The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-27
TOpRETTYW WOMEN
Cultivation Of the Mind Is las Neces-
sary to Them as to Their
Less Favored Sisters.

she will conquer her Kingdom by
means OF it; and when the day OF
reckoning, the day of fading comes,
the kingdom will be already hers by
| right of possession. Indeed she does
not consider the day Of fading; it is
| something as difficult for her to real
ize as death itself is to the young; 1t
is far of. vague, all but impossible;
how is she ever going to look other
than she does now, and still be c
| self? And at any rate there are al
WAYS the means TO make the repairs
of beauty. and sufficient unto the day
Is the evil thereof. And so, in an av-
| erage of more than half the instances,
she goes dancing oil about
her pleasure like a fly in
the sun, as full of the present, as
careless of the future; she makes no
preparation for the impending fate
which is sure to come to herif she live
long enough; she relies on her fair
face, her bushes, her uimples, her
smiles. her glances, her sweetness. To
| please. to attract, to marry, to marry
well, is the mark she has set before
her. and it does not need cultivation
of the sterner virtues for that; h
sterner virtues are not greatly called
into account In this quest, have little
opportunity of asserting themselves,
| or even OF being missed.
Nor is great intellectual cultivation
in the scheme of our pretty woman.s
life; according to her plan of action it
is entirely unnecessary. Who cares
for svllogisms, lectures, instructions,
| she unconsciously argues from rosy.
lips? Who will stop to ask if the
| bright eyes have dulled themselves
| over drv pages of scholastic lore? Let
| who will be learned, it is enough for
her to be gay and happy.
What, then. has III pretty creature
left for the dim passages OF middle
age, when beauty has fallen away,
but there still is left the desire to hold
| captive what once beauty gained2
The time is coming when there will
be deep crescents round the mouth
whoselovely curves have been dragged
down by faced muscles, when there
will be fine spider-web lines about
the eyes, when there will be hollows
in the cheeks, when the red and white
of the skin will have become blurred
and mottled or overlaid with yellow
sallowness, when perhaps there Will
be present in the vacuous face only
that divine smile which has lost the
two front teethf"
Let the pretty girl remember that
in the darkness of that middle passage
the beauty that she had before she
entered it will not signify; all faces
are in the dark together then, the girl
that was plain with the girl that was
beautiful; the wreck OF beauty signi-
ies then no more than the wreck of
what was never beauty, 1t is the
sweet voice, the kindly manner. the
burden of what is said, the tender
h~eartedness of what is done, that tells
with any effect then. 1t will not be
long before she arrives at this time,
which, in comparison to the blaze OF
youth, neighbors close on the dark;
and she will need then all with which
she can have filled her intellect and
fed her soul, all that wit and virtue
and breeding can have given her, in
order to retain anything OF that king
dom to which in the early days she
felt herself born by right divine
Harper's Bazar.
Experiences of Observing outh
There was once a schoolmaster OF
such a peculiar disposition that he
constantly reproved his favorites and
treated with a polite indulgence those
pupils for whom he felt "a personal
Indifference.
Everybody knows you're his pet,
| Harry said one boy to another, in
discussing the master.
"Ii' cried Harry, still smartinp
from an application of the ferule, II
should like to know why you think
THAR"
Why? Because he bangs you
about so, stupid
Another lad, a curly haired, sweet
faced child, had a somewhat similar
reason for trusting his teachers affec-
ton.
Does she have any favoritess" a
visitor asked him one night.
"Well, she likes me pretty WELL
answered Harry, in%nocently.
why you conceited young man.
What makes you think so?"
because she keeps me every night
till five o'clock and lets the others go
home,n quoth he, and so honestly
that no one could tell whether he
knew himself to be the most mis-
chievous boy in school, or whether he
really considered his punishment as a
mark of affection.
Another novel reason for discipline
was that vouchsafed by a boy, a third
child, whose school record was a grief
to his parents and should have been
to himself.
Tommy said his teacher one day
in despair, why do you think | scold
you so muchs'
"Cause you get sort o. fretful keep
ing school, was the evidently honest
and quite unexpected reply Youth,
Companion.
Exercise for Elderly Ladies.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson advise
middle aged and elderly women t.
play at ball for half an hour ever,
day. French women of leisure nse
daily gymnastic drill, with parable
bars, wooden horses, ropes aid lad
ders, and for that reason, Mrs. Ander
son thinks, they are much less subjec
to indigestion, rheumatism. vertigl
and other ills of advancing age thai
are English or American lnatrons il
easy circumstances .-Ha1peg's Bdzd9
He Got 1t.
One day last uinmer l vas goin:
from Kingsbridge in the train whel
the following funny incident oe
curred:-I noticed among the passer
1900