Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-19
TIE BUSTLE.

How All Paris Is Disturbed Aba ut The Sub
ject of the DIR, IS Inprover.
Mrs, CraWford's Letter 10 London Truth.
Bustles are running into all sorts OF
whimsical developments, and after SEEM
ing to decrease ere more sggressively
prominent than ever. 1 expect to read
in the pious journals s msndement
sgainst them by the Archbishop of
Prris. How is it possible TO
attend seriously to ones deVotions at, say
the Madeleine. when ore sees on the
prize Dieu chair before one dorsal fanta-
sias thrust into notice by obtrusive bus
tles1 AS nothiDgs cow sacred, the most
novel tournure ID named as recommen-
dation for Lent wear, Ia tournure aux
allies DANCE. In its profile outline the
part of the skirt which is made to
adapt itself to this contrivance resembles
the wings given by'painters snd sculptors
10 iull-groWn angels, with this difference,
that instead OF sprouting from shoulder.
blades, they shoot ont from below the
waist. It is impossible to think seriously
of anything in heaven above or on
earth be meath when one sees hustle SO
provokingly nonsens Icsl-and piquant.
Most men furtively laugh and grid st
those who are addicted to feminine socie
ty; who find solid satisfaction in it; who
are courageous enough to avow their ap-
probation Of its benefits. They are wont
| to speak Of them in the disdsinful way
that urchiDs speak OF girl-boys; to deride
them as effeminate, Weak-minded, dan
glers Of er pettieosts, Miss-Nanceyish.
One of their severest epithets, applied to
husband, is henpecked, which is
easily said, and more easily be-
lieved. Men who are not strong have q
terror OF the adjective sno actually cover
before it. They are so often afraid OF
meritipg the reproach that they 60 to the
| opposite extreme and become brutal,
which probably impresses Them as far
manlier. Dread Of ridicule has frequent
establishing companionship with their
wives, who were really compsnionable.
Far more husbands than bachelors are
members CT clubs, and those are the reg
uIar fri quenters. Some Of them, having
lovely wIvt and delightful homes, are to
be seen nightly in the reading rooms,
card rooms, bar-rooms, giving the
impression that they are jnnarmon-
1OuelY W6QQSQI but lucy oAO
not. They are representatives; they
fail or think they fai. to find companion
ship within their own walls, and lock for
it in what is ordinarily to cultured, re-
fined mind the dullest, dresriest place
in civilization. The fact that they take
refuge in 8 club denotes how deeply
bored they must be at home. and what
miserable company they must De to
themselves. -
Sentimental bachelors, seeing them
there, say: .tHow can they prefer this to
tna,a'' az should be so different In the
same circumstances" But, we're, the Sit
uation reversed, they wonld show the
same strange taste. They might be fond,
they might DC come enamored of the neg
lected wife; but reaction .Tould occur in
due time, and render companionship i'm
possible. Men cannot understand Fay it
should be SO in the case Of otherss But It
is clear enough in their own.
There would seem to, be some instiaeas
ton for the biting phrase current e the
clubs: lar
"Atter four or aySyssrs, mslss wife
Is the FULLEST coppspy In the we'd.
"To be IN love With wof14n is the
/, nearest approach q happiness, and to be