Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17

last, and most bounteously, for
much exercise had given her an
appetite. Yet she was capricious,
and kept half q dozen rivsli admirers
''pIeasuring her dainty whim." It was .
pretty sight. Said this artless little
egotist, to one Of her departing guests
dsnce-leving English girl, who had not
danced-"I hope you have had real ele-
CANT time have"
When the English mother gives the
signal for home-going from the ball or
garden-party, the daughters depart
cheerfull', IS do the young SOM
from the race or cricket ground
at the word Of "the governor"
for In most English households, as in
nearly all French and italian, parents
supremacy is still preserved intact, and
that solidarity Of the family which we
seem to be giving the go-Sy to with other
old fogy ideas. After some recent OBJ
Iservstions, am really inclined to fear
that there is taking place in many Amer
lean homes, not only decliEe in old
fashioned domesticity, bat certain dis
Indignation OF the family as q federated
body. In Eany houses as soon as the
children escape from the nursery
and they break jail very esrly-they scat
ter in all directions morally-stsrt each
on an independent way Of thinking and
living; go fast and far, as though in fear
of being csptared and remanded to the
third story back rooms and the custody
of the govefness. Rotel and boarding
house life, with its excitement and gre
gariousness, must be fatal to the true do
nestle dulee domum sentiment. Modern
children thus reared can care aittle more
for their home than modern chickens for
their incubator.
have described the ways Of English
girls toward their guests, and the aid and
comfort they are to their mothers "on
hospitable cares intent" As 1t is, "En-
glish you know" [ wonder our girls do
not initiate this virtue and this grace. At
the receptions Of g certain brilliant and
smiable lady Of society, the pretty and
accomplished daughters of the house
seldom appear, or, II they do so honor
mamma and mammals friends, they are
likely to disappear suddenly and uncer-
enormously, going cut to some other en-
tertainment. or calmly going to bed, to
secure for the sake of their delicate COM
plexion good "beauty Sleep" leaving 8
crowd OF people on mammals hands. Hap
PLY that clever lady is equal to them.
l remem ;er the receptions Of another
brilliant American lady at which gay
and attractive young daughter always ap-
pesred in dazzling toilet, bat chose only
to entertain one class of g1ests-young
gentleu en-. These she soon gatherea
about her, and held little side-court in
8 boudoir-like paFlor, q ecu ct which 1t
seemed tacitly understood, "No ladies
need apply" for none, however, young or
fair, frtquented it, yet from which con-
tinGouslS rang laughter, not always
light or musical. When the
time for breaking up arrived, the young
lady snilingly came forth, saying adieu
to her friends, bliesfully unconscious OF
having ia her eagerness to secure E'good |
time" for herself been guilty of discour.
tesy-lsid herself open to the vague but |
awful imputation of "bad FORM"
Such "tricks and manners" would seem |
to indicate both want of good breeding |
and good feeling, but in the instances 1 |
have given, occurring in households OF re- |
tinement and culture, would hardly char
acterize them so hGrshly. They come,
however, from lack Of strict, conscien-
tious domestic training, and from an
'xaggerEtion of the American principle of
personal independence-the right to in
iulge in individual tastes, proclivities
Ind csprices at whatever cost to the feel
ugs OF others. This sort of moral self
indulgence soon becomes q habit in the
7oung uncOnsciously overriding social
amenities, and even ones own duties AMI
responsibilities, for
Evil is wrought by want Of thought,
AS well as want Of heart.
To sum up: II the American could get
rom tho English girl little more of the
home sentiment, q little
Iuickening Of the sense of duties-flisl
md sociEl-something of her reserve, her
considerable way OF think
ng, and great deal of her accurate,
way of speaking, her enjoy
nent Of simple pleasures, her love Of
outdoor sports and exercise, and II the
English could obtain from the American {
!irl little more viVacitY and style, inde-
and self-dependence, grester
lower of adaptation, broader, less insular i
IDEAS, better knowledge Of the geog-
Apply Of the western hemisphere, and OF
he whole sphere Of woman, why, there
you'd be gaia all around--sn interns-
GR&cE GREENWOOD.
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