The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-30

The Girl ish Ones Growing Scarce
Home Comforts and Helps.

Home Comforts and Helps.
"There is something that is getting
to be awfully scarce in this world"
says the Chicago Herald. SHALL I
tell you what it is? 1t is girls. That
is what is missing out of the sentient,
breathing, living world just now. We
have lots of young ladies and lots OF
society misses, but the sweet, old
fashioned girls of ever SO long ago are
vanished with the poke bonnets and
the cinnamon cookies. Let Inc emu
merate a few of the kind of girls that
are wanted. In the first place we
want home girls-girls that are
mothers right hand; girls who can
cuddle the little one next best to
and smooth out the tangles
in the domestic skein when things
get twisted; girls whom father
takes comfort in for something bet
ter than beauty and the big brothers
are proud of for something that out
ranks the ability to dance or shine in
society. Next, we want girls of n
girls who have a standard of their
own regardless of conventlonalities
and are independent enough to live
up to it.; girls who simply won't wear
a trailing dress on the street to gather
up microbes and all sorts OF defile-
ment; girls who won't wear a high
hat to the theatre, or lacerate their
feet and endanger their health with
high heels and tight shoes; girls who
will wear what is pretty and becom-
ing and sap their fingers at the
dictates of fashion when fashion is
horrid and silly. And we want
good girls-girls who are sweet,
right straight out from the heart to
the lips; innocent and pure and sim
pie girls, with less knowledge of sin
and duplicity and evil doing at twenty
than the pert little schoolgirl of ten
has all toe often; girls who say their
prayers and read their Bibles and love
God and keep his commandments.
And we want careful girls and pru-
dent girls, who think enough of the
generous father who tolls to main
tain them in comfort, and of the gen.
tie mother who denies herself much
that they may have sc many pretty
things, to count the cost and draw the
line between the essentials and the
non-essentials; girls who strive to save
and not to spend; girls who are un-
selfish and eager to be a joy and a
comfort in the home rather than an
expensive and useless burden.
girls who are full of tender
ness and sympathy. with tears that
flow for other peoples ills and smiles
that light outward their own beauti-
full thoughts. We have lots of clever
girls and brilliant girls and witty
girls. Give us a consignment of jolly
girls, warm hearted and ilnpulsive
girls, kind and entertaining to their
own folks and with little desire to
shine in the garish world. With a
few of such girls scattered around, life
would freshen up for all OF is, as the
weather does under the spell OF SUM-
mer showers. Speed the day when
this sort of girls fills the world once
more, overrunning the spaces where
God puts them as climbing roses do
when they break through the trellis
\ to gli1nmer and CLINT above the com-
mon highway, a blessing and a boon
to all who pass them by"
We cannot help thinking that If
the writer of the above article looked
about a little, he would find many
girls of today as pure and sweet and
as willing to make homes as were the
.'old fashioned girls" whose depart
ure he regrets. '"Times change and
people change" and every day some
one looks back on some old fashioned
girl and wishes her back.
Perhaps he had a dear old fashioned
wife or loving, unseltish mother for
whom he mourns; it he is true to them,
so much the better, but he should not
be blinded to the virtues of the
modern girl.
A Sweet Sentiment.
At a pretty home wedding lately
solemnized in New York, the bride, a
handsome and most charming woman,
who during all the years of young
ladyhood had enjoyed an unusual
amount of admiration and attention
from young men and mt of her
acquaintance, wore Il most curious
and quaint cluster OF faded yellow
flowers pinned on the left breast of
her fair white wedding dress, says the
Illustrated Ame9icdn. The spectators
wondered and in whispers commented
ON the novel as the bride
passed up between the ribbons to meet
her future husband, and not an in
ulVluuai present ou1 ieiC d HILLS tLfiii
OF curiosity upon stepping up to
tender congratulations and keenly
scrutinize the queer corsage bouquet.
1t turned out to be a full dozen or
more of tiny orange blossom sprays. a
few yet fresh, wsxy white artificial
blooms and the rest withered rose
buds and lily-of-the-valley, caught
together with a knot of white ribbon
and each spray bearing a minute
written slip of paper, Everyone had
been clipped from the bouquets OF
head wreaths of friends for whom the