The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-26

loyer-like ways, has, on account OF ner
shortness, to look up at him for the pur-
pose of peering into his lovelit eyes. But
very short women can only sound the note
of a forlorn condition, unfortunately, for
fussy. modern man, taking him In the
abstract, passes her over and lets his
choice fall upon her comparatively taller
sister. The superlative tall woman and
the positively short woman the average
man leaves severely alone, says the Phila-
delphia Times
Tall women are usually digniied and
would appear to scorn kittenish ways
and. although they manage to draw adj
miration. it is rather of the awe-lnspiring
kind. No doubt. owing to their small
ness of stature and pretty, playful ways
men give to little women more petting
thar the tall, dignihed woman demands.
The lovers oft-repeated expression-syoa
little darling could hardly be applied 10
the very tall girl without tickling the
risibilities of those who overheard II. his
is certainly very hard, and looks IKE d
punishment for being tall, but VINO can
help her stature? And it is a fact, TOO,
that men are rather shy about approach
ing tall women, because OF restraint
which the feel but cannot explain. Ihey
are under the impression-why, 1t IS haro
to tell-that tall women are built TO pc
commanders, and that they are IN their
natural element when left alone IN tnear
reserved dignity and musings IN their
lonely wanderings.
You have in the little woman, nesting,
coaxing. fascinating ways that are not to.
be found in the mannerisms of the tail
woman. whose nature seems to be quite
the opposite of vivacity, her inclinations
leaning toward a deep, calm reservedness
which BELTS her tall stature. A tall wom-
an with pretty little ways would be a
ridiculous sight, and a tall woman VINO
wanted to be petted would, in the eyes
of strangers, give cause for mucn naro
jesting. A tall girl doesn't offer the sug-
gestion that she was born to be taken
care of. nor does she convey the idea that
she is "a little helpless thing pleading Tor
protection In some ways 1t is, there
fore, not any particular run of lavender
to be a tall woman" as a little woman
once expressed 1T to the writer.
1.-THE hungry girl is considered the gen
uine article nowadays" said the proprie-
tor of a well-known restaurant to a re-
porter. THE era of the young woman
who, when accompanied by her man
friend, only nibbled daintily at the food
set before her in a restaurant has passed
SO far as this town is concerned at any
rate. The girl of today eats. She doesn't
consider it necessary, when the young
man is along with her, to just peck sn4-lp-
ily at a salad or something like that to
show him what spirituelle, aesthetic ma
ture She possesses. We used to get hordes
of girls like that-girls that you could
tell by their general expression were moth
ing short of ravenous for a good, square
meal but who, in conformity with the
aesthetic idea, would only make little
dabs and pokes at the stuff ordered Tor
them, and the probably go home and
consume all the cold stuff they could rake
out of the refrigerator. The average girl
that comes in here now, however, eats
just about as much as the male person
along with her. She tells the man frankly
that she's starved and that she wants sol
ids and a whole lot of them, and she goes
at the dishes set before her like a hired
man after a hard day of harvesting. I've
got any number of young women GUS
toners who make nothing of getting
AWAY with a half dozen of big fried
oysters at a sitting. A very dainty look
ing. slender young woman came IN mere
yesterday, her young man along with
her, and she used up five good-sized lamb
chops with trimmings in a fashion that
was delightful to see. A healthy, normal
man likes to see a woman eat nearby
and, incidentally, the young man OF today
is dead opposed to the girl who affects
a bird-like appetite when he taxes neI
out to dine"
The appraised chin, or ''seraph" idea
SO well beloved by young women of gen.
tie expression and wide eyes was in
vented by a clever Chicago photographer
to do away with the double chin, which
made a favorite sitter's portrait look
heavy and too old for the rest of her
face. The Madonna" pose, with down
bent head and eyes, originally hid the.
| squint which d~isfigured an otherwise
beautiful Chicago girl. The Rem
brandt pictures compel the heavy shac
ows suggested by their very name to
| soften. ameliorate or Danish apparent de-
fects in outline of feature, and the
Reynolds" portraits often serve to rem
der exceedingly lovely the picture of a
woman who, in reality, is simply of pas
| sable loneliness.
These pictures, by the way, together
| with the picture hat studies and those
portraits which are technically designat-
| ed as backs" are among the photo
graphic fads most favored of women just
now; and the woman whose portrait can
| not be made a thing of beauty. by the
| aid of one or more of them is beyond
| the reach of. Photographic Qualification
and had better have recourse to the
ssnatura1istic9 pictures, which know Meth
| err the retoucher's assistance. nor any
| smallest suggestion of unrealistic love-
illness.
The one single contribution of note that
| America has made to this never dying
literature of childhood is the true story
| of Mary and her little lamb. Perhaps it
is because of its truth that it has taken
| such a strong hold upon the popular
| fancy. for some of the verses are crude
enough. written as they were by young
John Rollston, a boy student at the same
/ Massachusetts school attended seventy
years ago by Mary and her devoted pet.
But the poem was completed long after
the demise of the sheep, by Mrs. Sarah
Hall. a cutie celebrated author. That its
admirers are legion was shown at a. fair
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