The Jersey City news., 1903-01-23
SOCIETY TOPICS
Woman's Club Will Hc e to
Elect Nine Instead Of
Five Officers This
Year.
ABUSES OF The G. 0. D.
No Change Brings the Boy
Who Delivers the Goods
q Neat Income Odds
and Ends Of In
terest.
ABUSES OF THE G. 0. D.

Everything has its use and abuse, and
| in tIlis twentieth century precious few
being what is vulgarly termed worked"
| Perhaps one of the uses that is worked
overtime just trifle more than the rest
is the G. 0. ID. system of delivering goods
from the New York dry goods stores. OF
course there is much to be said On both
sides, but it is with the consumer we
have to deal just at present. When 9.
O. d. goods are sent home the driver is
usually accompanied by small boy
whose duty it is to deliver the goods
while the former holds the horse Sell
dom is the boy provided with change.
Whether or not the driver has any is not
to be determined as he generally halts
somewhere a block or two away, and
sends the small boy ON to deliver the
goods. The package, say, comes to 80
cents The customer hands the boy a
dollar He has no change. OF course he
is not allowed to leave the package and
collect next day like the laundry man.
So if the customer can't make the change
it must go back. The customer sometimes
lets the package go back but more often
she is in hurry for it and thinks five
cents of little moment under the circum-
stances, or the small boy shivering there
in the cold in himself appeals to her, so
she simply says
"Oh, never mind the change" and
closes the. door with that happy con-
science born of a philanthropic deed.
The boys goes chuckling away.
Oats de tenth Gus what said keep
de change" he remarks to his comrade,
''and we's got twelve more rounds to
make Tell yer what dis is more payin'
dan selin' papers
Sometimes kind hearted people with
more heart than calculation, will even
| the little fellow has no mits or no over
/, coat, and if the lad is at all clever he
! can always work in his lunch.
Oh, well, the principle on which Bar
mum worked, 'sThe public loves to be
fooled" still holds good, even With such
! IL cOQ uSilS iOOhlIE luulNIuudl dS tuC NOl-
iect on delivery" boy.
! "Any office in the power of the Fed
GRAFTON is an honor said Mis-. .s,e art
Hartshorn, ex-president of the New Jer-
sey Federation of Women's Clubs, when
someone objected to her being nominated
for the small office of corresponding sec
retary." That was last fall, and that
honor business has sort of travelled the
rounds of New Jersey in every LEGAL
election throughout the State ever since.
Somehow it does not seem to appeal to
the Jersey City Women's Club, however,
| if one may judge by the honors declined.
/ At first it was thought that there would
| be but five officers to elect at the Marcn
business meeting to fill the places of those
whose three year limit has expired, but
ever since this was announced and regret
expressed over it in the Club Outlook, .
somebody has made it point to object
to continue in Office another year at ev-
| cry club meeting until now the list is
swelled to nine with probably tenth
dllu pOSSiUly al cieNtliUl. u6 0ulC6TS 10
be elected are all minor 'shonors, rang
ing from department chairman to second
vice president, the president DR.. NJ f.
De Hart having two years more to run
Perhaps this accounts for the declina-
tions, designations, etc
The officers whose term of office ex
| pires are Mrs. Briee Collard, second vice
president: Mrs. George w. Case, FEEDER
alton secretary; Mrs. Charles BROWNIE
treasurer Mrs. B. X. Curtis, chairman OF
the Philanthropy Department, and Miss
Ada d. Fuller, chairman of the Litera
ture Department. Word, however, de
clining nominations has been received
from Mrs. William f. Turner, recording
secretary, who has served but one year
4 from Mrs. ]. Bradley Tanner, chairman
of the Music Department. who has served
one year; Miss A. B. Myers, chairman o.
the Educational Department who has
served one year, and from Mrs. james
Erwin, who has been chairman for tn,
past two years. Mrs. Hudspeth- Bensol
who at first resigned from the chairman
ship of Town Improvement, has no de
sire to give up the work and has yielded
to 'suasion for denomination on condi
tion that the Department meetings are
better attended in the future.
There is going to be the usual trouble
again this year in getting two women t,
run each Office according to the consti
tuition. Where the candidates are clos,
friends invariably one will not allow he
name to appear against the other ans
sometimes two good women have TO b,
scratched for this reason, and where the,
are not close friends the weaker candid
ate is not willing to allow her name I,
be put up as target to be knocked
down. The rule is that after the inform
al ballots are all in the two women re
ceiving the highest number of votes fol
any one office are put up for that otfic'
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