The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-02

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ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
apoites their cooperation in mailing
this column q feature of general inter
est and utility. Information and sag
gestionS are earnestly solicited, and
assurance Is giuen that all conamWai-
cations aciU receSUe immediate and
careful attention, and UiU be regarded
as strictly confidential If the ao7dters so
desire.
Saturday should be called ladies
day now in New York and Jersey City.
In ordinary households there is some
well defined purpose to which each
day is devoted. Monday it is wash
ing day, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday
finishing up. Thursday the women of
the house usually stay in doors, as the
servants take it for an outing. Fri
day is devoted to sweeping and clean
ing, but when it comes Saturday all
the household work is done, and the
women folks may proceed to enjoy
themselves. AS a rule, now, they go
to a matinee, often securing good
seats on one Saturday for the follow
ing weeks performance. Some
times the children are made an
excuse, but there is a very small
proportion of children at the theatres
on Saturday afternoons. Among the
matrons, friends very often club to-
gether, each paying her W expenses,
and they enjoy themselves much lore
than when they go with men
in the evening. They can express to
each other in an open manner their
admiration of the good looking actors,
while the men are apt to pooh-pooh
any such sentiments. And the men
also always praise up some woman OF
the stage who (they have an inward
idea) is casting glances in their direc-
ton. This proceeding irritates the
women and detracts from their enjoy
ment. Then the frocks of the actresses
can be criticized by the women when
alone and remembered for future
dressmaking. After the matinee
| comes a walk on the crowded thorough
fare and a visit to a confectioner's,
where ice cream is eaten.
When the girls go they begin to
prink early in the day. After luncheon
they start out with the consciousness
Of looking their very best. They
always secure some candy to take
with them, and have their opera
glasses along with them. 1t takes
them some time to settle in their
places and then comes a great lot of
talk about the actors and actresses
and their parts. Did one of them
know, she is asked, that Mrs. Potter
always puts a little dab of rouge on
her chin because when one fiushes
naturally color will always come
there? Or did another happen to hear
that handsome Herbert Kelley had an
apartment up Broadway and that lots
OF girls wrote him letters? Then
when the curtain goes up they are
wonderfully absorbed in the play, and
if the leading man happens to be
their special admiration they feel con
fident that they have caught him gaz-
ing at them for a moment. What a
husband he would makei-so hand
some and we'll dressed, and such man
ners, so different from that John Bar
fOll, WHO COlucS CdllllIS, dild IL only d
bookkeeper and would let them get a
chair for themselves. They keep
thinking it all over until, at another
matinee, perhaps a week or two later,
they see another Claude or Romeo so
decidedly straighter nose than his pre-
| decessor, and Immediately fall desper-
ately in love with him.
Affar Tho matipnn thnu uro1E onI Gao
what the other maidens have on. If
they happen to pass George Cayvan,
| Grace Henderson, Ada Rehan or n
actress they know by sight, it does
them to talk about for a day or two.
A suggestion was recently made that
it would be a good plan for a young
man before settling on a life partner,
to watch his best girl with other girls
at a matinee when she was unaware of
his presence. Or, as another test, to
introduce her to several actors and
give her flirting proclivities plenty of
scope. Perhaps the third and best
test before joining in the matrimonial
partnership, would be to give the girl
a chance to see the would be watcher
on the front row with a ballet on the
stage, not knowing she was present.
OF course all the girls will carry on
one of these delightful illusionary
firtations at the matinee, which in
stead of the City of Paris, should be
called the PGradis deS Femnpes.
Mary Moore, when she gets into a
New York theatre next season with
Charles Wyndham, proposes to intro
duce a little idea of her own which has
become very popular at the Criterion
Theatre inssLondon... After the play, at
the matinee, Miss Moore invites those
who would like to come on the stage
and have a cup of tea with her to do
so, her notion being that the theatre
is an actors home; and the public his
family and friends. The visitors have
a nice social time, just as If they were
in Miss Moore's house. Among those
who have joined her in her
four o'clock tea recently have
been Lord and Lady Hatfield, Miss
Neville, Lady Dorothy Neville, the
Earl and Countess of Wharnecliffe,
the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn
and Princess Mary of Teck. With all
this prestige there is little doubt that
Miss Moore will have plenty of guests
at her little lat homes.n What a
chance this will be for both matrons
and girls. Whether after next season
they will be sufficiently familiar with
the stage to become completely disil-
lusionized, or will transfer their af-
fections to the villains and low com
edians, or be more completely stage
etrr1ck than ever is n 0uestiOn that