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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

tual features and a forehead of intel
lectual prominence, crowned with
masses of soft, "a hair. She has a
winning personality, a cordial, unaf-
fected manner and is possessed of great
social tact. This last is an attribute
which will win her many friends in
London.
The domestic life of the Choates has
been one long romance. The great law
yer has aver been a tender lover. One
of the best anecdotes told about Mr..
Choate illustrates this very well. 1t
happened that the distinguished jurist
and his wife were guests at a private
dinner. Some one inquired of him who
he would like to be if he could not be
himself. He paused a few seconds, as
ii thinking over the list of h worlds
celebrities. and then his y rested up
on his wife.
.If," he answered, st could not be
myself, 1 should like to be Mrs. Choate's
second husband"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

Vienna is fast earning the unenviable
distinction of being the dearest city OF
the European continent. Not only IS
life rendered intolerably dear by the
circulation OF a standard coin in the
shape of a form which is out of proper
ton to the soSial conditions of q people
still compelled to make use of such
primitive purchasing media as half
farthings, out the cost of living is in
creasing alarningly. Rents are much
higher thar in Berlin or Budapest. II
the theaters offer the Vfennese relative
ly cheap entertainment, the uxurle
and necessaries, of life cost him invari-
ably more than they do the English
man.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

balayeuse is made of real old point lace.
Imagine thai priceless lace being used
as a -swe~aeri"
,yThe skin Its closely around the hips,
but the train is laid in massive folds.
The waist is draped across surplice
fashion, with two lines of chiffon ruch-
ing. A bunch of orange buds is placed
at the left side, artificial ones now, to be
replaced by real ones later
The adjustment of the waist left an
opep space. This is filed in by a shirr-
ing and ruching of chiffon over white
satin. The high stock is of satin, with
a lace frill at the back. The back of
the waist is draped richly to a short
point aIal is there lost under the draped
belt. The sleeves are of the peau de
sole and have many rows of the chiffon
ruching. The veil and wreath with this
costume are simple tulle and orange
blossoms, but it is whispered that n
of the brides of the hour will wear a
magnificent lace veil that was made for
and once graced the head of an en-
press. May it bring joy to the bride
and none of the awful sorrow of the
original owner!
A superb gown to wear at a grand
wedding was of silvery gray fallle, the
whole nearly covered with a great,
struggling pattern made of narrow ce-
rise velvet ribbon bordered on each side
with a very narrow stirring of white
crepe Iisse. The skirt was half train,
and all around the bottom was a triple
double frill of crepe lisse three inches
wide, with the seam directly in the CEN
ter. The waist was complex, but very
handsome, and had revers and shoulder
pieces Of cerise velvet; also upturned
cuffs at the elbows. There was a full
vest of lisse, with a large bow. The
upper part of the waist was of the
faille laid smooth. If it is preferred,
any lady can have this upper part left
off. and the corsage becomes decollete.
The other day I passed three hours
looking at spring millinery n came
home with ideas in such confusion n a
/ can scarcely yet untangle them. Col
ors ran riot, shapes and trimmings
merged into each other in Kaleidoscope
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

Helen Wilder goes wherever her duty
calls. If the checkrein of the SWEETEST
turnout in Honolulu is drawn too tight,
she commands the driver to stop and UNI
fasten it. Fear she has never felt. Cody,
Jap, Kanaka or white man, she arrests
them all in spite of threats. Let the driv-
ers overload the buses or the Waikiki tram
cars pull out overloaded, n out come her
handouts. She will brock cruelty toward
neitherSchildren nor animals.
1t was reported that the captain OF .
steamship that put into port at Honolulu
had mistreated his children. Helen Wilder
boarded the steamship and investigated
the charges. She found that the captain
for some slight ofense had locked the chill
dren in a ststeream for several days, keep
ing them on brea7 and water. To the
surprise and Indignation OF the protesting
captain, this young woman promptly
marched him down the gangplank to jail
But, arrived there, she was told that the
captain, not being a resident, must be re-
leased. So the steamship pat of for Vic
toria, the captain vowing vengeance.
When he landed there, he found THAI 3 lo4
cal society for the prevention OF cruelty
had been requested from Honolulu to take
him in charge, and he was met with q
formal request to explain things. In this
way Helen Wilder followed him up and
endeavored to have him punished for
breaking the law, as she claimed
Other women in other cities have been
made special officers, but Honolulu claims
! that there never was q special officer like
Helen Wilder. She wears her star con-
stantly, and she uses the power which It
gives her constantly. She deals with all
sorts and conditions of men. Rich or
poor, it matters not to her. millionaire
planters and Kanaka alike must obey the
hnnaana 1aWa -.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
uNkisSED, BUT FAMOUS.
Miss Gardner, Whom Colonel vii
liam J.. Bryan Refused to kiss.

