Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-20


10 hide away from the common eye,
The fact that your bread and butter stays
In your dosK that you bake and boil and fry
In n single dish IL means 70 try
10 hang your garments, the best you wear,
In a folding bed, that last despair
OF honest souls and, bittereet blow
u means n Mtchcny pariOr air.
| speak of the things whereof know
Itmcaps to shrink meath lno stern amaze
OF the lordly butchers aud bakers eyci
Apologlzmg In meek dspraisc
For Your modest wants. TO serve or sign
over the pangs Of the bopghton pie.
'ris to pray o strong, heaven reaching prayer
For the meal a man pr0nounces square,
And 10 he once more In life below
Free from that peace destroying snare
speak Of the things WHEREOF J know
We who nre tempted this life TO share,
Pause ere you enter the tigers lnir
Consider the truth iain would show
For with hand on heart firmly swear,
/ speak Of the things whereof know
~ could have written 1t myself
sighed Miss Wharton.
All you were married, Frances, all this
nonsense would come to an end, said
Mrs. Arnold severely"
"On the contrary, John has three
properties TO my one, aud ] am worn out
with busting them. think OF making q
bonfire OF all Of them in the back yard,
and beginning again on a different basis.
| didn't mind, abroad, In fact, every
thing Is so well done for you there that
you have no reason 10 mind. Life alto.
gethor IS on simpler plan. But here
rents are 80 high--ovcrythin costs SO
much, that to be comfortable Is impossi-
bic. We can't have but one room, and
so that must be made attractive for posi-
bic patrons, aud we live as we can, sacri-
feed 90 drapcry and bric-a-brac, and"
"Abominablo nonsense altogether
broke Ia voice from the door, which had
opened noisulcssly aud showed the dark
face and laughing eyes of their opposite
ucighbor. "Hm glad to hear a statement
Of your real mind Frances, and propose
TO have 10 out with you for not having
IL before I'm philistlne always was
At the bottom OF my soul Is ntrenchcd an
enormous revolt against this bondage to
effect. like a bcd-G bed with pillows
aud sheets and things apparent and not
suppressed"
al dote on one" said the partner sym
pathcticaly.
"rhat turn up thing in the recess there
that makes believe II Is mantelpicCe is
a fraud and an abOminatlon," pursued the
Young man, waving her into silence. at
smells like furniture shop, and an old
clothes deOlcr's when IL Is let down. |
know, for mine does and the pair are Il
pair; rs alike as two peas, It's democrat
iaing even to own one. ! am deterorat-
ing feel II, and it's all because of ar
tistiC effects My room is big enough. |
propose to buy mammoth screen. You
shall paint one panel, Francos--you an
other, Marjory, and so on; screen made
up, you see, Of the most touching sug-
gcstiOns, behind which there shall he u
Christian bed, and some Of the privileges
OF civilization. I've slept on that knobby
lounge of mine till every inch of me re-
volts, Francesca
"Wcll,' Miss Wharton said, after Il mo-
ment OF waiting.
'You sec, | am beginning to think
seriously
"Iour remarks indicate it," said the
partner 81 am glad you arc reused to
the gravity Of the situation.n
"By George, girls, you don't realize
that all OF us--not we three alone, but our
whole tribc-arc running effects into the
ground. II is Frances am thinking Of.
She Is shadow, llecting show She has
no color left. There's got to be Il com
blnatlon somehow for making things
easier for women in this city, which cares
for nothing but effects. I've priced the
new studios. They're made TO i've in.
You don't have to keep your coal in an
antique chest, or your groceries under n
diyan. Frances, IL is little promis-
cuous, but don't care, Mrs. Arnold, /
take you to witness. We are to be mar
ricd one week from tomorrow, and the
parson shall have the mantcipiecc bed for
a. 90.