The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-18

refuge from trouble a bulWarls against
danger, and a sympathizing presence.
The Chinese women are to be envied
in at least one particular-they never
ave to worry over the changing of
fashions. In China a new fashion is look
upon with distinct disfavor. and no in
ducement can he offered to her women
to exchange their loose coat and trousers
for tiresome peNticnats. China rust be
the poor girls paradise, for one costume
will do duty Until 1t is worn out. Fash
ion is the bughear of the poor girl in this
country. If she is pretty. we'll educated
and refined, she naturally desires TO worth
lily fill the position to which these attri-
butes entitle her. and she will not at
tempt it unless she can have proper
gowns md the numerous little. things
which go with them. IT is an established
fact that the girl with little money is
more apt to be -extravagant thar is the
wealthy girl who is not forced to care for
her owl wardrobe. Every c~onvent-bred
girl is taught to sew and mend. and
manv well dressed women take pride in
in the fact that not only their gowns.
but their hats are the work of their own
clever fingers. Poor girls often nave no
time to do these things. even were they
gifted with ingenuity. and to such I say
that when your wardrobe is not large,
you make a mistake in buying cheap ma
terial of a color which is the fancy of the
hour. If you can nave but one new gown
a season, let it be of a fabric that will
sta md Uyaar That will ms Eo oy-nr and Of
a color which neither you nor your friends
will grown weary Tt is as much of an ex-
travagance to neglect quality and color as
to have your gown made in the extreme
of fashion for you cannot afford to throw
away your clothes hal--worn, and the
fashions change so quickly nowadays that
you could not wear them if you tried.
The consciousness Of seeing her own
charms reflected in a mans eyes is some
thing which appeals to everv woman"
writes Edward w. Box Of s'They Who
Never Were Brides in the June Ladies
Home Journal"
Nothing else ever makes her so proud
and so happy in exactly the same way.
But that Consciousness is not always for
expression: sometimes it is a thing for
ones inner self. to be enjoyed at the time
and to be lived over in the years to come.
No; women do not wilfully turn way
from their own happiness. But they do
sometimes darken their own lives to
make brighter the ives of others who
may be close or dependent upon them.
Some higher and fundamental duty some
times calls, loftier motives sometimes
quiet the deepest heart longings. a God
given task sometimes points a woman in
the opposite direction to her own instincts.
There is such a thing-not known to the
young albeit years bring the knowledge
as a woman turning away from great
happiness to insure the great comfort and
happiness of others. choosing their COM
fort as her life work. Men do it now and
then. But women oftener do it. Memoir
les take the place of realities, and in those
memories, sweet and tender, many women
are living today. They have never been
brides. But they might have been. At
one time in their lives the necessity of
choice came to them. Prayerfully and
tearfully, and vet resolutely they made
the. choice. Today their are not wives
simply because they are heroines. And
who will say which is the greater?"
Another thing the girls are doing in
making small hair pillows to send to the
men. says Harper's Bazaar" These were
suggested to them by a n old regular army
officer who has seen much service, and
who told them that a man could make
himself quite comfortable anywhere in
the open, with his blanket, If he only had