The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-25

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the Broken Seal" Mrs. ID. p. Bowers
wore a beautifully made plain black
silk, rich and heavy, but cut with
skill and draped with art, while
Agnes Booth had on an elaborat Q
frock, that seemed to suggest t 90
much hustle. One looked a refined
gentlewoman, and the other n
coarsened by contrast.
ada Rehan dresses we'll IN the
stage, but off of it she is untidy-look-
ing and almost as dowdy as Mrs.
James Brown Potter. Elsie De Wolfe
dresses well, both on and off the
stage; her costumes last year in
''Thermidorn were absolutely correct
and as rich as possible. Among the
~ingenues, Efie Shannon, Maud
Adams. Ethelyn Friend and Agnes
Miller all dress well, for they under
stand that young women are not ex-
pected to look like matrons; that dia-
monds do not belong to youth, the
beauty of which is sufficient to de-
mand only a simple framing. What |
am telling you is true; some of it l
know absolutely, some of it is from
close observation, but that the women
of the stage make many of the fash
ions is an undoubted fact, and that
the women who know how to dress to
suit the part, how to neither V nor
under dress themselves, are really
teaching their audiences-at least, the
part of them-the value of
suitability"
Then the dressmaker stopped for
breath. | had been nodding like a
Chinese mandarin as she went along,
and agreeing with her, but it seemed
to me | never met a woman who knew
so much.
Teaching Children to Be ,trious.
Teach the children habits of industry
while they are yet very young, and
they will always be industrious, says
| JenneSs Maller'S Monthly. Give them
at first only very light tasks. and try
| to find the work to which each child
inclines. Don't let them work SO long
that they become tired and so dis
gusted with all work, but long enough
to accomplish something, and if it is
of use, SO much the better. Teach
| children that there is a time to be
idle as we'll as a time to be at work.
The apparently idle time of the sys-
tenatically busy man or woman is
often the most fruitful in results, for
it is then that many things are
thought over and planned. When it
is possible, let the children feel that
they are working for some definite
end.
They wish to see the profit of their
labor as much as older people do of
theirs. Deny them that, and the
very highest incentive to habits of
labor is removed. A good and indus
trious woman one said:-'One of the
most bitter memories of my childhood
is that my mother, who was one of
the best and most conscientious wom-
en- that ever lived, was without tact
or Judgment as to my tasks. On the
long beautiful summer days, when |
longed to be at play, and when l
ought to have been, since there are
always enough dreary days in which
to give a child work, she would give
me two yards and a half of u~nbleached
muslin which | was required to hem.
1t was always stiff and rough and dis
agreeable. Ii it had been fine, pretty
work, / would not have minded
half so much. Those hens
had to be turned and measured and
basted, until my poor little fingers
ached, and my soul rebelled at the
task. When my work was badly lone
1 had to pick it all out and do it over;
when it was well done the piece was
torn off without a word of approval
and thrown into the ragbag. | was
in a state of bitter rebellion all the
time, because my toll was of no use
to any one. When l said SO l was Sc
verely reprimanded and told that
children were no judges of what was
good or bad for them. This is a great
mistake, for children are much
keener judges than grown people as a
rule think them. Then l thought
that my mother was very wrong and
very cruel, but now l know that she
was"
Edna Dean Proctor.
Miss Edna Dean Proctor, the de-
scendant of a highly honored New
England family, was born at Hen
mixer, N. H. In early life she be-