The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-11

A young FRIEND OF mine Tells an dHuSiiS
experience. He was passing a house
when he heard screams of distress.
Through a gateway he saw a big hulk CT
a man pelting a wee woman with stones.
He made a dash for the yard and the way
he hustled the stone thrower was a eau
ton.
Did wife fail down on her shaky knees
and bless him? Alas! must the old time
story repeat itself. She turned on her
gallant rescuer and did a little stone
throwing on her own account. Then she
had him arrested.
Hailed into court, the woman swors
that not her husband but the stranger
was the cause of the fracas, and had the
gentleman in question not known the
magistrate he would, as he expressed it,
have been in a pretty kettle of fish"
This young man is not hunting oppor-
tunities to rescue husband bounded wives
these days. His experience is as old as
the hills round about Jerusalem. Woman's
heart may be capable of grateful emo
tions. If so. she is mighty careful to nc
them when she thinks there is some one
around who is getting the better of that
husband of hers.
Doorbells are pretty fair indicators OF
character. Probably you have not been
conscious of it, out every time you pull
a door bell you register what manner OF
man you are. Your ring will not tell
every thing about you, from the color
of your eyes to your taste in flowers, but
to those who know the signs the door
bell is as good as a title page.
Anyone who has had occasion to an
swer bell pulls knows how much differ
ence there is in them. One persons
method varies very little. from time to
time. though the difference between that
method and somebody else's while slight,
will be sufficiently we'll marked. 1t is
sel6om thai Two rings are exactly alike.
The housewife recognizes each-the i'm
patient man, who pulls the bell twice in
quick succession, and does not wait long
before trying it again; the one OF more
ph,egmatic temperature, whose ring is
slower and more substantial; the hesitat-
ing woman, who draw the KNOB out IN
a succession of nervous jerks; the seedy
individual with matches to sell, VINO
stretches the wire carefully to its fuH
length. and then allows it to relax with
a faint, apologize t~inkle; and the jolly
friend. who knows he is welcome, and
therefore grasps the knob with q hearty.
swing that Is fairly e.equent with good
nature. and sets the bell to shaking its
sides with such. peals OF echoing laughter
that it positively cannot stop at once.
but subsidies gradually with "a merry II
repressiblo little litter. A doorbell has as
many voices as visitors.
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A woman may be Il beauty in reality
and yet fake a very unattractiye photo-
gsaEh. while. On the contrary, the uglg
woman with prominent features may
cerre out al. the exacting ordeal a very
handsome image. ut is L curious fact.
said a local photograph dealer, that It
Is not always the handsomest women who
make the abandonment pictures I'll ven
ture the assertion that nine-tenths OF the
woiGell who. ARE noted for their beauty
are poor subjects Tor the camera, ana 1t
is unGen.abls that the most striking aaa
attractive photos are these Of people wne
sesra plain and insignificant in life.
"Why istit? We'll. a beauty nearly al
ways owes her charm to something be-
word the reach of the lens-to her COM
p.ex.en, her hair or TO the viyaeity OF
her expression. Very few such women
have regular features, and when they
are Reproduced in plain black and white
they are at a great disadvantage. Their
photographs are generally unsatisfactory
ara arc really not correct likenesses. On
The ether hand, a woman VINO is regarded
as honely may have ~singuSarly perfect
lines. but attracts no attention through
lack Of color and animation"
Women are rapidly invading the do
main of the men in college work in
America as they are competing with
the members Of the sternerl sex abroad.
The large number of women students
enrolled in the graduate department of
Yale at the present time calls attention
to a feature of academic life which
is assuming larger proportions every
year. 1t was in 1892 that the education
al world was somewhat startled by the
information that the corporation of Yale
had decided to open its graduate de-
partment to bachelors of art without dis
tinction of sex, and there were many
forewarnings concerning the failure OF
such an iconoclastic departure.
During the six years that the expert
ment has been under way the women
students have had to struggle against
innumerable difficulties, but it is believed
that at last they have established their
position upon a permanent footing. There
is hardly any member of the faculty who
does not have a good word to say in their
favor, and even the undergraduates are
beginning to regard their presence upon
the campus with Indifference. The official
catalogue of the present year has not
yet been published, but it is known that
there are at the present time about forty
women students at Yale, and there are
not lacking those who claim hat it would
be impossible to find among the 1850 mem
bers of the university forty students who
contribute more to the real scholarship
of the institution and who are regarded
with greater respect by the professors
under whose instruction they come.
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What do you think! 1t has been left
for a man to discover how to tell a wo-
mans age! And the wicked creature
does it by the simple, and at first thought
brutal, scheme of watching what she
eats. Not how, but what, mind you.
And what is more, he says his scheme
never fails, providing the fair one hasn't
been prepared for his little game. His
theiry is that from sweet sixteen to
twenty the sum total of a girls happi-
ness is wrapped up in ice cream; from
twenty to twenty-five she finds her soul