The age-herald., 1898-08-14
ICopyright, 1S9S.l
 Long. Branch. West End.


 have started on the fly. Who shall say where I shall land?
 The charm of Long Branch lies in the fact that it is an ever varying pro- cession in which men and women of all degrees and positions may parade. There is the rich brokers handsome wife in her smart trap; the gay young girl driving pony cart full of children; the numerous women and children at the side of the road, walking along, watching the procession that goes s-to form Vanity Fair. Like great depart ment store, you can at Long Branch get anything you want. At this end are the finest hotels and cottages, and from them pour out to drive to walk or to go to the dances what is known as "the wealth and beauty of the metropolis. Farther down are the hotels where peo- pie are less particular in their manners and costumes and where it is counted as among the possibilities of life that one can live without maid. You run down here as I did the other day and with friend join the long and gay pro- cession late in the afternoon only to be Burprised at one thing, and that is the great number of rich. cultured and beautiful Jewish women who are to be found here.
 Invariably, as it grows near train time, their carriages come out of line, md each one wends it's way toward the station, for the mistress of each one IS going to meet her husband or her fa- ther. Last night I dined at the house of a wealthy Jew, an orthodox one, but should not have known it from the service on the table or in any other way that was among people who cling to a creed to which they have been true for thousands of years. You know, I nm a great admirer of Jews, not that type of which you usually think, my friend the impertinent, ignorant, de- cidedly bad hammered drummer. but the we'll bred, intelligent Jewish gentle man and lady, such as may be met all over the world, although in this country they are oftenest found in Charleston, in Baltimore or, as is natural where there are great numbers of people, in New York.
 How many of you know that the city of Baltimore was really founded by a Jew, Mendez Cohen? How many peo- pie know that the greatest music, the finest poetry and the most interesting novels have come from the pens of Jews? The Jew is essentially mys- tical creature because into his life comes 90 much that must be regarded as holy. Did you ever know Jew who like a Quaker, allowed the poor of his con- gregaton to suffer? And, oddly enough, did you ever know Jew who didn't epjoy funny story about himself or who wasn't ready to resent any insult to his religion or to the women of his family?
 Here, where all is gayety and where life seems a huge playground upon which everybody may dance and be joy full, watch the American children, often overdressed, impudent and decidedly eager when they are girls to start serious flrtations with young boys. Then look at the Jewish children. These children have been taught politeness in their own homes; consequently they carry it wherever they go. Into them has been poured continued faith in the value of honoring ones parents. There fore, at home or abroad, what else does the Jewish child do? As my window looks out on the children's playground | I am ashamed of the gentiles who pre- tend to follow the teachings of Christ | and call themselves Christians, for as | the twig is bent the tree is inclined, and the impudent child is certain to be the | ungrateful, heartbreaking offspring of Its father or mother but if I talk very i much about badly behaved children the dynamite that is in me will be self ex- plosive, and I shall disappear and be nothing but smoke. Can anybody doubt that, while an honest man may be the noblest work of | God, beautiful woman is the finest? Every now and then some miserable old hypocrite, with strong opinions about health food and underwear, in- ] sists that a square look, a determined dragging back of the hair so that the forehead and the eyebrows look as if they were being pulled too, shoes two sizes too big for one and strong con- tempt for everything that suggests fem ininity mean beauty. Now, the first requisite of being a pretty woman is a pronounced liking for mankind. The next is that she should care so much | for each beauty of person that nature l has bestowed upon her as to endeavor to intensity every one. The pretty wo- man who does not understand herself | is to be pitied. The pretty woman who 1 does not understand mankind is to be scorned. Here there are two extremely beauti- | full women-women who are quite as different as the stately moon and that fairy mischief, Puck. It is true that | Puck was boy, but somehow or other l his quaint, dainty ways describe cer- tain type of woman. Imagine, O man, l a very pocket Venus with a figure so | superb that the curves will assert 1 themselves in the most delicious of gowns; a head framed in blond hair l worn about the length of Ellen Terry's and tumbling in riotous curls that new | CT knew the scorching power of a pair | of tongs and never felt the pressure of I curl papers. From underneath this au- | reole of hair there look out two of | the brightest blue eyes that ever pro-