The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-09
BETWEEN THE SEASONS.
Summer Tourists Are Wear
ing Out Old Finery and
Resting.
SOCIAL AND MUSICAL OUTLOOK.
The Theatre the Only Recreation
Available Until the Tearing,
Dancing and Gossiping
Set in.
SOCIAL AND MUSICAL OUTLOOK.

Der has dispersed the summer colonies
and set people packing in good earnest.
there is always IL period of exhaustion
when city women who have been working
hard at resting all summer, draw a long
breath in their own secluded rooms, and
think uneasily that it will soon be time
to put up the curtains aud see about
winter dressmaking. Resting, as it is
done at ummer resorts. is serious bust
ness, and no wonder it takes three weeks
to get over the effects.
NO one calls on any one, unless it may
be the girl in No. IS who went to Rich
field Springs, and who anti to comrare
notes with her of No. 10. VINO
went to Lake Geor &c. These latter
functions are observed i'll the
morning. when the girls lust run in" in
the summer gowns they are conscientl-
ously wearing OUT. Not a single dance
on the tGpis for next week-a wedding or
TWO, as one may see from the social
news below,-but. as yet. not a sign
that JERSEY City society is not the myth
that New York pre6ends to say it is.
Meanwhile, what do people do with
themselves? Go to the theatre, for one
thing. The drama is not found in all its
glory at summer resorts. which is per-
maps one iGtSOn why JEous pOOpAo appIt-
ciate it all the more after a season OF deo-
rivation. Physicians say thatthe cholera
scare has something TO do with large
audienceS-that in IL season of mental
anxiety, people always seek distraction III
the theatre-however that may be, the
large audiences are there, aud just as
many funny people rs ever III them. Per-
haps you have met the wise young
man who explains the workings
of each act TO his companion
just after the certain falls? There was
such a lovely specimen OF this sort of
theatre goer at the Academy's opening
last week. only in this case 1t happened
TO be a very pretty young woman, who
had taken another to the play, u very
kindly explained just what the actors had
been dong, between the acts. All the
people in the adjacent rows were involuu-
tarily taken into confidence Oh account Of
The peculiar carrying power OF her voice.
LATE, LATE, so LATE"
There is one young lady who lives on
the tip-top OF Jersey City Heights and who
is just as pretty as III girl has any right
to he, but whose name under the clrcum-
stances Il dinna care 10 tell" The rea-
son why she is being held up to the pub
lie gaze in this connection is because she
represents the people who come in late.
The present writer ventures to state that
she never saw the first act of a play in her
life. She goes to The Schubert aud exc the
Melopoia concerts, auu 1T you see her
before number five on the roIrlnme,
verify you nave eyes. And yet she is an
amateur Thespian herself, and knows
what first acts are like anu what effect
they nave on the play. Perhaps she has
had enough of first acts aud takes that
way to show 1t.
The man who makes faces is a truly
pleasant addition to any audience. He
ic 70 ha fn1tN6 an an nn6 A0nt yvhnTa ha
can see everything. When the Leading
lady is sprightly aud vfvacious he grins
sweeily, when the hero wake melau-
choly ms face is Or lwu with woe, and
wien the ingenas talks rapidly he makes
his mouth aud eyes work in time. Peo-
pie don't know what they miss by look :
ing at the stage with this man in the
audience.
But the people vino don't care for the
theatre They have plenty to do before
the winter campaign begins. For in
stance. ii they are charltabiy in
clined, anu someone has inveigleu them
into joining the new "Needlework
Guild, ~ they are busy finishing the two
new garmentst that they are bound to sup
ply. For the time for The annual meet
lug is drawing near, n all the
Section Presidents must ave their
garments collected a.d ready to
distribute among the poor in our
charitable Institutions. There is still
time for anyone with a philanthropic
mind 10 become Il menibe of this useful
guild, which she may do by contributing
two new garments, which will be distri-
butte | as mentioned. The list of SecJlou
Presidents is a long one, and any Of tue
laiiies mentioned will gladly furnish any
Information desired. they are:-Mrs. Il.
Z. Fessenden, Mrs. W. W. VarIck, Miss
Blanche Manners, Miss NJ. L. McCartin.
Mrs. Chas. 9. Black, Mrs. j.. Warren,
Hardenbergh. Mrs. n. W. Condit, Mrs.
j. r. Wortendyke, Mrs. Augustus Grey
cling, Miss G. E. Warner, Mrs. Alex.
Brooks, Mrs. S. Wellman Clark, Miss
Louise Ed2e, Mrs. John Day, Mrs. Theo-
dore Heisig. Mrs, John Van Horne, Mrs.
]. 4. Edwards, Mrs. john Shawda, Mrs.
William Reed, Mrs. Z. Van Winkle, Mrs..
w. P. Brush. Mrs. j. G. Welsh, Mrs.
Samuel Allison aud Mrs, William Bon.
ynge.
Speaking of sewing, 1 wonder how
MANY dozens of fancy articles have been
brought home from hotels for use in fairs
during tie winter? Thele was one wise
matron at the Prospect Park Hotel. Cat
skills, last year. who knitted a fabulous
number of p~ln-palls,. shaped and colored
like oranges, and used them in the
course of TWO OF three months at O church
sale.
H MUSICAL OUTLOOK.
The musical people are keeping very,
very quiet. The Fortnightly has not yet
doomed for the winter, and the voice
of the Schubert is not heard in the land.
Now that Mr.. Baier has returned from
the other side with ever so mauy brand
new ideas just Dining to be expressed, it
may he coufidentially expected that our
musical cluus, over most of which Mr..
Baier exert. IL m~onopolistic influence,
will be something fine Mr.. Dresslei
has returned from Europe with any
QuantIJy of operatic schemes seethfng in
his brain. from which the public will
hear later.
Athletics languish. AL except bicy.
cling. which still reigns. under the aus
pieces OF the Bergen. Lady Cyclers. Since
uine-tenths of our lea girls lost pounds
ADD pounds" OF Huylar's on the late
laElented j. l.. Sullivan, interest in sport
ing subjects has diminished in our midst
or course this applies to the feminine
site of society alone. The very nicesI
thing you can do in the line of mild ex.
ercise is to drive up through GreenviIle
to get a distant view of the fleet in
quarantine and sir up your latent cholers
scare until it reaches just the proper
poiut of suppressed shudder.
So much fJr what people are doing al