The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-01
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over which q man can poke fun at a
sHa ana she Will admit the soft I'M
peacnment and K him all the better
Ior It.. When back of the badinage turks
a compliment to her charms Or a really
cnavalrous tribute to her helplessness she
never fails to appreciate the situation.
For Instance. she doesn't mind It a bit
when he tells her that her whistle is only
q woman's whistle, and, threfore a. fail
ure.
She knows perfectly wei that. while
ne watches her make that failure. his
eyes betray the admiration he feels when
he sees the bps 50 t~emptingIy pursed.
She won't care q rap when he informs
her that sshe can't sharpen a lead pencil.
No woman ever couid.'s
She knows that she doesn't put a
scientific point on a pencil and she would
much prefer to have some one whose
stronger fingers never falter as he pulls
the blade across the lead do that for
her. MOI will she object when he laughs
at her for the hystericaa shrieks chat a
mouse never fails to elicit.
She knows that II = little matter does
so disconeert her. nevertheless there is
a time when she Is far drawer than the
man who is laughing. She can endure
pain with hardly a mur1nur. and no
man, OF course. cam be sick a day with
out calling upon the whole coterie of hts
feminine relative to sy1npathize with his
distress.
But there is a matter upon which a
woman doesn't like to be TESTED. She
VIII bristle with resentment If she is
told that she is always and forever be-
hind time. It Is the plain unvarnished
truth. and It is probably because it is
the truth that 1t stings. Not chat the men
often accuse their women friends of
this failing. They don't. They just
suffer on IN silence without mentioning
IT. But a fellow always tells his sis
ter of 1t. It's a way brothers nave of
speaking their minds without taking
Thought or care as to whether they are
going to incur the fair ones displeas-
TIRE. So this is the way that women come
to know that they have, or that people
think they have, this
1t is fact that really has to be adj
united that the average woman can
never or does never square herself with
the clock The lack of punctuaiity is
as plainly a feminine characteristic as
the hack of patience is a masculine one.
Indeed, 1t is just possible that the situa-
ton was devised in order to i~nculcate
in man that missing virtue. If so, how
ever, It has failed Of success, for no
young man who twirted on the piano
stool an hour many times as he waited
for the dearest girl In the world to
array herself for the opera, was ever
sufficiently educated by this trial of his
patience so that in later years he could
calmly answer q tireiess voEiey of uues-
lions from their youngest hopeful.
However much q woman may resent the
charge. 1t cannot be successfully disputed
that the majority of the SEX are ~eternaliy
late. It IS always so when they are going
out for the evening. Witness the in
terrupttons that occur at the opera or
theatre by late arrivals. II. is so at their
clubs. In the most Of which a meeting
rarely ever begins earlier than fifteen
minutes after the appointed time.
It is so In the appointments which
they make with each other. A pretty
woman in, very evidently new gown
bussaed up to another pretty woman in
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town the other day with the remark:
ION, You dear girl How long have you
been watfingf I know I said I'd meet you
at 10, and it's nearly IL now. But / really
couldn't help 1t. I had to hunt all over
for my gray gloves Had to I'VE them,
you know, with this uit."
And when the first pretty women stop
ped talking long enough to give the Sec
ond pretty woman aAchance the, latter
answered: Oh, no. dear; don't worry.
Why, I only just got here myself. I
knew you wouldn't be- here at 10, and,
anyway. I couldn't have been. for it took
me SO long to do my hair this MORN
ing.
There Is just one kind of woman who
is learning to be on time In keeping her
engagements. She lie not the society
woman, nor the club woman, nor the
fone woman, nor any one Of the vart-
ties of women known In. past centuries.
She belongs to the class who sometimes
are labeled sthe new woman" whatever
that may signify. She Is the business
the professional woman, n she has
come to know the value Of time by per-
sonal experience. If she is a woman
lawyer she knows that the court will
not wait for her case while she sews
OF q just discovered missing glove but
ton. If she Is a woman physician she
realizes that a matter of life and death
is OF more Importance than the becorn-
ing arrangement of her back hair. And
If she Is a newspaper woman she knows
hour. whether or not she eats or sleeps
that her copy must be IN at a certain
between times.
Fair women are now deeply interested
In Summer fabrics. Certainly they were
never more fascinating. The variety is
infinite and large, bold patterns seem to
predominant. Scroll designs and conven-
tional figures are much in vogue. The
new. thin gowns win be made with sepa-
rate Innings.
The skirt, with many cores, and each
seam trimmed with narrow lace edged
ruffles. either bias or straight. around
the bottom is very smart, and the skirt
fulfilled to the waistSwdll also be very
much The New York sun, sug-
gests several chic models. The dainty
frock il build lof male blu and white
organdie. trimmed on The skirt and
front Of the bodice with lace ruffles,
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