The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-12
DOINGS OF WOMEN FAIR.
What Qualities Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward Admires
Most IN a Man.
CHARLES DICKENS AS A REPORTER
A Word of Advice Against Elk
tremes-Animals and
the Weather.
CHARLES DICKENS AS A REP0RTE

Miss Kate Field thinks Charles DICK
ems was the greatest newspaper reporter
of his age, and remarks that when ne De
came an editor he advocs ted a big stan
and large salaries. To give emphasis TO
her snggestion:-'if there is ever a tund
for working newspap'r men started III
this county," added Miss Field. and IL
ought to have been started long ago, IL
should be baptized in the name OF the
king of all reporters, Charles Dickens.
Sixty-two million dollars, according to
an English authority, are sPeut annually
in the United States on cosmetics and
mutton fat is said to be the chief ingred-
lent in many of the most high-priced OF
these articles.
A contributor to the London Neus says
in speaking on the servant question:
foresae a time when service will become
as noble and popular a calling as that OF
hospital nursing. which has SO rapidly
and with such splendid results been
taken ont of the hands OF the Salrey
Camps and Betsy Prigs of the old m
and has become a lady's vocation. There
is nothing in service more ~dlshonorlng or
degrading than in sick nursing. IL Is
but another form OF womanly minlstra-
ton. II requires only to be raised to a
higher level in popular opinion, and this
will be done, n all needful improve
meut, made, when a sufficient number or
women jake the matter III hand.
The Countess Tijuana Tolstoi, writing to
Miss Pugb, treasurer of the English Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union, in answer to a letter from Miss
Pugn, accompanying a contribution OF
5000 for the famine stricken peasants OF
Russia. says:-"We heartily thank the
kind souls who nave taken part i'll the
collection Of the money. My father ana
our whole family are especially touched
by this offering from Il strange land, 1t
is a new token of the universal brother
hood which exists. despite the differences
of government aud nationality"
Now comes Prof. Lombrose and proves
to his own satisfaction that the reason
why women bear pain better than men is
that their nerves are less sensitive.
Mrs. Beecher is annoyed by a story that
her husband has been .'appearlng' at
seances lately, and ascribes the reports to
n sister of Mr.. Beecher, an Advent Spirit
ualisr. Mr.. Beecher, she says, had no be-
lief in such things.
Mrs. Sarah L. Bolton. who was famous
forty years ago as the pioneer poet OF In
diana. still lives at IN her
seventy-seventh year. Her most famous
production perhaps is "Paddle Your Own
Canoe" published in 1850.
like q mau, said Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
who can take his W part: who has both
the courage and the strength and skill re-
ouisite to defend himself when occasion
requires. You know that Mr.. Feeder. b.
A. one of the most amusing characters i'll
Charles Dickens novel of "Dombey and
SOM says that he shall certainly make a
point of acquiring the art of self-defense,
as it may lead to the protection OF a female
in distress, and probably that is q good
view for every man to take of this matter.
1t is a blessing to society that dueling has
gone out of fashion. and a man need not
now, as in the days of good Queen Bess,
come to town to learn how to pick II
take a quarrel and 10 to get we'll out of
it when made. Thele ale men whom
nothing out physical punishment will
bring to reason, aud with such persons
avery man may have to deal at some
period of his life. A lady is insulted or
annoyed by an unwieldly porter or an
UNFORTUNATE and dishonest cabman. Que
well-dealt blow settles the whole matter.
True, it Is brutal and should always be IL
last resort, but to last resorts gentlemen
are often driven. Since l like a man who
can take his own part, it follows as u
natural sequence from what | have said
above that / like the man who can box.