The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-29

1H0IM ou6 stQe 10 LHe otner. Inc point Oh
the game consists In seeing on which side
are the best blowers and who can sue
coed in keeping the egg away from them.
As a game it has not really much point.
but, after an old-fashioned turn at cha
Short" gives the girls and men a chance
to rest at least, it nothing else.
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The great incident In q woman's life,
n therefore an inevitable one in the
woman Of fiction, is love. The most con-
slant element in woman's love, In reality
or in fiction. is doubt.
Even with utmost confidence in the sim
certify OF the love she has engaged, few
women do not, at times, harass them
selves with the thought that perhaps the
man only fancies that he lover her; that
in the depth Of his heart is buried some
other love that may be q~uickened; that
his love. now so ardent. may soon grow
dim and gradually fade away.
They seem never to permit such ques-
tioning to test the merit of the love they
give.
To the lover these doubts are never well
~def1ned-they come only in the unexpected
moods that so perplex all lovers.
SHE is unhappy and she does not know
why. She is respondent, but cannot de-
fine to herself cause for hopelessness. She
is wounded, but is unconscious of what
hurt her. She feels that her soul has gone
out to her love; that she must have it
back, but that if It is given back she must
die. She is so happy and she is SO sad.
She feels that she and her lover are all
In all to each other, except that she may
not be all In all to him. She is devoted
to him, but is he as devoted to her?
And the man, having no understanding
Of her consciousness simply berates him.
self for having at some time, somewhere,
In some nj done something to
wound the sensitive nature of this dear
girl. Or, not being able to find any solu-
ton of the trouble, he early comes to re-
solving every shade of difference through
the broad, general principle that all
women nave their moods; that such
moods do not really betoken diminish
ment of affection, and hat a~nnoyances
of this sort are part of the penalty that
man has to pay for the happiness of
love.
In the matter of love men and women
seem to be essentially different. Man al
ways shows an Astounding Joy in being
loved. 1t is never perfect happiness to
woman unless she can mingle at times
with the assurance a sweet, gentle melan-
choly, ~springing from doubts which. if
called to answer, she would indignantly
scorn and deny.
So it seems ever to have been, and prob
ably it will ever be, so long as this sweet
influence, love, impels men and softens
women.
Perhaps this enhances the pleasure of
love. John Keats, with everything OF
beauty that was to have been to him a
joy forever fast fading from his vision
and his fleeing breath almost ready to
leave his dying body. left, nearly as his
last word, that his dearest hope of o
was of a sweet unrest"
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In the February Ladies' Home Jour-
nal Max Won Binzer writes of his exper-
ience as "a Page at the Berlin Court
upon the occasion Of a double Royal we'd
ding. and of the preceding and succeed
ing festivities. Describing an ancient and
curious custom he writes: And now (af-
ter the wedding, dinner and BALD came
the sFackeltanz.' Several of the highest
officials entered the hall with flaming
torches. A procession was formed with
the bride in the midst. A number or
complicated p~olonaise figures We're then
executed, after which the line closed
about the bride and groom and marched
out as escort to the briday chambers.
A the doors of the bridal apartments
closed upon the happy pair we found our
selves Immediately next the entrance.
We waited expectantly for the next fea-
ture, holding Jul advantageous position
with some difficulty. In a few moments
the doors flew open and half a thousand
silken garters with the en-
bossed on the gold buckles were thrown
out by the ladies of honor. Court ETH
qrette was for the nonce forgotten-gen-
erals, courtiers, chamberlains and state
ministers scrambled n fought with one
another for these momentos. But we
pages. rest assured, got the lions share.
1 have several of these souvenirs now,
although many were given away by me
tina night to beseeching dignitaries."
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The Endive is usually esteemed as a
salad plant. but some people consider it
too bitter for that purpose. and Professor
Waugh states in a late bulletin that it
makes most excellent greens when cook
ed. The variety known as the Ever
White Curled does not run quickly to
seed, n when blanched like celery or
cos lettuce by tying up the leaves or
drawing the soil up about the plant it
makes an attractive salad plant. For
eating cooked, however. 1t is best to take
the plants when very young before they
have time to make heads and when they
are in their tenderest stage. The seed
can be sown early In cold frames or in
the open ground like lettuce, and, of
course, plants can be grown in from 40 to
80 days at any time during the summer,
but in the very hottest weather they are
not of tho best quality. Autumn-grown
plants can be taken up with some earth
adhearing to the roots and stored in a
dry cellar or in a cold frame for winter
use.
I have frequently heard of the woman
who would see the first piece Of ribbon
in a box of bargains, but never until the
past holidays did l witness a parallel
case.
A young woman desired a volume Of
"Grandma's Prayer" precisely like the
one she had with her.
After a tiresome search the book was
found n the customer decided that she
did not want to buy 1t.
Do we wonder, then. that some sales
women are irritable, and reluctantly
look through every box on the shelves to