The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-25

Women, it would appear, are d lroWluiiS
sex. Certainly one would be led to that
conclusion studying them in public places,
Street cars afford endless opportunities
for the study of humanity, says the Phila-
delphia Inquirer" 1t is amusing to OBJ
serve how in the comfortable security
of a seat a woman frowns Upon another
who presumes to squeeze in. And the
woman squeezing in frowns, too. at the
reluctance of the other to make room for
her.
1t has been remarked again and again
by every foreigner who comes to stay
among us That we-men and women alike
carry about the most anxious, carewo
harassed dreary faces of any people who
inhabit the earth. Individually our wom-
en- are conceded beautiful, collectively
they share with men the facial oppro-
brium.
One does not expect, of course, that a
woman walking along the street or sitting
quietly in her seat in a car will smile lihe
a Cheshire cat, but when one SPEAKS II
would be a relief to the monotony oil her
expression if there was a flash OF a smhe
in her eyes or lurking about her mouth.
OF the hundreds of men who courte-
ously offer their seat to women IN d car
not one is smilingly thanked. Some, alas'
are not thanked at all, and even when the
perfunetory Thank you" warns to a
tone of cordially. it is utterly inadequate
as an expression of appreciation OF Inc
courtesy the man has extended.
Why can't these women smilingly thank
a man? Are they afraid they'll take adj
vantage of it If so, they are pretty poor
specimens of Uncle Sans daughters, Iog
every American woman knows thai every
American man in public places IS a SELL
appointed protector of the women ABOUT
him. And heaven knows that the man
who does calamity give up his seat TO a
woman would nine times out OF ten leel
amply rewarded by a smiling acceptance
of it. But no. Milady screws up her
mouth to a formal thank you and sits
down frowning, and the man gripping the
strap over her head looks down in disgust
and wonders how he happened to be such
a fool as to bulge.
What with frowning and wrinkling up
their ~foreheads and screwing up their
mouths and other hideous facial contor-
tons women and young girls as well are
getting to have such lined faces thai
they,n soon have to resort to heroic meas
ures to smooth their wrinkied fronts.
Far that matter some of them already do,
as the facial masseuses will tell you when
they are disposed to be confidential and
reveal the secrets of their trade.
But though 1nassaging may iron out a
forehead ana remove the ~tell-tale lines
about the eyes, no amount of manipula-
ton will change the expression of a wom-
ans mouth. And the mouth is more in
dicatiye of a PERSONS character than any
other feature, not even excepting the eyes,
which are commonly supposed to reveal
most. for the mouth is self-made-
At the beginning of our careers the
mouth is merely a slash in the FACET
may be well curved or it may be straight,
but it's merely a slash and is slow n
forming. How it is formed lies wholly
with ones self, n whether it be petulant
or cynical or sweet or merry or "set," as
our-erandmothers used to say, depends
entirely on the individual temperament
and the control the woman has over it.
Let some of these screwed up, hard
mouths expand a little-teach girls the
Importance of training their lips into
strong, sweet Curve, breaking readily into
a smile. If women went about smiling,
what an astonishingiy radiant place this
world would bel
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When a nan does not get the stirnulat-
ing nourishment which his nature Graves
he resorts to liquor to supply the want,
saws the .1Woman's Home Companion"
With this fact staring one in the face, is
it not wise to teach tina unfailingly good
food, with all the elements that stimulate,
and nourish the body and brain, has its
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There are cases on record proving the
benefits of public school cooking, where
the domestic sky has been perfectly clear
ed of clouds simply because good food was
offered, where before it had been badly
cooked, and consequently did not properly
nourish. In one home the substitution OF
a weI-cooked cup of cocoa for the sloppy
herDy tea that had become a component
part of every morning meal, and a nice
Indian cake or plate of mullins for the dry
bakers loaf, began a work of reform. TIE
father was proud of the daughters skill
as a cook; the mother, who had grown
careless and shiftless and Indifferent, was
shamed by it. The consequence was better
provision on the part of one, and more
care in preparation on the part of the
other. The mother was by no means above
turning to account some OF the pfdctlcai
knowledge the daughter had acquired UNI
der such competent training, and she be-
gan also to brush up her own knowledge
that she had carelessly allowed to fall
into dfsuse. The result is a happy home, a
united family. a cheerful, contented, busy
wife, and a man who puts into the family
larder what formerly went to the saloon.
Athletics will save the American wom-
an from nervous disease of her sex and
her country. So says a great authority
on physical strength and endurance.
1.-THE American girl can be saved by
proper physical training from becoming
the American woman with nerves" said
William Blaikie, author of How 20 Get
Strong and How to Stay So"
This physical training should begin
during the earlier years of childhood.
Take a girl at her fifth birthday and
teach her to run slowly, with erect car
riage. as far as she can with comfort
every secular day until she reaches her
majority; suppose by is she ran as far
as she could with comfort in ten min
utes, would it trouble her much at Is or
at 81 to run a mile at a good pace, too?
at is not likely that even several miles
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