MISS Gardner, VINO" SOAOASA
liam J.. Bryan Refused to Kiss.
Some women gain fame by being
kissed. Miss Arnold, who started the
Hobson OSCILLATION, was an example.
Others are set upon q pinnacle by re-
fusing to be kissed. The Kentucky girl
who repulsed the gallant lieutenant
may be cited. But there is only one
young woman who has emerged from
obscurity because she wanted to be
kissed and wasn't.
This unique young woman is Miss
Ruby Gardner of Brennan, Tex. She
it was who asked William Jennings
Bryan to kiss her and was refused. 1t
happened in his wise: While the silver
champion was making a recent trip
east the train stopped at Brennan. and
there was the us,saI crowd of the colo
nel's admirers. Among them was Miss
Gardner, who is the reigning belle OF
the little Texas town. Others had
greeted the orator in the usual way.
Miss Gardner attempted an innovation.
The strong hand of Colonel Bryan COM
pletely surrounded that of the young
woman, when she looked smilingly up
into his eyes and, blushing, said:
''Mr. Bryan, will you kiss me?
Excuse me, my dear young woman"
the orator said, but ] am not Hobson."
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
An EarI.s Advice to Girls.

Earl Grey gave some good and whole
some counsel to the young girls Of New
castle-on-Tyne, when the foundation stone
of q new high school was laid. The new
girl, like the woman, he said, wished to
have d principal hand in making the top
of the world spin round. In order TO do
that she must be properly equipped, and
she needed to equip herself with a good
character, ugh spirits and mental alert
ness.
The world might say that education
could not make an ugly face into a pretty
one. But the connection between pleasing
and attractive looks md a we'll instructed,
happy and contented mind was far more
intimate that many persons supposed.
Therefore, a cheerful character and an
alert mind gave the pleasant eountena1lce
which made the society which gathered
round it happy and conteRted. He adj
vised girls to cultivate eheerfulness and
mental alertness and to remember h 8 the
woman who got success in this world was
the one who had the knack of making
people round her happy and eOntented-tho
woman who had the habit of oontentea
cheerfulness and who did not think any
thing worth troubling about, SO far as it
concerned herself, unless it left an ugly
weight upon her mind and conscienc5
when she came to die.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
is STILL HANDSOME.
Something About ~ wife Of Qua
E~mbassndor to England.

Something About tAQ wife of Our
Embassndor to England.
Mrs. Joseph Choate. wife Of u m
bassador to England. who has been shar-
ing with her distinguished husband the
woes of house hunting in London, is q
charming. <dignified matron. She does
not look as though she had been mar
ried more than a dozen years, although
it was in 1860 that she became Mrs.
Choate. In fact, Mrs. Choate is a re-
markably young looking woman. Her
cheeks are still rosy with health, her
eyes dark and brilliant, and her hair.
is only slightly tinged with gray.
Although she has never aspired to be
a social leader, Mrs. Choate will preside
gracefully over our embassadorSal home
at the court of st. James-when such
home is established. The Choates al
ways lived very quietly in New York,
not because society was not ready to
receive them, but because they cared
little for society. For one thing, Mr..
Choate was too busy making big fees,
and for another Mrs. Choafe preferred
to devote most of her time to her chill
dren. She is the mother Of two sons
and a daughter. One of the sons is
now q grown man. The other son and
Miss Mabel Choate are with their par
ents in London.
Mrs. Choate is a native of Salisbury,
Conn.,, but she spent most of her girl
hood days In Cleveland. FER maiden
name was Caroline butcher Sterling.
She has one brother, Mr.. E. c. Sterling
of st. Louis.
Mrs. Choate is still a very handsome
She a refined and intellec-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
some Humsf women Don't See.

