Passaic City record., 1890-06-19
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.
What He Sees and Hears Worth Not
ing in Passaic Life.

more admirably SnOWeu HIMSELF tuau On
Sunday evening, when he traced West
minister up from the time of it's erection
by the last Saxon King, Edward the
Confessor, I" to the present day.
Those who missed that discourse
missed nuggets of beautiful and impor-
tant English history, which they can
never grasp with the same sense of clear
ness, though they read all the histories
extant. when DR.. Leavens announces
such an oratorial treat,it does not go un-
observed or unheeded. On Sunday night
learned and scholarly men and women
from all the other churches in the city
were present to help feast their souls aud
brains on the banquet of good things
they knew would be there.
Some people are beginning to ask
what the City Council proposes to do
with the Paulison property. If it is to
be park they want it opened to them,
inasmuch as they and not their children
or grandchildren have to pay for it..
The Woodworking masses who spend
their dismal weeks in the mills want a
place Just like that where they can go
ON Sundays with their families tc get a
breath of fresh air. The down-trodden
servant girl, who spends her days in the
secludes of the kitchen and laundry,
wants spot where she can HE herself at
night time, and with her lover gaze at
the little stars that tremble in the frma-
ment. There are dozen other classes
who want the park for various purposes.
Converting the beautiful spot into a
pleasure ground will enhance the value
Of property thereabouts, because it will
attract people up there. But how about
the castle2 What shall we ask of it.
1t would make good opera-house. a
good city hall, or a good club house, or
a dozen other good things, but it will
cost great many thousands of dollars to
make it available for such purposes. 1t
has lust dawned upon this City Council
that the nominal sum of $23, 900 or $685.
600 paid for the property is small con-
sideration compared with the amount it
will cost to utilize it.
Lady athletes are beginning to ad-
minister their refining influences to that
healthful and heretofore manly sport OF
riding a wheel. Female bicyclists were
unknown in Passaic last summer. Now
they are quite numerous. This taking
to the wheel by the fair sex has had a
tendency to cause the young men to look
more carefully after the development
of their muscles. and the result is, we
have so many riders that the town feels
proud. But they do not all belong to
the upper-crusts either. No, some of
our best riders are young men who have,
previous to the wheeling mania, de-
veloped their sinews by carrying mortar
and swinging the sledge hammer.
By the way, female influence is be-
ginning to crop out rather forcibly and
decidedly at the P. @. w. and A. A.
Club house. We find that some of our
Girls can handle the billiard cue with as
much agility as their grandmothers dis
played in stirring apple-butter: These
girls have also learned to drill and do
some feminine gymnastic feats with
various degrees of gracefulness. The
fact is that some of the male aspirants OF
tie trapeze have shown such compara-
tive lack of skill that they have
abandoned the idea OF frequenting the
gymnasium aye, the entire club house.
Speaking of the nuptials of the past
week. we'll known society lady who
has lust scored her twenty fifth birthday
said the other day, with shrug, that So
ciety would in another year seem very
cold and uncongcnial to her. 81 can
not help realizing" said she, "the sad
truth, that within the past couple of
wears nearly all my early friends have
either married, died or left Passaic. My
parents have always told me that twenty
five was comparatively young, and strange
enough, have never until now thought
that it was half way to fifty. My mother
isn't quite fifty, and her hair is almost
white. She was always afraid l would
marry too young, and yet she was wife
long before she was my age. The girls
that are courted most in society are those
of any age under mine. Even the maiden
of sixteen seems quite favorlte with
the men, but she is awfully frivolous and
uncongenial to, we girls standing on the
brink of spinsterhoo6. Oh, if | could
but live my life over again" This young
lady spoke in the way of jesting, but her
remarks were strangely true. There is
new generation of girls coming into no
tice here. They made their debuts into
society in small way last season, but
wait till next winter; there will be
revolution. The faces that year ago
were courted with smiles and favors by
fine men will be left to hide their crow
leet behind the curtains, while the school
tassies will trip the light fantastic toe.
The lessons to be learned IN the Police
Court may not be as instructive as they
are amusing, but they do tend, however,
to impress upon our minds the depraved
stages to which society can sink before it