The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-03
LADYLIKE.
Significance of the Wurd-lts Use
and Abuse.


the richness of their language. their
we'll conjoined and artfully COM
pounded words, and the beauty OF
their nouns formed of adjectives.
They take a peculiar delight in the
long, many syllabled single substan-
tive in which is fused such wealth of
meanings that they boastiully declare
that it would require a long sentence
OF the Englishlanguage to convey 1T
properly. Yet~it was with a wistful
little sigh that a German lady con-
ressed that her mother tongue held
no such beautiful and expressive COM
pound as ladylike. ut means so
much" said she, obviously, "arid is so
musical and suggestive"
1t was a new point of view, and.
like all criticism from without. busted
the thoughts with the light thrown
upon the old familiar word. Memories
of early days were stirred and quick
ened, Tor almost the first instruction
to a little girl in matters of conduct is
conveyed in the ~admonition to be
ladyllke. 1t is a quality. too, which
has not its accompanying defect. One
can scarcely be too ladylike, unless
one happens to belong to the stern
sex, which occasionally produces a
miss Nancy"
LADY, has been strangely abused,
and is tattered and tom by rough
usage and misapplication; but lady
like is still sweet and delicate, and no
true woman can object to wear b
epithet as a title of honor. Indeed, 1T
is only the truly wolnanly woman who
is entitled to wear il, who possesses
the exquisite refinement. the dainty
modes OF thought and gentle speech,
which are embodied in h word
Ha2peg's Bazaar.
Tall Girls.
1t is the fashion for girls to be tall.
This is much more than saying that
tall girls are the fashion. 1t mean
not only that the tall girl has come
in, but that girls are tall, and are be-
coming tall, because it Is the fashion,
and because there is a demand for
that sort of girl. There is no hint of
stoutness, indeed the willowly pat
tern is preferred, but neither is can
ness suggested; the wonen of the
period have got hold of the poets
idea, ''tall and most divinely fair"
and are living up to it. Perhaps this
change in fashion is more noticeable
in England and on the Continent than
in America. but that may be because
there is less room for change in
America, our girls being always
of an aspiring turn. Very marked
the phenomenon is in Europe
this year; on the street. at any CON
cert or reception, the number of tall
girls is so large as to occasion remark,
especially among the young girls just
coming into the conspicuousness OF
womanhood. The tendency of the
new generation is towards unusual
height and gracious slilnness. The stu
alton would be ell barrass1ng to thou
sands of men who have been too busy
to think about growing upward, were
it not for the fact that the tall girl,
who must be looked up TO, is almost
Invariably benignant, II bears her
height with a sweet tiulidity that dis
arms fear. Besides, the tall girl las
now come on in such force that conf
dence is infused into the growing
army, and there is a ems of support
in this survival of the tallest that is
very encouraging to the young
Harpe,'s Magazine for NoUenaber.
Color ana Color Isl uUueSs.
Color blindness, says United Service,
is a serious defect, wherever found.
1t is especially so in seafaring men
and in those employed on railroads.
Possibly it is less important in q
soldier, although il must impair his
efficiency materially. Nor is it pos
sible to repair the defect by education
or study, apparently, for 1t is o
generally agreed that color is due to
SENSATION. According to Wursch and
| Young, the normal eve has only three
| color sensational red, q green, and
a violet; and the apparent color OF
any light which falls on it depends
merely on the relative intensities oil
the excitement produced by the
! light of the three organs OF sense cor
responding to these sensations. In
color blindness one or more OF these
organs of sense is wanting or imper
feet. The most common form, Dial
tonisin, depends on the absence OF the
red sense. From the experiments Of
Holmgren OIL two persons, each OF
whom was found to have one color
blind eve, the other being nearly nor
NAL, it was found (what could other
wise have been only a matter Of
theory that those persons could de
scribe the various colors with one eye,
but that there was d dead uniformity
of color when looking with the Other
eye. Thus was obtained a description
of color blind vision in terms of nor
nal vision. The old artists consld'
cred that there really were three pri'
mary color sensations-blue, yellow
and red. But Helmnoltz aud Max
we'll have now conclusively
proved that the three primarie
are red, green and violet. Certain
mixtures of violet and green can b,
made to give a blue, which accounts
for nearly the half OF the spectrum
from the blue end, when combined,
appearing of that color; and red anc
green will also give a yellow, moist
mixtures, however, giving one OF al
orange shade. 1t is commonly i'm
agined that blue and yellow mixed II
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