The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-13


with self congratulation cannot fail to be
conscious of the fact that they lend a
sweeter presence to an assembly than if
their apparel were stepped in carbolized
camphor.
Should they happen to be colonial DANES
they may remember that our great grand
mothers did not consider their prepara-
ton for church service complete unless
they carried along with their prayer-books
a sprig of dainty lavender, folded in their
handkerchiefs, and it is in a lavender
scented environment only that we can
fancy these good housewives moving
and having their being.
Never to have slept between the haven
der sheets of a real country house is to
rave missed the joy of Lotosland which
the gods, after all, vouchsafed only to
the chosen few.
Woman's paradise is not
in civilization, not even in Amer
lea. 1t is in heather Burma
There woman is on absolutely the
same footing as man in all that per-
tains to law and custom. There is not a
single law that does not bear equally
On man the same as on woman Men
have never tried to boss" them or to
say what was fitting and was not fitting
for them. mo artificial ideals from long
past ages nave been held Up to them
as eternal copies. 1t has been left to
their own good sense and to, the eternal
fitness of things to determine what is
womanly what is not" The re-
suit is, none is more womanly than the
Burmese woman. none possesses in
-..o+o. c+rop oth oil the ma ma1AGS 4ftTaH-
lions of a woman"
In the higher classes a woman has
property of her own manages it
herself. In the lower classes she al
ways has a trade and run it herself.
The sexes are left to choose their own
o~ccupations, and sit is rather curious to
find that sewing and embroidery are dis
tinctively male occupations. The retail
trade of the country is in the hands of
the women, and they nearly all trade on
their own account. Just as the men
farm their own land, the women own
their businesses. They are net sales
women for others, but traders on their
own account, and, with the exception
of the silk and cloth branches of the
trade, it does not interfere with home
life. The bazaar lasts but three hours,
and the woman has ample time for her
home duties when her daily visit to the
bazaar is over She is never kept away
all day in shops and factories. Her
home life is always the centre of her
life. She could not neglect it for any
other. 1t would seem to her a losing
at the greater in the less. But the
effect of this custom of nearly every
woman having a little business of her
own has a great influence ON her life.
1t broadens her views. 1t teaches her
things she could not learn in the mar
row circle of home duties. 1t gives her
that tolerance and understanding which
so forcibly strike every one who knows
her. 1t teaches her to know her own
strength and weakness and how to
make the best Of each.
Il find great difficulty in getting a
model with good arms said a we'll
known sculptor recently. 1T is aston
ishing how very few women have arms
that conform to the standard. A perfect
arm measured from the armpit to the
wrist joint should be twice the length
of the head. The upper part of the arm
should be large. full and well rounded.
The forearm mu not lie too fat, not
nearly SO fiat as a mans, for example.
A dimpse at the elbow d beauty to
a weIl-proportioned arm.
From a w-el-rnouIded shoulder the
whole arm should taper III long. grace
ful curve 70 = symmetrical and rounded