The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-07

oven. Aourishing himself and his charac-
teristics, and learned to be interested IN
the personalities and standpoints of
Others. BY that time he has lived and
loved, and so gathered about him an at
mosphere of experiences charm that
must be acquired slowly. like vines ON a
house, but thai has a strong influence on
a woman's Imagination.
In the early thirties a man has mastered
himself, if he is ever going to. and that is
a first step toward mastering others. And
if there is one thing the proud, free, IN
dependent, untrammelled woman of to-
day loves, it is to find herself mastered.
Moreover, she can be her most fascinat-
ing without visible effect on him., and
that is irresistible to a woman. A boys
alteration may be gained by three g~iances
and a smile, and is but a cheap tribute,
since the next girl. and the one after next
could have secured it just as easily. But
the love of a man of thirty-fye is given
to her as an individual, and not just as a
thing in smiles ard petticoats, and SO is
infinitely precious to her.
When a man passes forty-five he is apt
to go back to some of his early traits.
He is too easily pleased-his admiration
too cheaply won to be worth while. His
interest in others has lost its k~eenness. so
up swells his egotism in its place. His
~youngness is gore, and with it thed ivin-
ity that hedges a man before mounting
flesh and the spirit of prudence uncrown
him and push him into the realm OF mid
die aged commonplace. He loses his dis
tinction as a possible hero. and becomes
merely a commercial factor of the worlds
growth.
In the May Ladies Home Journal"
Edward w. Box notes that "the college
year now nearing its close has a signif-
cant Importance in the fact that during
it the higher education of the young wom-
an has shown a strong domestic trend.
This has been true of nearly all the inn
portant women's colleges throughout the
land. 1t is true that the field has only
been entered. But the beginning has been
made. and the domestic course has prov
en-. in every instance heard from, the
most popular innovation of recent years.
> . There is only one true solution of
the servant girl problem, and it must be
shared, part and part each, by the SER
want and mistress. Before we can have
intelligent service in our homes we must
nave domestic training schools, just as
We nave manual training schools. Here
ana there rs our country these schools are
springing up, and they will multiply fast
when their necessity and results are
better understood and seen. Well equipped
training schools will produce well
equipped service, and domestic service
will, through their influence, become an
art and a profession. : > = But while
the servant is undergoing her domestic
training it is equally necessary that the
mistress should become better acquainted
with the domestic arts SO tina she may
intelligently direct where the other In
~telligently works. These two must go
together: the one without the othre is not
enough. If the girl of today expects
when she is a wife,, that her servant shall
do her work in a competent manner, she,
as the mistress, must be competent to di-
rect. She must herself understand the
work she asks her maid to do"
Whether the blooming plants from the
conservatory or window garden are to be
grouped for effective display, or plants
are to be purchased for the summer bed
ding, don't group them so tina their col
ors will clash.
Nature will be one of the best guides in
this color arrangement. We are told by
florists that bright yellow, scarlet and
blue never occur in the same species of
plants, and we notice that this is true
when out among our lowers.
Look at the larkspurs, verbenas and To-
belias; there are various shades of blue
and red, but no yellow. Pansies are found
in all shades of blue and yellow, but not
~scarlets or brilliant reds; while dahlias
are arrayed in red and yellow tints, but
not blue. 1t is asserted that if the whole
list of flowers is gone over, it will be found
true that only two of the three colors oc-
cur in the same species.
Botanists recognize this law of nature,
and divide the colors of flowers into two
series:-First, those having yellow for
their type and capable of varying from
red to white, but never to blue; second,
those having blue for their type, and cap
able of varying from red to white, but
not to yellow. The first series is called
xanthic; the second cyanic. The tulip be-
longs to the xanthic series, having origin
ally been yellow, and non of its numer-
| Gus varieties approaching blue. So, also,
J the rose and chrysanthemum.
But it is not necessary to MENTION sep
arately the various flowers hat prove the
truth of this statement; what we need to
keep in mind is the fact thai nature does
not place colors that do not harmonic in
the same species, and we should follow her
teachings in our floral groupings.
An English paper states that one Of
Victoria's personally devised letters was
to Lord Melbourne. urging on the Gov
rnmen of the day the establishment of
elementary education for the masses;
and we are reminded by the announce
ment that this year Queens College,
London, will celebrate its Jubilee how
Immediately the Sovereign rave the
sanction Of her name and patronage to
the then novel and far from popular idea
of the higher education of women This
college was founded fifty years ago, by
Frederick Maurice and others, to afford
to young women an advanced education
that was then quite an innovation. The
Queen became IT'S patroness, and it was
by her own that it was called
by her name. It has sen forth many pu-
pills to various careers of usefulness,
chiefly in the educational world-the late
| Miss Buss was one of them. Perhaps the
best known of the more recent generations
is Mrs. Beerbohm Tree.