The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-02

manifold. With the daughter of a sre-
spectacle country family engaged She
feels that her troubles are over, when,
behold instead of the young woman her
self, appears a small brother with a
cuses, but still her employer wonders
why the girl did not think of all that
before. For how can she guess at the
scene which has been enacted between
the young person she has lately dismiss
ed from her service and the one employed
to MI her place! That scene is as fol.
lows
The dismissed, calling at home of the
engaged)-1so you're going to work for
Mrs. , are youe,'
Wei. l thought I'd see how I got
along there
You'll never get along with her.,
why so, Jane?'
Il couldn't. Such insolence as she gave
me You never heard"
You don't sayio etc.,in much the
same spirit as member of higher circles
discuss those who have offended them
the dfction only marking a difference.
Then when madam starts out on a
round of personal calls, she is met on
every hand with this challenge, wasn't
1t your place that Jane left?" And
her answer, 1T was my place from
which Jane-was discharged does
not tend to mend matters.
However the truth will prevail in the
end. and if a mistress be kind and Just,
she VIII, as a rule, bear the reputation
she deserves. A little policy in dismis-
sing undesirable servants Will go far
toward averting such embarrassment as
fell to the lot of James former mistress.
And even she will eventually find some
heroic soul who will disregard all warn
ings and prove a faithful and longabid-
ing member of the hosehold, whose YER
sion of the place" may even come to
supersede that spread abroad by the in
jured lane.
As to the advantages and disadvantages
of employing as domestic servants wom-
en- who live near your own home, there
is much to be said, but experience seems
to decide in favor of this solution of a
vexed question.
The disadvantages of engaging local
service will readily suggest themselves
to the experienced housekeeper. The girl
who works OUT in her own town will
want to go home frequently-may have
followers and a promiscuous list of call
ing acquaintance. She may be inclined
to keep late hours and to ask for in
convenient days off, that she may attend
excursions and picnics. These matters
must, of course, be regulated by the in
dividual ~housekeeper.
Die you ever notice that men always
instinctively put confidence in a girl with
blue eyes, and have their suspicious of
the girl with brilliant black ones, and will
you kindly tell me why?' writes Lillian
Bell in April Ladies' Home Journal. rs
it that the limpid blue eyes, transparent
and gentle, suggest all the soft, womanly
virtues, and because he thinks he can
see through it, clear down into that
blue-eyed girls soul that she is the kind
Of girl he fancies she is? I think it is, but
some of the greatest little frauds I
know are the purry, kitteny girls with
big innocent blue eyes. Blazing black
eyes, and the rich warm colors which
dark-skinned women have to wear, sug-
gest energy and brlllance and no end of
intellect. Men look into such eyes and
seem not to be able to see below the sur
face. They have not the pleasure of a
long, deep gaze into immeasurable depths.
And SO they think her designing and Gle
yer. and perhaps God save the marki)
even intellectual, when PERHAPS she has
a wealth of love and devotion and hero
ism stored up behind thai impulsive dis
position, and those dazzling black eyes,
which would do and dare more in a min
ute for some man she had set that great
heart of hers upon, than your cool-blood-
ed, tranquil blonde would do in forty
years. A mere question of pigment in the
eyes has settled many a mans fate in
Fife, and established him with a wife
twlro turned out to be very different
from the girl he fondly thought he was
getting
There are one or two distinctive fea-
lures in this seasons fashions that are
not to be passed over lightly. Careless
observers of the new costumes now or
exhibition say that there is very little
change in style since last year, and that
with a little furnishing up cid gowns will
pass muster, but they are sadly mistaken,
for the very details that they nave not
noticed are the ones that Civ the chic
and finished look to the gowns this
spring.
The belt and the collar are the salient
points to be noticed, and it seems as
though France had run riot in the colors
and shapes Nothing matches, and it is
hard to become accustomed to the violet
contrasts, in spite of the training we
been put through lately with the
Powered and Persian patterned silks. Al
and white silk, dull turquoise blue,
has a grass-green belt of broad ribbon
twisted around the waist, and also run
through eyelet-holes in the shirring on
the skirt. The same green ribbon is run
through shirring on the waist, and there
IS a band of it around the neck, but there
partly hidden by the tabs of white lace
which fall over it at the back.
The collars on all the new gowns are
cut very high at the back; inside, have
a ruche; outside, tabs Of lace; and sur
rounding the neck, a ribbon. All these
combined must needs make rather too
hot q fashion for midsummer, but for
the present. at all events m,1st ho urarn