The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-23
WHINING WOMEN.
Unconsciously They Make Life q
Burden to All Around Them.

DuTu6n 10 All AT0uuu lutus
If there is anything | am profound
ly grateful for it is that ! have not to
my portion a woman who whines. If
I had, l fear my name would some
time be numbered with those who
have ~mysteriously disappeared and
have never been heard of again, for,
with no small amount of good humor
and the gift of being able to adapt
myself to most of the circumstances
of life, | cannot endure a whin-
ing woman. / know of one
such woman, and her husband has
my profound sympathy-poor fellow
If it rains his wife whines because the
sun doesn't shine. If the sun shines
she whines because it doesn't rain. Ii
she is sick she whines because she
isn't well, and if she is well she whines
because she has SO much to do. She
has one of those fretful, droning
voices peculiarly e~xasperating to
to most people-a voice that would
drive some men to deeds Of despera-
ton.
She was at our house one day
whining, as usual:-"The fruit sea-
sons ali over with and / didn't get to
can half | wanted to, and | feel SO
put out about it. I'm so rushed all
the time [ never get to do half ] want
to. Some days l just sit down and
cry. My baby has a dreadful cold;
seems to me he always has something
or other. What a sight of trouble
children are, anyhow, dear, dear,
You're all through house cleaning,
aren't you? And I've hardly begun.
l don't know as I'll ever get it finished.
/ do hate it sol What a handsome
new chair you have! I'd like one like
it, but / don't see how we can get
anything new this fall, Henry's bust
ness is so poor. / just worry over it
all the time. There's nothing but fuss
and worry in this world. anyhow; dear
me, dear mel'
That is a specimen of how she goes
on for hours at a time. That is what
her husband comes home to at night.
That is what he hears day in and day
out at his table. That is what must
ring in the poor fellows ears all day
long, depressing and disheartening
him, and taking from him all the joy
and gladness of life.
/ read lately of a bank president
who positively refused to have men
in positions of trust in his bank whose
home life was known to be unhappy.
He regarded such men as peculiarly
liable to temptation, and one cannot
help thinking that he was correct in
his estimate of the dangers surround
ing such q man.
Now you need not tell me that the
woman of whom l write cannot help
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failing or a tendency against which
she has no power to strive. / don't
believe it. She is a perfectly healthy
and robust woman, and she needs to
brace up-to come to a realizing sense
of what she owes to herself, her hus-
band, her children and society in gem
eral.-Zends Dane IN Good House
keeping.
h Queen at Aix-1es-Bains.
At Aix-les-Bains the queen of Eng
land rises at eight a. M, takes a
shower bath at Aixwater, brought
from the Establishment, and break
fasts at nine. An outing follows, in
which the carriage drive is varied by
the appearance of the donkey Jacquot
and his pannier at the foot of every
steep incline. After lunch Lady
Churchill and Miss Phipps read the
English papers to the queen, who then
takes another drive. After a cup of
tea her majesty receives the minister
in attendance, writes her private let
tiers, which are taken off to London
by a special courier. Dinner rarely
begins before nine, and is quite a fam
lily meal. Sir Henry Ponsonby re-
ceives the French officers at his own
table as the queens representative
Ercbange.
A New Order in New York.
An intense young woman, a mem
Der of the Art Students league of
New York, has founded a new order
called the Order of the Zinnia, named
for that prim and unyielding flower
which is believed to be the emblem of
perpetual maidenhood, and the
students who wear the zinnia have
declared themselves welded to
their art. Each member tax s
an oath to marry, but to
pledge herself to her work. But, as
usual with the irrevocable, there is a
postscript. When she has taken the
oath she adds the following SEN
tence:-"But if / ever do marry |
promise to give a dinner to the Tin
mas, which shall not cost less than
500, as a penalty for having broken
my vow to my art and to my order.n-
Cor. Hartford Couwant.
Her Face Her Fortune.
Mrs. Langtry's beauty was an IN
dowment worth about 81, 600, 900. AS
a business venture she has paid inter-
est at six per cent. on So, 1000. 900, but
then she has off years, such as the one
three seasons ago when she dyed her
hair, and this year, when she is har-
raised in grim, malignant and rasp-
ing way by the govt. The Langtry's
beauty was more productive OF gold
than the genius of Rachel, Rosa Bon
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