The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-08
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Anecdotes in Paragraphs OF Not
ables- Lady Dufferin's
"reminiscences.

IOlStOIS second daughter. MOscHa,
is a converet to her fathers teach
ing, and dressed as a peasant girl,
she labors in the fields and cares for
the poor.
Mrs. Spots, of Mount Carmel, Pa,
is the mother Of triplets. This is a
case where three spots count for more
than an ace.
Mrs. Lucy Drexel has q dozen
volumes of letters written by ancient
Mayor of New York.
A Browning primer is Forthcoming.
Browning is to be made SO easy that
it may be read by any one. Miss
Mary M. Wilson is the writer, cola
piler, editor and if one may say SO,
the author.
Lady Balgarine, who has been
doing the slums of Boston, SAYS they
are not SO bad as those OF London.
and that there is an entire absence OF
that expression of utter hopelsssness
which characterizes the London out
cast.
Lady Dufferin's book of reminis-
cences contains this incidents: during
one of their tours through Canada
she and her husband were met by
some Irish emigrants. woman
was almost mad with enthusiasm, ana
wanted to kiss Lord Dufferin's hand:
but he protested, saying he could NOT
allow a lady to do So. 'Then may |
kiss your face?'' she asked. The
Governor General got out of his EN-
barrassing position by saying Lady
Dufferin does not allow that"
ID. D..-lruI% &, - 1rncc 1s0fnrfnaT nnd
her ultra notions seem to be lln-
pressed upon the other women of her
COMPANY, only onee of whom has
dared to display to a Chicago audi
ence her taper waist confined in a
whalebone. The queen OF tragedy
has been O grandmother three years.
Historians differ concerning her age,
but a good authority places it at fifty
four. How she manages to lose thirty
wears whenever she steps behind the
footlights is a mystery.
An equivocal compliment is per-
plexino a Young man of Hallowell,
Me. A fascinating girl, to whom he
has been paving considerable atten-
ton. has named a pet calf after him.
Several ladies of Tacoma have or
ganized a rainy day club. The object
is to induce the members. on rainy
DAYS. to wear skirts which do not ex-
tend below the ankles.
When Mrs. Jefferson Davis began
to assist her husband, soon after they
were married, by acting as his aman-
ensis, her handwriting was too girlish
to please him, and she determined to
initiate his handwriting. With trac-
ing paper she copied and recopied his
manuscript until by practice she
could produce his writing in fac
siInile.
The fact that large attention is be-
ing given to women and wolnen's
work by the managers of the Worlds
Fair has called forth feminine appro-
baton from all civilized countries,
and may prove a considerable ele-
ment in furthering the success OF the
enterprise,
The infant daughter of Emma Ne
yada is credited with saying, in reply
to a query as to her occupations
Sometimes l play with my dolly, but
usually l mediate over mammals
career"
A Vice which Sometimes is a Virtue.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox calls vanity
woman's most excellent vice and
among many other true words say
this: "As a wife, l think the Dill
devoid of vanity is not a success. She
is far more liable to be Jealous than is
her sister. who is tinctured with that
much abused quality. The wife who
possesses a pretty good opinion OF her
personal charms and her worth, is a
much more comfortable being for a
L. l.r1II ,x,stL Gra iS mona ont
to be liberal and generous minded,
believing it impossible that her hus-
band could forget her for any other
woman and a man will keep true to
that sort of a woman, where he will be
driven to Inconsistency by the one who
is forever Jealous of his slightest at
tention.t to another. The with
out any vanity is the one who as a
rule. suffers the keenest pangs of jeal-
ousv. believing all other wolnen to be
more attractive than herself"
Presence of Mind.
Some queer situations have arisen
since the enforcement of the rule COM
polling male passengers to smoke on
the front platforms of cars. Two
ladies sat in the real end of O Detroit
car the other day talking i'll a tone
plainly audible to their long-suffering
fellow passengers. The ear was full,
SAYS the Free Press, and well satu-
rated with the fumes of tobacco
smoke which had somehow sneaked
in through the crevices OF the closed
front door. The disagreeable smell,
as of burning rags, caused II of the
ladies to remark:
Isn't it mean that men should act
sol"
1T is, indeed" conceded her COM
panion.
''Thank heaven, / married a man
who has will power enough to con-
troll his habits. He would no more
smoke in public than fly. OF course
it is owing to my excellent teaching,
or j suppose he would be a good deal
like the rest" and she settled back in
her seat with the most complacent air
imaginable. Hardly had she done so,
however, before the front door opened
and a chilly blast of air ushered in a
middle-aged man who carried between
his teeth the lighted remains of a
cigar. He was about to pass oil out,
but the complacent lady caught his
attention, and, removing the stub, he
exclaimed
MY, Marthy, where are you
going?"
He was her husband, but with adj
mirable presence of mind she ex-
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