The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-04

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woman, it shall be togthee even as thor
hast wished. Kiss the babe farewell
Thou shall be spared the trials and re
sponsibflities and anxieties that wouie
surround HIS life through childhood, and
even now shalt thou w thy son that !:
| to be.n
And the lovely babe. with chubby hand:
! outstretched, as though he would kiss his
mother. vanished in a mist. And q desc
! lation spread over the woman's heart. fo'
there came to her a tall. ungainly youth
Long were his legs, red were his hands
| stumbling was his gait, and his face Was
| homaly. And he made as though ht
would earess her. but she drew back Il
| horror and said, This is not my chhd
| but a changeling. Give me back my ross
boy, my darling, my comfort. Let M
| feel his soft arms around my neck, and
viii bear his waywardness and my re-
| sponsibilities. What If I have gained 8
| son. when I have lost my baby?'
And there came a sound Of mockinl
laughter.
An extract from the Journal of a yount
| lady of fashion several centuries ag'
! makes one feel quite relieved that 1t !
not really a part of elegant living now
adays to keep journals, remarks an ex
change. Poor little faded journal! TIL
delicate little hand that penned thos
cramped lines, maybe. was given to "Joh
| Grey For romance sake, let's hope tina
1t was.
z o'clock-Went to walk with the a q
my mother. in the courtyard
IN o,oIooELUNapf ~ diunar. J0hn Grey
a most comely youth-but what is that K
me? A ~virtuous maiden should be entire
" under the direction of her parents
John ate but little and stole a great many
tender looks at me, said women would
never be handsome, in his opinion, whit
were not good-natured. ! hope my temper
is NOT folarahie Rose from
the table; the mpa all DESTROYS o.
walking in the fields; John Grey woust
lift me over every stile, and twice h
squeezed my hands with vehemence.
cannot say I should nave any objections
to John Grey; he plays at prison bars as
well as any of the country gentlemen, ane
is remarkably dutiful to his parents. my
lord and lady. and never misses church
on Sunday.
One of the first words that a baby says
is mamma or mother, and it is not
strange, therefore,, to find it one of the
first and simplest words in every Ian
guage- There is no word easier for a
child to say than ma. unless 1t be pa.
In Hebrew and Arabic mother is "em''
and 'am''; it is mann in Welsh and
.'moder', in Anglo-Saxon. In other Ian
guages it is slightly different, but near
enough like our own word mother to
make 1t an almost universal word, SO
that a child crying in any language could
be understood in almost any other Lam
guage. Here are a few of the names:
Madr in Persian; Matr in Sanscrit; Meter
in Greek; Mater in Latin; Madre in Span
ish; Mere in French; Moder in Swedish,
Moder in Danish; Moder in Dutch Nut
ter in German; Mate in Russian; Mat
hair in Celtic.
When the cynical womtn takes after
moor tea with you the conversation goes
haltingly. You and your other guests
may admire her brilliancy, but somehow
you are awed, though you hardly know
why. And the cynical woman is not hap
n.y. DIG WQ4k0 III AAOot ~
with you in your small talk. but hasn't
she been schooling herself to scorn many
Of the very things of life that you n
satisfying2
o. cynical woman, yours Is a chilly phi
iosophy! Better to trust and be disap-
pointed than never to trust again. The
world is so big and wide, and it really
may chance hat one day you will find
your ideal, inc it so completely that you
will wonder you have ever, because one
failed you, believed tina there lived none
to whom you might pin your faith.
49,
The experienced shopper IS apt to fall
into the error of imagining that the high
est-priced articles are necessarily the best.
Frequently she pays more han necessary
for goods under the delusion that they
will wear better. 1t is true that SOM
good fabrics cannot well be sold at a
lower cost, but in the department called
notions many things are sold at fancy
prices, while others, quite good enough
to serve every ordinary purpose. may be
procured at reasonable rates. This is true
of some dress shields. An expensive pair
Of white silk shields. interlined with oil
silk. will not stand the necessary bath to
which they are subjected.
1t is better not to sew dress shields into
your bodice, unless you are in the habit
of removing them for a bath, once in a
fortnight, if the waist is in constant use.
A stout shield without fancy covers
washes well and comes up perfectly fresh
and s~potless from its bath of CASTLE
soap, warm water and a little hartshorne.
But the finer shield goes to ribbons be-
meath les covers of pretty silk. BY hold
it to the light you can see how the
oil silk tears like wet paper. The shield
is thereafter useless. A cheaper article
is strong enough to endure washing is
more useful than the other costly shield.
"
AS to the form of Introduction, the SIM
pier it is the better, says the "'Woman's
Companion The double introduce
ton has entirely gone out of fashion. Do
not say, "Let me make you acquainted
but say, merely. Miss Brown, let
me present Mr.. Gray to you" II two
who are introduced are interest,"
ed In some one art or science 1t Is well
to mention this fact, but in making in
Productions It is inadvisable to label peo-
Die. Do not introduce a woman as ECU
most distinguished poetess," nor a man as
.the greatest hero OF our recent political
Both statements may be true,
it Is embarrassing to both parties to
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