The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-25
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day anticipated with pleasure from the
very beginning Of the year has arrived
The day when the pupils, and parents too
for that matter are free to go to the
various summer resorts One week ago
Friday was the closing reception of has
brouck Institute, which came off very
satisfactorily. with the single exception OF
torn dresses, but then that was TO be ex-
pectea, especially as the majority of these
gowns were made with the French dip
or demi-train. On a dancing door tais
train is found to be quite as annoying as
upon the street, at least so one gentle
man found it upon the night of the Has
brouek reception, when he had the ms
fortune to step on his partners gown
The fair young lady did not hesitate 70
show her annoyance, nor could Aanthtppi
herself have scolded Socrates with greater
vehemenee than she scoided that uniueky
man. her partner. Her dress was very
pretty, but the society queen is the glri
who shows annoyance at nothing snort
of insult itself
The High School held its graduating
exercises and reception last Tuesday even
ing The former at the Academy of Music
and the latter at Hasbrouek Hall. Al
though the exercises were not unusuahy
long the. hall was not reached till after
twelve o'clock making it daylight before
the dance broke up. In fact the gradu-
ates are still explaining TO each other
chow ~dreadfully slammed they were to
come home at five O'Clock in the MORN
ing and vet that was the hour for break
ing up Just one year ago. The pupils of
the next class to graduate are going to
improve upon this by having two nights,
one for the exercises and another for the
reception. so they say. But as the next
class graduates in January. and the Janu-
arv has considerably less of a voice IN
commencement than the June class. the
motion NAV be lost. The January class IS
also thinking of graduating in caps and
gowns.
Several. yaungs men attended the High
School reception, az they expressed II.
stag They arrived early. and as tae
young ladies entered the building loon
their dance orders, filling put all the best
dances before anyone else got a caanee.
In this way many of the young men Whe
had taken he trouble to bring YOUNG
ladies were cheated out of the dances
Girls should have more foresight and m
stead of being in such a selfish hurry to
get their own dance orders filled should
think a little of the comfort of their es-
corts and boycott young men who come
estag." thus having no dances to ex-
change.
stag is. becoming quite a common ex-
preston in Jersey City society. 1t usually
means that a man has come to a dance
by himself for one of two reasons. Either
because he did not care to bring a young
lady. or because the young lady did not
care to bring him.
There is a custom prevalent In Jersey
City. entirely too prevalent, which is
spelling the young men. 1t is this: me
young ladies ask their own escorts, and
the young men, depending on this. often
find they must go stag or stay at home.
This is a bad custom. Woman should be
sought after; man should seek BY this
new invention. however. woman cheapens
herself while placing man at q premium
The law of nature is reversed. 1t is even
coming to a. pass where social clubs are
CONCERNED. Clubs where the male mem-
bers are not only greatly in the majority
but entirely govern the societies. the
ladies being made honorary members
simply as a mark of respect for some
courtesy rendered. as in the case of dra-
matte societies. Tickets will be sent to
the various ladies of the club with a neat
little note thanking them for past services
and trusting they will accept the
as a slight mark of gratitude The note
is signed by the secretary. and does not
add in so many words, Secure your own
escort or stay at home" but reading be-
tween the lines this what a girl must
see. and If she is clever and values her
society she will do the latter. Thus it
often happens In a club of this kim fnat
its affairs are either largely made up of
..stags'' or of people who are strangers ID
each other, making the affair, be it re-
ception. dance or excursion, anything but
congenial. ssStag'' is a slang expression
which has no right in the language of
society. 1t should be crowded out. and
there is only one way to do this-boycott
the men who come unaccompanied by
ladies.
h w. ]. Florence Club has at last de-
cided on an outing, and next Tuesday
evening will take a moonlight trip up the
Hudson. Supper will be served on the
boat and dancing INDUCED in. A first rate
time and plenty of fun is looked forward
even should a moonlight excursion
be impossible on account of rain. The
Florence is particularly unfortunate in
this respect. and might even be used as a
weather indicator, as out of six affairs
given during the year by this club only
one fell on a pleasant night.
Trolley rides are becoming more and
more popular as the season advances
and scarcely a night passes without sew
eral prettily lighted cars passing the
Junction, Allied with a jubilant party OF
young people, or perhaps a party of then
older. wiser and quieter parents.
Last Tuesday evening the Christian En-
deavor Society of the Bergen Baptist
Church chartered three cars and took q
trip ent into the country stopping al
Days in Newark for refreshments. The
cars left the Junction at half-past eigai
and did not return till nearly midnight
About one hundred Of the Endeavorers
went and all declared they had a delight.
fully refreshing time.
S Red. white and blue is the rage every
where. in everything. in the decoration
Of church, sehoolhouse. garden and ever
In the Attainment of fair woman but be