The Jersey City news., 1902-12-24
Mere Man Suffers Inoon-
venience at the Hands
Of His Feminine
Relations.
ON THE SOCIAL XMAS TREE
House Parties and Dances for
Bellies of the Season
Passing Comment.


yenience at Christmas time than at any
other season of the year. Mere mans
mother and sisters have little habit of
giving him all sorts of wearing apparel
for Christmas, and his experience day
or two before the twenty-fifth is some
thing like this
He is in a great hurry for business.
His gloves are missing. Finally, after
spending half an hour or more looking
for them, he finds one of his feminine
relatives has carted them to New York
to match them in size and make for a
pleasant surprise Christmas morning,
and he swears gently over the surprise
cold hearted man!
At night he returns home tired after
a days tramp through slush and mud.
He thinks thankfully of nice warm
room, his slippers and smoking jacket,
cigar and the evening paper. But,
salas, upon arriving home he can ind
but one slipper. The other has gone to
New York to find two new mates and
win be home c. O. D. in day or so,
while his smoking jacket has been
shipped to the tailor's for new trimmings.
Even that choice cigar he left on his
dressing table that morning has gone to
a dry goods emporium not above selling
wet goods to be matched in quality, for
another nice little surprise on Christmas
morning. Again the man swears great
big swear, thankful only that Christmas
comes but once a year. Ungrateful man.
The patronesses chosen for the Bella
Delta Phil dance of Hasbrouck Institute,
in Hasbrouck Hall, on Monday evening,
December 20. are:-Mrs. Ed. II. Apgar,
Mrs. James L. Banks, Mrs. o. r. Blan-
chard. Mrs. e. A. Bliss, Mrs. G. z.
Bowman, Mrs. j. H. Bumstead, Jr., Mrs.
George W. Chase, Mrs. e. Fl. Dayey,
Mrs. W. Dunn. Mrs. G. J. Durland, Mrs.
J. A. Davis. Mrs. Warren Dixon. Mrs.
Frank W. Edwards, Mrs. Charles Elkin,
Mrs. J. S. Erwin, Mrs. c. E. Eyarts.
Mrs. H. d. Guernsey, Mrs. 7. ID. Halli-
we'll. Mrs. J.. e. Hulshizer, Mrs A. j.
Hamilton. Mrs. Edw. A.. Heppenheimer,
Mrs Enos. F. Jones, Mrs. 2. j. Koonz,
Mrs It. ". Lockwood Mrs. ]. r. Mahl-
stedt Miss A. B. Myers, Mrs. John Mel
ick. Mrs. W. I. McIntire, Mrs. J. S.
Menagh. Mrs. Harry E. NIese, Mrs. j.
L. Nevin. Mrs. 4. J. Newbury, Mrs.
Henry Puster, Mrs. Wallace Pyle, Mrs.
Charles e. Putnam, Mrs. George T..
Perkins. Jr.. Mrs. f. J. Rae, Mrs. G. c.
Stimets. Mrs. e. B. Sperry, Mrs. s. D.
Tompkins. Mrs. George Wilkinson, Mrs.
Henry NJ. Wolfe.
Did the Pilgrim Mothers invite the Pill
grim fathers to their New England din
ner to abuse them? What man for in
stance. would not feel mere pigmy, way
up in his balcony seat, after the follow
ing Grafton by Mrs. Lille Deyereux
Blake:--
"One of the curious phases of the at
tempt to prevent women from obtaining
equality of rights is to be found in the re-
cent illumination against the marriage Of
women who are in public employment;
It IS difficult to see by what honest rea-
soning men have established the restrie-
ton that woman shall lose her place
on entering wedlock. Is it because these
men think that the boon of husband
win compensate for all other deficien-
cies? But it is only kindness TO extend to
them a warning, for if the men do not
take care they will soon find themselves
wifeiess. Do they realize that there are
not nearly enough women to supply each
one with spouse? According to the la
test statistics, there are in this country
now 2.500,000 more single men than
single women, even counting in all the
widows and the girls down TO seventeen.
In New England, supposed to be the
home of old maids, there is no state
where there are not more bachelors than
spinsters. In Wyoming, where women
have voted for twenty-five years, there
are more than 10000 unmarried men to
1000 unmarried women. In view of
these appalling statistics would it not be
well Tor the superfuous sex to try to
make things a little pleasant for the de-
sirable sex?'
After spending seventeen years among
his ancestors Professor Garner comes
home elated with the fact that he has
learned ten words of the monkey lam
guage. He can now understand when
MS monkeyship asks for food, drink.
protection and seven other things of SER
vice to him. Really the Professor is
| quite qualified to take position as
| valet to his monkeyship.
According to a woman agitator. there
are reasons why public school teachers
should organize into nnion The Cen
| trail Federated Union is engaged in a
| determined effort to organize, those Of
Brooklyn. Manhattan and the Bronx.
There are some teachers" she says,
"who receive only $37 a month. 1t is
4 not living wages. Then there are pri-
vate school teachers who are working
merely for their bread and butter. By
securing a proper scale of wages these
evils will be eradicated.'
What would She say TO $34 month,
the salary Of the Jersey City teacher?
Another imposition, the promote,
/ goes Oh 10 say, which this body or wo-
men has 70 contend against is the import