The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-18
WEDDING CARDS.
Some of the Queer Customers Who
Make Amusement for g~tationers.

MdkcA MuStIlcub lVl LldblUHClos
The life Of the dealer in stationery
is an u%neventful one and exciting or
amusing incidents with him are few,
but once in a great while little scenes
occur which compensate him in a
measure for the usual dizziness.
There is one class of customers to
| whom he and his clerks look for the
greater share of their business diver
| sion. These are the prospective
brides who order their wedding and
reception cards. There is usually a
mixture of overpowering embarrass-
ment and excessive painstaking which
is very eomical to the dispenser of
| cardboard.
1--WE have 'em in all styles, sizes and
| prices said a Wabash venue dealer
| the other day. From the blushing
young maiden of eighteen to the false
| and frivolous mam'seile of forty-fve,
and it is really a circus to see them. OF
| all the queer ideas displayed they do
have the queerest. The young ones
are generally so modest that they do
| not insist on their ideas being carried
out, but the old t~artars, who have
labored for long years to catch a man
do not hesitate to demand that things
be Just as they wish them. One old
party came in here about three
months ago who was n OF the
worst specimens ] have struck. She
had false hair, false teeth
and bogus complexion, vas wea-
was pronounced back number.
| She was on the shady side Of forty,
| but had determined upon assuming a
| fictitious age and had selected twenty
| one as the proper thing. She evil
| IDENTITY intended to do a wholesale job
| of generalization, and informed me
| half a dozen times in the course cd
| conversation that she had just passet-
twenty-one.' And not contenn
ed with that she insisted of
having it printed on her
| cards. The cards were actually sent
| out inscribed aged twenty
one years and nine days. There was
| another old timer came in here about
| Christmas and insisted that her card
be bordered with black, because her
| former husband had been dead but q
, short time.
Sometimes they are accompanied
| by the proposed victim, but often by
| some female friend. We can gener-
allv spot them when they come in,
whether young or old, and the clerks
always fight for the opportunity to
wait on the young ones. Next to a
fire or a hand-organ we consider them
the best grade of amusement.n-ChS-
cGgo Meas.
Curiosity in Paper.
George West, of Ballston, Is in pos
session OF a curiosity in paper, sent
him by d friend in Hong Kong, China.
It is a sheet eleven by fourteen in
| ches. made from the web Of the ''sa-
cred white spider" Of the Flowery
Kingdom. It is as light as air and
almost as transparent, but is also
beautifully printed, containing about
two columns of matter, giving in Eng
lish the story of how "Midshipman
Copplestone was Presented at the
Court Of Pekin.n Americans know
much about paper making, but it is
safe to say that there is not q spider
web paper factory outside the almond
eyed Observation-Disclosures Record.
Baths in Russia.
En- Russia the poorest peasant could
not don his holiday attire without re-
sorting to his village bath. These
baths are found in every Russian vii
lage. The bathers, after being steamed
and soaped, and rubbed with coarse
towels and beaten with softened birch
twigs, and from time to time drenched
with cold water, ending with a dash
of the same, will frequently go and
plunge into a pond or roll in the
- Ht~ooo 1aa3 Doa1ofaaso
TIE Button a Badge of Honor.
In China the highest grade of lit
erary distinction is marked by a gold
button affixed on the cap Of the indi-
vidual. The different grades of man
darins are likewise denoted by the
color of the buttons which they are
privileged to wear. So also in Europe
a button on the front of the cap for
merly represented a mark Of civil
honor. Thus Shakespeare makes
G~uildenstern in .Hainlet'' say:
On fortunes cap we are not the very button.
Meaning not the most highly fav-
ored. Again. George G~ascoigne, in
his Workmanship, makes a similar
allusion to the courtly favor of one OF
his gallants:-
His bonet buttoned with gold,
His comlie cape Regarded all with gay,
His bombast hose with Innings manifold.
Henceforward, then, let none be
guilty of undertaking the button, re
hecting that, like a good husband,
buttons are always valued the more
when found wanting.
Tho Use OF Slang.
She was a very nice looking girl
she had bright eyes that CLEANED
alike with fun and determination
She had on a pretty brown dress, hel
gloves fitted her perfectly, and shs
wore the daintiest of brown straw
hats, says the Ladies' Home Journal
She paid her fare in the street en-
and, as she closed her purse with {
snap, she said, s'Im getting very tiret
Of it, and I don't intend to allow my
self to indulge in it any longer" Sh'
was tired of hearing a girl say she wa
dead struck" on a young man whel
she meant, she thought, he was very
pleasant. OF hearing another on
announce that she thought rose
colored ribbons were very "swag
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