The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-22
MARY ANDERSON AT HOME
The ACTRESSES Life in England
Apparently Well and Happy.

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nitely in a pretty house. Between
household occupations and discover
les, the long rambles through the lane $
and byways, in which husband and
wife take an equal delight, the study
of Spanish pursued by Mrs. de Nav
orro under her husbands tuition, the
evenings devoted to music Ito which
both are passionately devoted, while
Mr.. de Navarro is a high class per-
former as well as a connoiseur and
composer), and the intercourse with a
few friends, complete their daily
routine.
All Tunbridge Wells has from the
first shown itself not only willing but
eager to fete and welcome 'tthe de
Navarros." Unfortunately. these
strenuous endeavors have SO far met
with very little response. If you go
to the Roman Catholic church down
in the town you may, Sunday after
Sunday-mostly at early mass, as well
as during the chief service of the day
see Mr.. and Mrs. de Navarro, side
bv side, looking into the same book,
and joining in the service with the
| devoutness for which Miss Mary An
derson has always had the reputa-
LlOH, WHICH - lu1l SlihIcu ny Af.
Antonio de Navarro.
They are unwearying walkers, too.
The lady who has had more social
and artistic triumphs and successes
than fall to the share of many women,
be they ever so fair and accomplished,
and the gentleman who has travelled
over the best part of the globe, and
enjoys the intimate friendship OF
many an eminent musician, think it
neither mira dig o dull to spend a
sunny afternoon in a quiet game OF
croquet or tennis; or in easy hat with
friends whose literary and artistic in
terests preclude the conversation from
ever falling to the level of average so
ciety.
1t was in the drawing room of oneof
the pretty country houses on the hill
slopes above Tunbridge Wells that /
met Mr.. and Mrs. de Navarro. or
course l had heard dim rumor that
Miss Mary Anderson" was completely
broken down in health, that she was
"a wreck of her former SELF pale, and
IA favorite society phrase-'gone
Off altogether. 1t was therefore with
considerable surprise that l looked up
to the radiant woInan entering the
room, her figure as queenly as ever,
her face as beautiful, and flushed
with the healthy tinge that follows
an outdoor life in pure air and pleas
ant. surroundings, and her eye flash
ing with happiness and high spirits.
Her dress was elegant, but very
| simple; she wears the close fitting sage
green costume with the unequaled
grace we have learned to appreciate
since we saw Miss Mary Anderson as
Galatea, but which is considered Il
''gon only with the clinging draperies
of ancient Greece.
Mr.. de Navarro, II his wife expressed
the wish to return to the stage, would
never think of preventing her; he has
far too much of the artists soul not to
sympathize to the full with the long
ings to express in acting, or painting
or music, what stirs the heart and
mind. But no; she had the choice be-
tween a public life of triumph and
success and a very simple retired
home life; she has chosen the latter,
and is radiantly happy in it.-PaH
Mall Gazette.
Anglo-saxon Courtship.
Yuan Ysing-fu, who recently re-
corded in Temple Bar his impressions
of England from a Celestial stand
point, was a good deal puzzled by
what he evidently regards as u free
and easy methods of courtship:-
Besides invitations to dinner, he
writes, there are invitations to tea
parties, such as are occasionally given
by wealthy merchants or distinguish
ed officials. When the time comes an
equal number of men and women as
semble, and tea, sugar. milk bread
and the like are set out as aids to con
v~ersation. More particularly are
there invitations to skip and posture,
when the host decides what man is to
be the partner of what woman, and
what woman of what man.
"Then, with both arms grasping
each other, they leave the table in
pairs, and leap, skip, posture and
prance for their mutual qualification.
A man and a woman previously un-
known to n another may take part
in it. They call this skipping tGnshen
(d~ancing).n The reason for this curl
Gus proceeding ON the part of our
countrymen was well explained by a
recent writer in a Chinese illustrated
paper, the Ha0G Pdo.
Western etiquette requires he
says, ''the man in search of a wife to
write to the girls home and agree
upon some time and place for a
skipping match (scilfcet, a dance.
THE day arrived, youth in red
and maid in green they come by
pairs to the brilliant spacious hall,
where, to the emulous sound of flute
and drum, the youth ~clasping the
maiden's waist, and the maid resting
upon her partners shoulder, one pair
will skip forward, another prance
backward, round and round the
room until they are forced to stop for
want of breath.
After this they will become ac-
auainted"-only after this. observe
and then by occasional attentions
over a bottle of wine, or exchange OF
condolences at the tea table, their in
timaev will deepen, the maiden's
heart become filed with love, and
they will mate.-Home Journal.
Business Women in Yellow Trossers.
We are now assured that the bus
mess women's dress is to consist Of a
pair of trousers, a roundabout coat,
and a hat. and we are told that
ON of taste will never be satisfied
with such a plain garb. But why
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