Now that species of humor sometimes
described as s.rollicking, which men com
plain that women cannot see, is often
more or less in the nature of the praetlcal
ioke-that is to say, it lies in the matter
rather than the 1t appears, Tor
instance, in much (by no means all OF the
humor of Pickwick or in the farcical sltua-
tions on which the dramatists of the res
t~oration rely SO largely, strong as they are
also in humor of a different kind. The
point, if we must say SO, is not infre-
quently supplied by the fact that some one
is exhibited in a more or less undignified
position. It may be freely and at once
conceded that women are not amused by
humor of this class. They think it silly,
undignified and often coarse, and SO far as
the last Indictment is concerned men do
not contradict them.
More than this, such jokes, Ike the
practical jokes that amusea boy, are often
enough not only coarse, but cruel, n it
may very well be that a woman refrains
from laughing at them not SO much be-
cause her perceptions are dull in one di-
rection as because they are keen in anoth-
en-. To see a human being made a fool of
is too painful to be amusing. Moreover,
she often finds that the joke consists in
some time honored witticism against her
w sex, supported rather by tradition
than by observation, and if she has any
spirit she naturally resents it. 1t is q
curious evidence of the strength OF Gus
tom, by the bye, this naivete with which
women are expected to join in jokes
against themselves 'by men, as has been
well said in o different connection, in
49, IL J.J;t,nrato inc11lt RI1t hp-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

-- green. Under the bx1fn IN t1u
back were two sroaettes of this same
shade, and ais matched the tailor
made cloth suit. This sIit was entirely
plain, save that the fat collar was
faced with velvet and there, We're IL
small pearl buttons to fasten IT, six on
each side.
Another hat dipped" down in shep-
herdess style and had a row of straw
lace all around the edge. The crown
was a regular balloon puff of pink silk
null dotted with tiny black spangles.
Directly in front was a large bunch OF
prairie roses, buds and foliage.
There was an arsenical green straw
with a wide brim and a high, %squarish
bell crown. The brim vas faced with
white chiffon, shirred softly. and there
was a bakers dozen of fine black os-
trich tips on the left side and at the
back. Around the crown was an up
standing ruhie of spangled crepe hsse.
The ancient turban is shown in some
of the places. The idea is to have a
large puff of tuie wound around and
lightly folded over two or three times,
with a jeweled aigret at one side. 1t
reminds one of the pictures of some OF
the court bsauties of long ago. hey
are generally spangled. Eve feathers
are spangled.
There was one cunning little yellow
straw toque, no size at all. To this
were fastened three fine white spangled
ostrich tips held by a gold buckle. On
| the front were two loops Of dark blue
velvet ribbon, and on the right side was
a spangled tulle drapery.
n-1 xrarxr o1ooant hat sfhnllQh IaSS
snowy, was made of black tulle, that on
the brim being twisted into soft outlines
like the UNFINISHED strands of a rope.
The bell crown was of closely shirred
tulle. and there were two black nara
bou plumes which fioated with every
breath Of air, and there was one Ion
paradise plume. The only note of color
was the gilt buckle in front.
There were some very pretty English
walking hats and novelties In alpines,
which will be much affected for out OF
! door sports. Indeed, the jaunty little
English walking hat is worthy a first
/ place for all sorts of runabouts. 1t goes
! so well with jackets n goling capes.
In one place I saw a cape that fairly
| took my breath away. In fact, 1t was
! part of a suit. The skirt had two Dew
ey aounces, each edged with three mil
liners folds of the same stuff, which
was of olive green covert. The cape
was of brilliant clan plaid in
ly large figure, wherein red, green,
black and white mingled. The collar
was high and slashed and bound with
the covert. The hat to go with this
was of straw the a shade OF the
dress, with velve drapery n a few
black tips. 1t was an English walking
hat.
BICYCLE suits are among the prettiest
things the season has to show. They
are almost entirely plain, but their cut
and finish make them very attractive.
A very neat suit has he skirt stitched
around vice and twice up the front
side seams. Fancy fly fronts close the
skirt and afford a pocket. The jacket
is short and is open, with rounded re-
vers over a regular mannish shirt front
of starchcd stuff. A high collar and
black tie finish it. Few ladies now
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
POLICEWOMAN WILDER
A Honolulu Heiress Who Has
Her Own Way.
UNFOLDING THE HUMANE LAWS.
In Her Capacity as Police officer She
May Make Arrests without War
rants, and Brutal Mule Drivers Must
Curb Their Anger

