The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-08

with the problem of feeding. clothing and
sheItering the orphans. An hour a week
is not much for Others to give. the work
would prove fascinating to many, and
there are SO many intelligent women, and
so much time is wasted. More than this,
homework, we'll done. is a great preven-
tive of both vice and disease. Nine people
out of ten are sick because they do not
exercise enough-br in as well as body;
all people who are vicious are so because
they have not been kept healthfully and
happily busy. Housework. taught in the
proper way, can be made a fascinating oc-
cupation. The time has come for some
man or woman 10 originate the fashion of
leaving their millions not at the top. but
at the bottom, TO be used in an education
that will set the formation of character
above all else.-MrS. G. H. Stone in Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Only American Ariseocracy.
American women are very beautiful
and charming. They know more and talk
better b any other women in the
world. except their sisters of France.
This class u hat has been called the
only American arisLocracy. 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.
oeA - OAAASSLo -
Gratis because they are the permanent re-
personalities of the government. But,
after all. the woman of fashion is the
finest and most charming aristocrat in
the country. If any one can sit up late
and have plenty of leisure to
sleep away the crowfeet 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
monarchial 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 dc not care to have her ex-
actly like the English woman. -HGrper's
Weekly.
Girls and Reading.
With many girls reading is largely a
matter of opportunity; some lack the
means of procuring many books or, more
frequently still, the time necessary for
The mastery of enjoyment of the hopeful
volume or, saddest of all, the taste or
appreciation of what is beautiful aud EN-
noblinR III literature Is lacking. This is
the heaviest bolt on the gate of knowl-
CuSCs " W ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS eau give
one enjoyment OF a book. and in mental,
as in physical food. we are profited only
by what We assiuilate. But is Just for
those who feel both longing and limita-
ton that this article is written; simply to
act as a fnger-post. indicating in what
direction true mental culture may be
reached,
Bear in mind that there are passing
books and lasting books. books for the
day and books for all, time. Help n
pleasure are to be found in both, but the
manner of reading them will differ. The
one kind furnishes comparatively easy
reading because more on the level Of our
W knowledge and experience but the
latest book. or most excellent magazine,
should not occupy the time TO the exclu-
sion of the other authors who, according
to Ruskin. often give you their thought
more by way of reward than by help, Just
as nature does not spend her gold upon
the surface. out let's us search and dig,
or crush the rock to get the precious ore.
Do some reading that requires thought
and bor.-ChtcGgo Dispatch