The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-20

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mond thief had attempted to spray
chloroform In the face of a jewellel
and when detected had given her adj
dress as his house. The detective
had just completed a description OF
the lady and her address as furnished
to the police. when the lady herself
entered and was at once greeted by
the official as his wife.
The explanations that followed
made the situation scarcely less I'm
barrassing. The ring was returned to
the jeweller with an admonition to be
mor careful in future in noting the
difference in odor between chloroform
and moth balls.-M Louis Republic.
Trick y Sara bernhard.
Sara Bernhard has been known to
beat the shrewdest editors out of a
free advertisement. A good story
comes from Paris. The news was
somehow spread about that the divine
Sara had become insane. No. said
Messieurs the journalists and dramatic
critics, you have deceived us too often;
this time we positively refuse to be-
lieve one syllable. The editor of the
Figaro was especially firm in his posi-
ton. By the great gods he had sworn,
and he would stand by his oath, that
Bernhardt's name would never appear
again in types which he controlled.
But private information came to him
from sources he deemed incorruptible,
and he was brought to call on Bern
hardt to see with his own eyes.
In her boudoir, with lights turned
down, she kept him waiting, and
then bounded into the apartment
like one of her own tiger cats
and leaned against the man
tel, her hair dishevelled, face
haggard, features blank and unintelli-
gent. fingers trembling. Her conf
plexion was CHASTITY, her eyes wander
ing. Not a word did she answer to
his questions, but mulnbled to herself
in undertones. After a while she
dropped to the floor and lay staring
into the fire. babbling. The editor
was convinced. Next day he came
out with a lamentations; a great light
had gone out; Bernhardt had had her
faults. but it would be long ere they
looked on her like again.
This was the moment for which
Bernhardt had been waiting. In two
hours a card from her was in every
newspaper Office in the city; she was
not insane, she could not imagine how
such a canard had started, her head
had never been clearer, as she hoped
to convice the public by her produc-
ton OF F., in which she should open
the week following.
An Awful Warning to Women.
A woman in a Sixth venue ele-
waited preached an awful warning to
other women not to wear tight shoes
out in the cold world; or, if they do,
not to seek to ease their sufferings by
taking their boots off slyly in a pub
lie place. This oma was in several
agonies all at once, and when nobody
was looking she had slyly unbuttoned
her boot and slipped it off. Nobody
was the wiser for that, and the woman
was much more comfortable; but by
and by a laundering man caine along
and kicked the boot out from under
the folds of her skirts clear into the
centre of the aisle. There it lay, a
dear little innocent looking thing; but
it hurt the owner much worse when it
lay IN the aisle than it did when it
was on her foot. All the women, and
there were a great many of them, tit
tered, and no one of them looked as
sympathetic as her understanding OF
the emergency should have made her.
, The men looked pleased but grave
! The question in the mind of every
body was, To whom did that boot be.
long? There was nothing in the ex-
preston of any woman's face to
indicate the ownership of the article,
but heaven only knows what was go
ing on in the owners mind. And
how do you think the rest of the sis.
terhood showed their Christian char
ity to this unfortunate member of the
sex? Every blessed woman on both
sides of the aisle reached both toes
properly booted out from under hel
skirts. And the one woman who sal
with her feet hidden, seeing that she
was discovered, finally hobbled up or
one foot, and with one swoop cap
tured the boot and put it where il
properly belonged. That woman will
never take off her boot in public
again, if her foot has to be amputatec
as a consequence.
Women Should Dress Appropriately.
A rich and beautiful dress loses al
its beauty in a kitchen. / was on
day looking at cheap calicoes. Stand
ing beside me were two ladies yer,
richly dressed. 1 heard n lady sa,
to the other
why, take anything; what do vol
care? 1t is only a cheap calico"
1t was only a cheap calico, l know
but why not buy a pretty, becoming
calico instead OF a hideous, unbecom
ing one? A lady, a really true lady
that lives nea- me takes as much prid
in choosing her calicoes as she does he
cashmeres, for, as she said:-"I spen'
more than half my time in calicoes
and if / don't look fresh and prett,
then my husband and children vii
not try to do SO, either
/ asked her one day to show me he
calicoes and she seemed quite as mucl
pleased in showing those ~calicoes t
me as some society belle would in dis
playing before the admiring eyes o
her dearest friend an expensive dres
which had just come in from ION
swell modiste.
Now 1 will tell you what they were