The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-08

In W0man'S World.


Il ings" to the world as it Is awaits the
woman. When acquainted with the trials
and disappointments that confront BUSH
ness and professional men the wife can
more fully appreciate the wear upon the
nervous system due to the constant grind
Of daily cares. Knowing the real work
Of life, she becomes a companion Indeed,
fully approaching the joys of success and
the disappointments of failure, sharing in
both alike with her husband, and when
, thus approaching the feeling of nervous
exhaustion and irritableness she quietly
passes over these manifestations, which
to the inexperienced woman often prove
the beginning of e~strangement, as be-
tween such and a detected husband there
can be but little real companionship and
sympathy.
The too free use of perfumes about the
person has been avoided for many years
and held inadmissible in good society, the
merest hint of a faint odor being all that
was possibly allowed, says "Harper's
Bazar.s, Recently this edict OF good taste
l-has not been SO strictly regarded. and
such perfumes as violet and sandalwood,
both of them expensive ones when pure,
! together with heliotrope, are somewhat in
favor again. It is quite likely that the
very general wearing of large punches Of
violets has led the way to this.
It is mot easy to eradicate the love Of
perfumes anyway. for the nerves made to
appreciate them win always demand sat
isfaction; and since the race, civilized or
uncivilized, has existed, the owe of per-
fumes has existed, too. Even animals are
sensitive to perfumes; and it used to be
said that one of the helps of the great
horse raine Rarey was a bunch OF vio-
lets.
Emperors and priests and people in
power rave always been lavish in their
use of perfumes. Saladin washed down
the wallis of the Mosque of Omar with
rose water, to make the Mohammedan
heaven more attractive. Some of the
houris were declared to have bodies Of
pure musk. The Turk has always been
more fond Of musk than the Occidental
is.
At a later period than that Of Richards
great foe one OF the French monarchs-
Louis QuInze, we -think-used a different
perfume for every day in the year, al
though some OF the shades of variance
must nave been infinitesimal. 1t was a
pcetical custom Of the court about that
period for two lovers to use the same per-
fume.
Our grandmothers. and theirs before
them, sometimes scented their hair dress
ings by means of an apple stuck full of
cloves and spices, kept a long time in the
~ponade, which was perhaps as simple a
method and provided as simple an aroma
as could have been invented. They loved,
too, the odor OF patchouli, with which
everything coming from India or China in
those rich old days of the India trade was
loaded-sornewhat too powerfully for
modern taste; but perhaps they loved the
scent more for its association with the
wonderful siaw1s and scarfs which it ac-
companied than for itself.
TN order that a woman may be success
full and happy in her home life. she must
Inevitably regard her work as worthy the
highest education and enthusiasm
writes Katharine Roich, in the July
Ladies' Home Journal, of 1.-THE Col
lege-Bred Woman in Her Home Let
her know, before she enters upon it, that
it must for years occupy the greater part
of her thoughts and time-ther will be
seasons when it must Occupy her whole
time-and be content that this is so be-
cause of the value of the result to be
attained. The home where peace and
order reign, and sweet influences of in
4 dustry and education, of courtesy and
religion prevail, is not made by chance.
The .womanfs thought, and study and
ability have entered into it and deter
mined its character. Where the servants
are Industrious and quiet. where the chill
dren are healthy, gentle and obedient,
where the conversation shows Intellectual
life and generous thought, and the spirit
of her thoughts and time-there will be
, is love-, and JOY. and peace-the praise is
| due. first, TO the woman, who as wife,
and mother. and mistress, and house,
keeper, and home-maker, has made it her
study and pleasure to rule her kingdom
diligently, with intelligence and love-
The home is her creation, s%pringing from
her own ideal of what is good and fair,
and speaks to mankind as truly as if her
thought had expressed itself in writing.
Il is a work of the highest art. If a
woman thus regarded her work at home
she would settle her mind to it without
that restlessness and discomfort she will
always feel if in her heart of hearts she
regard history, or art, or higher MATINEE
! mates as pelHS huVte NVAtay ~
ton"
I understand that the question OF girls
dowries is to form one of the debates Of
the forthcoming International Congress OF
Women in london, says an English
writer. There is hardly a question affect
ing the status of the married woman more
than this. A wife who has money Of her
| own in her pocket. a check book and a
balance at the bank, on which she can
draw in an emergency, is a self respecting
individual. This is not the kind of woman
who pinches the household expenses. UNI
deruays cabmen, and half starves her
| servants in order to put a ten pound note
in a drawer. In short the stinginess Of
the old fashioned woman was largely due
ia the fact that her husband wrote the
| checks, paid her bills. and left his wife,
| often enough. with the pocket money you
| would hand nowadays to a child. SO 1t
was that they snatched, poor things. a
fearful 10y of circumventing their lord
ana master. and saving out Of his own
Income. something for a rainy day.
| check book of her own, or the education
and technical training which will enable
her to earn her own living in the open
| market-this is the only remedy for the
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