The Jersey City news., 1901-07-27

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| rectly we heard her scream, and ran to
| her, and, do you know, she had burned
| the whole front of her hair off in the gas
| jet.
"She doesn't think that the umbrella had
| anything to do with it; says that If she
! hadn't been near sighted and the jet near
| on level with her head it wouldn't have
! happened, but / knew she was bound to
have trouble for her rash act, and now
/ she has stubbles. for that's what her
front hair looks like after. its singeing."
In view of which terrible anecdote the
readers of this page are hidden lake
| warning.
ssOf course, being hybrid that is, half
Bostonian and half a New Yorker, l
can judge better than most people of tie
respective advantages of the two cities,
! she said, "and, although | concede that
New York is by far the more fashionable.
/ think, in a way, that Boston is more up
to date in certain things that are better
than mere fashion. l do not mean in
literary tastes, as to be erudite is no
longer a distinguishing trait of the Bos-
i, ton social world, but in every new idea,
or fad. if you choose so to call it, that
betokens originality and character.
81 find that our Boston girls have more
nerve and the kind OF chic that is not
dependent on clothes and good looks,
wherein perhaps the New York girl scores
a point or two. will give you an ex-
ample of what I mean L was looking
among the beautiful Boston suburbs last
spring for house for the summer, and
regretted to some of my friends that L
/ could not find anything that suited both
my pocketbook and my taste. why DO
YOU not go to see Miss MS placer said
some one L hear she is going TO Europe
and wishes to lei her place Upon inquiry
I found that Miss M. was a girl Of two
and twenty who farmed her own little
country place herself, whore she lived
alone save for some of her friends whom
she was always entertaining most hos
pitably.
"She was a great horsewoman and had
her own horses, which she broke herself,
and was such a clever manager that she
actually made her delightful method of
living remunerative. The next day drove
over to see the house, which a neat look
ing maid showed me and which, although
most attractive, proved to be too small
for my numerous family. AS I was leav-
ing, I saw on the grounds tail, slim
young woman giving directions to some
laborers, and guessed at once it was Miss
M. herself.
"She was covered from head to foot in
a brown holland garment, which was not
without a certain style of its own IN ap-
pearance, and which evidently buttoned
over an ordinary gown, while on her head
she wore a rough straw sailor. This, L
heard afterward, was her customary farm
dress. which if a visitor came, or when
she went indoors. she took off and ap-
peared as fresh and dainty as if she never
did ANYTHING but sit on the veranda with
her fancy work Her dress was by no
means unbecoming; in fact, I saw her af-
terward gowned in an exquisite creation
from Paris, and thought she looked even
more distinguished in her brown holland
overall.
.sNow I call Miss NJ. distinctive type
of the new Boston girl, who intellectually
is not particularly clever, but whose
forceful individuality makes her remark
able No matter what she takes up
farming art, sociology, or one of the
latest 'isms'-she throws herself into it
heart and soul in a way New York girl
in her social position rarely, if ever, does.
The latter is volatile in her enthusiasms,
if she has any, while the former is in
tense, almost, too intense, some persons
think; but to me she is most interesting
young person"
Want of perception is the rock upon
which many carefully constructed plans
go to pieces A nicely adjusted discrim-
ination as to "what is what is invalua-
Bile in every walk of life, but particularly
is it essential to social aspirants, TO
whom it is just the quality above all
others that will insure their success 1t
is very odd how many people seem
totally lacking in such perception. They
will choose the wrong people as aequalnt-
ances. and, despite their anxiety to do the
right thing, will provoke criticism by
doing precisely the wrong one. rms quail
ity must either be inborn or acquired
by long association and early education
it is quite hopeless for an adult who has
neither ability to see wherein ne lacks
or to avoid the pitfalls which are already
spread for the unwary. Perception ana
tact are quite different, although they are
nearly allied. 1t goes without saying that
tactful person has perceptions he could
not be tactful without it, but perception
does not always imply tact-it is simply
a knowledge of cause and effect, says
one Of our contemporaries How that
knowledge is to be applied is another
matter. person who has perception is
never vulgar or even what is called COM
mon. neither could he ever be guilty of
any obvious snobbery. 1t has as much
saving. virtue as a sense of humor, which
also is an invulnerable admonfsher to its
possessor. We have all of us felt the
sense of -hopelessness over people who do
the wrong thing, and who never do and
never will know it., The feeling in either
great or little things is equally torment
ing. whether it is Mr. James's American
lady who feels a wild rage that the
duchess will never, never know that
she herself is badly gowned, and that the
former is perfectly dressed, or valued
friends or relations who we hopelessiy
feel must "dree their weird" all for the
want of little insight, which we are
helpless to give them. 1t is almost equal
w aggravating. because we realize that
an individual afflicted with want of
perception will never become conscious
of his infirmity.
IT seem to me there is a great deal of
bother and worry over the college girl.
This one cries:--"Oh. she does not care
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