The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-23

cottontand water beetles are 10 De Sudtu-
ed against. under the kitchen sink and
In the cellar under that again, where the
pipes connect under ground, be we'll look
ed to-. Those who have studied the hab-
its Of these creatures know how they
are routed Immediately by light, and how
like . flash they disappear. Their Tor
tress. or home, is generally at the base
Of these pipes, and it is hidden behind
these that they scud up and down SO
mysteriously. Forwarded is forearned,
Their is little use in destroying a few in
sects upstairs while allowing them to
multiply below.
1t is an ncontrovertible fact that in the
long run the plain women get the piums
of life far oftener than the beauties. a
well known French proverb asserts thal
if a man. falls in love witt a beautiIui
woman his feeling for her Is only SKIN
deep. but if it is with an ugly woman
the fancy Is genuine. This is an equal
izing of matters that in our puzziing
lives is not often found. The reason OF
the favoritism of men for plain women
as wives is probably largely due to the
conduct of the beauties. who are gem
orally spoiled, and more or less vain. and
have not the staying qualities which their
less favored sisters find it necessary to
cultivate, or with which nature. as a
compensation, perhaps, seems to endow
them. AT all events, it is a comfortable
gospel for the AMY. and that It IS a
statistical fact makes it satisfactory.
There are two things that make a wo-
man lastingly attractive to a man. said
an experienced social observer. one Is
the power to amuse or entertain, and the
other is sympathy. The first attracts;
the latter retains. OF course, a certain
amount of good looks is desirable, but to
be pretty is not nearly so important as
the women themselves suppose. To be
fairly good-looking, and well-turned-out
in the matter Of dress is all that is neces-
sary for the entering wedge"
To a plain woman the gift of comeliness
seems all desirable. She is such an ar
dent w~orshipper of beauty in her W sex
that she cannot conceive that a man
should not suceumb at once to its all
conquering attraction; that he should adj
mire without particularly desiring to pos
sess, seems TO her impossible. was 1t
not Nine. de Stael who said she would
willingly exchange her intellect for the
physical charms of Nine. Recamier? No
man adores beauty as the woman adores
it, who, in her humility, if she is con-
| scious tina the great gift has not been
| bestowed upon herself, cannot understand
that her lover may acknowledge another
70 be more beautiful, but that to him she
is the one woman in the world.
1t is odd that so many entertain such
| meagre or gnarled and crooked notions OF
| what constitutes p~oliteness. And yet 1t
is a very simple matter, say Carriers
| Monthly 1t consists merely of the APP
plication of the principle of plain JUS
| tice. If no man or woman ever demand
| ed, in terms or by implication, more than
is his or her due, and always conceded
all that is due to others, this world would
be a paradise indeed.
Mere polish of manner is not politeness.
| In some respects the most intolerable cad
on earth is the fellow who thinks, or acts
as if he thought a ceremonious Beg par
| dom" with a gracious bow, atones for
| anything and everything.
These fellows, if they drive over you
in the street and break your back, think
| it enough to beg pardon with a -four
| ish of the hat like an old-time dancing
! master. Possibly this is better than to
pay no attention to you at all-not even
to beg your pardon. But it is not polite
; ness. in any true sense. Both are boor-
ishness. differing only in degree.
The polite man is not he who jauntily
treads on your toes or jabs his umbrella
in your face, and then begs you pardon
i~with a Chesterfieldian bow and an Upper
Broadway flourish of the hat.
1t is not this consequential and highly
| polished creature at all. 1t is the quiet,
u~nobtrusive mar who glides through the
crowd so observant of the equal rights OF
others that he doesn't tread IN your toes
nor fresco your waistcoat with his UNI
brella ferrule, and hence you never see
him at all
1t would really put to shame the ex-
pertest of spiders could she be treated to
an hours inspection of some of the un
dergarments that are now set forth as
examples of lat bridal lingerie SHOULD
be. The first claim on admiring, not to
say curious. attention, is made by the
night dresses, petticoats, chemises and
pantaloons that are not fringed with lace
but frosted and fretted with the most
delicate drawn work. This mode of dec
GRAFTON seems to nave given the realest
of Valenciennes a setback, and strange
to relate the most costly and beautiful OF
these garments are imported. not from
Paris but Mexico. Broad pointed collars,
cuffs that extend to the elbow and deef
bands of insertion, are all a maze of the
drawn threads that in delicacy of quality
and beauty of pattern quite discount any
but the rarest laces. 1t is hardly surpris-
ing to learn the generous prices this royal
raiment brings when one considers thai
the linen OF which they are made is first
woven in France, then sent to the Mex
lean converts. where the nuns and the
pupils in their school pull the threads
and work the pattern.
To go into a restaurant in the heat d
the day, wonder if anyone looks as warn
as you do. n then see a woman come
t. who really knows how to dress results
in mingled feelings. says the Philadelphis
Press"
You envy her. You admire her. Yot
wish you were as clever.
The woman who came into this restau
rant was tail. well formed, reposeful. Sin
was a blonde. Her skirt of lark blue
taffeta was ruffled. Her expression wa;
not. She made one feel if an ice was be
ing served.
like a sailor blouse. Tiny tucks an liner
apart stood as if corded. The Ions
sleeves had a Turnover cuff edged with !.
stitched bans of pale blue satin. TIL
/ plain sailor collar, edged with this sam,
color of satin, came to a point over TIN
tie of white taffeta. The chemisette wa,
of white swiss. tucked.
Her hat was of dark blue straw, linet
with white straw, after the new fashion
Around the crown were punched whit
roses on green leaves. Over these wa.
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