The Jersey City news., 1891-02-28


book But you cannot make some
thing out OF nothing. William Dean
HoScelis, an Harper'S Magazine for
March.
The Green Eyed Monster.
A mans jealousy is tragic, like that
of Othello or Leontius, or it is comic,
like Ford in the Merry Wives" 1t
is an affair of Don Garcie de Ndcarre,
on one hand, or of George Dandin on
the other. But the jealousy of a
woman in modern society may be
neither dignified and terrible enough
for tragedy, nor grotesque and hum
orous enough for comedy; it is a bitter,
shrill, ugly. deathless tournament, a
poison and perversion of nature; too
mean for tragedy, too hateful for
comedy. In the old comedy,
the Restoration comedy, the luckless
husband is a standing though cruel
Joke. The luckless wife no man nor
woman laughs at Yet she does not
fit with tragedy unless she be an en-
press or a queen, say an Amestris or
an Eleanor, who can give her passion
a tragic scope, and indulge it with a
full cup OF revenge. This may. at
least, be offered as an explanation; or
perhaps others may say that of all
passions feminine jealousy is most re-
mote from the sympathy of men, and
that it is the men who write tn g
plays-Andreao Lang, an HdrperS'
Magazine TOR March.
burdens of Housekeeping.
The keeping of our houses usually
devolves on one member OF the family.
A nd it is safe to say that no problem
among the many that are now being
considered by thoughtful women is so
difficult of solution as that of how to
make the burden of housekeeping
lighter, and this article is written in
the hope that some suggestions there
in contained may help in its solution
some overworked housekeeper.
Doubtless, the burden of housekeep-
ing is heavier than it need be for many
women, because, from their mistaken
conception of the real purpose of
housekeeping, they rigidiy adhere
to certain customs and no
tions, and set up a false
standard of excellence, writes Mrs.
ID. A. Lincoln in Good Housekeeping.
But what, then, shall we take as our
standard of good housekeeping? Not
something which fosters the ambition
to have as large and well furnished
a house as Mrs. A, and keep as
many servants as Mrs. B; or the
desire to outshine Mrs. c. in the
briiliancy of her silver, the polish on
her linen and the lustre ON her cook
stove; or the attempt to excel Mrs.
D in the texture of her bread, the
variety of her cakes, and the clearness
of her jellies; or the strife as to who
shall have her washing on the line at
the earliest hour, and her carpets up,
cleansed, and down again, and house
cleaning all done by April
1; or the set purpose to do
just as much in a given time and
in the same way as our mothers did,
and to give as elaborate entertain
ments and TO do as much church and
charitable and society work as Others
do. No; however laudable this am
bition or emulation may be, we as
housekeepers should not cherish it as
OF first importance.
No matter how unequal our houses
may be in exterior appearance or in
terror arrangement, let every house
keeper strive to forget differences in
social position and style of furnish
ings and remember that, as house
| keepers, ia one respect we are all
| equal For there is one house in
| trusted 10 our keeping, which in the
sight of its builder and owner is of
more beauty and value than any
made of wood and stone, and this is
| the house where our real lives are
/ Iivad