The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-24
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Doings and Savings of NOtabilities
-Stockton's Lady or the Tiger.


Miss Jeanette l.. Glider, sister OF the
editor Of the Century" and herself
editor of the Critic" " is credited with
being the author of the remark that
New York men divide all women into
two classes, fools and rogues, and that
they prefer the rogues, though they
marry the fools.
Mrs. Stanley is a direct descendant
the seventh in line-from Oliver
Cromwell.
Bernhardt had only a half-flled
| house ut the opening of her season in
Washington Monday night, while
Margaret Mather played to a large
audience in the same city.
Mr.. Frank Stockton and his wife
have set up a popular little estabiis h
ment for the Spring. having taking a
house, and the vexatious man who
wouldn't tell which am out first,
the lady or the tiger, is foreborne
with to a remarkable degree, aud ac-
tually gets dinner invitations. One
woman thought she had cireumvent-
ed the creature. She asked him to
dinner and had the ices served in the
/ 10TH Ol "a ltA1 vi - 0ACAs @C"f
she said triumphantly, "whichgn And
the old tantalizer said, boldly, Both,
if you please, ma'am."
Miss Yvett Guilbert is the present
rage inParis. She is slim. has green
eyes and auburn hair. She cannot
sing, and does not try to, but chants.
The beautiful diamond necklace re-
ceived by the ex-Empress Eugenie
from the late Khedive OF Egypt on
the opening of the Suez Canal is offer
ed for sale at Madrid. The price ask
ed is $50, 900. The necklace was among
the surplus crown jewels sold not long
ago by the French government.
Julius L. Steiger and Mrs. Edna
Goodsell were married at Tiflln. O., on
Friday. the notable feature ofthe case
being that the brides second husband,
who died several years ago, was Squire
Goodsell, father of Mrs. John ID.
Rockefeller. She is now nearly 70
years old, and by her third marriage
Mr.. Rockefeller acquires another
fa~ther-in-law.
Sitting Bulls two widows are ready
to sell the dead chiefs cabin to the
highest bidder, because they say it is
haunted.
Kate Field is not the large. dashing,
masculine woman that many believe
she is, by any means. On the con-
trary, she is exceedingly feminine and
unassuming. She is rather small in
| stature, with an admirable manner
and a knack of saying things that are
remembered and passed along from
mouth to mouth.
Throw Away Useless Things.
Do we not all know the dreary
array of pin-cushions thathave passed
their first youth; hair receivers which
were never pretty; scrap baskets in
all stages of dilapidation; passed
table scarfs and other relics of the
day when the great high art fever
had just begun to work in our blood?
What can be depressing than
the discarded adornments OF our bed
room walls-framed wreaths of au-
tumn leaves, certificates and testi-
monials, perforated board texts and
notices in more or less diabolieal
combinations of color? Why, | have
a closet full of such things, writes q
| clever in Good Housekeeping.
That is my skeleton, and many a
time have / wished it buried and for
gotten Some women have the cour-
age TO make an annual holocaust, and
thereby secure TO themselves peace of
mind.
When we first went to housekeeping
we had Just about such an assortment
of trash as most people have. The
suggestion of my better half to put
them in the spare room" was consid-
cred at first a practical solution of the
problem, but in course of time that
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BY all means do not put them in the
spareroom. Rather consign them
gently to the ash barrel, make a bon
fire of them, hire a boy to take them
so far away that you will never see
them again. Do not attempt to give
them away 1t is bad enough to be
poor, but to be the recipient of other
peoples broken down bric-a-brac. and
to feel obliged to be grateful for it
that is poverty indeed.
Let us have the courage to throw
away every u~nbeautiful thing in our
homes unless it happens to be use
full, in which case it has proved its
right to exist. Don't let us be afraid
of bare walls. Better q thousand
times a bare wall than an Ugly picture
that we dislike every time we look at
1t. Better an eulpty mantelpiece
than one distigured by a pair OF
badly colored vases. Better eschew
scarfs altogether than have an unin-
teresting rag tied on every chair. One
word more, and this the result of sad
experience: Never buy cheap looking
bric-a-brae or things that Twill do
very WE'LL They will not do very
well. Even when first set in their
places n will feel misgivings, and
before long will detest them sincerely.
Particular About Shoes.
Mrs. w. w. Aston is said to spend
thousand of dollars on her slippers.
having them decorated in a jeweled
design of yellow and white asters
Mrs. Vice President Morton is very
fond of pretty things to put her feei
in. Her favorite is said TO be scarle
satin slippers, embroidered in COLDER
daisies and having high French heels
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