The Jersey City news., 1892-02-09

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| which the ancient Greeks and Romans
| played Nero is said to have performed
| upon it, and an old piece of Grecfan SCUM
| ture represents q PLAYER on tne oaSpipes
| dressed in the fashion that is known To-
| day az the Highland costume.-H HdaperS
| Young People.
The Vhistling Girl.
The whistling girl does not commonly
come to a bad end. Quite as often as any
other girl she learns to whistle a cradle
song. low and sweet and charming, to the
young voter in the cradle. She is girl
OF spirit, of ir dependence of character, Oh
dash and favor; and as to lips. why, you
| must have some sort OF presenJno'e lips
| to whistle; thin ones will not. The whls-
| tling girl does not come to bad end at
ali tif marriage is still considered good
occupation), except a cloud may pe
thrown upon her eXuoeranb young lie
by this rascally proverb: Even II sne
walks the lonely road OF life, she mas tnlS
advantage than she can whistle to Keep
her courage up. But in larger sense.
one that this practical age can under
stand liz is not true that the whlstl1nR
girl comes to bad end Whistling pays.
It has brought her money; 1t mas Dlown
her name ABOUT the listening world.
Scarcely has non.whiscllng woman oesn
adane. She has done SO much toward the
emancipation of her sex from tue preJu-
dice created by an Hl-natured proVerD
which never had root in fact.
But has the whistling woman come 10
stay? Is it we'll for women to whistler
Are the majority of women likely TO pe
whistlers? These are serious questions.
not 10 be taken up in a light manner at
the end of 81 grave paper. VIII woman
ever learn to throw stone! There IL Is.
The future is inscrutable. we only know
that whereas they did not whistle with
approval, now they 90; the preJuuice "a u
generations gradually melts away. Ana
woman's destiny is not linked with that
of the hen, nor to be controlled by
proverb - perhaps not by anything. d.
Charles Dudley Warner In Hdrper's
Magazine for Jdnudru
When You Order Your Cards.
There are some slight but Significant
changes in the correct things in engraved
stationery. These it is just as well TO
know, perhaps, If you are ordering your
cards. II you are getting new plate
avoid the long, light Italian style OF
script that has been popular, and choose
instead small. close, rather deeply
shaded script, and if the prefix be MI"
or "Mrs," have the ''r'' or the ''rs" car
ried up in small letter or letters after
the ''M" instead of having them all on
the same line. Be sure there Is not the
slightest attempt at Il flourish anywhere
upon it.
In selecting the card choose one that is
medium sized and thin, but OF the finest
quality. The heavy Bristol board no
longer circulates in the best society. VI
coured the card will contain only your
name with your address In the right
hand corner, and your receiving Gay, IL
YOU have one, in the left. Sometimes q
writer or au actress. whose professional
name is not, her private one, has them
both engraved on her card. For instance,
Mrs. Wilcox, whose cards read Mrs.
Robert NJ. Wilcox" has "E la wheeler"
engraved in one corner. Another writer
of considerable prominence Il am glad
to set down it Is n man) has the face OF
his card quite filed with personal infor-
nation about himself. In the ceutre is
his own name; underneath in brackets
is his pen name; in the upper right hand
corner is the name OF his club; In the
lower right hand corner his house ad-
dress, and in the lower left hand corner a
full list of his works. .-Philodelphtd IN
Qutrer.
The Society Mans First Year.
On every occasion that society" gives
dance you'll find species of bores that
is the most persistently abtrusive bit of
human clay that you ever encountered.
The blushing debutante, with her airy
persifilage and her assumed timidity, Is
interesting as a study, but of all the ire
provoking temper testing bits of annoy
auce which comes under the head OF
bores, let a discriminating heaven protect
me from q society man in his first year
his maiden bow to that class OF folk de-
scribed by Byron
Society is one vast horde
Consisting of the bores and bored
A society man in his first year in the
swim is liable to be lost in the rush! II
YOU want some marks of Identification
(you may want to prove property aud
take it home) here are few rules:-He's s
first year man
If his collar is always wilted after the
| third dance.
II he don't know where to find his part.
ner.
Ii he writes the girls name on her
| dance card and scribbles his name on his
| card.
| If he ends every sentence with a
giggle.
III he gets caught In the tolls of q passe
| fairy and don't know how to extricate
| himself
If he steps on every woman's train that
| passes him.
II he gets rushing madly at nothing and
stops before he gets there. :,
| Ii BE mumbles something exceptionally
| obtuse when he bids his hostess good
| night" and then comes back to ind his
| hat, and
AS you 20 rafting along in your con-
| yeyance, you sec him standing bare
| hauded undar q street lam % e eXciteQlV tell.