The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-26

woman III HIS Ike. I1OSl OLlSI kitiS 00thA
is his mother, sometimes it is = wife,
but there are Instances Sufficient TO nj q
book with stories, Of the dominant fem
mime sway being held by a sister.
It is a curious coincidence that the sis
tiers who have welded Influence have
been always older than their great broth
ers. and the margarine Of Bayreuth,
| Sophie Wilhelmina, Crown Princess OF
Prussia, was some years the senior OF
| Frederick the Great. She was a strange,
| passionate, clever and always a most I'M
! happy creature, but she stands quite
| alone as the one woman whom Frederick
sincerely loved, for whose advice he had
| respect, and whose memory he tenderiy
| cherished. During his tragic youth It was
in her he eonf1ded, with her he Invariably
correspondent, and Frederick had no great
reverence for the feminine intellect. For
! his mother he felt a respectful indiffer-
| encc. for his wife not even a sentiment OF
| friendship, while his other sisters merely
bored him. but poor Sophie, with al her
| faults. evoked in him a devotion and rev.
/ erence that lasted to the end of her days
Charles ". was another monarch who
SAID In all his life he had known but one
woman whom he could trust in and rely
on as he would a man, and that woman
was his sister, Mary of Hungary. She
was a woman after Charles own rugged
and warlilze heart, and he showed how
highly he estimated her talents and her
virtues when be made her regent Of Hol7
| land and Flanders.
A less masculine creature would per
| haps have failed to secure Charles es-
| TEEN. and in spite of the heavy beard
that would grow On her stern chin, OF
her brawny arms that would pull the
strongest horse on his launches and her
savage love for BOAR hunting, Charles
gave her proof Of the highest affection.
He hid very little of his most naonentous
plans from her, gave her an absolute
| free hand in governing The low country,
| and after governing the Netherlands for
twenty-five years she retired from the re-
| gency when her brother abdieated his
throne. Charles shut himself Up in his
monastery, but the brother and sister
corrasponded until his greatest Of the
E~Tapsburgs died.
Colin Campbell IS one of. the warriors
of our century es1lo never married, but
who found great soiaee in the devotion
| his sister. Marjory Alicia, gave kim
Early in his career he was TOP poor to
marry, and every penny over and above
the bare necessities of a soldiers life
went to the sister in Scotland. She was
never 9 briiliant nor a beautiful woalani
but the hero OF the Crinlea ard the IN
dian mutiny gave her al the faithful
| affection that often goes to & mother or
wife. He wrote to her among the hor-
rors of the Indian war he resneFnpeaea
her needs, and she, q crippled old woman,
sat by his bedside when he died. Sire
! lived unmarried as he had done. and IN
herited a comfortable fortune at the
death.
Byron, like Lord Clyde, always wrote
10 his sister on the eve OF any p~eTilous
Undertaking and among the ten different
versions of his deathaed remark his Sis
ter's name invariably appears.
There is a little girl who is very fond Of
drawing, and she draws beautiful ladies
inproile with soap bubble hair and
eyelashes protruding beyond their noses
to suggest equal loveliness on the side not
portrayed, says t'Munsey's Magazine
When she come to darw a man, See puts
in the short hair, the severe collar, and
all the insignia of Insecurity.
But some way she can't make it look
like a man. Even with single eyeglass. it
is still q girl in masquerade. So she elaps
on a great, sweeping mustaehe, and, by
way CT final Identification adds 4 pipe or
a cigar. The effect is a little shocking at
first glance. for the features are still un-
convinced Of their sex: but the artists
intentions are unmistakably established,
robacc6 seems to be valuable IN much
the same way to young writer's Any one
can picture a girl. enrls, ribbons, and the
well-known phases of the eternal feminine
lie within easy reach for all. But man is
not so marked by Worldwide traditions,
since we take him as a unit of existence
rather than a sex; and SO the young writ
er seizes the tobacco box to help out the
meagre proofs OF his Insecurity.
The hero puffs steadily through all his
devious ways, shifting as the scene re-
| quires from the cigar orb usiness dealings
and villainy to the cigarette of l~ove-mak-
ing and light diplomacy, or the pipe of
lchumship and internasculine condolences.
Tobacco is his badge of sex, the proof of
his right to commit crime, and make love,
and call his fellows aold man."
Moreover, his handling Of it supplies all
the necessary filling after the bald 4he
says of conversation. The cigar, rightly
manipulated, can betray agitation, indif-
ference, cruelty, despair, any emotion of
! which a hero is capable. And when all
is lost, and the hero Is too much over
whelmed to do things for himself, it has
the tact to go out on its own account; and
so his state is Indicated and his sex con-
f~ned BY the same device.