The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-04
Mr.. and Mrs. John Judge.
As West I'D st.
Tuesdays


These cards are purely for social obi
gations-in the acknowledgment of gift,
and invitations, for congratulations ant
condolences.
For the first two years after a youns
iady enters society her name is engraved
upon her mothers card. AT the end o.
that time she is entitled to a card of hel
own.
A widow the first year of her bereave.
neht mas no cards, because she make:
no visits during that time. After that SHE
may retain her husbands name. This is
purely a matter of sentiment. although
strict etiquette requires that her Chris.
tan name should be engraved with the
prefix of Mrs.
Society declares that the hours of 4 ia
6 in the afternoon is the time for card
leaving.
II a call is made upon a day "at home ;,
n card of the lady visiting and two al
her husbands are left IN a basket placed
for the purpose.
An unmarried woman without her mn.
Their may leave cards for her father n,
an uncle, if she resides with him.
In the first call of the season oards
SHOULD be left for the gentlemen in a
family. .
No married ledy should leave her bps-
bands card for an unmarried lady He
viii leave i himself. When n call is
made on a mother and daughters two
cards should be left-one card for the
mother, one for tie daughter whether
married or single. Two cards are
necessary only for the ordinary call. un-
less the first call of the season. then
cards should be left for each member in a
family.
II the call should be made on a day
that Is not a "at home one. she shoulo
send her card or cards to those whom she
wishes TO see. Servants, as a class, can
not remember names, and a card sen.
obyiates this difficulty.
II a call is made on a person visiting
a house two cards should be sent, one
for the visitor and one for the lady of the
house.
a card should be left after a dinner or
luncheon. dancing party or ball. But a
reception. unless extremely formal. calls
for no card.
Cards should never be left for the
younger members of the family without
including the elders.
Young people should call on their ell
ders-not the reverse.
After a dinner party a lady should
leave her husbands card as we'll as her
own.
Turning the corners of cards is no longer
fashionable.
All first calls should be returned within
a week.
On an .at home' day every lady should
make her call. At other times it is an in
trusion.
Formal calls should be made once a
year. They should not exceed fifteen
minutes. If not returned, the acquain-
lance ceases.
An interesting document is the re-
Gently issued report of the National As
ISOLATION for Supplying female Medical
Aid to the Women of India.
In eleven years since its organization
under the name of the Lady Dufferin
Fund, the number of women and girls
annually relieved and cured has risen in
1895 to above 1000, 900 Q,054,3SD, and in
the last three years the humble has
doubled itself.
The movement has a pathetic history.
After suffering for years from native
cuacks the Maharanee of Puma, the
diamond deposit State of Central India,
was cured by an English lady-a medical
missionary. Her Highness wrote to
Queen Victoria, inclosed the letter in a
gold locket, put the jewel around the
doctors neck. and charged her not to
AXE it off until she gave it into the
Queens hands.
Her Majesty sent a kind answer and
laid on the next new viceroy. when dis
missing him, the Especial injunction to
launch a scheme for the improvement of
the medical treatment of her Indian fe-
male subjects.
With Irish impetuosity and Scots thor
~oughness combined Lady Dufferin organ
lied the fund all over India. and in Lon
don also, for training native women doc
tors, as well as healing the suffering.
The invested funds amount to f12s. 900 al
par, and the income from all sources
last calendar year was Els, 545. With
this a million of suffering women were
cared for, in addition to the many who
come under the ministration of the medi-
cal missionaries. American as well as
British.
Were progress more rapid, especially
among the high caste ladies, who must
be attended in the zanana and harem,
there would not be women doctors
enough. Lady Elgin, Lady Elliott and
other Governors wives have brought
abous the foundation of hostels for ma
tive women studying medicine and nurs-
ing. Mr.. Woodburn, an experienced civil
engineer, declared at the annual meet
ing in Calcutta lately that ethe rapidly
growing and now enormous attendance
at the Dufferin hospitals is the best pos
sible evidence of the trust of the peo-
pie In the treatment they receive there"
As the general education of women in
India rises the lumber of female cam
didates for the higher grades of hospital
assistants and assistant surgeons will in
crease, however slowly. It is ~sixtyAyears
since DR.. Duff induced some of his best
students to learn ito dissect the human
body. and now the Indian medical SER
vice has many native members, while
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