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

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Mother has always shcaped for son.
Each excursion is branded on her memory
in such fashion that not one single trip
viii ever be forgotten.
Mother associates shopping for her boy
with The closest sort Of economy She
has always bought in fear and trembling,
never getting quite the things she de-
sired and never stocking the small boys
wardrobe as It should be stocked
If is the way most mothers have. They
finger over and over pretty outing shirts
at a dollar apiece, then buy something Ill
fitting at a third the price. Visions OF
husbansdly wrath keep the, much perplexed
mother in leading strings. She knows
lust what she wants for that boy, put
dares not reeklessly put out cold cash
for articles her taste dictates will be both
sensible and economical in the end.
This year mother is in clover. One DAY,
rushed to death. she mentions that she
must in the midst of all her hurry hx
up son for the summer
Father asks the same old question ne
has been asking over since Thomas put
on knee pants.
"what does the boy needg
Mofher answers as she has been an
swering for years.
uwell. let me see I think he can man
age with then follows a list cut cow
to the smallest possible fraction
Mother adds with a sigh
~ don't see Row am ever to get
through. It takes so long to hunt lot
things that are cheap and pretty
4Cet through What's the troubleg |
co,,ld on down town and fit that boy out
In an hour"
Goodness knows I wish you would Try
IT. is the plaintive response.
To HE worried mothers delight father
agrees and down town he goes and IN q
remarkably short time bundles begin 70
arrive. There are outing shirts thai
mother would never have dreamed OF al
fording. A great pile of them All
Thomas, Juniors, summer things are
beautiful. The way one poor little mother
handles them over, her eyes shining with
pleasure. Is pitiful.
she wonders. as she checks them ON
what they cost and mentally comments on
the terross Of her mind had she been
guilty Of 50 many e-xtravaganees.
When Thomas father arrives at night
he asks with a note Of triumph in his
voice.
Toms toys conner
YES replies mother, land they are
lovely. You certainly can shop. He has
never IA his life before had so many NICE
looking asotheS.
':Tlsas shopping was finished up in one
hour and thirty minutes by my watch
have always told you there is no earthly
need Of talking forever to buy a little
stuff. Why, I can buy out a whole astab-
lishment While a woman is Dottering
about. A man never has any bother shop !
ping. He knows what he wants and he
gets It without any pickering or fussing." !
How one woman longs to speak out the |
thoughts that go racing through her
brain. It would never do. She has learned
the wisdom of silence. She adroitly
Wedges in a few more sugar-coated bits
Of Battery and forthwith makes up her
nsnd that Thomas father shall shop for
him after this.
We all have our troubles. says the
Philadelphia Record" Yea. even the
summer young man. You see him going
forth to conquer in his natty suit, neg
ligee shirt and hatband, and you think it's
all as easy for him to rig himself out as
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art, the summer girl. But no; even he has
to do something before he can look killing.
Moreover, looks, unless backed by actions.
are but poor capital for even the summer
young man. He has to be very thought
full, never firing In little services to fair
ones, be they young or old, pretty or ugly
to live up to the ideal, that is. But
there's one little attention which is con-
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rights Of the refractory laces of Miss
Summergirrs little shoes. Whatever evil
spirit possesses shoestrings nobody has
ever been able to- discover. but from con-
tinual evidence, and the fact that there is
no record of this mischievous demon ever !
having been cast forth, we are certainly
justified IN holding that each and every
shoestring is possessed of just such an
evil spirit.
In the seasons gone by the summer
young man has been content to stumble
through the shoe-tying eremon as best
he could, relying upon his nerve and ma
tive cleverness to pun him through in de-
cent shape. But he came to considering
that method Tor lack of it) too crude. He
looked back over summers .agone and saw
q mess he'd made Of many a shoe
lying Scene-WnaL an awkward inquire ne |
had cut, as well as the worthless knot
he'd tied. Practising on ~unoeupied shoes
didn't seem to be Of any use, so the
festive bachelor in question determined
upon hiring a real live model, just as his
artist friends did 1t seemed the simplest,
most natural thing in the world to him,
but the mischievous look in the models
eye annoyed him. Also the talk of his
supposed friends. It was so embarrassing,
too, that he got all wrong on his count,
and had to be continually beginning over
again before he'd really gotten down to
the knot at all.
Had 1t not been for a certain brilliant
idea he'd have dropped the whole thing
1t came upon him in a flash. He would
beg. borrow or steal (even buy) one of
those wooden members upon which dea-
Iers in hosiery display the latest novelties,
And acquire one he did. BY this time
he'd ~bethought him of the dangers of
kneellng before ~womankind promiscuous-
~ and resolved only to bend. But it
wouldn't work. Twas the wrong way,
and would break his back. So he returned
70 the gentle little game OF shoe-laee ty-
Ing according towel. why tell his au-
thority4
1. Put the weight upon the left foot. IN