The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28

walls will be hung with silk which costs
thirty-fiye dollars a yard. The ceilings
have been brought from France, where
they were painted at a cost of 0,0OO.
The bath room is to be fitted with white
marble floors, walls and tub, with gold
plated plumbing.
Walking up the street the other morn
ing was a pretty, trim looking girl, who
attracted the rather admiring attention
of passers-by from the enjoyment she
seemed to take in what was apparently a
morning constitutional. 1t was a thor
oughly uncomfortable day. A constant
drizzle was falling, half rain and half
sleet, which froze as soon as it touched
| the umbrella or the pavement, and made
the umbrella heayy and the walks so
slippery that to engineer ones self along
was both difficult and and dangerous.
But the girl was apparently obvious of
the weather.
She wore a trim little gray suit, with the
skirt at ankle length, just the correct
length for her; she had no umbrella and
she walked freely and easily, her cheeks
rosy with exercise and her hands free,
| except as she held a leash, at the other
end of which was a handsome Irish set
ter dog.
The girl was apparently having more
fun out of the walk than the dog, who
did not seem to be enjoying himself par
ticularly. That was not surprising, for
| what respectable and self-respecting
hunting dog would like to be obliged to
trot along every morning with an at
tendant to give him the exercise he
could give himself so much better if he
were only allowed the privilege?
So the dog looked respondent and the
girl looked happy, for he was being led
where he did not want to go, and she
was leading him just where she had been
told, and was eminently well satisfied,
for it was a matter of business with her,
and she was being paid for it.
The young women's mornings are all
engaged wandering up and down exercis-
ing society pets for the sum of ten dollars
a month for an hour a day and six dollars
for half an hour a day.
1t is a good thing for the young wo-
man, it is a blessing to dogs, as it is the
best thing they can get inside the city
limits, and it is a great satisfaction to the
fond owners of the dogs. So there is a
! new profession, and at least one woman
is helping to support herself by means
of it.
In the January Ladies Home Journal
Edward Box deplores the sense of rush
thai has taken possession of the Ameri-
can women. and emphasizes the dangers
arising from this condition of unrest.
Take our family life today" he says.
Look around ones own family circle,
look into it's life, look into the families we
know, and tell me if l am SO far wrong
when I say that what our American fam
lilies need more than anything else is
more time with each other: more drawing
together; more moments of being alone
with each other: a greater extraction of
the peace ard comfort from those mater
ial surroundings which each so earnestly
strives for, and all are too much satisfied
to strive for simply to possess, and Moth
ing more. We are all too much in a hurry
in America to allow Of our knowing and
enjoying each other: our lives are too full
with the things which ought to be second
airy and which We lave allowed to DOM
mate US. We are all to busy: men and
women, girls and boys-all of us. We are
not getting the rich beauties out of life:
the greatest enjoyments out of living.
Rush and haste are too much upon us.
The sweet balm of peace and quiet is an
unknown delight to thousands of our peo-
pie. And much of the cause, disagreeable
as it is to say it, lies with our women
who have of late allowed their lives to be-
come too full. I will not say that they
nave neglected, to any alarming ex-
tent, tine fundamental duties of wifehood
and motherhood. But l do say that the
LANCER of doing so in the very near fut-
ure exists, in many an instance, if things
are allowed to go on as they have gone."
Fathers and mothers should not be hus-
band hunters, but they should be genial,
hospitable hosts to such young women
and men as they deem fit companions for
their daughters. 1t is their duty to enter
heartily and cheerfully into the lives of
their girls at this stage of their career as
we'll as any other. Many a young woman
has been deprived of social life because of
the indifference or open inhospitality of
her parents to her friends.
The father who selfishly seeks his own
comfort and enjoyment, burying himself
in a. book or paper when his daughters
friends are in his parlor, creating an at
mosphere of restraint and unsociability,
is, perhaps, booming his girls to a lonely
unhappy life. The mother who is scant of
courtesy and friendliness to these guests
is doing her daughters a greater and
more lasting wrong than neglect of some
of their personal want in their earlier
years would nave entailed.
Nor does their duty end in a willingness
to receive and entertain in a cordial way
the young people congenial to their girls;
if it be that there are not young men and
women in their neighborhood with whom
their daughters can associate, it is their
bounden duty to remove thence to a COM
munity furnishing the necessary elements
for an adequate social life. Families move
for much less important reasons; they sell
dom move for more important ones. No
violence is lone to any right feeling if
parents nave a distinct aim in such a
move of taking their daughters into the
society of young men as we'll as young
women of ~congenial tastes. Sensible peo-
pie nowadays know that Mrs. T%hornburg
is right when she says, apropos of
matches, ut is ~propinquity that does it,"
It is their right that young women should
have the opportunity Of forming the ac-
quaintance of men between whom and
themselves there is no disparity that