The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-25
ELIAS BOWER.
Fads and Trifes in the Dainty
Room In Which the Alleged
Poetess Writes.

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Wilcox does her writing is a pretty
place, but she doesn't shut herself up
in a dungeon alone to compose her
poetry, for this is in one corner of her
parlor. On the table are manydainty.
womanly trifies. A fur rug is on the
floor under her dainty little wicker
rocking chair, and beside the table is
a large easy chair, where ! suspect
her husband is accustomed to sit to
chat with her when he is at home.
The rest of the parlor is filled with
lovely things. A piano stands in one
corner; a cosy lounge, piled high with
splendid cushions; a chimney piece
filed with bronzes and other fanciful
%trifles, draperies of plush, of b~rocatelle
and all the things now considered
necessary for a handsome parlor, but
all somehow partaking something OF
her own nature.
There are pictures, plaques and
cabinets, portieres and elaborate otto
mans, but each and everything melts
into the other SO that the whole pic
ture would not be complete If one
thing was lacking. Opening from
her parlor is a vista OF other rooms,
each as dainty, al luxurious and in
viting as the first, and all showing
her love of beauty and a care and love
of order unexpected in a poet. Not
one OF her pictures has W done her
justice, for nothing can show her in
her own home where she is at her best
and brightest.
The afternoon when I visited her |
=. O4,o1l %h0+ cha r~r.oxu xrfcihIr end and
two or three times / saw her lips treIn-
BILE and tears fill her eyes in spite of
herself, and rose to go, fearing | vas
in some way intruding, but she finally
ssowned up that her husband was to
leave that evening for the West on a
four months trip, on his business,
and that she t'never could get used to
having him go.n He has large inter
ests in a silverware factory, which re-
quire his supervision. Presently he
came home and confessed to feeling a
little blue and I left them to their
grief, for that it manifestly vas In
these days such conduct in folks mar
ried six years is re~prehensible, but in
expressibly sweet and touching.
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Gymnasiums for Women.
The good that follows physical de-
velopment in a gymnasium shonld by
no mean be monopolized by men.
Indeed, if it were possible that only
one sex could enter and use a gym
nasium, that sex should be the one
which supplies the mothers, and
which, as such, transmits to sons and
daughters whatever of strength or of
weakness heredity entails. This fact
has been slow to find recognition in
this country, where devotion to
women is a dominant character of all
intelligent Americans. More gener-
| ally than elsewhere are the wonen Of
America accorded equal advantage in
the battle of life in all fields of labor.
But in all efforts to ecu the most
desirable of possessions, sound health,
the American oma is granted
fewer opportunities than men. She
takes less exercise, her clothing is less
calculated to leave the vital organs un-
hampered, and she is only beginning to
indulge in out door exercise, in boat
ing, cicycling, tennis, etc. AT best, her
time of muscular energy is during the
out door months. During the rest
of the year she hibernates, in SO far as
muscular development is concerned,
while her brother can keep his sum
mer gained muscular tissues from
growing haccid by club swinging,
dumbbel exercise and other doings at
a public gymnasium. School drill
and calisthenics accomplish some
thing for the girls, but not enough.
They should have a gymnasium OF
their own, or have certain hours OF
their own at a gymnasium for both
sexes. There are too many pale girls,
dyspeptic girls and sallow girls
Pitts6urg Bulletin.
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