The Jersey City news., 1901-07-27

well She has learned the value of exer-
else, hygiene and how to care for her
health While at college she may indulge
in some boisterous games, but when she
goes out into the world she carries the
best part of her athletic training with
her, and leaves behind the rougher part.
1t is difficult for girl to adjust herself
to home life the first year after leaving
college, but her education has broadened
her out considerably, and She mas more
patience with the opinions of others. so
that she is made more compan.onaoie
rather than less So.
She has learned that all things are worth
while, and that other interests than her
I own are worth considering. She has
learned to adapt herself to all sorts and
/ conditions of men and is of much more
benefit to society than the girl with one
idea. Maybe she has stopped magnifying
the little things, has less patience with
small complainings. but this should be
put down to her credit.
There is little reason to fuss over
| whether college girls will make good
wives or not. Some will make good wives
and some will not, as with their nom
college sisters. If they happen to be
domestic by temperament they will make
| snug housekeepers, but if they dislike
housework they may not become expert
bread makers and doughnut fryers.
The advantage is on their side how
ever, for if they are not skilled in do
{ mestic arts they have their education
back of them to help make them attrac-
I tive to their husbands, while the unedu-
Gated girl who hates domestic cares has
not this help. @t
AS a mater of fact, college girls are
just ordinary girls who have had little
better chance to improve themselves,
who have learned a little more of the
richness of life and it's possibilities. They
! desire to be as sweet, lovable and COM
panionable as the girls who do not attend
college, and they are growing very weary
of being spoken of as women who are a
problem. They only wish to be let alone
and treated like other girls.
The transition or hobbledehoy period,
between boyhood and young manhood,
when a youth is no longer a boy and
not yet man, is the most trying time
+ in his life, says o. S. Marden in Sue
! cess This is the age when the inter-
rogation point assumes colossal proper
tions. when every faculty of his nature
is asking questions and wondering what
the future has in store for him This is
the period which tries him. This is the
time when great changes. the meaning
of which he cannot solve, begin in his
life. He is growing SO fast, and his
/ tastes are changing so rapidly, that he
! does not yet know what he is going to
do what occupation, or profession to
choose.
While the youth is in this unsettled
condition, teachers and parents should
exercise great patience in dealing with
him, as whatever is put into this. part
of his life is put into the whole of life.
This is the impressionable stage, when,
if he hears a lawyer expatiate on the
beauty of the law, he will think that he
is cut out for the bar, and will change
his mind next day in favor of medicine,
if he hears a doctN~ enlarge upon the
nobility of the me- profession. The
lad changes from ot-e thing to another
with equal impartiality and lack Of judg-
ment He has not had sufficient expert
ence to see the thorns. the difficulties,
the discouragements incident to the, vari-
Gus vocations, but he sees only the ffow-
ers and the pleasant side of them.
In the account of a pair of canaries and
their offspring, which is published in the
Ladies' Home Journal for July, Flor
ence Morse Kingsley tells how the baby
bird as soon as had learned to fiutter
from one perch to another and to reach
for seed and crack it, was put into
cage by himself and hung out on the
veranda- with the father bird, who was
named Wee Willie 'Winlzie and was
superb singer. Then the baby's first edu-
cation began. First, he learned to jump
fearlessly into his china bathtub and
futter his wings and get himself glori-
ously wet just as father did. Next, he
cuddled himself into delightfully."- COM
Portable little bunch on his perch and
listened attentively while Wee Willie
Winkie sang his wonderful song. The
second week we heard a funny, sweet
little chirping and gurgling. 1t was the
young canary. He had begun to study
his profession in earnest. Hour after
hour the little fellow practiced, happily
and patiently. One day he trilled a little
trill, and the next day he had learned
three new gurgles, and the day after that
he wove the trills and the gurgles to-
gether and added longer trill on a
higher key. In six weeks time we were.
asking, as it Wee Willie Winkie who is
singing or the baby?'
Scientists now acknowledge that educa-
ton has most effect upon mediocre minds,
says the ''Woman's Home Companion"
1t can do a great deal with them. less for
those that are defective and still less Tor
those highly endowed; for talented per-
sons, even though they may receive all
the usual courses Of intellectual trainir g,
usually educate themselves. They gain
their most valuable education through the
exercise of their strongest faculties. Work
is their tutor and self direction their coll
iege.
Parents and tutors need to have care.
that their efforts to be helpful to children
do not interfere with the natural devel-
apment of their faculties. This is some
times dore through not recognizing their
special abilities, quite frequently from
wish to fix their destinies in accordance
with some conventional standard. We.
should study the individuality of our child
from his birth. so that we may avoid q
wasteful employment of his energies in
pursuits that are alien to his. disposition
and foreign to his needs.
The variety to be found in negligees
| these days is wonderful 1t would seem
that eyerys other woman must live in one.