The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-05
WOMAN IS WEAK.
The Special Sales Always Fluid Her
Ready to be Interested
and Tempted.

.... - - -Nt
Fully half the virtues for which
their wner are praised are of spon-
taneous growth, and really reflect
little credit upon those who practice
them.
Let us take a case in point-that OF
a woman who has a pet extravaganza.
1t is teacups. She loves pretty clothes,
but she can gaze at the latest fabrics
in the windows Of dry goods shops
without being tempted to purchase,
and a even survey, mistaken, In
voices of Partisan millinery, gowns
and gloves. She has a sweet tooth,
but when occasion requires she can
steer a steady course between Purs-
smells and Arnaud's, or Huyler's and
Deane's, without swerving to the
right or to the left. But when she
lei a china shop, her steps falter.
Strange to say, the very high priced
shops do not most beguile her. Her
attraction is towards those ~fascinat-
ing little establishments that display
cards bearing the legends, Especial
Sale" Great Reduction" Marked
Down. Like q moth to a candle, is
she drawn towards the place of temp
tation. All china is dear to her
heart, but she can resist plates, tea
pots and ever cream jugs, of which
every housekeeper knows one IAN
never have too many. But when she
beholds a cup and saucer ticketed
Only "a cents, she is sure to succumb.
She can hold out a trifie longer if she
reads 80 cents, and twice she has
been known to walk on, with ar air
of dignity, as far as the corner, before
she could make up her mind to go
in and buy the cup and saucer billed,
For today only, SO cents. Don't think
she is reckless in her selection. She
always prefers pretty china, aud gen.
orally shows excellent taste, but she
will buy even a plain cup sooner than
refuse a bargain.
Now this woman is known as a good
wife and mother. She is praised for
her housekeeping, which she likes, for
her devotion to her husband and chill
dren, whom she adores. for her pleas
ant, cordial manner, which is entirely
natural, and for her philanthropy and
benevolence, which are innate. But
should she tell of the times when she
scores a veritable moral victory by
crossing the street to keep away from
a china shop, or recites poetry to her.
self to aid her in forgetting an adver-
tisement of a CLOSING Out Sale, Cups
and Saucers of fine Doulton, Copeland
and Limoges at only So cents apiece"
everyone would laugh. and no one
would think it worth while to account
her resistance of temptation as a long
step in the path OF selfcontrol and
selfdenial.
Which goes to prove the force of the
sentence that preludes this trut hful
narrative.-Ha1pe7's Bazaar.
Preserving the Complexion.
A great deal can be done towards
having a smooth complexion, by a
systematic treatment of rubbing, says
The Ladies' Home Journal. A fine
towel or a bit of red flannel are best
for rubbing. twice a day, or four times,
if rapid results are to accrue. BY de-
grees-as the skin gains tone and elias
ITCHY from having thrown off the
waste matter in its ducts that kept it
clogged, sickly and fabby-the fric-
ton can increase in energy. The skin
becomes, not tougher, but more re-
sistant. Ii the rubbing is too hard at
first, however, it is liable to produce
redness and pimples. Even slight fric-
ton will do this at times on an unac-
customed skin. But the treatment
should be persevered in nevertheless,
and the skin soon becomes extraordi-
narily fine and smooth.
Women moker
Abiding to an article in a Scotch
journal by w. E. Henley, which de-
clares that the habit of smoking is
spreading among fashionable women
in England. Miss Glider says in a let
ter to the Transcript
II am surprised that so keen q ma
tional observer should have just
awakened to the fact that cigarette
smoking is fashionable in London. 1t
has been for years, though it is not
so common there as in this country.
1t seems to me that half the women
one meets smoke openly or in secret.
| mean quiet, domestic women, too.
One of the most conservative and
thoroughbred women in New York,
one whose very name is a synonyme
for all that is iadylike and refined, is
an inveterate cigarette smoker. She
always carries a silver cigarette case
In ner pOckeG as dHotier Woman
might carry O pocketbook or a Thin
BILE. T~obacconists, whom l have
taken the trouble to ask, tell me that
they have almost as many lady Gus
toners as men, and they buy the bet
ter class of cigarettes"
If half the women Miss Glider
meets smoke cigarettes it would seem
to be only another way of saying that
she lives in Bohemia where women
enjoy a certain freedom from social
conventionalities as a compensation
for the loss of some domestic advan-
ta pas -PbiIn1eL0hin Press.