The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-10-15

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points against the score and so many
catches SO many in its favor. The score
may be 100 or 200. or wen 800 points, ac-
eording to the skill of the players.
disk held by the rim and used as q
bat to send the ball, as a racket to receive
it. 10 the uninitiated onlooker II APP
pears almost Impossible TO acquire the
necessary dexterity for the successful
manipulation of that disk and small rub
Der ball.
Hull House has now t~wenty-one after
| noon clubs for children. eighteen evening
clubs for both children and adults,
tw~enty-eight regular classes. a children's
choral society of nearly four hundred
members, a kindergarten of sixty pupils.
and a large day-nurserys writes Forrest
Crissey in the October ssWoman's Home
Companion. From the true Hull
House view point humanity is subject to
only that classification which divides 1t
into residents, ~neighbors and friends, and
of these three the residents believe
themselves the recipients OF the greatest
benefits which accrue from relationship.
Regarding the occupations of those who
, compose the family circle OF the settle
ment it should be said that probably a
majority of them are. independent of the
necessity for earning a livelihood. Their
business is that of prorpoting the extern
sion Of intelligence, social democracy and
higher living and thinking along all
lines.
1T is the social side of Hull House
which must ever appear most remarkable
in the eyes of the visiting stranger.
Picture a home big enough and llospit-
able enough to welcome two thousand
persons to its pleasures and comforts
every week. and you have a very fair
conception OF what Hull House is to the
working people of every nationality who
live in the Nineteenth ward. Not less
than a thousand children go in and out
of the Hull House doors each week. and
when the great summer playground is in
! operation the number Of juvenile neigh
bcrs in evidence is increased to several
thousand. How extensive and varied are
the social activities of Hull House is sug-
gested by the fact that each club gives
q regular monthly dance. and once q year
INDUCES in a more elaborate function for
! which .'nired music is provided. This
means that there is dancing in the set
tiement four or five evenings Of every
week, and that each Thursday evening is
wholly given over to social festivities.
Saturday evening is also a favorite
occasion for neighborhood parties, par
ticularly for entertainments by the mem
bers of the Jane Club. The latter is
undoubtedly the most successful and eel
ebrated cooperative housekeeping club for
working-girls in America"
Did you ever notice how quick a man
is to compare his wife's life with other
women,s?
Now, a woman, when she loves, settles
down contentedly ana manages the house
and brings NJ the children ard goes on
loving John because he is her husband.
First she is more faithful tina he, be-
! cause she is so interested in the hundred
and one domestic things which he has
brought into her life that She hasn't
much time to compare him with others.
Again, . wonan's life is more conver-
tional. frcer from change. runs on scled-
uie. ard she gets into a groove.
John is job TO her. That settles the
matter.
Again she does not follow him through
his business. He goes AT 9. comes back
at 6, and whether he has ioafed or work
ed, she has no guide but his regular sal
airy to go by.
If he children are young, she goes
out little socially and gives up reading
to an alarming extent.
Sometimes she is well off; sometimes
poor.
With the man It is different.
He goes out in the world for ten hours
a day ard has all sorts of broadening ex-
p~eriences. He meets women of every
kind; he hears about Others; he meets
his partners wives. Possibly these wom-
en- are wellgroomed, we'll up. He mental
1y casts his eye back over his wife's
costume and wonders why she doesn't
get the kind of tailor gown that curves
perfectly and fits. He knows he gives
her all the dress allowance she asks for.
It is peculiar. but there is something
about a fetching tailor suit on a woman
out of ten men will pass a dozen hand
some Cloth gowns ~unnotieed and rave
over a coat and skirt of faultless fit.
Probably because it reaches their com
prenenslon.
He wonders why his wife thought the
Philippines were in Cuba. when Mrs. X.
talked so interestingly to him on the car
about the German attitude at Manila.
He thinks how much nicer it would be
if his wife had fixed up a little room
on the piazza where the children could
eat instead of having to continually
scold and slap them at the table, maxi
ing everyone warmer and more irritated.
He had dined at his partners the Sum
day his wife was at the shore and he
saw the plan there.
He thinks about his wife showing her
anger and breaking into a table quarrel
before the servant: he knew other wo-
men who never did that. And he asks
himself why she doesn't take an inter-
est in sports. instead of always lying
down in the afternoon: and why, OH
why didn't she AVE a lot of clever wo-
men friends like Jacks wife has. !
And SO it goes on. This is not a
And women have to learn the story of
every married life-that ones husband
wants to be unused as well as loved.
theory. hut a condition.
Girls are by far too apt to thought
lessly punch holes In the business pros
poets of the young men of their a~cquaint-
ance. writes Edward BOX in the octo-
Der Ladies Home Journal "They