The Jersey City news., 1902-09-13
SOCIETY TOPICS
Whittier House Playground
Closed With thu Open
ing of School.
NEED OF MORE ROOM
Grcae Disappointment at Fail
ure to Buy Peoples
Palace.
NEED OF MORE ROOM

Now that school has opened there is
no longer any need for the playground
in Whittier House backyard, and all the
laraphernalia has been packed away tor
next summer The playground kept
the children out OF mischief and out OF
danger during the summer months, as
wen as bettering their conditions moral
liz. Now that responsibility rests on the
public schools, which, if they do their
full duty, will establish Fairgrounds OF
their own before the dawn of another
summer. The attendance at Whittier
House playground this year has been
larger than ever, and it is only ques-
ticn of time when the Whittier House
Workers small forty by twenty-five foot
plot will not hold all the children who
want to play in their back yard.
The last blow has been struck, and the
Peoples Palace is a thing of the past.
There is little doubt but that it will fol-
low the old Tabernacle and go TO the
Elks. even though Whittier House Set
tlement has offered the same amount and
would continue the good work started
by Mr.. Scudder and Mr. William Turner
twelve or fifteen years ago. There are
not sufficient funds to continue the work.
is the excuse for selling, and was the ex-
cuse for renting. Yet Miss Bradford
has been unable either to rent or buy
the place for practically carrying ON the
work it was originally planned for
through her Boys Club.
One would never suppose from obser-
wing the Sixth avenue escalator at the
corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth
avenue that it was ever invented to save
people the trouble of mounting the stairs.
1t might be invented for almost anything
else so long as it was time saver, but
with the perpetual motion movement ct
the twentieth century nobody thinks OF
such thing as waiting for the escalator
TO take them mp, not even the women.
They walk up just as they always did.
rs for the men they go up three steps at
time. Perhaps when New York IS all
moving sidewalks and moving trolley
tracks the people may be satisfied, though
even then it is probable they will keep
on rushing just the same. One good
thing about it, however, will be that the
woman going uptown who meets her
friend going downtown can't block the
sidewalk with a bit of friendly gossip.
-
Sometimes. however. the escalator does
serve as time and strength saver at the
same time. People who are in a hurry
have learned that it is an excellent place
to read letters, look over shopping lists
and balance accounts without having to
stop in their mad rush to gain their des-
tination.
ssReing woman says Dorothy Dix
in describing her method of writing Il
write as | cook. without rule, and season
to taste. / take trouble of my own or
my friends'-preferab the latter-and
dress it up with a liberal supply of the
oil of humor, little of the vinegar OF
sat;re. pinch Of the salt of reason,
a dash of the cayenne of wit and enough
of tho sugar of human kindness to
make it sweet to all the world, and the
result is sometimes a checque and some
times a returned manuscript. To be
funny on inspiration is one thing. 10
be funny on demand and by the column
is quite another. The first is a joke on
the people. the second is a joke on your
self ana few of us have keen enough
sense of humor to enjoy laugh at our
own exnense. / grieve to admit that |
an not one of those gifted beings who
dash off things in white heat of genius
toll and labor and if | write what
sometimes makes other people tired,
can only say the feeling is mutual. l
have suffered, too3
Nevertheless, it is the other people
who have to pay for that tired feeling.
Miss Dix gets paid
II has been said that the way to a
mans heart is through his stomach
But according TO some of our women
writers it must also be the way to the
feminine brain, for many of them can
not write without their bonbons and cof-
fee. Men, Of course, depend more OF
less ON tobacco and coffee, or something
stronger. Still. men and women writers
are much alike even in this. They both
depend on something stronger than the
essentiol scissors and paste for inspira-
ton.
The engagement of DIR. John B. Hnber
and Miss Lulu Harmon Brown, both OF
New York, has just been announced. Dr.
Huber has many friends in this city,
being a frequent visitor Of his sisters
being frequent visitor at the homes
,f- tu;Jl;o,,, ID and Mrs