The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-12
ANGELS.
A Young Girl Eulogizes the
Despised Old Maiden
Aunt.
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well! How in the world would We
get on without saunties' and old maids?"
asked an enthusiastic girl, as she threw
herself into an easy chair with a smile
of perfect content. when evryone else
Is hurried and heated about their own
affairs, the old maid of the family, deal,
kind. sympathetic auntie, with nothing
more important in her life to occupy her
than a change of maids or a rebuke to
the man-comes in fresh as a daisy to
take her urn at the mill, as a relief
guard of some one else"
Scarcely pausing to take a fresh breath
she continued with acknowledgements
plenty OF leisure and i~nexhaustible love,
what may she not do in the way of
help? and, to her honor be it said, she
generally does all she can"
A friend who had listened languidly at
first now smiled in a rather cynical man
ner and reused to a corresponding ami
nation in supporting the opposite side
of the question. Evidently her old maid
and auntie was not of the lovable sort.
THAT is all very we'll for the ideal
maiden aunt" she remarked, ''but there
are others of opposite characteristics"
There is the peevish old aunt who has
lived only for herself, narrowing her
~sympathies and contracting her under
standing until she sees evil in every
thing; the veritable old maid who
thinks wedlock is at best a doubtful
matter. and that a girl who is in love
and lets her love be seen is by no means
a nice kind of person, but one whom she
calls chit with junction.; who is snappish
to children, severe and repressive to all
the young; who shifts at new fashions,
and speaks with asperity of the girls who
like to look pretty, and take great salts
faction in attracting attention and gain
ing admiration
And there is the moneyed aunt, who
jingles her purse before the eyes of her
expectant heirs, and makes them under
stand that the one who is the most as
siduous in his or her attentions is the
one whom she will remember in her
will She will probably leave the bull
of her fortune to a local charity, the
funds of which go into the pockets of
the administrators oftener thar into
those of the recipients; or she will en-
dow with her whole wealth the home for
lost dogs.
THE ~discontented aunt is a common
specimen who thinks no one was ever SO
badly treated as she has been by every
one, and who resents as being put upon,
the request to do any human being a
kindness who keeps her purse tightly
shut, and her heart like her purse
.sThe juvenile aunt is another mistake
the aunt who tries to rival her young
nieces, and who thinks she looks as we'll
as any of them, when she has dyed her
poor scanty locks a bright canary color
because Ada has golden tresses dyed by
nature; whens she has copied Mable's las
new hat, the pattern of which is too
audacious for anything but fresh youth
and undeniable beauty: the aunt who
never grows old, who objects to being
to her Christian name, and who is as
silly as the silliest and youngest of her
nieces, and as unfit to chaperon them as
if she was a girl herself. Differentiated
she is. the jealous aunt who has quite
an enmity against her young nieces all
around, simply because they are young,
and because the men admire them more
than they admire her, treating her with
civility and them with devotion.
"And there Is the cross aunt, who IL.
young relatives fly as from some old
fairy-tale witch of the woods. And
the -
'tOhi oh! oh! will you never stop?" ex-
claimed the aunt defender who had first
spoken, and who had become more and
from the cynfc. rs it really true that
all these aunts exist in true proportion?
Well. let them pass. Though they may
be real, they are too unpleasant to dwell
upon; let US leave them for the dear.
kind and smiling a%untie, such as blesses
our home; who helps and loves, and
works and chaperons, and who has all
the JOY of maternity without it's taxes,