Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-19

companions is dul-witted drudge.
A shadow poises lightly over my paper
"At 1t still" mocks the arch voice. "AnS
the envelope untouched"
She shakes out s slip of paper ths
whirls and drifts and settles, written sid,
uppermost, under my eyes. Il bears
Ms. PJyser's famous dogms:
"'m not deDyin' as wimmen are fools
God Almighty made 'em TO match tht
me5 I"
Pspilia perches herself on the corner q
The table, and takes up the discourse a
her prototype might daily with q honey
suckle tube "
"I'n not denying that women are vain
The trend Of our education, from 1assibe'
to bier, Is TO promote prettiness, and how
ara We TO cultivate thing II we belieVl
tnat we haven't got it? The anonymous
old Jingle tells US thst little girls are
mace of
Sugar and srice,
And everything ni:e,'
and young ladies OF
! Flowers and rings
And ali pretty thiogi.'
ave go on being sweet and nice and
making music wherever We go, and q
tinkling sound as we walk, with our
rings and bangles, and jet dinge-dan-
giles and being admired for our pretty
things and ways, until the dread
Of losing admiration makes US I'll
up crows feet with rice powder,
.nd shade 'ngles with lace, and trsin
false fronts and 'Thempson's waves
over wrinkles. Then we are hoWled
upon as artificial and ridiculous, and ad-
monished that we should have cultivated
solid qualities in our youth. The woman
who 'uever thiDks of her looks In her
loyalty to solid virtues; who cuts her
hair instead Of dressing It, because she
can save ten minutes g day from her
toilette by wesIing 'crop;' who stalks
abroad In all westhers In Abbrevia;ed
petticosts and common sense shoes, No.
6; who has practical feith IN loose, plsin
clothes and despises conventionslitles-
Eets left!
"ThAs ia not slang but gospel truth, for
| sitting In corner al Parties, and the lib
erty TO devo'e all her 'at home evenings
to serious literature, and never being
asked TO go any where even with SENSIBLE
men. There are such girls, young enough
to know better, and not bad Looking, IL
they knew how to set looks st their Irus
Value by becoming gowns. I have one IN
my eye now, s tall, rosy girl, more Bu
glish than American In physique. Fine
teeth, hne eyes, straight ss popla one
Of the Junoesque school, you know. Sac
went in al Vassar for the exact sciences
and physicsl culture; reads 40 novels ex.
cept, perhaps, Daniel Deronne' and
'Middlemsrcs.' and reslly ceDprehends
Browning wiihout Professor Corsop
snd foot-notes! Incredible, but true for
she says So, ana she would rather die
that peroetrate so much as an evasion
sees no difference In the coRplexioRs Of
lies. She would as soon lie, however, SIS
% wear a corset; outJ snnesSes Aanis
Jenness-mlller in the mstter of cloIhes.
Sac suspends everything, even her hose,
from the shoulders: wears kllg-EkirSe in
tue street under Wide iscksis, with 'rosn
20 let Ia reck sDG sleeves, snd blousss
at home With gathering ssrlRgs at tAs
waist. Her BIS sre round and Seft, win
broad brIrs; her gloves are dogskin,
two e's-, too zig; her skris shoH hsr
ankles and do net impede her free stride
In her ten mile walks There IL DO 81 20 ;
tation 10 all this. A more honest, great
hearted, modest, and loving woman never
oreathsd. Breathing Is aBosher fsol Sc
many inspirations per minate; deep,
slow, and long, with respirstlons ~
match. nner creature was never Asde
the laughing stock Of fools and wise peo-
pie alike. A supple, jaunty girl nigh,
CARRY OF even this 'reBsible' rig, but
Candida, being cut ous ON liberal scale,
aud never having worn stays, needs
thir ZACH belt, aud has broad hips from
which her hsnRiugs (she eschews 'drs-
perry slirk 20 her heels with not one re-
deeming thread Of crinoIine.
Snow, here is one genuine, rational
woman, earnest In her desire 10 act up To
the best lights Of The wtsest and humane
est civilization, self forgetiul, nerciful,
sweet-tempered, without spark Of van
lty, and guyi l, who know all the good
that Is in her, and abs lutely revere her,
mind, heart, and soul. was ashamed when
she joined me In church last Sunday, and
walked four or Ave blocks with me--peo-
pie stared so hard! II I hadn't been VAR,
wouldn't have cared; but did care
horribly Caudids enjoys intellectual
conversation, bat nobody braves invidi-
Gus criticism by talking to her at dinners
or receptions, except her hosts, who sp u
oeiZs for her, right and left, behind her
back, as Clever, and amiabie, and rich,
but so eccentric that DOUBTS ate felt .s to,
her sanity
"She Is ssner than you aud put to-
gether, yet failure and burlesque. A
lively interfusion Of vanity Is all she needs
to make her beauty aud belle. With
1t, she would study a,ness in costume
dread to be ouire, learn thst the q 81
c0mmendstion Of ONES self to those s1a
would please is through the eye-sspsc
ialy, slways, a1d In sll circumstances
whatsoever, Il the those be OF tbs
masculine gender
"I recollect-" with pensiye penitenc<
that is Misunderstanding fun OF m.p
when was crest desl younger" (she is
just twenty-6n,), ''iof s.yiUg inst be
believed most of his Sex were eDdasd
~ b lsudable degree OF vanity S,pcs-
have knswn C.ndIds, L have lesrned tbs,
moderate degrse OF colceit-vanity-
self-esteen-calI 1t what you like, Ia >
woman, Is lAudable and indispensable
Toe 8 sdow of the bersJed bead and
6usterihg hands passes from my Ms
Is the butterfly more reasonable than
dress-refoImers, more practical 10 her
day (Which is now and her generation
(Which is ours) than Dio Lewis and toe
honorable counselors. Isy and licensed,
whose sermons on "Vanitss Vsniteiu1'l
: raw all their Illustrations from, PspillYs
classI Il
Very slowly ffs my pen; very soserlya
I write title .ut tentative subtitle: -
ARE WOMEN YANi