The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-17
CLINGING
A Little Wife Who Gives Her Sisters
Some Good Pointers.

She was a slight, delicate little
woman, with a determined. fear
nothing look on her youthful face,
says the Chicago Times. Her jacket
was unfastened, her bang tossed back
in a careless manner, and altogether
there was a brisk, breezy look of the
advanced woman about the slim little
body. i've been q business woman
for three years" said she, decidedly,
'.and have invariably found men in
every way courteous and polite to me.
The great mistake the Independent
woman makes in her relations with
men is in letting them see that she Is
Independent. Now, when | am with
men | am the most helpless. clinging
creature on the footstool, and they
are always lovely TO me
MEN don't like smart, clever WON
| en- half so we'll as gentle, timid crea-
lures that appeal to their sense OF
chivalry, and the Nineteenth Century
man has as much OF it as a medieval
knight if you only knew how to find
it. Now, when I was first married
and my husband asked me IL / was
afraid to stay home alone in the ven
ing, / almost laughed, for | really
thought nothing at all of going from
Staten Island to Yonkers after dinner
on business, but | managed to keep
nv face very serious while L told him
/ was a perfect coward; that the
dreadful shivers ran down my back
every time | heard a little noise
when l was alone. Result:-He stays
in every evening, and there isn't a
queen on the globe that has as nice a
time as / do after the dinner Is over
Don't be too smart is my advice to
women, or, If you can't help being
clever and capable, never let the man
you love know that you are able to
pick your own handkerchief up when
you drop it if you want to be treated
like a princess royal all your life.
Danger in ~Overdoing.
The craze for severe exercise has
been growing among women for the
past three or four years, until now it
is a question whether more injury
than benefit is not derived from it.
There is no doubt that women need a
certain amount of exercise. The good
effects of q brisk mile walk in the
morning, and another before retiring
at night, is undeniable. An hours
ride on horseback may be added to
this, If a woman is not too delicate.
The women who take the regular
daily walks of from five to ten miles,
and remain for hours in the saddle on
a big, powerful, hard-gaited trotter,
are invariably lin this country
the slight, nervous, wiry little
creatures who have not a pound
of flesh to lose. Consequently this
wear and tear on their nerves will, in
time, cause a collapse, especially if
this violent exercise has been adopted
after living for years a life OF indol-
ence. Could stout women be per-
suaded to overcome the feeling Of ex-
IRENE fatigue, which they experience
after their first long walks, and con
tinue them regularly, and at a rapid
gait, as near running as possible, for a
few weeks, the burden of superfiuous
flesh would soon be reduced and their
former activity return. The trouble
is that the wrong women do the exer-
cising.
Do not carry it to extremes. Cut
down your walk to two or three miles
a day. Take your ride in the morn
ing and limit IL to an hour. You IAN
lot get too much fresh air, so drive
and stroll out of doors as much as you
can, but do not YEAR out your body
and bring premature lines into your
face by excessive exercise.
French Provincial Life.
There is usually plenty Of gayety
going on in the country places around
paris Not So i'm the provinciaI