The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-15
EASTER Chit CHAT.
The Vocational College
Boys Make Many Cir
cles Lively.
POST LENTEN AWAKENING.
Amateur opera Costumes - why
Clubs Don't Dance-NOtes
and Comments.
OST LENTEN AWAKENING.

Society In Jersey City Is the most in
elastic today known to man. Keep IL
quiet for month or 50, press it down fiat
by forty days of Lenten p%enance ana IL Is
q matter of weeks before it will spring
BACK to a state light enough to be any
thing like gay. Witness last Christmas.
The calm of the holidays lasted until
within three weeks of Lent, then every
one realized that sackcloth and ashes
were perilously near, and rushed pell
NELL into a short season OF gayety.
Thanks to the efforts of Messrs. THOMAS
f. Bedle and Frank r. Baldwin and their
confreres of the Assembly and Cotilllons,
Jersey City society will receive a decided
shove on Wednesday of Easter week by
the Subscription Bail at Foye Hall. April
20. And alter that comes the Amateur
Opera where the dear giIls can sing aud
dance and imagine they are real i've
Casino chorus girls for this occasion only,
and the dear boys can occupy the 1ronG
seats and fancy they are IN Mr.. Aronson's
theatre once more, and the dear boys VINO
are not in society can buy Il ticket ana
bring their friends to see the young
women whose names they have read IL
the society news notes of the daily press.
jersey City girls do not believe In the
trailing skirt-it is so very unhealthy,
don't you know-so they never wear
tnem-on the stage
ON THE SOCIAL CALENDAR.
After this there will be at least two
large weddings. more or less, IN the dis
lance, but with dates decided, four re-
ceptions of considerable size aud the reg
ular club dances. And speaking of CLUB
dances. 1t is a solemn fact that the reason
why so many large social clubs come to
grief is because the members do not pay
theiI dues. According to an influential
member, that, is why the largest social
club on the Heights stopped after its sec
ond large reception, and never gave the
third, which was to have been something
remarkable. 1t isn't exactly polite to
mention the name of the club, but all Its
members know just whtch one ID meant.
EASTER BRIGHTNESS.
Easter week begins with gowns and
hats and church services, and II April
should forget herself and give us u hue
day next Sunday, floral decorations III the
churches had better hide their diminished
heads, for there will be such u gay display
in feminine furbelows. Speaking or TINS,
the writer has it in confidence tnat a sell
appointed committee of two have drawn
up for their own use a list of the fifteen
Jersey City girls with the best taste In
dress. names are suppressed, but the list
says that one ives on Jersey avenue,
two on Montgomery stl eet. one on York,
two on Clinton avenue, four on Bergen
avenue, one on Communipaw. three OH
Summit, one in Greenville, one on Bent
ley avenue, two on Kensington avenue
and two on Magnolia avenue The writer
disclaims any connection with this list. il
is merely the work of a pair of statistic
maniacS.
The city teams with college boys-bea
pardon, college men-at home for the
Easter holidays. aud next weeks festivi
ties will be mainly for their amusement.
which means that Filius, h~me from
school, will be feted and feasted until he
begins to think he never half appreciated
himself before. But a collegian is always
an affording young person, and, on the
whole, a week or so of Easter adulation
can't do much to spoil his taste for lane
ing n flirting aud the other innocent
amusements of his age