The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-15

Can pe pougIft TOR Amos any price
from s1sS to IS or S..
Any costume described NAV be worn
for other exercises, but in general If is
better to keep it for its own special use
though it adapts itself to hunting and
mountain climbing better than other
| athletic exercises.
There is no doubt that the coming
summer will be a great season 70,
cycling, especially among the smart
folks. and no one knew what extraya-
gances may be perpetrated in the line of
costumes by those who have so much
money they dom know what to do
There are rumors of silks and satins and
broadcloths for costumes and gold and
silver mounted wheels, but we plain. or
binary mortals will continue to pedal
along in our own sweet way and get
Just As much benefit from the exercise
as the millionaire cyclists, for the wheels
go round for the just and the unjust,
the rich and the poor. alike.
Sport, however. is not the only form
of recreation at Somerville and Lady
Margaret, says "Harper's Bazaar" There
are the debates between the halls. and
the Shakespeare societies, little teas.
In the girls own rooms for special
'chums," more general "at homes"
throughout the winter, and garden par
ties and all sorts of gayeties during the
closing week of the summer term when
the lists" are read and honors awarded
Girls may also receive visitors of either
sex in reasonable numbers and are often
allowed to dine out with a friend or he
otherwise entertained in her house: but
that same friend may not come for her
10 chaperon her elsewhere. A chaperon
provided by the hall does that.
Eaeh nah also maintains a miniature
society,"" governed by the strictest rules
OF tlquett as regards calls and enter
tanning among he students. The
Freshly must conduct herself with
meekness and lowliness of spirit. Never
may she dare call on a Senior before
that Senior has seen fit to call upon her
ana take her up" in polite society.
Moreover. this grave and reverend Senior
maj leave her card if the 'Freshys l.
out; but the 'Freshy'' may never leave
a card under any circumstances. but
must keep on calling in return until she
hnds the Senior in; to leave her card
only would be unparalleled presumption
Neither may any Freshman presume to
entertain, to invite a dinner companion.
or, in fact, tender an invitation of any
sort or kind, unless an intimate friend
ship intervenes to suspend these laws Of
social life. No Seniors are ever. ever
asked to meet .Freshaes,n and if
"Freshies" are to be present at anv
spread" or spree, the Seniors are 50
advised hofnrGha MI {hof tn1.. -
away If 1t so please them. In short. the
Freshman's social standing might be
termed a modern reproduction of that Of
the medieval Jew-shunned, snrbbed
and looked down upon, or treated with
the lofty condescension of a bare and
meagre liberation.
1t is an acknowledged fact that a great
age is attained by women oftener than
by men. Tissot, with doubtful gallantry.
accounts for this by declaring that the
large amount Of talking for which wom-
en- are famous is a very healthy exercise
and promotes circulation of blood without
overexerting the organs. The true reason
probably lies in the qnieter ana more reg
ular life usually LED by women, says the
New York Mercury"
One of the most famous female CEN
tenarians was the Countess of Desmond.
who lived to be AS, and died in. the reign
OF James I. This wonderful woman
found herself, at the age of 100, so lively
and strong as to be able to take part in
asdance, and when she was 140 she travel
ed all the way from Bristol to London
no triffing journey in those days-in order
to attend personally to some business af-
fairs.
Lady Desmond is, however, quite thrown
into the shade by a French woman, Marie
Prion, who died in st. Colombo in June,
1888, at the wonderful age of 1853. Toward
the end of her life she lived exclusively
on goats milk and cheese. Although
her body was so shrunken that she
weighed only forty-six pounds, she re-
tanned all her mental faculties to the last.
It is an extraordinary but incontestable
fact that some women. ait the age when
most people die, undergo a sort of rejuv-
enation-hair and teeth grow again, the
wrinkles disappear from the skin. and
sight and hearing acquire their former
sharpness.
A Marquise de Mirabeau is an example
of this rare and remarkable phenomenon.
She died at the age of So, but a few years
before her death she became. in appear
ances, quite young again. The same
change happened to a nun of the name Of
Marguerite virdur, who. at the age Of g.,
lost her wrinkles, regained her sight. and
grew several new teeth. When she died.
ten years later, her appearance was al
most Juvenile.
AS q protection against the aeas that
even well-bed cats and dogs sometimes
init oduce into our houses an entoniologfst
advises the owners Of such pets to pro-
vide a rug for them 10 sleep on, n to
give the rug frequent brushing and shak-
ing. afterward brushing up n burning
the dust.