Helen Wilder, the Hawaiian heiress, has
just been given a Judgment by aHonolulu
iury in a suit for damages brought against
her by a man she had arrested for cruelty.
THE case was of unusual interest to Homo
lulu, because it determined the fact that
Miss Wilder, in her capacity al a police
officer, may make arrests without a war
rant.
The suit was brought by Oloof Hollef-
son, who drives a street car in Honolulu.
One day Miss Wilder noticed that one OF
Hollefson's mules was bleeding on the
shoulder from q chatting collar She COM
PEELED him to leave his car and passengers
and drove him off in her carriage to the
police station, where she had him booked
for cruelty to animals.
There was a heated argument over the
legality of the arrest, counsel for Hollefson
claiming that as no warrant had been serv-
ed the arrest was Illegal, and therefore
SIS, 900 was due for a damaged reputation
and durance vile.
When the jury brought in a verdict in
favor of Miss Wilder, she put on her SOL
| der hat and sauntered u of the court
room humming "My Honolulu Lady"
Then Honolulu puckered its brow for a
mOm6uU Over a h1lOUOy PAODAS
"Who would nave paid that $4,000 had
the decision been otherwise? Would the
government have been responsible or
would Helen Wilder have been compelled
to sign a check for that amount9" How
ever, in Hawaii Nei people do not worry
long over useless conjectures.
Even if Miss Wilder had been forced to
pay the money it would not have been
such a dreadful calamity, for a girl who
has $3.50, 900 in her own right, besides
.sgreat expectations, " can afford to pay for
the privilege of arresting a man.
And if it had fallen on the government?
Well, it is worth IS, 900 to lave a police
man who is an heiress.
Helen Wilder calls a spade a spade. She
chooses to be called a policeman, disclaim-
ing her right to the title of special Off
Ger" She does not even object to the
sobriquet of cop.
But then the things that Helen Wilder
does object to are the very ones that are
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
The Lady In Blue Cambria.

An important personage-so Important
that no word but parsonage will express
it-who has resided in family in the
Greater New York for a number OF years
is Mary Jane. Mary Jane was a figure
upon whom the lady of the house to which
she belonged fitted her gowns. There are
any number of modern Mary James made
according to patents, with wonderful
capacities of elevation and descent, expan-
sion and contraction, and they cost o
greater or less number of dollars. But
Mary Jane was made without expense,
and she was one of the first of her kind.
OF her backbone Mary Jane might have
been greatly proud if she had realized
what it was. But she didn't, and neither
did her mistress, or Mary JAMES backbone
would have been transferred to the parior
or the family museum. 1t was nothing
more or less than of the alderman S.
staffs used in the early days by the city IA
theirs to carry to fires. But no one knew
that at the time of Mary James nativity,
and the nice, smooth. tall pole Of polished
wood was just the thing for the purpose
for which it was used, Inc around it the
lay lady developed.
The mistress of Mary Jane wound the
backbone upon which Mary Jane was to
grow with old pieces of cloth until there
was some substance for a foundation, put
the end Of the pole in a board SO that it
would stand upright, put a piece of wood
across, slipped on q discarded underwaist
that lust fitted it's owner, and then filled
it out until it Was life size. Mary James
hips were properly developed, her waist
made lust the right measurement, and
! then she was dressed to look like a lady in
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

An extraordinary case is reported
from England. It seems that a Mrs.
Patten of Elmstead, who has for 70
wears been~dumb, having lost her voice
as the result of an Illness, suddenly re-
GAINED the use of it by the shock result
Ing from her daughters death and can
now speak 1uently and clearly. Medic
al men had often told Mrs. Patten 4
only a sudden shock could restore tne
lost faculty.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

