The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-03
KEEPING LAVE 0
A Practice Which Is said to Work Mu
Harm In Large Cities.

A Practice Which Is Said to Work Much
Harm In Large Cities.
If it Is good for INT who lives in the
country to go early to bed, why not for
him or her who lives In The city. asks
Horper'S Weekly? If the man or woman
upon whose nervous system the day
makes very little demand lives the longer
for longer nights of rest, why will not
health and youthful vigor lin9er with the
denizen of the city who. in the vernacu
lar. of the town. is ION the jump" all day?
The smart" set of the metropolis lacks
reasonableness. The wise medium which
the Greeks taught IS not In the philoso-
ply of the most fashionable people Of this
commercial city. We call it commercial
for a purpose, The men who dance and
dine, who wait upon the opera as a duty
and sup afterwards for pleasure, the
owls" OF the clubs, the midnight spend
thrifts of their physical and nervous re-
sources-most of these in this country are
business men. II they go to bed at three
in the morning, they must nevertheless
be downtown at eight or nine. They go
about their business with laggard steps
and WORKOUT Derves. Is it any wonder
that so many are unsuccessful. and are
financial failures. until they marry the
fortunes made by more prudent and bet
ter Americans of an earlier generation?
American women are beautiful and
charming. They know more and talk
better than any other women in the
world, except their sisters OF France.
This class and that has been called the
only American aristocracy, and there is
truth underlying the claim of each. The
| tramp is an aristocrat because he is an
idler. The college boy is IN aristocrat
because he has much leisure for sport.
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Gratis because they are the permanent
re representatives of the government. But,
after all, the woman of fashion is the
finest and most charming aristocrat
in the country. Ii anyone can
sit up late n have plenty Of
leisure to sleep away the crow feet of
fatigue, it is she, and yet even she has no
right to tempt the fates after the manner
of the British maid and matron. She has
more to do. The demands of our complex
society upon the women of the country
are greater and more exacting than those
made upon the feminine members of a
monarchical aristocraCy. The American
woman OF fashion is usually pretty nearly
tired enough when she begins to dress for
dinner. Besides, with all due respect to
our cousins on the other side of the water,
we do not care to have her exactly like
the English woman.
All this is apropos of a new club de-
signed to furnish pleasure, entertain
ment, and supper to its members after
the theatres are out. Unsatiated beings
are to be provided with an excuse for
Excepting it up" far into the morning.
Occasional sittipgs up are bad enough.
but when early morning bedtime comes
chronic in this city, it will be bad for our
youth of both sexes.
The people of this country who advance
its civilization come out Of the sober
RANKS of those whose fecreations, like
their vocations, are calm and healthfal.
We receive no good. but much harm,
from the feverish social life of the towns.
Everything that offers foreign dissipation
is to be discountenanced. For the men and
women of this country q long nights
sleep is best. No one should be permitted
To live on his nerves who's life is worth a
groat to his fellow beings, and there
ought to be few in this republic whose
value is not greater thar that.