The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

In Woman's World.


bills, plain prosaic things that always
sound so discouraging to talk about; and
the longer You carry that key the greater
will grow the responsibility. until 1t will
sometimes seem to be as heavy a burden
as the "old man of the sea" | came that
very same road awhile ago, and it is a
thorny pathway, with stumbling blocks
and discouragements enough to Kill a man
and will make you cry until you learn
that tears take time and cause red eyes
and headaches, and there isn't a minute to
spare on any such sentimental nonsense.
You must work, work, work, or else you
will never be that Something that
sounds more vague and not one half so
grand as the years crawl dismally along.
Girls be honest. If you aim to be indie
pendent, be independent; be yourselves
always. don't be a pretence. Never earn
your living. unless it be necessary doo
many deserving girls need positions), and
If YOU must start out and earn 1t, be hon
est about it, and LET no else pay your bills
lRemember the eternal fitness of things"
1t is worse thar bad taste to live and dress
beyond your salary, and silken skirts and
expensive gowns are manifestively unfit
for offices and shops, even if your folk
| do send you the money for them.
n is as easy to make friends as rolling
off a. log. | know carping ones will long
to add. Eyes, if you are a consummate
hypocrite."
| try to say pleasant things to my
friends and acquaintance. | say try, 1os
sometimes it requires a little searching
about in my brain to get hold OF the
Something, that can be uttered without
singing conscience.
I abhor deceit. Equally distastetul IS
the brusqueness that many women pc
lieve in and call honesty of purpose, ETC
AS for murnmias who sit about ana let
opportunity after opportunity go by TOT.
saying delightful things, | simply nave
no patience with them.
They are generally creatures wrapped
up in self. Perhaps their excuse is say
ness. That is forgivable. There are peo-
pie who halt ana stumble over the SIM
plest compliment. The tongue trips when
If should run smoothly. 1t is because that
member has not been taught to say nice
things.
The tongue can be trained to graceful
movement as the hand or arm is trained.
Gushers are bores. We soon find out their
empty-heartedness. One must really feei
a remark to make it tell. Surface hattery
is nauseous. What regard have we Tor
the most delightful compliment when we
know the woman who pays it Will score
us as soon as our backs are turned!
IT is a Joy to me to find points about a
woman that please me and then frankly
express nv admiration. 1t may be the
smoothness of her cheek or it may be the
hat she wears.
Make it a rife principle to discover the
best in those with whom we are thrown
socially. Saying gracious things is large
" a matter of practice. If it can be done,
and 1 am sure 1 cannot see why not, a
long step is taken toward popularity.
With more than a father' i affection,
with more thar a mothers fove, God
sends pain to men, says the Ladies
Home Journal" Suffering comes under
Divine commission. Sorrows do not riot
through life. Men are not atoms buffeted
hither and thither Troubles are appoint
ed to refine away our grossness; to trans
mute s%elfshness into sacrifice; to destroy
vice, to transffgure all our life. Refused,
troubles bruise without softening; crush
without maturing. Accepted and rightly
used they change their nature and be-
come joys. Tears are seeds; planted,
they blossom into joy and gladness. In
his celebrated painting Delaroche has
assembled a court of universal genius.
Around an imaginary art tribunal stand
the sages, orators, philosophers, reform
ers and martyrs who have achieved en-
inence.
Strange, passing strange, that those
who stand in the forefront, preeminent
for their ability, are alike ~pre-eminent
for their sufferings! Denied his ambition
M !, lad NFacnc 1oadc tho
immortal band. Blind, Homer feels his
way. Then comes Paul, fogged and
stoned out of all semblance of a man.
Exiled. Dante. too. is there, whose In
ferno in life best interprets his Inferno of
death. There. too, is Milton, broken
hearted and blind. Now comes one who
leads all that goodly company. His name
is ssabove every man. And whence
His supremacy? This is His secret. His
visage was so marred more than any
man., and his form more than the sons
of men,"
An art, says Harper's "Bazar," which
the skill of two young American women
has lately revived is that of making gid
ed leather wall hangings. Boston has
had the first opportunity of seeing an ex-
hibition of this leather, although the
Young artists who lave worked upon 1t
have promised to send specimens of it to
New York next season.
The revival of this old art is due en-
tirely to the perseverance of two sisters,
the Misses Mary and Clara Ware, Who
are graduates of the courses in decora-
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. While
ton of the school connected with the
continuing their studies in Venice they
were much impressed by the beauty OF
the gilded leather in some of the old pal
aces, and gradually they were led to in
vestigate the methods that had produced
it.. They found thai in the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries gilded leather was
one of the chief industries of Spain,
where it had been introduced at least
three hundred years before the Moors. 1t
is therefore undoubtedly of African origin.
From Spain the art spread to France and
Italy, while the making of "Cordovan
leather as it was called, is said to have
been one of the chief sources of wealth
in the Netherlands This art, like other
old arts, d~egenerated. in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. In its last Days
both materials and workmanship were
often cheap and inferior. In the present
century practically mo leather of this