Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-02

anthropist, who did more for the moo
OF New York than any Of her million
aires. After ,recountinp the splendi
success of his life, and the no les
splendid charities, Miller saws:
ana al he can hold In his cold dcad hand
iswh"t he has given away
The trees are bare, the grass i
brown, and every gust of wind twirl
tue dry and rustling leaves. This /,
winter-like. But the sun shine.
brightly, the air is warm and bnlmv
more like May than December. This
is glorious climate, truly. but the
young man who has invested months
wages in an overcoat does not appreri.
ate 1t.
The residents along Lamar STREE,
nave just cause to be proud of that
thoroughfare. Besides boasting some
OF the handsomest residences in tho
city, IL has been graveled so com.
bility. i'Oss'
W
Inc opening of the FL Paso IL
eagerly awaited by the travelling pub-
lie, as the new proprietors have an.
nounctd their determination To koen
the best hotel In Texas. Grant that Il
be so.
so far as reported Fort Worth has
lew applicants for position before the
incoming Democratic congress. The
Guy on me other side of the Trinity.
though, Is understood TO have a dozen
or more. In new live towns the PEG.
ne cannot afford to hold Office. In
,ld dead ones they seek 1t.
How many women are ruined
through love of dres.? ] was standing
on the street yesterday when wonah
passed whose history know. She
was clad in tawdry iinery, her lace
bloated, eyes inflamed, gait unsteady.
In TACT drunken cyprian. Six
months ago she was respected wife.
the mother of bright pretty children.
Her husband was poor, and for the
ume unfortunate. But he did the best
he could, and at least provided
home where she could live pure and
untouched by the breath of Islander,
happy in the love of her little ones,
But she was q weak and frivolus crea-
tuIe, and chafed and fretted because
she could not have fine clothes. She
became cross and pelulant, and in
stead of strengthening the hands of
her husband and helping him bear the
burdens of lise, she bore him down
with complaints and reproaches. At
last, after bitter quarrel, she left his
house and her innocent little ones,
and entered upon Il life OF shame.
Trod the primrose paths of dalliance
that begin with silks and satins but
end with the hospital, the morgue or
the Potter's field. After a time a sense
of her sin came over her but she
found herself entangled in the meshes
and compelled to keep on in the way
that leads down To death, her feet
daily taking hold on hell. Her natur-
ally refined soul revolted at the wick
edness and rough language of her sur
roundings; visions of the sweet baby
faces of her deserted children rose be-
fore her constantly, and thoughts of
the black shadow of their mothers
shame trailing evermore across their
innocent young lives tortured her. To
blunt the tangs of conscience
she resorted TO drink and the
poor miserable wreck that reeled
by me with drunken leer is all that
is left of once happy woman. The
passion for dress and display did 1t.
This is no fancy. but an Overture
tale. And now that | am on this sub
ect, why is it that in no Texas town
Institutions for reclairning women OF
his class, who evince n desire to re-
orni, exists? In the larger cities of
he east will be found reformatories
presided over by good women, where !
he erring sister can enter and leave |
behind the woe and misery and sin |
hat was once hers. II is possible 10 |
eform them; the Master, good and |
ure as an angel Himself, when the
ioman who HAD sinued was brought |
efure Him, stopped and wrote in the
and, and the words there writ:
"Fol down from the beautiful fingers
OrJesus, like gems in the sand
800 and sin no moren How many
the lost creatures would gladly UNI
ertake this, if only hand was
out TO lead them into the
et.er ways, into better life?
~
Friday evening / visited two of the
host extensive buildings now being
rected In TeXas-the refrigerator and
he railway hospital. The first is a
ov, lily 10 nearly everyone, though
'om an architectural standpoint 1t has
o claims To beauty. 1t is a house of
cath. Within its walls over two hun
red beeves day are TO be slaughtered
nd prepared for market. The railway
ospitai is beauty in every respect,
nj will Pr we a peasant home Tor he
OK or disabled employees of the Gould
,stem.