The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-07
LIVELY WHY'S FOR WOMEN.
with a Few Corresponding Queries
for the other Sex.

A young man who has always beer
much interested in women would like an
answer to the following questions
Why a woman doesn't keep her shoes
blacked?
Why she doesn't wear her hair in the
way that is most becoming to her, IN
stead of spelling her head by an unbe-
coming arrangement, because it is "styl-
ish?'
Why she allows a man to smoke When
on the street with her?
Why she permits such an abomination
as a euspidor to come into her house?
Why she doesn't stop talking about
her servant girl;
Ditto about her clothes?
Why she doesn't wear hats that can't
be spoiled by a damp day?
Why she ever chews gum?
Why she doesn't pronounce the words
s.cute,p mice and perfectly grand
when talking of a sunset or a beef
Why she persists in filing her nails to
a sharp point?
Why she sits on one foot when she
wants to be comfortable"
Why her card clubs always end IN a
And a woman would like to know about
Why he smokes cigarettes after all that
is admitted on h subject.
Why he doesn't wear the necktles MS
wife buys for him?
Why he is profane on the street where
women are passing, and when there's no
why he eats bakery pit and dough-
nuts and then wonders that he has indi-
gestion?
to sheer at women and women's work?
Why he insults his stomach by taking
mixtures over the bar? ].
- IAN n .nn1roh vpith(IIt
getting the pillows into hard knots under
his head, thus nearly dislocating his
neck?
Why he groans SO when he has a little
Why he thinks he is going to die if he
has ever SO slight a cold?
Readers of the above will please bear IN
is purely sectional and emanated from
the Chicago Record"
SuperIafives.
~ notice. my dear" said a man to
one of his nieces, that when you have
a toothache it's the worst you ever had.
The young man who was here last night
was the ugliest fellow you ever saw.
According to your statement a little
while ago it took you forever ana a day
to learn how to make a sponge cake. The
house you say, is full of flies. You have
just declared that the room is as hot as
an oven, you have the dreadfullest head
ache you have ever had in your life, and
the boy across the road is making the
fe~arfullest racke+ q boy ever made Dont
won't do? Some time in your life you
will really have, an experience requiring
the superlative degree to describe 4, and
it. You viii save used up all your adj
j~ectives. THAT is all. You can go to
humping the piano again
The New woman Has Passed.
We are now, says the Lady's .Picto-
rial. in what is called the autumn pub
fishing season. The air is full, 50 to
speak, of books and rumors of books;
books for old and young and grave and
gay And nlirabile dictu. the chief fea-
ture of all this excitement of falling
leaves is the conspicuous absence of the
New Woman of whom, amidst an un7
usually heavy shower of biographies
and "reminiscences there is spoken never
a word Unmourned. ~rnilonored and
unsung. except perhaps by a grateful
newspaper man or magazine writer, the
New Woman has "pdssed'' to the
shades. Isequiescat in pace!
rho New Belts.
To be a fashionable young person one
must either wear a belt of black silk
elastic satin or velvet measuring six
inches in width and fastened with a
Inch. These odd-loolSing leather belts
must be Of leather measuring but one
inch. These odd-lookigA leather belts
have just appeared in the shops and are
attracting n1seh attention. The most
exclusive 81 well as the most expensive
s pecp6sr shade Of green leather.