The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-03
SPREE UNAWARES.
A Debutante Who Liked Rum
Without Knowing it.

She is considered a rather indulgent
mamma who, in these days of strict
rules regarding such matters, will per
init her young daughter going out in
society to take a single glass OF Wine
at a dinner party. How sad a depriv-
alton it is, too, for a young girl who
likes champagne-and what girl does
not adore the sparkling potable gold
to be forbidden the Observation-Disclosures
in it, even so much as a swallow!
What q parody of total abstinence
principles to be obliged by maternal
command to place a reluctant hand
over the little widemouthed tumbler
when the waiter brings around
the frothing, napkin-wrapped bottle,
while the young married woman
| opposite, Just because she has MRS. =
in front of her name, can have all she
wants, and at the very moment is
taking sips from her second glass of
the delicious diffusive stimulant,
watching the bright bubbles run up
from the bottom of the stem as she
does so. It's hard-that's what it is.
So thinks a sweet young debutante
of this season, who. while consuming
some queer stuff resembling waterloo
curiously favored that came on be-
tween the courses of a Washington
dinner the other night was mystitied
to observe that her mother was frown-
ing and grimacing at her severely
from the other end Of the table. After
trying vainly to make out what was
the matter the girl gave it up as an
insoluble conundrum, finished off her
ice with great relish and only took
notice now and then during the re-
mainder of the repast that her mann
mas eyes were bent often upon her
with an expression of anxiety, If not
of alarm. When the ladies had left
the table not long after her mother
drew her aside in a corner of the
drawing room and said earnestly
my dear, do you feel at all queer"
"Why, no, mamma replied the
maiden. "Why should / feel so?"
You are sure you feel perfectly
yourself"
Never more so. But"
"Things about the room don't look
strange to your
Not at all. Why should they?n
my darling, you relieve my mind
greatly; but still, l am a little anxi-
Jus You did not know, | suppose,
that was Roman punch you were eat
ing at dinner"
do you mean that queer tasting
water ice, mamma?n
Eyes, dear; that had ruin and cham
payne in it; it is always made SO, Of
with rum, any way, and | vas dread
fully frightened lest it should go to
your head. But you are certain that
you don't feel it at all?n
mot a bit.n
1T is all right, then, my daughter.
for this occasion; but never touch
Roman punch again. And if should
feel at all queer later on this evening
come right to me, and l will make
proper arrangements to cover our de-
p~arture."
at all events that debutante can
say she had a real spree once in her
life, even though it was unawares.-
Washington Star.
Easter Flowers.
1t is not strange women should take
delight in rearing flowers upon their
bonnets, for If there is anything the
average female delights in it is flow
ers. 1t is noticeable the number of
women who wear clusters of blossoms
thrust into their bodices or in the
folds of their corsage while upon the
street, and what a pretty custom it is.
A bunch of violets fastened upon my
lady's gown first attracts the eye as a
dainty bit of coloring, and as she
passes on the fragrance is waited back
upon the air, leaving apleasant men,
ory. To some wonen flowers are pc
cufiarly comforting. Many have their
favorite, which brings with subtle fra
GRANGE grave memories, or gay, as the
case may be. but always welcome, for
the sake of some moment or brief
hour when life was young and the
rosy tint of youth was all about them.
The intense perfume of some flowers
affects sensitive women who are
prone to cherish associations more
than men. For instance, one little
woman who is passionately fond of
the old fashioned ~.lilacs-longs for
them ct the approach Of spring, be-
cause of the many pleasant memories
clustered about Jliem-is so affected
by their fragrance that even while
burying her face in the blossoms can
not keep the tears from filing her
eyes and sometimes falling like dew
drops upon the flowers she loves SO
well.-NeWGqk E0ening NesDs.
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