Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-20
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD
Abundance Of Instruction But Deyel-
ops Inconsistency and Ignorance
OF Practical Life.
Crises Wherein Crock and Higher Ma,he.
matios Fan TO Solve important
Domestic Troubles.
Gail Hamilton.

Site had been amply and duly fore
warned. She had read about herself till
II might all seem that, whatever solid
virtue she should attain unto, all sweet
spontanicty would he Impossible. Not a
quarterly reviewer, not monthly maya
zlntst, not weekly religious and family
newspaper, scarcely daily morn
ing reporter, but had tried
HIS hand at her education, her
development, her weaknesses, her cos.
tuning. From a thousand sources she
knew the risk she run Ia loving fine
clothes, and yachting, and crlnkled hair,
and the Episcopal church. But she went
gaily on crlnkllng her hair and re,ding
her prayers, She knew--for she had pe
rused 1t hundred times-that she ought
to stay at home aud knead bread, and
sweep the house, and make IL pleasant
for her brothers, instead Of
which she went to school her
self, studied Greek aud the higher mathe-
mates, and graduated Just like boy.
Even that did her no good. She had
learned her anatomy pretty well-iust
how many bones she had; where thev
were single aud where they were double,
whore they were Joined with a ball and
socket and where they were Joined with
hinges what they were expected TO do
and what Won be the terrible copse.
quences II they were compressed. Yet
she laced them In Just as yipor-
ouSy and relentlessly as had
her grandmothcrs before her
VINO mad never bone on their CON
sciences, and lied about It Just as inno-
g ntly, feiteratedly, and unconvincingly,
Nay with all the abstruse metaphysics
ana mathematics and all the concrete
science and languages which she had. ss
u were, taken aboard, she danced alonp
her butterfly life, loving her dance and
her buttefilydom no less for her DAINTY
dalllance with science, for which. in truib
she never possessed grand passion. and
only wished she could be more OF n hut.
teriiy than fate had permitted. So need.
less is all anxiety lest by any tortuons
process Whatever, a sow's ear can evolve
itself out Of SILK purse
And then, OF course, TO point the moral
she made foolish marriage. Reared mot
only with refined tastes--whlch IL de.
siraSle--but with expensive tastes
which Is unlucky-she must needs faIl in
love with young man similarly reared
VINO had correspondlngly fallen in love
with her banged and blooming face win
neI iight Ieet, her ready laugh, her merry
yoice--a young man who had no fortnne
10 maintain her In the Gowery
paths she loved, who rad notbirg
TO help himself with but his frasS
young. manhood, unassolled, trained nv
good education, good blood N hIs |
veins, good principles in his viii GOOD
habits behind him, and stout heert for
what should lie before. While M NOV
city lasted the glamour lasted ana ~.
heavens smiled, but when The a,ress ~
me began when a new little soul looked
nelpless ana unknowlng into their own
she knewi both knew, that the relgn -,
sne butterfly was over. The Young man
must iare forth for bread the wide world |
oHSf' lhen arose the young woman |
s,l! no longer, but the youthful mother |
W sao period, with her child ia her arms
ana Jared forth by his side. ~ - '"'
naturally all their klth and kin aockod |
70 oiu them God-speed on their fstefni
Journey Grsndiathers and grAndmothers
uneles aunts, aud cousins Of far degres
s snatuered along the line Of the Grand /
lIunk That was 10 carry them away Rsch
smallest railroad station sent nm H.
quota, full Of tenderness and cheer snS
semoraliring sorrow, over tho thraa
osoes going out alone TO seek their a.
tune aud be lost in the wild wood, onlg