The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-17
bright armament Of womanly perfection
Alas for the Lost Pleiad of Sensibiity!

bright armament of womanly perfection.
Alas for the Lost Pleiad Of Sensibihtys'
Mrs. Hamphry, in her Manners for
Woman writes L. F. Austin, in the
Sketch holds the sensible disappear
| ance of the lachrymose damsel is no loss
to- society. But the typical girl with high
spirits and a sound. nervous system has
her faults. For instance. she cannot
| laugh .melojious.,' as the Mulligan would
say. q learn, by the way. that superior
| persons at Cambridge. the university
| which had the honor of bringing up Mr..
| Arthu Pendennis in the way he ought not
to nave gone, no longer read Thackeray.
Should this paragraph by any chance
| catch a condesending eye at that seat or
| learning | hope 1t will revive the study of
| the Mulligan's o%pinions.) "A pretty, har-
monious laugh" says Mrs. Humphrey,
with regret. is rarely natural. She knows
| a lady who laughs on two soft contralto
notes. This delightful effect was prob
ably attained by indomitable practice, two
hours a day for years. The poet who said
that a low voice is an excellent thing in
woman did not mean this, as some refor-
mers nave surmised, to be a mark of her
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| suspect, was a trihe shrill; but there is no
| reason why woman should not assert her
| self on two soft contralto notes like a
persistent nightingale.
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when anaemic girls, sleepless women
and dyspeptic children are brought to me
1 feel like going out of business" declared
a bluff. brusque. we'll known physician,
- - 49,. = e - -.1 -, lx-ar n aaca that
he had just beenscalled to attend. Il have
one patient, a girl of eighteen. who
might as well go to a fortune teller for
advice for all the benefit she will ever get
from a doctor. I give her a scoTding and
draw up a set of rules for her to live by,
! prescribing certain things to eat, certain
| times to sleep. certain hours for exercise.
| give her a tonic and dismiss her. Do you
think that girl improves. Not She In a
fortnight she trails into Smy office, pallid
and melancholy. | haven't the heart TO
| scold her, but I anticipate her answers to
| my questions. Has she taken the tonlc9
Oh. yes, she hasn't missed a dose. Has
| eaten pastry or Holsters or drank ice wa
| ter or ice cream soda? Well-er-once or
| TWICE. Has she eaten the oatmeal and
| raw beef and drunk the not water and
beef tea? Yes. She doesn't add once or
| twice but her pale face adds it. And has
| she gone to bed early? Got up early and
| slept after lunch? Well. not every day.
| And yet this girl of intelligence and APP
| parent common sense wonders why she
doesn't get well. aWhy does she think |
| give her special Instructions? To amuse
| myself? To have them disobeyed? L am
going to try once more. If she doesn't
| obey me then l shall positively refuse to
| attend her further" and the doctor
banged the big paperweight that same
| fair 'shysteria case, had given him for
Christmas and looked so good naturealy
ferocious that one could not blame the
| girl for being Indifferent to his wrath.
Aigrettes. both black and white, with
tiny ostrich-tips or bows of velvet, still
| hold their popular place as hair orna-
ments for the evening. Another approx
ed fashion is a black or white ostrich
| feather rising from a bow of black vel
vet. Cut-steel. toe. is used for hair or
| -namentation in conjunction with either
| velvet or feathers, says the
Home Journal
Dog-collars of jewels. or made OF BANDS
of velvet studded with pearls, Jewels or
| Jets. are more in vogue this winter than
| for many years past This style IS an
| approved one by the woman whose neck
| has lost its youthful primness just ne
| meath the chin. and will undoubtedly
| have a long reign