The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-04
Good Lie.

On one of the morning papers is O prin-
ter who has been the wonder of the office
He is a young married man and a rigid
moralist, without a bit of tolerance in his
nature for those disreputables who buck
the tiger" and daily with the rosy" or
paint the town. in any inner When
ever anybody in the goodness of his heart
and the charity of a nature which has oc-
c~asionally lapsed a trife has had a word
of extenuation to offer for the people who
''play horse" this very proper young man
has shifted contemptuously and declared
that it was ''all rot" So he came to be
regarded as q sort of stole, q more pune
tilious ST. Anthony.
But even as st. Anthony fell-this good
printer stumbled also. How it ever nap
pened nobody knows, but certain it is that
n of the hippant young FOUNDERS of the
Office saw him on pay night in a "gilded
gambling he'll, +" in a very hilarious state
and betting his money with princely reck
lessness on the robbers game-roulette.
Later on another printer loane the erst-
while strictly proper party car fare to ride
home, and he departed mournfully. He
went home, and, being unable to turn
over to his wife his weeks pay envelope,
as had been his custom, he sang her a.
madrigal TO the effect that he didn't get
to the office in time to get his money.
The next day he told her another ro-
anc A fellow-printer. of whom he
thought a great deal because he never
gambled or drank, had come to him in
great distress because his furniture was
about to be grabbed by a chattel-mort-
gage shark, and he had loaned him mis-
entire weeks salary. The good little
woman looked up into this liars face
with a smile of alteration and told him
she was sure he was the best and dearest
and kind~est-hearted person in the world.
And then he kissed her and, it being time
to rest, retired and slept the sleep of the
guileless and just.-Chicdgo Herald.
Tight Lacing.
Now that the rational ideas as to dress
have acquired a definite place in public
esteem, it may be imagined that the prac-
tice of tight lacing and customs OF a like
nature, if known at all, are not what they
used to be. A case of sudden death lately
reported from Birmingham proves that 1t
is still too early to indulge in such illus
DRY ideas. The deceased, a servant girl of
excitable temperament, died suddenly in
an epileptic fit, and the evidence given
before tine Coroner respecting her death
attributed the fatal issue 30 asphyXla,du
in a great measure to the facG that both
neck and waist were unnaturally con-
stricted by her clothing, the former by a
tight collar, the latter by a belt worn
| under her stays. We ave here certainly
those very conditions which would lead
us to expect the worst possible conse-
! ouence from a c%onvulsive seizure.
There is no organ of the body whose
| free movement is at such times more i'm
portant than the heart. Yet here we find,
| on the one hand, its movement hampered
| BY a tight girdle so placed that 1t could
with difficulty be undone ut a critical mo
ment; on the other, a co~ntrlyance admir-
ably adapted to allow the passage of blood
to the brain while impeding it's return.
/ This is no isolated case as regards its es-
| sential character, though, happily, some
what singular i'll its termination. Minor
| degrees of asphyXlation, we fear, are
| still submitted to by a good many self
torturing children Of vanity, The tight
corset and the high heel still work mis-,
! chief on the bodies of their devoted wear
ers. Taste and reason, indeed, combine
to deprecate their injurious and vulgar
bondage, and by no means unsuccess-
fully. Still, the evil maintains itself.
Cases like that above mentioned ought
to, if they do not, open the eyes of some
self-worshippers of the other sex, who
heedlessly strive by such means to exec
in a sickly grace. We would strongly
impress on all of this class the fact that
beauty is impossible without health, and
would advise them. in the name OF taste
as we'll as comfort, TO avold those
methods of contortion, one and all, by
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