The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-05

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In the palace in Havana, in the Govern
ment bureaus and in all the cities and
towns, american women will be engaged
as st~enographers, typewriters, clerks and
copyists.
The wives of Government officials will
want private secretaries for themselves
and governesses for their children.
The new system of schools viii require
American
America lilies will not be satisfied
with men Tor domesties, as are the Gu
bans; they will want maids, cooks and
housekeepers from home.
Tradesmen will put saleswomen behind
the counters, and in business offices wom-
en- will be mounted on stools as book
keepers or cashiers.
There will be a mad clamoring for
American dressmakers; for Cuban wom-
| en- of the needle have never been known
| to make a waist fit the person for whom
it was designed or to hang a skirt grace
| fully.
There will also be excellent chances for
| the boarding house keeper, for the sewing
machine operator. for the actress, for the
! woman advertising agent and for the
/ woman canvasser who can introduce Hour
, or canned goods.
Such will be the chances for the woman
| who must work for others. opportunities
| will be even more numerous and more
| promising for the woman who is proH-
se- in some profession or occupation m
| which she can work for herself. me
| chances Tor any woman with a fair equip
nlent in the way of brains are better
than for another whose chief usefulness
lies in her figure or her hands; the wom-
| an physician, the trained nurse and the
woman writer will DO better in Cubt than
| the saleswoman or the ~laundress.
Ella Wheeler wilcox in the November
..Woman,s Home Companion" discusses
| MANS Limitations when he attempts
to discourse on the secrets Of beauty
She says
s'To the average man the word cos
| metics' has the effect of a red rag shaken
in the face of a bull. Yet the word does
| not mean paint or pigment. grace it back
| and YOU will find it signifies a preparation
/ to restore harmony. This is the age OF
! specialists. In lays gone by whatever
| evil befell the human body the family
| physician was expected to relieve. NOW
we have the dentist, the surgeon the
OcullSI, The duIlSl, lLS PSdiSAAN e
| others skilled in the treatment Of scalp
and skin. A good complexion is the back
! ground of a woman's beauty Natures
most beautiful grouping Of feature Is
| ruined if the background loses its tone
or becomes scanned or spotted. To avoia
| such disaster with the fight of years re-
auires knowledge and patience. There
| are specialists in this line who are just
| as expert as the dentist or the oeulist.
| No man is indignant or disguised if his
wife consults the dentist. He does not
tell her hat a cheerful disposition VIII
| preserve her teeth. Yet the complexion
feels the ravages of Indigestion, time
and inheritance quite as much as the
teenth or eyes. Yet the majority of ladies
must keep their methods a secret because
Of the intolerance and unreason of man
upon this subject.
III a woman goes abroad with visible
rouge on her cheeks, powder on her nose,
or pencil-marks under her eyes. a man
has a light to utter a protest and voice
his disgust. But he never stops at that
| He Immediately proceeds to air his ancient
theories about a cheerful disposition ana
| soap and water as the only cosmetic
| proper for a respectable woman to use
Meantime the deadly scented soap-cake
| has ravaged more compilations than any
pigment on the market.
The habit-for it is nothing more-of
depreciating speech is so common that
| ii would be well forsall of us to stop and
| think about it. says Harper's Bazaar.
This sort of thing is so often heard; i
don't think she is so very pretty as people
| say, or. 81 don't think he Cor she) IS 50
very clever"-or economical. or stylish, or
| bright or cheerful, or a thousand other
things. We do not stop to think that,
while perhaps we do not think her so very
| pretty as we have heard, we do think her
pretty; and again, if not very clever, sure
Nv Interesting, and all the others in like
measure.
Tt is merely a habit with many people,
rot skin deep. but juss the cruel and I'M
| fortunate habit of depreciating speech.
A woman with a sharp ngu but with
the tenderest of hearts, the most generous
| of natures, but with a keenly critical MIND
| and a rare intuition as to character, was
| brought up 4'all standing" as she express
| ed it. after she had been talking one day
| with a friend about several people, and
| before a young girl who was visiting the
friend.
In a sudden lull in the talk the girl
said, as if by uncomfortable impulse:
Don't you like anybody?"
eWhat do you mean?' said the
| startled woman.
The girl blushed and hesita.sd, ard
then said: please pardon me, but It
| seemed so.H
Little more was said; it was passed orr
| and passed by, as in the polite world
/ things that are unpleasant are passed
| over: but into the heart of that woman
| the criticism sank deeply, and from that
hour she watched and guarded her ton
que. Now she does not depreciate in
! speech, and if she cannot appreciate, IS
silent.
IT is well to remember the wise words
of Emerson: Omit the negative PROPOSE
tons. Don't waste yourself IN rejection
| nor bark against the bad, but chant the
beauty Of the good"
| What a changed and better world we
should all live in if we only followed THAI
advice!
you are DESTROYS of having a clear
complexion ~ inquiries Ruth Ashmore in
| the November Ladies' Home Journal
1T is not enough that you simply treat