The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-15
A SARCASTIC WOMAN.
She Is Often Fair To Look
Upon. But Can Make You
Feel Very Uneasy.
YOU MEET HER EVERYWHERE.
Her Cordiallty As Visitor and Hos
tess-Envy the Cause Of Much
OF Her Sarcasm.
YOU MEET HER EVERYWHERE.

You have met the sarcastic woman,
l am sure, but hope you contrived
an escape before her talons of sarcasm
inflicted more than a surface mark on
your heart. In an ordinary mood she
is n of the most repulsive creature to
encounter, and when her overlooked
wrath starts its downward course you
had better quicken your pace, for the
result is hazardous. Besides having
the power of burning you with her
wrath she also possesses the mystic
faculty of freezing. She can make
chills of humiliation shake your
anatomy during the sunniest day OF
August, and you will unconsciously
gaze upward to see il Boreas is not
peering over the mountain heights,
blowing his cold breath upon you.
The sarcastic woman deserves to be
called uncouth and should occupy one
OF the lower steps on the life stair.
The old excuse, IAN eye for an eye.
a tooth for a tooth" is perhaps allow
able, since human nature seems TO
glory in resentment; even then IL Is
far better to desist. The oma who
alIdCkS-uOU Always III Ol1d AZ
responds-is the target for censure.
Meet the sarcastic woman on the
street. Just as she is approaching she
throws a sweet light of recognition
across her face. You Immediately re-
greet your Judgment, declaring that
she is a sweet creature after all, and
when your own lips have parted with
a full blown smile. she draws herself
up to her fullest attitude, merely bow
ing, with that | scarcely-know-you in
difference. Oh, thai dwindled down,
dwarfish sensationl You begin to feel
yourself to see if you had not suddenly
los. in height and circumference.
IN THE DRY GOODS STORE.
But pass into a fashionable dry
goods store, where you will soon see
her, and proceed to select for yourself
that much needed substantial wool
dress. for which you are compelled to
make needs and money correspond;
she will pull about q lot of high priced
goods, and before you are aware OF
her presence she innocently catches
hold OF the same piece which you have
lust instructed the clerk to measure
off. haughtily puts its aside, remark
Jug to her companion or the clerk,
sOh. / thought il was something nice;
it is cotton" Again, at the glove
counter, you may be scrutinizinG a
pair of dollar and a half kids, and she
will dash gloriousiy up, almost tread
ing on your toes, and with a winning
smile at the clerk, say that she
.wouId like to look at some gloves,
please The sympathizing young
man ventures to ask, About what
price glove would you like, ma'am?'
Whereupon she VIGOROUSLY replies,
'.Those long French SUICIDES at two
fifty. 1t never pays to buya cheap
glove" And she is earnestly on the
lookout to wound your feelings, then
soar, as she thinks, from your society.
Occasionally she has the extreme
temerity to enter your home, hurriedly
and Familiarity. Clasping your hands
with undue confidence, she insists that
h be not allowed to interfere with
your work, and Twill just sit in the
hall or your room.n The tables of To-
cation being turned, she will be unu-
sually pleasant-in fact, not many
moments elapse before you find your
self on the top plank of the fence,
ready to choose her side. Bye and
bye you respond to her s'do come,
really, soon," and walk up the front
steps of her home with a confidential
feeling of welcome. In answer to the
door bell perhaps she will come, and
you bow a cordial good afternoon
Her features quickly undergo a frigid
transformation as she utters a cold re-
ply. and she stands in the doorway in
q manner to keep you out.
HER MANNER AT HOME.
Inviting you III with open indiffer-
ence, she seems more interested in
home affairs than your visit. OF
course you cannot leave at once, and
while you remain must make the best
of it. The first chance for escape you
modestly leave, vowing to yourself
that you will never go there again, or
have anything to do with her. You
may be shrewd enough to keep out of
her way after several rebuffs. but if
you do not the first time she finds
you in company with male acquaint-
ances asp-llke she will spring upon
you, ipfiicting her most virulent
poison.
A sarcastic woman is invariably en-