The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-19

coat, open the windows for half an hour,
and invite him to a brisk game that re-
quires plenty of running and jumping.
Provide a low table and chair, where he
can sit at ease with his toys, imagining
himself lord of a little realm. This corr
ceit is one that children delight in, and II
is a very harmless delusion-not alto
gether without opportunities for whole
some lessons in the way Of hospitality and
kindness to others.
A beautiful girl playing on a beautiful
violin is the most beautiful thing in the
world-bien entendu, that the beautiful
girl is full Of genius and sensibility, writes
Rev. H. r. Haweis in the Contemporary
Review
The barrier which for long in spite OF
j St. Cecilia and the angels warned off
women from violins in the name of all
that was feminine no longer exists. In
deed, within the last twenty-five years
we have been afflicted with a girl-violin
mania. School misses before they are in
their teens clamor to learn the violin.
1t is a common sight in London to see
maidens Of all ages laden with iddles of
all sizes. their music rolls strapped tightly
10 the cases. hurrying to the underground
railway, or hailing the omnibus or cab IN
Oxford street, Regent street, and Bond
street. Then the Royal Academy, Royal
College, Guildlall class rooms are ehoked
with violin girls, and mo ladies' seminary
is now complete without the violin tutor.
Women nave already invaded orches-
tras, and at least one celebrated amateur
society can boast of nothing but lady
players, while the profession as regards
soloists divides its hono-s pretty equally
between male and female virtuoSl.
Upon the depressing and gloomy side of
this question I do not desire to dwell at
undue length. Girls without talen, 1t
IS alasl true. rush to the violin. and are
forced Extensively upon unoffending aud
fences, who apparently have not yet dis
covered the means of defending them
selves. If a girl nowadays can't play the
piano she is no longer pressed. but II she
cant play the violin she does not seem to
have a candid friend with sufficient eour-
age to tell her so. She will get up with
the greatest aplonlb IN any assembly and
inniet the ~scrapines OF an incompetent
novice on the company. The room Will
Immediately be hushed, just as it IS when
a pretty creature with q voice like a pea
cock stands up to sing, and after a brief
DUL lQ-itC ltSS4O WILL AtC4l ? 50 ~
| Bach,s prelude your violin girl viii re-
tire Sinking and sed-satished without
the least idea that she mas peen exposing
herself to the pity ana riaaeule OF any
musicians VINO happen 70 ps present
49,
niee old English LADY,. hearing an
American child spoken of as nervous,
said. 4Nerynilsg Is there anything the
matter with lis mjnd?,,
she was one Of the class Of comfortable.
nhlegrna+ic Englshwernen who accept the
yvnrid as the Rible explains creation. and
religion as established by the English
church ana who live and move and have
their being with a placidity simply mad
were roly-pols' kitteh-iihe creatures,
TUCKED away ehroush Dapyhoou ~ quiss
corners 10 STARE u loehiAs' uo@s et.s'
'preathe ana sQulrlh ana sio"- tSeiNss =
q cHid Wouio ohiy inean - s!@se
arrangement, p~ropap-s mental liz III q
certalh sense shs IS rasnt.
Chllanood snoula pe a perloa OF heallhy
10 Simply observe ahu ~
sorp IS enough IN TINS eiectrlcal Ahief3-
can atmosphere OF ours uhti q chHa =
seven years ela- 10 teacn MN ahylhnas
previously IS a mistake. he mas enough TO
Go II ne SIMPLY taxes IN MS
and that is what every child does. and
that is why a eowlike, ~uneducated mot
ilHterate or vulgar) nurse is better for
the first few years of a child's life than
its highly organized. nervous mother.
Such a nurse has the same effect apon the
child RS the companionship of dumb ami
mails, than which there is nothing better.
It is an influence which soothes and
amuses, does not disturb and is whole
some. After seven, however, when it is
safe to develop the little mind. a nursery
governess should be substituted for the
servant; perhaps it may be wise earlier.
MIS-. bureoh harrison mas salu ~ D
morests Mohthly magazine mat 10
aehleVe success N any INCREASING q
woman must traVel exactly the same roaa
toWard II that a man would take She
believes woman may observe in her pro-
sress certain details or the roadway thai
would not be noticed by men, yet that
path IS practicaliy the same
Mrs. Harrison exhorts the young writer
to beware of the tendency to write morbid
stories. and says that the best way TO
keep the morbid elemen out Of the work