The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-29
ABSOLUTELY PURE

was made for her from the little
crowd that had been attracted by her
playing, and as this was handed to
her She thrust it into her pocket with
the same callous air with which she
had first asked for aims. The evanes
cent reflection of a pure and happy
past hickered and went out of the
faded, weather beaten face as sud-
denly as it had come there, and in a
minute more a blear-eyed, half
drunken and bedraggled woman was
drifting out upon the street to beg
from door to door and all too anxious
to drown the Hood of memories that
she had heedlessly awakened as she
struck the first chord on that piano.
-NeaO Orleans ISmes-Democrdt.
Broad Views of a m
Mrs. Allen Freeman Palmer, form
erly president of Wellesley College,
has some capital ideas about women
and girls which do not accord withthe
prevailing theories. 1.-THE influence
of the higher education of women"
she says, sis to benefit, improve and
idealize the home life. 1t means
breadth of mind. se~lf-control, retire.
lance, sweetness of temper, sound
health and, above all, womanliness.
The first step must come from the
gymnasium door. There the laws Of
living are interpreted; there the
woman learns to know herself, and
there is laid the foundation for mental
health, muscular development and
physical perfection. The time for the
whimsical, w oma is past;
there is nc room for the girl who lives
by her emotions outside OF the sani-
tarium or lunatic asylum. Good
health, logical training and a correct
ideal will ennoble the woman and
raise the standard of home, which is
the basis of society"
The boy and Girl of It.
Have any of our young readers no
ticed an odd difference which there is
between the generosity of boys and
that of girls?
Joe and Jenny, for example, are
walking to school, and pass a cat that
has been hurt or a bird with a broken
wing. In almost every Ease the girl
will stop to pet and care for the hurt
creature. She lavishes time and ten
derness upon it, while the boy, with a
shrug, runs on and thinks no more
of it.
1t is Jenny who will bring flowers
to the invalid at home; who will hang
over her couch, trying to be useful;
who will gladly sacrifice play or sleep
in order to help her.
Joe, as a rule, hates a sick room,
shirks the sight of pain, aud has little
sympathy to give to any misfortune
or grief.
But if Joe and Jenny have each $40
to spend it will usually be the girl
who will hoard the pennies or will be
hard and sharp in driving a bargain,
who will be unreasonable in expect
ing too much for her money from
tradesmen.
Yet if you probe the matter to the
bottom you will probably find that
naturally Joe is not more liberal than
his sister, or that Jennie really is
more affectionate than Joe. But their
training has been in some respects
different. The boy has been given
money, and has formed a habit of
using it more freely; into the girls in
door life have been brought leisure
and habits of kindness. Each gives
of that which previous training makes
most easy and natural. The boy, his
loosely held money, the girl, her time
and sympathy.
The defects in Joe and Jenny would
be lessened were their education in
some respects the same; if gentler and
kindlier influences were brought into
were early taught the use and abuse
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