The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-06

and children play 1t, n 1t takes hun
dreds of dollars out of the town every
day in the week.
Yet Essex county has Republican
Judges, a Republican Sheriff, Republic
can Grand and Petit Juries, and big Re-
publican majorities at every election.
Why is this? Can it be that Republi-
canism in Essex is as rotten as ever
Democracy was in Hudson in its worst
days?
Mrs. Scud derss Two VIEWS of Men
Mrs John L. Scudder's speech at the
dinner of the F~rieslanders, last evening,
was couched in very different terms from
the famous one which she made at the
Sorosis dinner a couple of weeks ago. En-
couraged by the absence of her own
fractional part n all other masculine
hearers, she gave free rein to her new
womanly instincts on the Sorosister oc-
casion, and the result was a most useful
and interesting estimate of the man
brute from the up-to-date point of view.
Down to last evening, we were inclined
to set a high value on Mrs. Scudder's
formation. It appeared to be a product
of experience, study and conviction which
might well become a STANDARD for the
discussion of contemporary social rela-
tions. We thought, in this way, it might
be a boon to lecturers, pamphleteers and
editors, saving them a vast amount of
gray matter in the effort to get at what
the new woman really means. 1t will
readily be understood, therefore, that we
read her last nights remarks with a dis
couragement and confusion of mind only
equal to what we might feel on discoy-
which he found something good in life
or an editorial in the Post conceding
that somebady else might possibly be
honest besides Mr.. L. Godkin.
Mrs. Scudder seems to have discovered
redeeming features in the mascu-
line specimens which came under her OBJ
~servation on the Friesland. One of them
she ~pronounces gallant; another,
.spious"; another, s'paternal," and still
another. devoted Still more strange is
the admission that each and every one
of the creatures studied might have pos
sessed latent capabilities of good which
other and different circumstances might
have fructiied. Thus, it appears that
Mrs. Scudder's judgments of man in the
concrete are totally different from her
abstract ideas of him. While in the sci
entifc and sublimated atmosphere of
Sorosis. his astral image presents itself
cannot put off the frailty of mere ordi-
nary ~femininity when she meets him in
the flesh in the more genial realms of
everyday life.
There is one particular sentence in Mrs.
Scudder's speech which will doubtless
puzzle her admirers as a new woman
more thar all the rest. 1t is that in
which she expresses her joy at having
her "own man, all to herself for a brief
space. If some poor weak medieval
creature of the Griselda type had uttered
such a sentiment as this, 1t would doubt
less inspire the o~ld-fashioned man with
q warm-hearted regard. But emanating
from a strictly up-to-date disciple of
Sorosis, there is a horribly anatomical
suggestion about It, the sort of gloating
satisfaction which a disciple Of Escula-
Plus may be understood to feel when he
becomes the master of an entire cadaver
in the privacy of his own study, and can
pursue his Investigations uncurbed and
unstinted, from the centres Of life to the
obscurest nerve flament.
1t is b~loodcurdling to think Of the Rev.
John L. unconsciously undergoing d
course of vivisection throughout the PEI
riod of the Fries1and voyage, and simply
CHASTITY to imagine that he may have
been the material from which the fa-
nous sorosis paper was constructed.
JUDGE HUDsPETH, yesterday, SEN
fenced a small boy to the County Jail
for thirty lays for a petty theft Of an
other :child's bank and It's contents. The
The County Jail Is a school Of depravity
and crime for anyone. For a small boy