The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-16

rouS and sanity ideal or woman as hudn .
guardian angel ard queen OF Tue nonle.
Butthe ideals of. rel nion OF old are grown
faiut and out of fashion, and the priest or
today is too often willing to go with the
lines. Is ii to be left 10 the religion OF
humanity TO defend the prineval lnstl-
tutions of society? Let us then honor
the Old World image of woman as being
relieved by man from the harder tasks of
Industry, from the defence and manage
ment Of the state, in order that she
may set herself to train up eacn gene
ration to be worthier than the last, anu
may make each home i'll some sense n
heaven of peace on earth.-FoTtntgntH
ReUieW.
A wife's Grievous Fault.
A story which is told OF the late Charles
| .Jamrach. the naturalist and dealer in
wild animals. who dieG in England last
summer. is so well vouched for that 1t
may be accepted as worthy OF belief.
MIR. Jamrach was married more than
once, and the story is to the effect tnat
when a friend coudoled with him on Che
loss Of his secopd wife, the naturalist
| answered with a heavy sight
Yes, yes; as you say, she was a goou
| wife. But" he added, as il he felt COM
PEELED to speak the whole truth,u she
never took kindly TO the why,
even in Winter, she WOULDN'T iet 1ne
SllNkeS steep AhhCA VIZ
Companion.
In the Drawing Room. T
1t has come to be more and more a
maxim of good manners, not to mention
GOOD morals. that scandal is never to be
talked In the drawing room. so
thoroughly is this recognized that IL q
woman is heard in good society talking
of un pleasant personalities, she Is at once
set down as an accident OF the place, anu
not as one either to the manner born or
who has been long enough with people
of good breeding 10 acquire their repose
and taste. Very likely many OF these
hiah-bred people in question, who are TO
the manner born, hear gossip ana seaman,
and perhaps lend TO them a 100
willing ear: but it is iii privacy. in
the depths of boudoir or chamber,
vice paving it's well known tribute there
to virtue in the hypocrisy that Whispers
If in the dark, as 1t were, and Will not lis
ten to it more publicly. And IL Is 10 ce
confessed that of the two evils, the indis-
criminate encouragement of evil speak
ing is the greater, for the hypocrisy in
lures one's self, but the opposite course
iojures ones self and many others be-
sizes. -
The forbidding of the enjoyment of
scandal in public Is, at any rate, an
acknowledgment of its ~vulgarlty II not OF
IL9 Wick6uucSS. IL PioSiuihASs SOSt AN
fact that society thinks well of itself and
its Intentions, and has Il standard OF some
loftiness up to which it endeavors TO live.
and that iJ recognizes an interest," I'D the
possible Ill doings of fallen mortals as
something intrinsically low and coarse
and calculated TO hurt its own structure.
an interest in such facts anyway as ndi-
catiye Of an order of taste not to be de-
sired, and its possessor a person not to be
associated with. 1t may be simply as a
sybaritic precautiOn. ease ana pleasure
being so much surer when no uncoinfort-
aisle suggestions thrusts in an ugly head,
that unpleasant topics OF an unwnole-
some nature are tabooed In the converse
ton of the finest drawing rooms. But
whether this is so or not, 1t Is plain that
good society would like to be optimistic.
it would believe in no evil and speak no
evil; it has found that the essence of good
manners is also the essence Of the golden
rule, and as the voice Of scandal violates
ali its notions. it has laid upon such utter
ance within it's borders the penalty OF os-
tracism.-Hdrper's Bdsor.
A Horrid Young Man on "Teas."
Now that the season of afternoon teas is
upon US I should like to give my readers
q bit of advice. Doubtless it will be set
down by all soberminded people as rank
heresy. To the matron and the spinster.
TO the old bachelor and the pater famil-
las, it will not apply. They are beyond
reform. But to all young people l say
never drink tea. You who are giving
yourselves up to the pernicious habit, halt
before it is too late. You who have never
begun. if any so happy can be found,
avoid tea as you would prussic acid. To
say nothing of the dangers OF the tea
babit, you cannot imagine whata CONVENE
ence your sacrifice will prove. and how
little you will regret it.
Before l had reached the age when
either tea or coffee was considered an adj
visable part of my diet. l used once in
awhile to beg a surreptitious cup from the
kitchen. liked tea then; | am not sure
thpt | did not prefer it to coffee. But
some instinct babe me renounce one or
the other, and with a wisdom beyond my
years | choose to give up tea, IL may be
harder for you whose early years have
been less fortunate to change your ways
now, but that is all the more reason to re-
form before the habit becomes fixed.
The great advantage of a total alb
stainer is that you can refuse tea on all
occasions without giving offense. LIZ you
drink never so little you cannot refuse
the solicitations OF your hostess when you
make your afternoon calls. You are
forced to take a cup of tea and pretend to
enjoy it, though you know that you are
destroying your appetite for dinner. II
you are clumsy, as / am. you are In NOR
tai terror every step you take from the
tea urn to your chair.
Aud no matter how easily you handle
your cup, you love to restrain all flights
of fancy, all jests and sarcasms, till you
can get rid of your tea. No one can hope
to make an original remark while he is
nervously trying to balance an untitled
cup, and when he has reduced its con-
tents to the safety mark, or. better still,
emptled it, he finds that his mind Is
soothed to n state of imbeeility. bis facul-