The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-07
-FOUR. POMPOUS REVELS.
How Evening Card Recep-
tiOnS at the White House
Are Managed.
UNLIMITED INVADERS
UNLIMITED INVADERS.
The Length Of a Woman's Waist
humankind and Hobbies.

are four of these each winter that may
be described as regular. These are to
the diplomatic corps. to the judiciary,
to the officers of the army and navy
and to the Congress. OF course there
are other receptions. Sometimes a
scientific, a commercial or a medical
congress is held in Washington, and
the President deems it to be his duty
to invite the delegates to view the
President and a few of his friends.
But the great, regular, social events
at the White House, aside from the
formal state dinner parties. are the
four that have been named.
Everybody goes to them, the par
ticular guests at one being the gen.
eral guests at the others. At their own
reception the members of the diplo-
matte corps wear their uniforms, and
there is much complaint on the part
of some OF the guests that they do
not also wear them at the other recep-
tions. The officers of the army and
navy are necessarily in uniform at
each of the four.
The crowd is invariably enorm Gus.
The line of carriages of arriving
guests reaches from the White House
porch down the long circular drive
way of the grounds, out of the gate,
down Pennsylvania avenue, past the
Treasury, around the corner and
down Fifteenth street towards the
Washington Monument. A late ar
rival will easily consume an hour in
crawling from one end of the line to
the porch. Then when the door
Is reached, and the wearied but
expectant burdens of the car
riage are discharged, they find them
selves In a pack of human beings that
is almost terrifying. 1t seems impos-
sible that this good-natured crowd
should be able to make its way through
the single door into the White House.
Sometimes the police make way for a
belated distinguished guest; some
times a window is opened, and ladies
are handed into receiving hands. The
crowd inside the doors is as great as
that outside, and the progress from
the porch across the vestibule, up the
stairway, and down again is so slow
that sometimes the receiving party is
no longer receiving when the last
comers enter the Blue Room.
and is so painful that the attempt
to get in is often abandoned, and
is eve repeated except by those who
must and by those who have no
glimpse of any of the glories of social
life except at these receptions. AS
the crowd moves on, 1t chats and
jokes. The ripping and tearing of
garments are heard. The carefully
arranged hair of the women Is tumb-
led. The crowd has occasionally to
make way for a fainting woman.
Twice as many people go to these re-
captions as are asked. A man or
woman who is bound to go to a White
House reception has no modesty or
conscience. so that intruders are many.
The heat is suffocating, and usually
the crowd is expected to pour into
and out of this huge humming hive
of torment through one doorway.
Any one who gets into the rooms,
however, will find that comfort in
creases as the crowded ways of ingress
and egress are left behind, for the
White House Is ar ample building,
and can hold a small army on its
lower floors. -Ha2pe9'S Weekly.
The Length of the Waist.
Many women dress as if the face was
the only consideration, yet we see the
face once where we see the whole per-
son twenty times, as across a room or
the street. Again, they dress as if
they were a half length portrait, not
considering what is below the waist.
So she does in her short mirror, but
she forgets that what she adds above
she cuts off below, and were she to
look in a long glass she would see by
apparently shortening her limbs she
loses far more height than she gains
by lengthening her waist.
The shorter the woman the shorter
should be her waist. IMagineia short,
stout woman with a large head, wear
ing a heavy wreath of French flowers
omit, and a heavier wreath with great
dark leaves mixed with the flowers en-
circling her form at the end OF a long
corselet bodice. Were she to look at
herself in a long glass she could hard
ly fail to see that she appears to be
cut off at the knees. Such a dress is
simply ludicrous. The stout woman
who laces closely to diminish her ap-
parent size makes an almost tragic
mistake. The form that is squeezed
in at one place must necessarily puff
out at another, and the bust and
thighs gain additional prominence by
contrast with the small waist.
If stout women would veal looser
frocks and drape the front of their
bodices with straight folds and not
define the waist sharply atsall, there
would be an agreeable donbt In the
mind of the spectator as to how much
was woman and how much dress.
where at present there is an alto
unpleasant certainty Tod
lettes MGgazdae. 1 !,
Humankind and Hobbies. tlsf
There's a deal Of good ems as well
as good therapeutics in that pref
scriptien, the chief decentralization of,
which is that 1t is preventive as
we'll as curative. If more women
hobbies theyswould have
less and fewer vague illnesses
born OF nerves to cultivate. The rest
fullness of a hobby is something that
the persons who inveigh against them
TO take into account in their
favor. Years ago I knew q little over
worked woman who used to say
The only thing ! want to do I can't