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

ment is introduced by girls urging young
men to leave their offices before closing
hours to escort them to some place OF
amusement, some game, or to a train.
The danger in these acts is not in
themselves, but in the injurious distrac-
lions which they mean. Business hours,
though doubtless they seem iliexplicahly
long to girls, are, in reality. all too short
for the accomplishment of things neces-
sary to a young mans success. Hence
every moment when he is at business
should be precious to him. and it is
nightly precious to the right sort Of a
young man. His mind should be focused
on the problems before him. which mean
either his success or his failure
When you come to hin Of IT. says
: Dorothy Dix in the New Orleans Plea
yune.'' THE situation is like this:-For
the great majority of women, their sole
nance OF happiness is bound up in their
husbands and homes. If their homes are
unpleasant; if, after the first fervor of
love in the honeymoon passes. they fail
to be companions and chums with their
husbands, they have laid up for them q
future Of desolate Indebtedness.
Now, this being the case. one would
think that any woman with a single,
solitary glimmering of reason would. #
only for her own selfish benefit, make
every effort to render herself 50 agree
able and so attractive that her husband
would prefer her society to that Of any
one else. But do they? Gracious, no,
There is nothing else in the world that
fills me with as much amazement as the
recsdessness<wi which women deal with
tneir husbands. I know plenty of woTn-
en- who never let their husbands make a
statement without c~ontradicting them;
who parade their husbands failings be-
fore company. and who, if there is some
one topic that can always bring on a
family row, never miss q chance to lug
it into the conversation And these wom-
en- actually complain when their hus-
bands so off to seek congenial company
elsewhere. Think Of it.'
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French girls dislike doing any part of
the family washing. and in well-to-do
families it IS all sent out, says a Paris
correspondent. An American friend told
me last winter tina although she had "
servants she had so much trouble at hav-
ing even a few pieces washed and iraSsed
in the house tina she had finally been
simply bullied into sending It all out, al
a cost Of about sl2 a month. Neither do
French girls do any baking, for both
bread and cake come better and cheaper
from the patisserie. Bur. on the other
hand, they will do many things that our
domestics regard as out OF their province.
They brush clothes and black shoes for
both master and mistress as a matter Of.
course. do the family mending. run err
ranas and perform any personal service
asked. They wear a cap as a matter OF
course. ana their surface manners are
Necessarily polite for they always address
one in the third person.
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Ones general physical condition is so
closely allied to the mental That laugh
ing is a good, invigorating tonic Tor the
entire system. A long, hearty augh ex-
pands tile lungs, making the blood course
through the veins quickly, and this SIM
pie process gives a peach-like complexion
to the woman who laughs. And When
she laughs her eyes twinkle ard the
brightness lingefs there after the laughter
has died way.
Laughing. TOO, strengthens the muscles
of the face and oanishes that drawn iooh
Tho women who nave adopted the
laughing cure claim that they nave nfVer
felt so cheerful and thoroughly good ma
tured before in their lives, and thelr
friends tell them they are posltlvesy
growing beautiful.
The writer of a recent article on art, as
applied to manners and the things OF
] everyday life. says that s.all children are
born wages. No doubt, from the squat
of the two year old to the noisy ~self-as-
sertion of the early teens, we
suffer constant manifestation of
this savagery, yet surely even the
mos suner1cial observer must have
not;cea that in some, almost infants,
GOOD manners and a feeling for art are
/ innate. have heard a little girl. far too
gantI7. s,nootb over some hasty speech ofS
- rso+bar,s wbicb miebt have hurt those
4a1,am i u.as adareesed with 4 few
-a.ss - nsrfaet GOOD feeling. and j have
saan Sl;tfle how scarcely able to articu-
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