The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-05

ana KIM aCU 10 PICK ILelu
up. But, on the contrary, l heard a
proud father boast of the fact that his
~four-year-old daughter stoutly refused
to bring him a glass of water, because
he had trained her never to wait upon
the servant in any way, n she APP
piled the same rule to him as we'll, and
told him she would call the maid. He
seemed to think it a mark of early
~precocity in his daughter, but it
seemed to me early s~elfishness, which
was wholly due to his false idea of
dignified training.
1t is the matter of training, not OF
character, which makes men far more
thoughtful and considerable in small
matters toward n another than
women are. Boys are brought up
with an idea of attentive gallantry to-
ward the opposite sex, and they are
early taught to wait upon their parents
to a certain degree. And this becomes
a part of their natures and prompts
them to those trivial acts of politeness
toward one another in public which
are the rule with men and tine excep-
ton with ome l can see no pos
sible harm, and | can see infinite bene-
fit to the human race if girls were
educated from the cradle up to the
same independence and ~helpfulness.
Women at heart and when put to the
test are more self-sacrificing and I'M
selfish with one another than are
men, but a false training has led
them to lack independence of action,
and forced them into a seeming sell
fishness which in reality is not natural
to them.
There is no other accomplishment
for women equal to that OF helpful
ness towards her own sex in the small
matters of daily life.
Remember this. nv dear girls,
whenever your kind impulse is to go
to the assistance of some sister woman,
ahead no matter if it does make you
Conspicuous"
The Wife of Bismarck.
The influence of the Princess Bis
marck over her husband has been
strong, enduring and %elevating, and
writes the Countess Wilhelmina, in
1t is no doubt true, as the Prince so
often says, that what he is she has
made him. Always she has enjoyed
his entire confidence, and knows his
diplomatic intentions and plans from
conception to fruition, the trust
which he places in her discretion and
devotion being implicit.
By her marriage with Prince Bis
mark she has had three children, all
of whom are living, Herbert, William
and Maria, now the Countess of
Rontzau, who lives with her parents
and three little sons at FREDERICKSBURG.
The family goes but little into So
ciety, preferring rather to entertain
their friends in their home. The
Princess is a fine musician, her taste
for classical music being strongly de-
veloped. And one of the prettiest
sights at the castle is the evening pic
ture of Bismarck, sitting in his arm
chair poking m%editatively at the fire,
while his wife plays sonatas to him,
and the family and guests sit about
listening and enjoying.
She is of a quick, lively disposition,
with good taste, clever wit and intel
ligence of more than ordinary quality.
She is a most prudent and economi-
cal housekeeper, famous in times past
for the delicious little dinners which
she could concoct with the smallest
OF OUTLAWS.
Her religious character is strong to
the degree of bigotry. Having in
herited a strain OF Evangelical piety
her parents were staunch Moray ians
she has a feeling of such intense
hatred for the French, whom she re-
CARDS as a nation of heretics, that she
was lost bitter in her ~denunciation
of them, and strongly urgent in her
advice t O her husband to exterminate
them, her sole reason for all this be-
ing a fapatical zeal for the well being
of the Evangelical religion.
The Princess taste in dress is ex-
quisite, simple and neat; her manner
is sweet and natural, some one once
having said of it and of her, "She
wins all hearts, where the Prince
takes them by storm"
In appearance she is still a pretty
woman, and one with a nobility of
expression better than mere beauty.
She is of medium build, five feet seven
inches in height, although Prince Bis
marck made a note on his bedroom
door-posts, where he inscribed, in
1880, the heights of the various mem
bers of his family, to the effect that
the Princess tip-toed a little to reach
this.