The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-21
DOINGS OF WOMEN FAIR
Story of Birds Suffering
Which Should Make the
Fashion of Wearing
Them Extinct.
A PRETTY METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU.
American Girls as Athletes-Queen
Marie of Portugal Receives
the Golden Rose.
A PRETTY METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU.

You may Vell u WondH thoi'tS'oA "
her hair. Fine hair indicates one OF
gentle and aminble disposition. Brown
hair shows common sense. The straighter
aud less yielding the hair the frmer and
more positive is the woman's nature.
Treachery and Jealousy hide beneath
lustreless or dead black hair nine cases
out of ten. The lighter c1lored the hair
the more 'touchy" is the owner.
Vice President Morton's daughters
have an active share In church WORK az
Rhinebeck. They conduct a sewing
school for poor childrea on Saturday
mornings and a little Sunday school
twenty-four hours later in a room III Mr..
Morton's nouse
At n recent fancy ball in Washington
nm inQ eaious and pretty young woman
went as he Meteorological Bureau. On
ner heau she wore L silver helmet, crested
with IA 1either-vane. Her waist drapery
was confined with q close-h ting blue
bodice, ornamented with white stars ana
Dol dsred by rows of real silver dollars.
This bodice vas laced IN front over Il
thermometer, ia which the lady Kept the
mercury moving up an dowh in an ex-
cited manner. 10 further carry out the
yauar!e3 of our climate she wore from her
shoulders O ne IVY bear skin cape from
Montana, while her fr1iled skirts We're OF
the lightest China silk.
Josephine was thlrty-three when she
married Napoleon, and juggling from The
letters written by the a.7ent b
during the early years or their union she
inspired the redoubtable soldier with most
intense love and jealousy. 1t Is Claimed
10y many writer's that she WAS the only
woman Napoleon ever really loVeu.
Cleopat a was nearer forty than thi.ty
Wnen Marx Antony fell beneath her spell.
and the most beautiful woman the world
has ever known, Helen of Troy, was long
past thirty When the Trojan heroes fought
their lannon's battles for ner sake.
AS athletes, American women are gain
ing even transatlantic fame for eXtraor-
uinary pedestrian feais, polo playing,
cycling, aud a few have managed even
football. Nearly all the cycle ctuDs have
admitted women, and gyinnas1ums and
special schools for women i'll boxing ana
fencing are increasing. Every fashiou-
able school for girls has its physical cul-
Jure class, and the future womea of
society are learning how to turn somer
saults backward, as we'll S to leave II car
rlpge with grace and to play the
ana hap.
Il has been computed that for every
bid OF the rarer species-such as the
humming bid, the orange and scarlet
Geek If tina rock, the oriole and the kilg-
fsher-that is worn IN Il woDan's head
gear, ut least ten have suffered the death
pang: counting in the Young who die OF
starvation, the wounded who ny away TO
crop down and die in the woods or among
he reeds, and those which are mut l tied
and destroyed by the pellets so much as
TO be unavailable for purposes OF deco
ration.
Queen Marie Amelie, of Portugal, the
most domestic of all European queens. re-
ceived this year the Golden Rose. This
famous rose is n large ornament of
wrought gold set with gems. Tit
the fourth Sunday of Lent and then
sends 1t as a mark of special favor
to some distinguished individual. Pope
Urban V, who sent Il rose to Joanna OF
Naples, was the first TO determine that
Lhe conservation should be annually OBJ
served. although GREE CORY the Great first
began The custom. Ii in any. paI
year no one is considered worthy the rose,
1t is laid aside in the Vatican. The con-
ferring of this gift j. accompanied bv
very imposing and unique ceremonies. Ii
is conveyed to the receiver by two OF the
Pope's emissaries, who are always men-
hers of his Noble Guard, formed OF mem-
bers of the highest aud "blackest" CT
Rome's nobility. The Pope sends a let
ter with the rose, which Is enclosed III a
wonderful casket, and in this letter he
enumerates at length the virtues and
merits of the person to whom the elm
plem Is awarded.
The First Raid Upon Trained Dresses.
Apropos of the prevailing styles of
trained dresses, l saw It recently stated
that Queen Anne-Richard IFS Queen
Anne-was the first to Introduce them.
The truth is, however,. that loug before
her time fair woman amused herself by
trailing yards of dry gCots III the dirt.
AS early as the Plantagenets aud even
earlier long gowns were worn and not
only worn, but ridiculed and protested
against as they are today. But it seems
to me that our protests are weak as
compared to The following: II ave
heard of a proud woman who wore Il
white dress with a long train. which
trailing behind her, raised n dust even as
far as the altar and the crucifx. But "a
she left the church, and lifting up het
train on account Of the dirt, a Ger, ain holy
man saw a dew laughing, and having adj
jured him to tell why he laughed, the
devil said:-"A companion OF mine was
just now sitting on the train of that old
woman, using IL as If it were mis- chariot,
but when she lifted her train up, nv COM
panion was shaken off into the dirt; aud
that il why l was laughing" AT this
time even Tho clergymen went so far as to
preach sermons. Contra caudas Donii-
narium,n aud when the fashion passed
into Scotland, as may be seen from Il stat
ute in 1860, q law was enforced prohibit
ing heir enormou size .-Philodelphiu
Press.
A Receipt for a Kiss.
l was never kissed by q woman but
once In my life-bY which l mea that
kiss made me forget all others. Describe
it? Impossible. 1t was at Richficld
Springs. ! was n handsome fellow in
those days, and had bal several desperate
hirtations with young girls. So l dida't
think anything of it one evening While
sitting on the veranda in rather a dark
| corner to feel a pair of soft arms sudden
lY clasped around my neck ana a mouth
of thrilling fragrance and wonderful
aptitude in kissing set upon my lips.
When l came to my senses | threw my
arms around the beautiful unknown, but
a low unice Mhisnered.-MRA panernus