The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-24

and congratulate ourselves on the success
of the Vancouver.
To be sure Nemesis overtakes us
swiftly. Enter another feminine passen-
ger, who is also an adept In the gentle
art of ~scrouging; we. in turn. are
scrouged; and judging from the look Of
righteous Indignation on our faces one
would imagine the very word was un-
known In our bright lexicon.
Then the conductor comes in for his
portion of our feminine tact. If he is
looking particularly harassed and weary
we make it a point to keep him standing
while we search successfully in all the
pockets of u tailor Jacket for a nickel,
then in the depths of a chain purse, a
pocketbook and perhaps a Boston Jag,
finding 1t at last just as the exasperated
official returns to the platform to per-
suade a fat lady with a basket not to
alight while the trolley is running at full
speed.
Or, another playful habit, when the
car is crowded to its utmost capacity, is
to tender a two-dollar bill for n fare,
and when the conductor, after exhaustive
labor. proffers us one dollar and ninety
five cents in small coin. to refuse to ac-
cept such chicken feed triumphantly
handing out a five-cent piece, which we
did not offer in the first instance as we
were In need of change, and at the same
time demanding our original two-dollar
bill.
Thus it win be perceived hat with
some ingenuity lovely woman succeeds
in making an impression on the public,
and andaarc horSoJf hu hor cunning
little feminine ways, to all with whom
she comes in contact.
And what about the men and their
manners in the street car? Well, some
day when I have five columns space al
lotted to me in the Record I will en-
deavor to cite some of the most glazing
idiosyncrasies-let US be mild-that dis
tfnguish the average masculine passenger
and makes riding in the car with him an
unalloyed ource of joy.
The pace that kills a business woman
Is the work she does at home. Good,
hard, faithful attention to business never
killed anyone, man or woman, " the
st. Louis "Globe-Democrat." Worry and
the seeing to things idea-these are the
two nails in the business woman's coffin.
The seeing to things idea is distinct
ly feminine. No man ever had 1t. Every
woman is born with it. Men sit in a
street car and watch the driver of a
truck groan and tug, and try to get his
wheels off the track, and not a man will
move to help that driver or even sigh in
sympathy. Every woman in the car is
edging and peering and wishing she
dared go out on the platform and "see
to hat truck"
That's the thing that kills women.
They try to carry the world on their
shoulders, and they don't realize that the
world is a great lea better off without
their puny strength under it.
Business women try to do too many
kinds of things. They are, most Of them,
'Jills of all trades" When a business
man gets up in the morning he takes his
bath, goes into the dining room and eats
his breakfast, kisses his family goodbye
and goes down town to work, like a
sensible man. The business woman-do
you know her? I do.
III tell wha the business woman does.
She gets up early and goes into the chill
dren's room and fuses around for half
an hour or so. If o ask her what she
is doing, she'll say she's seeing to
things"
h hires a ~servant-and waits upon
her. She pays a dressmaker-and sits up
nights studying fashion books for a new
way to have a dress made. She buys a
hat-and takes it home and tears it all
to pieces and makes it over again. She
dictates to a typewriter-and then takes
the scopy'' and c~orrects it herself. She
works herself Ill owe something she
can't do, and ought not to do, and takes
a rueful pleasure in a martyred spell Of
Illness.
She worries about other peoples trout
bles. she frets over other peoples chill
dren; she almost takes medicine for other
peoples headaches and she puts all her
friends into nervous irritation trying to
''see to them"
If the business wonan is worth e
half her salary she puts all these things
out of her mind at the office.
AS soon as there IS a fear that an ILL
ness will last more than two or three
DAYS turn all unnecessary things out of
the room. This does not mean pictures
and a few ornaments which make the
room more bright and cheerful, but any
furniture impeding the quick, quiet move
rnents of the nurse, clothes hanging on
pegs. ornaments which can possibly be
knocked down. and, above all, any boxes
or parcels which may be stored out of
sight beneath the bed.
The bed should be drawn away from the
wall, as a free passage of air all round it
is important. See that the blind is in
such order that it will work easily and
quietly, n carefully oil h hinges of
the door, should they have any tendency
to creak.
All the furniture needed IS a small table
near the patients head, a wash stand,
a chair for the nurse. which should not
be a rocker, or singing" wicker one, and
a screen. The last-named article is
more useful than any other adjunct of
the sick room-for screening off light, and
so forth. Should there be a clock in the
room it should be a noise1ess ticker. A
watch hanging on the wall is best.
h really popular girl of today knows
a lot: particularly not to gossip about
friends who have favored her, and those
knows enough to dress appropriately at
all times. and never to be overdressed
She knows enough not to wear diamonds,
discuss religion or politics, boast her an
Gent lineage. She knows enough to
keep silence. and she knows how to talk
well. She knows how to dance, swim,