Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-01
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T1iH The following advice is given
her by Pcck's Sum
II is said that when any one speaks
to Mrs. Langtry about her impro-
priety in being so familiar with young
Gebhardt, she looks surprised and
says: "Why Freddie is mere boy.
He Is only twenty-three years old.n
| We do not desire to give advice
where 1t is not needed, but as an old
man we cannot help telling Mrs. Lang |
\ try to beware of the American boys of |
4 twenty-three. English boys of that |
age may be mere children that hand |
some women can use as pets, the same |
as they would use poodles, with no Sc
| rious results. The English BOYS of |
twenty-three may be pulling Infants
that can be held in the lap, but the |
| American boy of that age Is not that |
kind of hairpin, and handsome
English woman who presumes upon
the youth and innocence of such "a
child is likely to wake up to a realizing
sense, when it is everlastingly too late,
! that the American youth of twenty
three is endowed with certain inalien-
able rights, among which is life, liber-
ty and the pursuit of happiness. Fred
dy may appear to be, to the untutored
mind of an English beauty, a harmless
little child, good enough to carry
shawls to matinee, but unacquainted
with the wickedness of the world, but
when she learns that American boys
in round-abouts do not permit hand
some women to pet them with impu-
nifty, without showing that they know
what is the matter with Hammer, she
will keep the twenty-three-year-old
American little boy on the other side
of the barbed wire fence.
! We do not blame the lady. She has
simply been deceived in the style of
the American youth. She has liveti
all her life where men have become
princes before they can say their souls
are their own. She has lived where
men in the ordinary walks of life
think they are in luck If they are al
lowed to look at handsome woman.
and who nevor know what it is to love
T until they are SO old that they wear
false teeth. She has lived where boy
of twenty-three is not allowed to go
.. in company without his mother, and
where they do not learn to be truly
bad until late in life. In acting as IA
mother to young Gebhardt, Mrs.
Langtry is taking many chances, and
as an old man who knows much OF
the American youth from experience,
we advise her To quit.
If the English lady only knew OF
, half the damage that has been done by
American mere boys of twenty-three
and under she would have n care and
would not allow this youth the free.
: dom of her boudoir. We do not know
what boudoir is, but it is something
g that belongs to u woman, and Freddy
is too young TO be there. 1t is none o
our business, but as the lady seems Il
be unsophisticated- least no ont
: knows that she has been sophisticated
we deem it a duty to warn her agains
these bows. 1t is unaafi
to hold this youth in her lap
= lust AS unsafe as it would u,
!. to hold grown person. Because sh,
looks upon him as mere boy, sh,
may be tempted to let him kiss her
= and that would break her all up
American boys of twentythree kiss s.
near like grown persons as to deceiv
the oldest inhabitants, and if he is
/ representative American youth am
she allows him privileges far beyon'
/ his years she will find that it is no
good for man to be alone with an Eng
/ fish beauty. She may not believ
it, but American mere boy
IL have been known to frequent tn
vicinity OF ladies who did nc
realize that the boys were men to a
u intents and purposes until it has bee
~ necessary to call in the neighbors an
wake up the old folks and call tn
I ministers up in the night to celebrat
nuptials, and there was trouble a
+ around. We mention these thing
that this lone woman may realize tha
III what appears in America to be
"mere boy may actually turn out
p be the oldest kind of a person, full
guile, who plays the fool in buyin
u diamonds for an actress while in hi
heart there turks wicked designs upo
- her peace OF mind.
The woods are full of then
and as an elderly person who hates
We see such innocence placed in a
awkward position, we go out of I'll
d. broken path and implore this woman
'h who has such child-like faith in
'mere boy of .wenty-three, to con
II pei him to keep on his side of the Gu
ter, and not, under any circumstance
o. to allow herself to drive the hors
while he puts his arm around her sea
NJ skin cloak to get his hands warn
Freddy is bold, bad man, and v
III would bet on it. He would admit
himself, privately, we have no dout
nf ll a.