Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-11
| Shall We Interpret the Bells tor
Io o.. World of Shows in
~ tbe Great Metropolis
x,rnt Of Faust-Irvins Sets Lon
DON Asog in the Character
Of tiOethc's Devil
,e places Of worship -- Feed
''F poor-Christmas Disns-
,ers - Ireland's Hope

accommodated OF tho S'"e''.'
~ Dec. % CAS- the bell tlnGs,
lNpoSi 49,, T / like the French orig
POI tu'. nnoyerb best. On fat dicle
p tnc t .out ce ou'on vent. People
V .So bells say whatever they nave on
'D' II YOU have never trled i,t tnoin 40
~ smuse YOU. Dick Whiting
II ~ VIZ them say, "Turn again, whit
pau ,Srice lord mayor OF London
'o us' The widow in Rabelais, who CON
n the priest about marrying per
a.n,sn was told to consult the oelis'
4 iast knew she desired TO marry tue
~ ~ had had her husbands conn
WY The bells were rung ana the
~ haard them say, "Do take your
\ do take your man.. men sue , ,iau
W and her husband had beaten her,
ro ~ to the priest lie saio
~. have misunderstood the bells. lie
n"n ring again for her and she dis
Y av n"o I'd them saw, "Do not take him do
n III Nm In these "hard times"
a he bells will say pleasant things
and keep their promises, wnich
" hat wish you prosperous New
y I the popular Christmas card this
cnrious thing, printed ON brown
Nth "IIard Times" as It's motto.
,otinr over my collection, l hnd
<Snly people who have sent these
'%Sad Inventions to "me and mine"
n ,o,l.known rich mean people. In
4. tImesn mean people with money
"a tho eneral depression an excuse
Il ipg little more mean ana merceh-
ban usual.
STRANGE SHOWS.
don Il becoming more and more
how nlacen OF the empire. 1t is an
4 sIt gn If antiquities of itself, a city
I'M attractions; but civilization and
4 terprisiDg impresario are making a
x /, International exhibition of it. We
rowded with foreign shows. At
sngton we have the Japanese VII
81 The Acknowledged strangers are
familiar feature of West End attract
4 Ina thew declare they like London
',,t IN they do not mean to leave us.
Herring that the metropolis has been
81 or less in foggy darkness for
~. this liking for the English metrop-
yery fattering. 1t is true the "Ja-
Nlrlesr is under cover and lighted
Sas. and that the native inhabitants
I'm they can desire in food and cloth
01sd pocket money. They are indie
'.3.nt' therefore, of the climate and the
IN for existence which belongs to
k "A London. Then there IS an Indian
Elm the Albert palace, with native
&raftsmen at work, priests, women,
,en and all that appertains to their
An world. Opposite the Langham
Ws a similar kind of human hive. on
I'm scale, and this includes Indian
{trs, workers in gold and Il troupe OF
*h girls. The aquarium completes
HSarties Of strange tribes from Cen
}Nrica, and at the Opera Comique
Wsmpany of Parsee actors are
Ne dramas in their own Ian
MI These are only few Of the
s "Christmas aud New Years en-
ments" which are taxing the curl
Land pockets of citizens and visitors
Ing Day. the day after Christmas
i the peoples special time. 1t is
IN of sales and gifts and Christmas
: xenime. Christmas eve Is quiet
Hes are reunited and children enter
l at home Christmas day, as have
H4iOre, is your thanksgiving Day.
~ day following is the noisy period
WAndon revels. Drury Lane has
FSaid pantomine, Coyent Garden 0
itt Jus circus and several other theater'
merry with "Father Christmas
! Il spectacle par excellence is thu
n Nrgis night or Broken scene il
= at the Lyceum. 1t is the widest
Srrd and strangest thing ever seer
m f stage A world of specters, ghosts
III dominated by Mephistopheles, |
in the snow-capped heights of tn
mountalns and end with the Brock
X ass Of molten FIRE with a blazinl
'hlllng upon the inhuman GROVE
HH raises its withored arms in tn
ng lava and utters yells that vii
- fe forgotten. There is one paus
:. 2eyelry when Mephistopheles stand
n the darkness, a tall, red, CLEAN
- IRE, suggestive of ali the DEVILS
3the mind can conceive. Irving ha
many an impressive dramati
g never one more grimly fascinai
IN 4n this. 1t is the talk of London
ne rest OF the piece and the Maj
/ Ellen Terry are the delight O
=, society. Those who know Irving
NJ \. aud lago need not be told tina
= masterpieces is marvellous repre-
Pa OF the cruelty, cynlcism an
20 Goethe's devil.
THEY WERE ALL TIIERE.n
FIRST night OF "Faust" everybod
Nov that London paper
Ehls city what had done for yeai
merican journal, it has become
W OF intrigue to obtain seats for
An, premiere. The Pail Mall hi
I|II sketchy record of the audienC
- &st OF the prominent people VIII
fesent, besides pictures of Il
and tableaus. The chatty weel
e up the gossiping theme and I,
Me getting in London what Anne
naa ior so many years, a persons
OF The first night audiences. @
resent occasion the prime
flncess of Wales and Il
Louise and the marqu
le were present. The Prince
Is a clever artist. 81
lgated with the scenes al
- OF the stage. She look,
Nh sAe felt about them al
y She thought afterwards. Lor
-. M Londesborough were presen
- snlp i recovering from a gun a
nc Is nearly blind and had to
nd 70 congratulate the manag
- eyes baDdaged. Oscar Wilt
y cropped like draper's a
M Win his pretty wife. Sir A
uSan illtted about the stalls, te
friends that he did not like i
sFing had written for the ne
o. course he did not, b