The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-13
THE ENCHANTING WOMAN.
She is Sympathetic. Toward Joy
and SOrrow-Wherein Her
Power Lies.


One needs only a slight experience
in general society to discover that
a ste has separate necessities in diff
ferent individuals, and that beauty,
wit, style" a gift for light conversa-
ton, depth of mind, have each their
admirers, a fact that sets the ones on
the outside of the especial circum-
stance to wondering what there can
possibly be in the particular woman
to draw
Is there a woman who is universally
enhancing? Is there a woman who
commands worship swift and entire
a worship impatient of reasoning,
| that submits to no authority but that
of insight?
If there is. we must naturally con-
cIude that she possesses something
that appeals to more than one side OF
human nature, and this does not mean
that she has that diplomacy that ! n
the beginning is perhaps nothing
more than the desire to please the
many. but which often degenerates
into positive insincerity, but rather
that unconscious touch upon her kind
that comes from a very necessity OF
her being.
Sorrow and joy are at the extremes
of human experience, and the woman
who stands at the centre stretching
sympathetic hands toward either con-
dition must be the n who is essen
TALLY charming. Like T~ennyson's
Rare pale Margaret" she stands
between the rainbow and the sun
This woman of the sweet conndlng
nature. who is thrilled with the de-
lights of life, upon whom is flashed all
tile beauty and grace in nature, and
vet who bears about her evidence that
the storms have ragged at the very cen
tire of her soul, and that shehas taken
the hand of many a sufferer, to
descend in sympathy to the deepest
grave of affection, is an enchantress.
She is the one to whom the young
come with their enthusiasts and
youthful fears and hopes; indeed, so
perennial are the springs OF renewal
within her nature that in the passage
of the years time seems to have re-
fused to make its sign upon her, and
vet the middle-aged and the old rec
ognize in her a friend and helper.
To her the knightliness of the man
Hest manhood bows and offers protec-
ton. Perhaps all men naturally are
susceptible to appeals to the strength
of their arm and to their bravery of
soul, and this something in a woman's
ewes half revealed. this touch of sad
ness, few of the stronger sex are able
to resist.
Such a woman is beyond the art of
the copyist. Spend their efforts as
they may in trying to reproduce the
fascinating effects, women who envy
her are never able to get a true copy.
Sometimes they imagine that the
secret may be found in a tone of the
voice, or, again, in a glance of the eye,
or in the pose of the figure; but in the
effort to adapt these to their W per
sonality, they meet failure even before
the first trial of their experiment is
made in public.
But the enhancing woman pays her
price, in a sense for her power. The
rainbow that is hung in beauty in the
sight of the many to delight, cheer,
and inspire them. was formed through
the mist of her tears, and when the
glorious colors fade away, some turn
to behold the lonely figure that stands
amid the clearing mists.-MGTy H.
Balda0in an Harper'S Bazaar.
female Graduates Organizing.
The interest shown throughout the
country, and especially in New York,
in the alma mater by men graduates
of the various colleges, has stimulated
the formation of similar organizations
by graduates of the other sex. Until
recently no effort has proved success
full except in the cases OF Vasser and
Wells, the latter due mainly to the
interest taken by Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land, one of its almunmi. The PROPOSE
ton to erect a statue to Mime. Emma
Willard accepted as the leading
female educator; whose seminary in
Troy, N. Y, was established in 1897,
has caused a movement for a reunion
of the graduates and former pupils of
this famous institution, which seems
likely to result in a permanent organ
iZation. Some Of the former pupils
who are now grandmothers, and even
great-grandmothers, have given their
assurance of a desire to cooperate
with the younger women who are
active in the matter. 1t will be re-
| called that Nine. Wizards school
existed long before U present bene-
ficient system of public schools, at a
time when female education in the
higher branches was comparatively
neglected. Her institution had
among its pupils the wives of some of
the leading men of today, and its
roster bears upon it the maiden names
of Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew, Mrs.
Russell Sage, Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick,
of Chicago; Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. John
s. Il. Stranahan, of Brooklyn. and
scores of women now the wives of