The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-12
WOMAN'S TROUBLES.
Who're the Money Goes-The Dear
Cheap Things.

A celeDTdleU ldW1Cf fcCChhAr o0AN
that four fifths of the divorces OF the
present day are the result of money
disagreement. What have you done
with all / gave yours How many
women have heard this question from
husbands or fathers who did not
mean to be unkind. The poor victim
drops her head as If conscious of THEFT
She has nothing to show for her
spendings-nothing 70 say. Celia
Logan, writing on this interesting
text, says:-"It is impossible to realize
that $1.6S, SO cents, 81 cents, ~ cents
and 10 cents make 81 One remem-
beers tine $1.6S, and charges her mem
DRY with possibly AN extra dollar OF
Indebtedness.
II know a little lady whose house
keeping bills are a constant terror TO
her on this account. She looks at her
butchers book and sees Sl:2o, Sl-ys,
Sc. III. S3.11. etc. She opens her purse
to settle the account aud imagines
herself receiving change from $40.
She finds herself short of car fare and
comes home wild with fright. Some
one has cheated her or she had lost
S.. Then she foots the items up and
finds they amount to $14.S5.
"a woman buys such a cheap
dress. The cloth comes to $6.13. She
drops around to the lining, braid,
whaiebone, button. ruche and crino-
line counters, and has not enough LETT
for postage stamps out OF her purse
full. Let a woman with a certain sum
attempt to provide herself with q
spring outfit. BY the time the small,
invisible necessities are purchased
there is nothing left to get the out
ward garments. The temptation Is
either to go in debt or dress from out
side in. 1t is next to impossible to
gauge 1t right with the incest caicula-
ton, or allow margin sufficient to
cover these abominable little things.
TO keep an accurate expense account
and put everything down in black
and white helps to guide a woman in
that dreadful moment of INDIGESTION
between a $3.50 and a 90 purchase. 1t
is often the vagueness OF the differ
ence that makes a woman such a
'wobbly thinker over a dry goods
counter.
II heard a girl yesterday threaten
to go to the bad to keep herself fed
and clothed decently. She is out Of q
position, and so shabby does she look
in this bright spring sunlight that
employers glance at her doubtfully
and refuse her work. a fresh dress IS
as impossible to her as a Florida resi-
dence to some of the rest OF us. but
much more important, | assure You.
Il last night read a letter from an
out-of.town girl to a woman In this
city piteously begging for a second
hand dress that she could make over.
Her parents are old and sick, needing
her constant care, SO that money
making is impossible. They are living
on the remnants of better days. The
girl is young, refined, sensitive, and
SO shabby One black Jersey waist
that she has worn three years with a
black skirt that has been made over
in every possible way, and a plush
jacket that has done duty seven years
this sortsof thing means to a woman
of any age, but most of all to a girl.
st is all very well to say, 'Clothe
yourselves in smiles and the raiment
of a pure and humble spirit but this
will not meet the demands of respect
ability.
women are not as a rule extrava-
CANT. but they desire to dress becom-
ingly and to look as well as is possible
to them. A bit of faded pink challie
makes one woman look like a flower,
another like a rag. Black cashmere
turns one roma into a statue or
a goddess, another into a prim spin
ster. A robe of velvet will restore the
latter to a queen. Every woman
| realizes the importance OF her franz
ing. Little wonder that she is wobbly
and undecided over a counter with
but a mirror and anxiety for mentors"
So said the woman, and then she
! Termed back In the chair and rested
from her saying.-PhiGdekphta Press.
A Profitable Occupation For Women.
he recently issued census bulletin
on Horticulture was the result of a sug-
gestion of the wife of Superintendent
Porter, who desired to open up a new
avenue of employment for women.
The statistics which the bulletin con-
tains show that women have already
very extensively engaged in this de-
lightful avocation, and now own and
manage 300 Horticultural establish
ments. The bulk OF this business has
been established within the last
twenty-five years. The bulletin sug-
gests that the industry is capable OF
much larger development, although
the receipts for cut flowers alone last
year reached the considerable amount
of $15, 900, 600. The facts go to prove
that oln have been very successful
in this occupation, to which they arr
naturally adopted.-StGte Gazette.
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