The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

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try and died there. leaving his girls as
Spanish as possible in manners and as
American as possible in sylnpathies.
A girls life in Spain. they say, is not an
enviabIe one, except for the fact-*hich
might appeal to so.ne girls-that they
come out at IA or Is, or even at ", at
which age they may marry.
Ny San Sebastian friends q a cousin
who married at IA a boy of IS, and one of
their schoolmates had two children at
Is.
When Isinquired what these <preternat-
urally young mothers might look like at
40, 7 was told with candor that they
looked like old hays.
Spanish girls are all convent bred, their
education consists largely Of acquiring
the art of embroidery, which they learn to
perfection.
These early marriages are seldom hap
Ply. but divorce is unheard Of in Spain.
Femininism. as the French understand
it, IS so far unknown.
People unilappily married separate and
live out their lives as best they can.
Spain is only just beginning to admit
charity the bicycle for girls and women
of birth.
Spanish women ride the horse a great
deal and well.
The bicycle appeals to them less, as they
are naturally incident.
They are fond of pretty frocks, and
usually dress with great taste. in spite
of bright colors, which the Spanish sky
seem to call for.
Every woman of Spain. Spanish or
American, that / have met. has a special
shrine In her heart for the Queen, Of
whom they speak with the same adora-
tion with which the average English
woman mentions Queen Victoria or the
average Dutch woman Queen Emma.
My American-Spanish friends tell me
she has to the most extraordinary de-
gree the royal endowments of tact and
good sense.
Many of the grandees of Spain are of
far older birth and family than the
Austrian Princess whom Alfonso XII.
chose to take the place of his gentle lit
tie cousin, Mercedes, after her death.
Think of Marie A~ntoinctte and the
French and then of this young Austrian
going tosa land whose language even she
had scarcely ever heard, and where she
must win not only her peoples but her
husbands heart, for we all remember
that in the beginning all the young
Ming > leIueIIleSS WIS DuilSQ III IA SAoNO
of his chffd-wife.
BY far the hardest part of her task
lay before her then-to reconcile the
various Spanish parties, to make for hb-
eralism without alternating the reac-
tfonaary party of the monarchy and to
take her place as a Queen without Of
tending the pride of those naughty
grandees that we know so we'll through
n,,r oxrp lHod1axy IN fha ln0ko1It for the
least opportunity to ~crit.cise 'fthe Aus
trian.' and, above all, to be jealous of
her influence over the young King. Has
ever any woman in modern naimes more
bravely and successfully accomplished a
more herculean task?
ssFirst in a child's outfit should be a
sand heap if the young ones are quite
young, writes Charles M. Skinner of
"Gardens for Children in the June
Ladies' Home Journal" almost the
first thing that human beings want to do,
after they learn to eat. is to dig. A
CARLOAD of sand is one of the cheapest
and most satisfying playthings in the
world. 1t is worth a houseful of dolls,
and painted monkeys on sticks. Watch
Johnny and Nelly at their work and you
will wish most heartily that you could
find the same novelty and enthusiasm in
your employments. That sand pile Is
very cosmos. Mountains are bufded
from it with the use of tin shovels and
beach pals; there are caves in the cool
DEPTHS near the foot of these Himalayas
caves big enough for the cat to turn
around in; Johnny makes a fort on his
side. and Nelly lays out a garden on
/, hers. Johnny's fort mounts murderous
clothespins, and the garden has trees
and flowers and fountains made of burned
matches, whisps of paper and broom
straws, while china dolls walk abroad
there n axe the air. What trifing".
did you say? Not so. This IS one OF the
most serious affairs in life. Don't you
see that in this play the little ones are
learning? Probably they acquire more
exact information in an hour than they
gain all day in school. They are gather
ing ideas-facts-about this physical
world that they must use their whole
lives long. Tor all knowledge rests upon
them. ideas about substance, gravity,
density, form, distance"
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During the past week the wild-fower
lovers have noticed that the seams in
the rocky lodges in the park and suburban
hillsides have begun to whiten with the
blossoms of the early saxifrage. Some of
these plants will appear to grow directly
from a rock cavity without a particle of
soil to give them n~ourishment; and they
seem very appropriately named when we
remember that the generic and common
names are from saxum Ga rock) and
FRANCO Ito break). The Germans call this
plant Steinbrech (stonebreak), because it
bursts into bloom from the minute clefts
in the rocks, and has been supposed to
cause their disintegration by its growth.
The plant is easily recognized, as the
leaves cluster at the root, and the white
flowers are borne In clusters or long
swaying stems.
The Shepherds Purse is very prominent
just now wherever wild flowers grow, as
1T is one of the commonest of the April
boomers, working it's way everywhere,
and appropriating so shamelessly haunts
Of the other April flowers, that it has
won for itself the nickname of pick
pocket" ITS popular title, Shepherds
Purse arose from the shape of its little
seed pods. The white lowers grow in
clusters XXI
The Indian poke or false hellebore" is
eagerly Searched for In April as one of
our most desirable wild flowers, when in
reality it is the early clusters of gayly-