Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
Copyright, 1881
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 a pony cart full of chill
dren; the numerous women and chill
dren at the side of the road, walking
along, watching the procession that
goes to form Vanity Fair. Like a great
department 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 people are less par
ticular 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 did the other day and with friend
Jolh tiC lOl5 cilIQ gay plOtCooSIOL AdtC
in the afternoon only to be surprised
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,
and each one wends it's way toward
the station, for the mistress of each
one Is going to meet her husband or
her father. Last night | dined at the
house of a wealthy Jew, an orthodox
one, but l should not have known it
from the service on the table or in
any other way that | was among peo-
pie who cling to creed to which they
have been true for thousands of years.
You know, | am a great admirer of
Jews, not that type of which you
usually think, my friend, the imperti-
nent, ignorant, decidedly bad manner
ed drummer, but the Well-bred, intelli-
gent Jewish gentleman and lady, such
as may be met all over the world, al
though in this country they are often
est 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 so much that must be regarded
as holy. Did you ever know Jew who,
like Quaker, allowed the poor of his
congregation to suffer? And, oddly
enough, did you ever know a Jew who
didn't enjoy funny story about him
self 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
joyful, watch the American children,
often overdressed, impudent and de-
cidedly eager when they are girls to
start serious fiirtations with young
boys. Then look at the Jewish chill
dren. These children have been taught
politenesS in their own homes; cOnse-
quently they carry it wherever they go.
Into them has been poured a continued
faith in the value Of honoring ones
parents Therefore, at home or abroad,
what else does the Jewish child do?
AS my window looks out on the chill
dren's playground | am ashamed Of
the Gentiles who pretend 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, heart
hroqk limo ntfCnrinp- nf itc fotbor ~,
mother; but if | talk very much about
badly behaved children the dynamite
that is in me will be self-eXplosive and
I shall disappear and be nothing but
smoke.
Can anybody doubt that, while an
honest man may be the noblest work
of God, a beautiful woman is the
finest? Every now and then some mis-
cradle old hypocrite, with strong opin-
ions about health, food and underwear,
insists that a square look, determin-
ed 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 a strong
contempt for everything that suggests
femininity 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 has bestowed upon her as to en-
deavor to intensity every one The
pretty woman who does not understand
herself is to be pitied. The pretty
woman who does not understand man
kind is to be scorned.
Here there are two extremely beau
tiful women--women who are quite as
different as the stately moon and that
fairy mischief, Puck. 1t is true that
Puck was boy, but somehow or other
his quaint, dainty ways describe GER
tain type of woman. Imagine. o man,
a very pocket Venus with a figure so
superb that the curves will assert them
selves in the most delicious of gowns;
a head framed in blonde hair worn
about the length of Ellen Terry's and
tumbling in riotous curls that never
knew the seorching power of pair of
tongs and never felt the pressure of
curl papers. From underneath this au-
reole OF hair there look out two of the
brightest blue eyes that ever proclaim
ed q descendant Of one of the kings OF
Ireland A French word must express
the mouth. 1t is riante-that is, it
smiles its JOY. but never vulgarizes it
calf m the average chOrnS girl does