The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-05
Dorothy Maddox Advises
Women to Learn the
History of Their
Own Times.
PROBLEMS OF Modern CIVILIZATION
The Guide TO Social Popularity
How Girls Can Make Them
selves Attractive.

On0 would IIlIN UhdV hONs
| q woman's head and heart would be
completely turned by the frivolities
of her kingdom, and yet never was
she more practical, more phil
anthropic, more conservative than at
the present day.
Even the society moth has learned
that the strictest attention to her par
ticular code will not aid her in grace
fully avoiding the pitfalls along the
path which she has elected to follow.
Something more than a fetching man
ner and a smart gown is necessary
these days to azure her the admira-
ton she Graves. Settling down to
facts, she draws very near the verge
of enthusiasm as she discusses, moi
the latest fashion caprice, but the
newest humanitarian novelty. +
This fitful interest, ut least, serves
to show the tendency of the times.
Day by day woman's mind broadens,
her aspirations soar to loftier heights.
She meets those of her kind and she
is ready. not to furnish the last It'd bit
of gossip, but q catchy little scheme,
as helpful as il is delightful, for I'LL
proving mankind. Her eagerness to
fill some useful niche in a world quite
outside her own is infectious. From
the brown stone front as well as the
modest cottage comes an answer TO
her appeals for help, n Jeweled
hands are stretched out to raise the
unfortunate poor from misery II
despair. ),
Call it a fad If you will, but this, l
think, would hardly be fair, for the
movement is steadily growing, and
each day but adds to its interest.
Women who have heretofore been
content with the lightest literature
now post themselves, in regard
to the suffering all about
them, by reading the life like
study entitled How the Other Half
Live" In Darkest England and the
WAY Out" and the very valuable
work Darkness and Daylight in New
York. very cleverly written, and
am glad to say by n of my sex, for
who but a woman could describe to
woman the scenes of sin, suffering and
sorrow to be found among the help
less New York poor? Every line OF
this volume is replete with interest.
Between it's pages are to be found
startling pen pictures giving n q
painfully realistic idea of the dark
side of this great city's daily history.
MODERN CIVILIZATION.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott emphatic
ally declares that the problem OF the
great city is the problem CT modern
civilization, and if so, who but the
mothers and daughters of our land
can solve it? That they will be able
to do so is only a question OF time.
Women discuss, over d friendly cup OF
tea, at the luncheon party and with
the masculine diner-out, the merits OF
this move and that and with a keen
intelligence which plainly proves that
thew do not intend to become strag-
oilers in the onward march, but will
keep we'll to the front of the company
which has in it's ranks the brightest
and brainiest recruits.
Another subject being handled just
now with q good deal of interest, es-
pecially by mothers, is furnished by
the inquiry cat what age should chill
dren be allowed to read the daily
papers without the censorship of Older
persons?" That it would be extremely
difficult to fix upon any definite rule
is generally admitted. Mind intellect,
rather than years, must unquestion-
ably settle the point.
Up to a certain age very few chill
dren take,any particular interest in the
daily. The unfiedged man, may be
given to airing, with a youngsters
pride, his boyish views, and here the
father, if wise, will give him every ell
couragement, and the small fry who
| spells out his letters with the aid Of
the big type furnished by the head.
ings is sure to feel ever after an es-
pecial proprietorship in this particu.
A newspaper must furnish the
news, and this, unfortunately, in.
| cludes the scandals of the day; but O
| we'll edited sheet, even when keeping
| abreast with the times, is generally SC
carefully weeded that but little is lett
| that may be considered really objec.
| tionable. TO be frank l feel a very
great pity for the girl who is not sen.
| sible enough to be intrusted with 6
first-class daily. She must indeed
need careful chaperonage.
Here. and here alone, are to be
| found the leading topics of the day
| current history. In TACT, which can De
| culled In no other wav. The trouble
is that utter neglect to read in thi!
| direction, especially after a girl has
reached the age OF sixteen, generally
results in an utter indifference to the
! affairs of her State andseountry, She
| drifts after awhile out into society
with u mind we'll equipped, so far a.
book knowledge is concerned, ye'
hopelessly ignorant of the every day
events going on about her.
THE GUIDE TO SOCIAL SUCCESS.
Foreign, national, religious, seien
| tific and social matters are now freely
discussed through the medium of tho
newspaper and by the brightest minds
in the country. That the social queer
knows this as we'll as the ona out
side fashions domains is shown by The
care with which she impresses upor
her daughter the policy OF being thor
oughly up upon some other subJsc'
beside the last new waltz step and tht
| choicest thing in gowns. Converse
tional ability. not chatter, is the
surest guide to social success. III
man who is little better than Il walk
in~-sfick NAV be indifferent TO the