The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-25

The time to begin to learn from each
other is when people are first married.
when life is still a playground to them,
and when romantic love condones what
in later years might seem naggins or
carping criticism. We are all creatures
of habit, says the Ladies Home Jour-
nal" If we get used to the business
partnership of matrimony in our youth IL
becomes second nature, and not a hard
ship nor a disillusionment. If people
would take time to understand each otner.
and to cultivate mutual confidence, how
much easier married life would become
in fact, all lifei To be sure, we only hear
Of the unhappy marriages, while great
numbers of people are plodding on to-
gether silently and happily. But there is
enough friction to warrant this kind of
consideration, because even those who ale
to all appearances contented might make
more of life if they looked upon marriage
as an equal partnership.
Bishop John L. Spalding, in a lecture
on 1.-THE Higher Education of Woman"
delivered in Washington, pays a great tri-
butte to the feminine sex, as follows:-
.Since the close of the Civil Wal Amer
lea has entered upon the work of pro-
viding for the higher education of wom-
en- with an energy and a generosity I'M
equalled in any other country. With US
they nave access to all kinds of schools
and to nearly all the professions. They
are no longer accustomed to look to mar
riage as to their one aim in life. They
are brought up to trust in their own intel
ligence and industry to maintain them
selves in the world. Their success in
study is equal to that of the men, and
their eagerness to improve themselves
seems to be greater.
THE number of women who in the vari-
Gus institutions are receiving the
higher intellectual culture is large,
and it is rapidly increasing. These institu-
tions are of three kinds; in the first, men
and women are educated together, as at
Oberlin and most of the Western univef-
sites; in the second, Vassar, Wellesley,
Smith and Bryn Mawr, women alone are
received; and then there is a third type.
Radcliffe, Barnard and Evelyn. in which
j education is given exclusively to women
nv professors of Harvard, Columbia and
Princeton.
These higher schools for women, 70
whichever type they belong, are not all
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less grave defects are found; but the best
of them afford facilities for thorough IN
intellectual training or social research not
existing in similar institutions elsewhere,
even in Europe"
The midwinter fancy for wearing gre5e
as a fur is strengthening. We see daily
evidence of its popularity. 1t is not only
used for.muff and collarette, but as A hat
trimming. and also it composes an entire
turhan or teque. The silyery lustre of
the grebe plumage makes it particularly
becoming to the rudy blonde, or the
woman with clear color in her cheeks.
Grebe is dyed in rich colors, ruby. dark
green and plum, to accord with cloth
toiiettes, but this seems a shame; the
natural grebe is in itself a thing of b2auty-
The fur and feather teques are in the
latest fashion. There is one objection to
their use. They tend to increase the size
of the head, and a woman with an over
loaded head always looks ridiculous, as
well as top-heavy.
No one knows just how the bandana
fad came in vogue. Possibly the present
; interest in Southern FOLKLORE or the craze
for negro songs brought it about. The
girls really don't care very much about
: the source of this new craze; they are
devoting all their spare time to hunting
up genuine bandanas, the kind worn by
! the "ole' niger NANNY" in plantation
days.
ONLY the real article is "the thing" a
handkerchief tina is made up of squares
; of soft blended reds and yellows, blues
and greens. and that instantly suggests
: rich brown skin and kinky, wooIy loct1s.
:. And real bandanans are not easy to pick
! up, 1 can tell you. What the girls use
; them for are sofa pillows. mufflers. neck
ties and shirt waists.
: AS an art typography in its modern
5 form, is of comparatively recent origin,
: says the "Woman's Home Companion
: 1t is practically the production of orna-
mental designs and pictorial. effects with
a red-hot point upon wood, worry, leather
and fabrics. Formerly the tools used were
of wrought iron, and were heated in the
r glow of a charcoal fire by the operator,
e who took them up one by one and used
them much in the same manner as an
artist handles a pencil. But Pacquelin's
: appliances have don away with this te-
: dious process. His apparatus consists of q
t glass vessel into which must be poured
. some alcohol, wood spirit or benzine. This
: vessel is fitted with a rubber stopper lAai
seals it Theoretically, and two metal tubes
!: bent at right angles to which are attached
S two rubber pipes. These pipes are con-
n nected. the one to a syringe like bulb ano
: bellows, the other to the graver or pencil
+ which is screwed onto a wooden handle
v This graver has a hollow curved point
e or beak, made of platinum, which is frs
: slightly heated over a spirit-lamp. Press
IRE on the bulb forces a current of the
: LIQUID contained in the glass. vessel along
3 the rubber pipe to the platinum beak
a where it Immediately ignites, and bringing
the beak up to a white heal makes Il
ready for use.
When the time comes to discuss wasf
goods. 1T will be found hat all reliance is
to be laid on the long tried virtues of thu
+, ruffle. Just now we are still too mucf
:, occupied by woolens and furs to him
without a shiver of cotton and linen, bu'
? It is we'll to know that the present lati
$ tude of fashion allows a dress waist to b
q cut with knee-long tails or short off a
the hips.
2 Where a close basque is adopted It is in