Then it was difficult to tell who
blushed the deeper. Colonel Bryan or
Miss Gardner. Many persons overheard
the conversation. All laughed. One or
two a~pplauded, but whether the APP
plause was for the request or the re-
fusal is still a subject of debate in
BRENNAN.
from her surprise and before the towns
folk fully realized the situation Colonel
Bryan was on the train again and on
the way to Austin, where there was a
great reception at the capitol, but no
young women waiting to be kissed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

most dear to the heart feminine. She
wouldn't give a lei OF sweet scented mali
for all the gowns that Worth ever made.
She dons a short skirt, a shirt waist, a
military hat, and rides her horse with the
daring of a yaquero, or she handles the
reins with the dexterity of a pioneer stage
driver. In a rowboat she can paddle as
swiftly and easilysas a Kanaka fisherman.
Wherever she is, whatever she may be do
ing, she carries a pair of handouts to snap
on the wrists of the tormentor OF children
and animals.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
In Woman's World.


large account in the Bank of Merri-
ment.
women not only cross bridges before
they come to them, but they are gifted
bridge builders. Men can stop in the
midst of p~erplexities and have a 'guf-
faw.,2It is this faculty that keeps them
young. Women cannot, and that's why
they fade earlier. Worry not only
wrinkles the face, but it wrinkles and
withers the mind as well.
Some women make the mistake of
thinking that they are jealous of their
husbands, when, as a matter Of fact,
they are simply selfish. They seem to
think if the poor mans eyes or feet
stray his heart has gone. A woman ar
rogates a good deal to herself when she
thinks she is going to be the whole
world to a man, "a hours a day, year in
and out. If, instead, wives would keep
their eyes and hearts alert to see that
love did not get away, there would be
less domestic friction.
women are not treated quite fairly.
Take Looking Backward Bethany did
TIA made a pot of money.
Lots wife did tia oman-and we all
know what happened to her.
DR.. Schott, of Nauheim. Germany, who
has devoted considerable %time to the
study of bicycling from a hygienic point
of view, gives these facts as the results
of his studies:-
Bicycling, just as mountain climbing,
accelerates the action of the heart, ana
thus dickens the pulse. This naturally
tends to enlarge the heart during action,
a ,raoace rhiob, d,,ripo ractce fakaG a
backward turn, and the vital organ re-
sumes its normal state.
BY violent, or say, excessive exercise
on the wheel. when the pulse beats at
40 per minute, the conditions change.
The expansion of the heart does not
fall back to the normal, as is best proved
by the fused up" look of the cycle
races after a tournament. Should this
strained exercise continue the enlarge
ment of the heart continues with 1t. and
fatal results are inevitable.
The older the wheelman the easier
do the muscles of the heart assume
undue proportions, and. the arteries be-
coming less elastic with age the life OF
such a mar is greatly endangered.
There is a certain note in breathing
which is an infallible warning with turn
efS anu cilnlDeTS, WHICH, HoWSNCAs w.
often fails its purpose with the eyclef,
for in his case the great draught caused
by his run applies him with more
oxygen than is necessary.
All these things should be k in due
consideration by ardent wheelmen. Bicy-
cling as an exercise should be taken only
by persons whose heart and lungs are
in the best natural condition.
rr tno 1oroh. thpy are miSArS Of 1OlltV
and they nearly always die leaving a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

SOON as Easter
is n u m b e e d
among the days
of the past the
wedding bells be-
gin to ring inc
the significant
canopy is stretch
| ed o door to
sidewalk. Every
body looks at 1t
and smiles indul-
~gently,for all the
world loves a
lover. Everybody
wants to e or at
| least hear of the
| n dress. but
no n r how
the scared bride
| groom looks.
| r w o famous
W weddings r
now on foot, and
many have tried
/ to get glimpses
of t h Q fnery.
| Both are grand
| weddings. One of
/ these gowns al
| ready has a pro-
/! totype, although
4 the lady does not
/ know it; she has
such confidence
! in the modiste.
| How the secret
~transpired even
the modiste does
4 not know. The
\ picture of it may
\ be seen on this
i page. The gown
i Is of the richest
a of peau de sole,
) mat white, int
m a d e with a
\ train. The skirt
4 opens at the left
3 side over a panel
Z of ric h white
satin, on which
9 are sewed seven
4 very o w
i ruchings of chif.'
Mon. On the two
4 rounded corners
of the skirt are
light designs en-
; broidered in sill
fro THE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01

In using gloves to sleep in to whiten the
hands care should be taken to cut the tips
of the fingers off or the hand will get overs
heated and much redder in consequence