The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-14

In Moman'S World.


+ inquiries, says the Naio pm
ssAh, you win laugh, you will point 'ne
finger Of scornl'' murmured a German
friend. tried to look grave.
II should like very much to near an
about it, l replied
$50 far told my friend. the unoer-
aking has met with ~undoubted success
No girl is admitted to the 'marrlase
school unless she has finished her oIai-
nary education. Her principal 1nstfuceloii
is in housekeeping. although she keeps up
more. or less the cultivation OF her MIND.
At a school where | have visited ABOUT
twenty girls are admitted. Each has ner
owp bedroom.
SAT the opening of school, after term,
the mistress singles out four girls ana
tells them she expects them to take enllre
charge of the house. Two servants, house
maid and cook. are kept only to GO the
very rough work. The four girls, then,
are expected to rise with the lark ana see
that the servants get through tneif auties
Breakfast they prepare with their owh
hands. After breakfast they go the fouhus
and see thai every room is perfectly neat,
Dinner(under the MISTRESS tuitlon) they
must cook themselves. Later on they pre-
pare supper, tidy up the kitchen and go an
over the house to see that every dooI u
properly closed. The girls off duty make
and mend their own and their eompan-
ions clothes. The following week an
other auartette of girls is chosen. Walks
and bicycling in the country enter INTO
the days programme.
Every frequently guests are invited 10
dine, and the girls in turn play at eelhs
hostess. They carve the joints, SCI the
ball of conversation rolling, and so 1ortni
Dances and musical parties, too, are given
in the evening. Again the girls act as
hostesses and arrange the whole enter
%tainnent. officers and professional men
attend the soirees. and are charmed al
what they can see and hear MY frleho
stopped to take breath. And how many
girls, I asked, "out of the twenty are
supposed to capture an officer or pro-
fessional man while at the school?' AT
least eight out of twenty" was the EN-
phatic reply.
People speak of the London season
meaning an exodus from the country up
TO town from April till August, says COL
Her's Weekly. But in reality the LONDON
season never ends. Thousands of refined
and interesting persons do not go into the
country at all, except for visits OF a week
or less. They remain in their handsome
or pretty homes, entertain and are enter
tanned. When you get to know a good
many of them-which a protracted resi-
dence here of say four or five years Will
cause you to do, provided you are en-
gaging and acceptable-the multiplicity OF
their dinners, I am told, verges closely on
acutest boredom A man about town
(who was also a brain worker, a maker
of books told me the other day that the
social winter life of London had begun to
Cypress him beyond speech. Dining out,
he aid, has grown an insupportable bur-
den. To myself it has reached the degree
of destroying all desired leisure. A man
of my profession gives a certain part OF
his day to work. Another part OF it he
mast give to walking, cycling or some
active exercise.
when evening comes he wishes to read
NOT every evening perhaps, but three or
four out of the week. Unless he reads he
is lostn But here in London I will some
times L forced to dine out each evening,
from n onday till the Monday that ensues.
One dinner begets another. You take
some London lady down into the dining
room. Before the fish is served she asks
you in pathetic tones, if you will please
come and break bread with her a fort
night hence. Then there are notes. IN
!, Vulnerable dinner notes, which have to DC
answered. Dining is the one incessant
amusement of Londoners. Others exist
like balls and dances and afternoon teas
but dining exists in a supreme degree"
Well, 1 can only state that my own ex-
perience of London inner giving has beer
/, no less enjoyable than limited. If it should
rain dinners with me, l dare say that
shouldn't like it any more than my frieno
does. I don't suppose one wants 1t te
rain anything. in this sublunar sphere
except money. Only then are you, I, ant
our next door neighbor prepared for the
grateful acceptance of a deluge,
1t is curious to what an extent the
mutilation of teeth goes on among say
age nations, and ever among certain
= civilized people, such as the Japanese
With them a girl is never married with
out first staining her teeth black with {
repulsive kind of varnish, and the custom
is especially adhered to among the mem
bers of the richer classes. On the Yves
!, coast of Africa a large proportion of the
teeth are deliberately broken when child
/, rem reach a certain age. Both in the new
. world and the old the custom exists q
!, extracting the two front teeth of domestl
! servants. In Peru the custom has ex;
listed from time immemoria1, and used t.
be a sign of slavery in the days of Incas
: This is also the custom on the Congo and
among the H~ottentots. Teeth are taine
!, in various colors among the Malays. z
bright red and a bright blue are not unt
common, and a bright green is produced
with the aid of arsenic and lemon juice
Livingstone related that among the KAT
] frs a child with a prominent upper jaw
, was looked upon as a monster and wa'
Immediately killed. On the Upper Mil
the negroes have all their best teeth ex
: tracted in order to destroy their value il
i the slave market, and to make it no
worth while for the slave traders to carr,
4 them off.
Two Of the trio of American girls, VIII
), Travelled Europe last summer for tel
! weeks at a costNof $500 each, tell Of thei
trip in the May Ladies Home Journal
They Show that it is possible to max
: the trip in comfort at the figure named
They were obliged to deny themselve'
: luxuries, but to provide themselve
!. abundantly with the necessaries and com
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