The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

In Woman's World.


irate female students, who here as every
where obtained their rights if they wanted
them.
The living of the young ladies must
have been very plain, for they paid only
seventy-fve cents a week for board, and
they paid that by work at the rate of
three cents an hour. I find nowhere a
record of class parties, and not a trace
of a class picture, and I know that there
existed no such frivolous thing as a choc-
olate drop. There were four women to
enter the first regular freshman class.
Though the frivoIities of modern college
life were not permitted, love could not
be kept out, and Mary F. Kellogg, one
of the four, afterward became the wife OF
ex-President Fairchild. The mother of
DIR. Barrows, the recently elected presi-
dent, was also one of those pioneers of
co-education, and she certainly did not
dream that at a crisis in the history of
her alma mater she would give her be-
loved son to be the leader of that noble
institution"
sFor three consecutive Sundays before
the wedding the banns are read in the
parish church, writes M. E.. M. Davis,
of The Creole Girl of New Orleans" in
the June Ladies Home Journal" The
invitations sent out are sometimes en-
graved upon a large folded sheet of paper.
On one page the father and mother OF the
groom invite their friends to assist at
the nuptfal mass of their son; on the
opposite page the parents of the bride ex-
tend the same courtesy to their friends
on behalf of their daughter. Ordinarily,
however, the cards are in the conven-
tional form. The hour chosen is usually
five o'clock in the afternoon. A musical
chime rings the hour as the bride reaches
the cathedral. The organ within breaks
suddenly into a wedding march. The OLD
headle. wearing a scarlet coat and cooked
hat, preeedes the bridal party up the
aisle. The groomsmen follow, and then
the bridesmaids, the maid of honor and
the tiny flower girl; finally the bride, pale
and lovely, on her fathers arm.
1.-The great altar glows with candles.
The priest, in gorgeous vestments, at
tended by acolytes and choir boys, steps
! forward with the bridegroom-the sell
same priest who anointed the prloes
forehead with baptismal oil and mas
/ blessed each onward step of her lie. lie
4 addresses the youthful pair in homely.
paternal fashion, in a voice full OF tender
emotion, recalling their religious vows,
an inning upon them a faithful perform
! anca of their home duties. Then in som
arols tones he recites the stately ritual
| of the church and gives the nuptial bene-
| 5iction. The voice of some singer thrills
the air. while chosen friends pass up the
chancel to sign the parish register. An
invitation to sign for the bride or groom
is an honor conferred only on intimate
friends OF aistiHs atsisu sues
The useful in fashionable attire rarely
goes into a condition of "~innocuous desne-
tude," says the San Francisco "Chronl-
cle." Few women are aware that in tae
present year that very necessary ana use
full adjunct of a lady's winter toilet, the
muff. celebrates its four hundredth amir
~versary of existence. It first saw the light
in Venice in 1899, and was exactly the re-
verse of what it generally is at present,
the small and fashionable muffs OF those
days beng being generally covered VITA
a rich and costly brocade and the fur
used as a lining instead of being outside.
In other parts of Europe it became a uni
| versal article of use in the seventeenth
century and was carried not only in the
SlI6ClS III WlhtSi Doe $500
and at all sorts of entertainments, and it.
| often took the most eccentric forms, being
made sometimes in imitation of dogs, etc.
At the coronation of Frederick III of
Prussia, which took place at Konigsberg
in 17O1, the ladies carried muffs as part Of
their court dress. In the year 1880 it was
| adopted even by the sterner sex, and very
| funny it must lave looked, especially as 1t
| often assumed enormous dimensions and
was worn attached to a silken cord which
was passed around the neck of the wear
err. Leopard skin was the favorite fur
with the beaux of those days. Toward the
| end of the seventeenth century fur went
ont of fashion. bright colored stuffs pc
| ing used in it's place, though sometimes
white skins dyed pink. blue or green were
worn. Toward the close of the eighteenth
! century If again became the thing for
fasb;onabla mon to use enormous fur
rn,fys EnoIand This time leading the way
with the sillv fashion though fine Cont
non+ soon followed
So.
..women NOWADAYS lie on beds that are
90 soft snrro,,nd themselves with so
marv o,,sbions and ,,;,e so much cover
ing ouor +bamn said an eminent phv-
sie;ar ..+bo+ +ba bodv gains M ~ventil-
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