The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

makes itself felt. and so imperative in it's
demands that it has to be heard. II the
crippled heart, the hardening arteries, the
enfeebled powers of nutrition, are not
taken into account. heart disease, apo
plexy or rheumatism carries the account
up to the higher courts.
1t is pleasant to know that the English
riding mistress has found her way across
the seas at last. Her golden hair and per-
fectly turned out habit and equipments,
With which we have so long been familiar
n Rotten Row, is becoming a familiar
cure in our own Central Park, as she
anters by with her pupils or exercises her
orses on the bride path. She has been
eretofore not only a distinctly English
oduct, but has shown singularly little
opetite for the American dollars which
professionals seem to believe may be
picked up for the asking on this side of
the Atlantic; but she has finally arrived,
and it is to be hoped that she will find the
venture a successful one, and that she
has come to stay. for certainly she seem
o more fitting companion for young WON
en- than the German cavalrymen who have
heretofore held the monopoly of thai
species of instruction.
Riding mistresses, in England, at leasi
for what they will develop into with our
complex conditions it is hard to say-
are a variety of Amazonians or nymphs
of Diana. Thai is to say, by reason Of
the close intercourse which they must
AVE with their pupils, who belong to
the noblest and best in the land, their
lives and their characters must be ire
p~roachable, while the nature of their oc-
4 -, kINr, xxy;f11 a
certain class of 'horsy'' men, compels
them to adopt a rigid, business-like ex-
clusiveness which has become in a way
their ~prerogative. A riding mistress
may come and go as she likes without
exciting comment or observation.
4sMy first love- remarked a man recent
ly, who, with the rest of his family, had
been brought up in England, was my
sisters riding mistress. / was about
twelve and she was between twenty-five
and thirty, but / was wild about her all
the same. She was truly a taking erea-
ture, and / have often wondered what
became of her. Tall, slender and pretty,
with a perfect figure, and faxen hair
worn in a neat knot at the neck, always
dressed in the smartest of habits and
mounted on a good-looking horse, she
might have turned older heads than mine,
but she never gave occasion for the
{ slightest gossip. She taught the younger
members of the royal family and half
of the nobility of London, and enjoyed
the confidence, it was said, of the highest
lady in the land. In the Row riding mis-
tresses are the only equestriennes with
out a groom, and when Kate Thomp-
son-A do not know why she was never
called miss-passed, every one used to
turn and look at her. At one time l
thought of writing a novel and taking
her for my heroine. She certainly would
nave been an attractive one"
The ideal dinner company is never
large; six has been said to be the magic
number, but eight and wen ten are per-
fectly manageable, both in the matter of
smooth service and in the higher har-
monies, says the "Woman's Home Com
panion.v Do not confine you choice to
intimate friends, but add to their pleas
ure and your own the fresh experience
of meeting new spirits, whose congenial-
ity you have OWNED.
A really artistic dinner, it is the writer's
conviction hi it should never exceed
I 1OQIZ <L> A
scheme of the dinner is that each dish
shall be perfect; worthy of the palate
and of the appetite-enjoyed to the full
for its merits, and not tri1ed with and
Instantly forgotten. The second point in
Importance is that a dish shall be as
attractive in appearance as it is perfect
in flavor; that it should be placed upon
the table as an added enjoyment, and
Hospitality served by host or hostess. The
third point, also of Importance, is that
a dinner should be seasonable-not an
anticipation of seasons-for every chosen
article should be at its very best. A
clean, half-shriveled January tomato,
which has ill-borne its travels, is but a
forlorn apology for the plump and lus-
cious summer product-certainly not fit
ted for an artistic" appearance.
-.
1t has frequently been said that women
in business employment do not make as
sirable wives as their sisters who have
lived domestic lives, but a recent OBJ
server takes a wholly different view of the
case. He holds that the effect of the
woman in business is not so much to the
advantage of the woman as to the bust
ness man. Such a woman has more res
pect for him, more regard, more sym
pathy. She is altogether less likely vol
unfairly to impose upon him.. She has
been there, she knows how it is herself,
and this personal experience and knowl-
edge makes her more lenient and consid-
crate.
Every woman wage-earner worthy OF
the name learns first, last and all the
time that success is attained by close at
tention and single-mindedness. The
woman who realizes this must also realize
that the same rule holds good of the BUSH
ness man. In a present capacity Of
daughter and sister, or in a future ca
pacity as wife, she is certain to show such
a keen consideration for the business
members of the household as is un-
dreamed of in the philosophy of the other
kind of woman.
There is no danger of her husband be-
ing besought to just stop on his way
downtown and attend some specially Sc
ductive special SALE" or to leave his
Office on hour or so earlier in order that
he may bring her home a lot of sam
PIES" She has had practical and personal
proof that it is through this sort of thing
that business interests are made to suf-
fer. and she does ont propose to let this
knowledge play her false. A woman's APP
probation of business and business ways