career Of the Father
of his Country.
Among these objects Of interest is a
gauntlet of green velvet for the left
hand, said to have been worn on State
occasions by Mrs. Washington. An
other is a part of a set of china with
the Washington monogram and the
names of the States inscribed on the
links of a chain encircling each piece,
which was presented by General
Lafayette to Mrs. Washington.
Baron Rothschild purchased a few
years since for $40, 900 a pair of
Worcester vases decorated in gold and
colors, with groups of animals painted
by O'Neal, said to be facsimilies of those
in the collection which were pre-
sented to the Father of his Country by
Mr.. Samuel Vaughan, of London.
Patriotism does not need a shining
light, for by the illumination given by
the candles in a tall pair of brass cam
dlesticks, attached together with a
brass shield fastened to it by an up
right rod to serve as a shade, did George
Washington write his farewell address
to the Continental Congress. He
must have been something of a mu-
stefan or probably Miss Nellie GUSTS
would never have presented him with
a richly inlaid Spanish mandolin, and
yet she did so. A small silk blanket,
which Washington was held in while
being christened, had a brilliant red
silk lining, until Mr.. Custis on one oc-
casion of a Washington's Birthday
celebration in fredericksburg, Va,
allowed it to handed around, when
some yandal cut it out.
1t is interesting to know for those
who relish a delightful flavor for for
hidden fruit when playing cards for
small sums of money, that Washing
ton enjoyed a harmless game like the
other gentlemen of his day, and,
moreover, has left in his own hand
writing ar account of his gains and
losses. In a large ledger, in the neatest
of penmanship, is a record of his
private business for twenty-one years.
The minutest details of daily expendi-
ture are now exposed to the most cas-
ual visitor of the National Museum.
Besides playing cards, Washington
evidently had a mash, y for here is the
picture exhibited of the Countess of
Huntington presented to George by
the Countess herself.
Woman in the Census.
In 1880 there were 80, 900, 900 of peo-
pie in this country, and about SS2, Oo0
more males than females. That was
only because more males were born;
the females live the longest. OF the
centenarians, 1,409 were men and 2, 607
were women.
The boys start out nearly a million
ahead and are in the majority until
the sixteenth year, when the girls are
a little more numerous Sweet sixteen
is a numerous age, anyhow. After
that, first one and then the other is in
the majority, the girls gradually gain
ing after thirty-six, and leaving the
men far behind after seventy-ive. To
balance this longevity of the females,
in almost every State a few more boys
are born; not many more, but almost
always a few. 1t is a~stonishing4to see
where the census gives thousands and
hundreds of thousands of boys and
girls under one year old; there are,
with one or two exceptions, always a
few hundred more boys, and only a
few hundred more.
In only six of the ~forty-nine States
and Territories are more girls born,
and in these States they are slightly in
excess-from eleven to eighty. These
exceptions are Arizona, Delaware,
Florida, Louisiana, Montana, and
North Carolina.
The fact that the females are in the
majority in all the original thirteen
States but Delaware and North Caro-