The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-20

utStlhS uioASd gnu
and readers. IS
We are complaining that in social HE
hospitality has degenerated into a success
sion of shows, where the guests are en-
tertained by this, that or the other con-
ceit, according to the purse and knowl-
edge of the host. The clubs, in becoming
lecture bureaus and lyceum courses, are
similarly raising wrong standards.
The trouble lies solely in it's exaggera-
ton. There are bviou reasons for open
meetings several times a year, when ex-
pert minds, trained in special lines OF
thought and effort. shall give of their
richness to appreciative club women. But
there are equally obvious reasons Why the
majority of a seasons sessions should be
dependent only upon that the club itself
has to give. In this way the organization
becomes -self-supporting and reaches its
best development.
In 1880. says Hamilton w. Mabie, in a
recent issue OF the Atlantic Monthly in
a path in a wood at Somerby, Tennyson
came unexpectedly upon a slender. beauti-
full girl of II. and impulsively said to her;
Are you a dryad or an Dread wandering
here?" Six years later he met Emily Sell
wood again. on the occasion of the mar
riage of his brother Charles to her young
est sister. The friendship ripened into
love but for lack of means the marriage
did NOT take place until June, 1850, the
month In which SIN Memoriam, was pub
lished. The cake and dresses came too
late. and the wedding was so private that
Tennyson declared that it was the incest
wedding he a ever attended. OF his
wife he said. MANY wears later, 1.-THE
peace of God came into my life before the
altar when 1 welded her. OF this mar
rage the son writes. ut was she who be-
came my fathers adviser in literary mat
tiers. L am proud of her intellect he
wrote. With her he always discussed
what he was working at; she Transcribed
his poems; to her, and to no one else, he
referred for a final criticism before pub
fishing. She, with her tender, spiritual
nature and instructive nobility of thought
was always by his side, a ready, cheerful,
courageous. wise and sympathetic coun-
selor. 1t was she who shielded his sensi-
tive spirit from the -nnoyanc and trials
of life. answering flor example) the innu-
merable letters addressed to him from all
parts of the world. By her quiet sense
or hum0r. DIV QGT SelHeSS ueNOtlOl, ny IN
faith as clear as the heights of the June
blue heaven she helped him also to the
utmost in the hours of his depression and
his sorrow; and to her he wrote two of
the most beautiful of his shorter lyrics,
Dear, Near and True and the dedica-
tory lines which prefaced his last volume,
The death of Aenone.'
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If YOU would nave YOUR tablecloth be-
yond p~eradventure smooth and shining
YOU must iron the expanse of damask
on the dinner table itself. OF course, all
table linen should be freshly "done up"
in the laundry. but we have no other de-
vice EXCEPT folding the cloths to keep
them fresh while unused. Still, one does
not like to see the creases which make
some dinner damask look like giant
checker-boards. Therefore. the particu-
lar h~ousekeeper has the cloth laid. and
herself superintends the ~neathanded
PHYLLIS ministrations with a smoothing
iron. Around the long table she goes,
carafuaIv smoothing ont each line and
orea 60 mill tbe tab1ecloth looks as if it
b,d boon ,oodeled in ivory Each centre
r; e rnan or ~ broiderv and lace is
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