The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-06
IN WOMAg'S WORLD.
How the Swedish Nightin-
gale Came to Donate
$1,000 to a French
Hospital.
WHAT BECOMES OFVASSAR'S GRADUATES?
MOdjeska on the RconOmy of
Emotions-The Woman
Who Sulks.
WHAT BECOMES OF VASSAR'S GRADUATES?

There are over 600 students IL the
Women's College of Baltimore. aud when
they take their conversational recess the
professors put cotton wad in their ears or
go out to see how the weather is.
The Russian heir apparent is to marry
the sister of that sturdy Young Greek,
Prince George, who saved Elm from as
assassination at the hands of the Japanese
policemen. Her name is Marie, and be-
sides being a princess she has the addl-
tional attraction of being bright and ac-
complished. She is only sixteen years of
age, while her betrothed, Nicholas Alex
androuitch. is twenty-one. The Czaro-
witt presents a very different appearance
from his stalwart father, the Car, being
frail and nervous. Princess Marie is the
fifth child of George l., King of Greece,
and a grandchild OF the King and Queen
of Denmark, the extraordinary couple
who have more royal sons-in-laW and
more princely descendants than any other
rulers in Europe. Her mother is dig
Coustantinoya, daughter of the late
Grand Duke Constantine, uncle of The
Gear. On account of the near relation
snip of the princess and the iancee a dis
psnsation was necessary. This, the
1dQ1 5 p'OSpfCtlNS OhC
Gar. as head OF the Orthodox Greek
Church, has granted.
Christine Nilsson has given 5000 to-
ward founding a hospital IN France Tor
the treatment of the sufferers from throat
diseases. The benevolent act Is prompted
by a childhood vow, assumed during an
illness from Group, when the young song
stress was only seven years old.
The British Government has made
Anne Hathaway's cottage at Shottery
national property, paying $4,000 for it.
Fifty years ago it WAS sold for e345.
Empire S Frederick has received a
pleasant gift from her son Emperor Will
liam-the ruined castle of Cronberg,
GROWING the hill opposite her new h0ae
in the Taunus-Friedricashof. The E IL
press wanted the castle in order to
enlarge her grounds, but the property
belonged 10 the state. Accordingly En-
psror William bought the estate tor her
benefit.
Anything ~ said a worldly matron to-
group of friends, under the sun but a
woman who sulks. A good, honest lit of
anger, with a burst of heart sunshine to
clear away the storm clouds. Is generally
effective. A man. as Il rule, likes the fair
one all the better Tor outspoken senti-
ments that are free from tauuting mean
ness, bat what he cannot tolerate is the
consciousness that the little passage at
arms Is going to be followed by a finish
ing-otf process which ends in sulky re
sentiment. This sort of thing is SO rasp-
ing.
To some one who questioned Modjeska
t = still beautiful actress answered.
"Modjeska economicai of her emotions
why, 1 am hot even With my
money. | am the veriest s~peuuthrift that
ever lived on smiles and tears and dollars.
II is that L ave still retained The power
To feel everything, whether glad or sad,
most intensely, 10 laugh anG cry within
tie same moment almost that keeps me
young. Youth is not careful for any,
thing. but wastes itself on every emotion.
sure of the fullness of its founG of feel
Il g."
News from Japan says that a number
of japanese actresses are preparing to
s.ait on 1 tour in Europe, to illustrate
tue native style of acting.
If girls would only study men more and
themselves less they would come nearer
10 reducing flirting tn an exact science.
A recent systematic effort to learn what
has become of Vassar graduates in after
life has revealed some Interesting facts.
Only fUrtv-hve per ceut. of the dear crea-
lures have married. The great majority
of them be come teachers, though Vassar
is represented in all literary professions.
She has foruy-eight physicians. twelve
lawyers. six mis- >ionaries. and one or
more in almost every known occupation.
Early Pictures of the Virgin.
To follow the development of the type
of ths Virgin through early Latin art,
and through the monuments of the en-
blematic and hieraric art of Byzantium,
would lead us into archaeological by-paths
where the reader would nave small pleas-
IRE in Glowing US. Let il suffice to
note that the earle 1t representations of
lie Virgin represent her Without the in
ftnt Christ, aud not as a mother, but as q
uug wonau, beautiful according TO the
IDEAS of antiquity, standing with one
hand on her BOSOM, and her head raised
heavenwards. 1t was not until after the
Council of Ephesus, held IN 431, that she
was represented as a mother. Towards the
middle of the fourth century, when the
{ pes of Christian art began 10 be fixed
with some precision, and with the appro-
baton of the doctors and fathers, the
Gentle or Greek element appears to a
predoIninated; and as Greek ideas
esteemed woman to be an inferior crea-
ture, the early painters avoided repre-
s.nting a woman as the mother of tod.
/ required combined Jewish and Roman
1 fuences to impose the idea of the equal
ity OF woman and of mar, which is the
b isis that Christianity gives to the fam
ily-au lea which the Jews readily re-
ceived, being prepared thereto by the i'm
portapce that they attributed 10 legitimate
fiji ltiou, ana which the Romans. with
their admirable legal instinct. had foreseen
as a social truth. This detail is of inter