Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-19
WOMEN AS C0MPBNIONs.
Men VIII BE rhsir Lovers bat Not Their
g. Friends,
J. 81. Browne In Cosmopolitan.


e. Friends.
J. Il. Browne in Cosmopolitan.
It would seem sometimes as IL mer
avoided women when not iervidly IL
love with them. Is 1t only kindlet
Imagination and tumultuous blood
that renders them attractive, snt
hold the two for the time, TO-
gether? Is it IN msn's tranquil hours
in his perfect sanity, that woman loses
her chief alluremeni2 Is she least loved
while loysliest7 Do the senses override
mind and spirit, and do these pail wher
those are satisfied?
II is notorious that bopS who sppesr
bar5arous because natural, actively dis
like girls, and cannot be coaxed into
their company. They cherish no more
respect than they hold etfection for them
Although they consider them totally in.
ferior, they feel no pity for them, merely
undisguised contempt.
A tiny creature of four or FIVE, II called
q girl-boy, will flush with anger and strike
his defamers 1t is . mortal sfront that
masculine babyhood resents. To see q
girl sometimes trying to win the good
will OF a group Of half-groWn boys, to any
one Of whom she is queen, is positively
touching. She msy appeal TO them for
the poor privilege Of sharing their society
with an eloquence and tenderness that
might move hyena; but they will drive
her radely away with brutality that
marks their age and sex.
Like M. Bourget, sometimes consult
great dressmakers on the rsison d'etre Of
sumptusTy fencies. One Of them, in re-
plying to me anent the hustle, said in
substance: at had its origin away back,
seven or eight years ago, at the Thester
du Chstelet, when 'Les Mile ct une
Nuts was oni there. There were
in that extravaganza two processes
whom an old witch had metamorphosed
into s pair of turkeys. When re-
transformed into their original forms
they retained some Of the turkey nature,
which most showed itself in their
bustles. The Princess Blen- Trnffse
was SO comically delicious as to soften
the heart Of an ill-tempered mysogYnist
Sultan, and get him to dismiss the
rest of his sersglio. The Princess
Belie-a.voir Tivalled with her In
the pretty drollery of her get up. The
immediate consequence WAS struggle
between the tailor made style OF cor
sage, which moulded the whole gable,
and the Bien-Trufiee or Belle-a-your-
tournure. Both were given fair trials,
and after long fight, in which there
were victories won and defeats sustained
on both sides, the large and &C.
centric hustle has conquered" You
see," continued my priest of fashion, in
answer to another question, "the hustle
attention and, If smsrtly got up,
amuses the eye. 1 will even say that it
creates prejudice in favor of the wearer,
by putting persons Of the other eek in
good humor with her. One wishes to
see her face, and, If it is st all nice-look-
ing, 1t makes conquest. In these
times, we like amuse-
ment rather than high @3thetics, and the
who amuses most carries away
the greatest number of admirers. En-
glish beauties don't understand this. The |
French and the American ones do, and |
renee the success Of Paris actresses ard |
\ ew York bellies, and still more OF Amer |
an misses from the western States"