Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-12


her experience is vsIueless to girl OF
twenty. II
At forty man suspects himself fool,
Knows It at fifty, and reforms his plan.
IL is no insult gto one Of the other sex
who has not told of half as many years to
scmit th.t foolish things may be ssid
and done in q company OF fifty or two
hundred young men and women il left to
themselves.
"I didn't feel respecta5le!" was the
report OF q girl who, for the first and
only time in her life, was "caught," to
use her pbraseology, at one OF those IN
chGperoned entertainments, because
she CHANGED to be spending some
DAYS with the family who gave IL.
"There YVES not woman over thirty
years of age IL the room, and the En- or
the eldest being TO receive sssaalch Attsn-
ton as the youngest, the SfssTsEame
slsrmiDgly near degenerstingisto f9Snp
understand now why big danc;fg psfssss
used to be known sc 'routs. u" si
81 wonder why Mrs. A was SO pa7-s
ticular in asking if there was to be chap
erone in each sic gn?" said one girl to-
another Gs gay pSfty stood on the snow
one moonlight night awaiting the coming
of two fOur-borse sleighs.
"Ol, that is one Of her foreign fsd5!"
reioined the other. "When she heard
there would be bat one mstron for the
whole party Of US, she stipulated that her
girls should go in the same conveyance
with her. Isuppose she cannot trust them
without. an ovsrseer. l shall make 1t q
point to go with the unauthorized mob!"
Sle kept her resolution, and the mob
Gsser ed their right TO the name by rae
ing, hurrshipg, singing, drinking snd
comic songs while passing through town
and village streets, driving upon drifts to
give the escorts an excuse for holding the
giIls in their sests, and other pleasant
eccentricities for which the soberer men
OF the party GfterWsrd made humble apol-
ogv to chaperole and mothers.
sit was disgrsceful," they confessed,
unworthy OF well bred mill hands, not
to say Of those who call themselves gen.
uemen and ladies. But put twenty-tour
young men and women in q sleigh behind
8 lively team, when the moon is at the
full, and the air is exhilarating as iced
brandy snd Wster-And what can you ex-
pect?"
While we are receiving testimony from
those most interested in this matter (.Hd
it Is all al hentic), let US hesr smother
girl, bright, fond OF fun and talk, and al
ways sure of eligible partners wherever
she goes.
"It attend q reception or ball without
my mother, lie awake after getting
home, reviewing what have said and
dope that night, lest 1 msy have been
guilty Of some absurdlty or irdiscretlon.
II mamma is in the room l am entirely at
ease. Should nv splits carry me too
fer | should know it OF once from her
eyes. She acts Is saiegeard, balance
wheel, you know, and is, oh, such COM
forti"
The same comforting influence per-
vades the mothers own drawing room
when she helps receive and entertain her
daughter visitors. Il is bad sign il
young man ''does not care TO call a.
house because the old lady is never out
Of sight, and pleasing Indication Of the
healthfuIness OF the friendly association
on 10th sexes, when the heme mother is
appealed to sc benign 0rbiter, q core
spondent in whStever interests Hthe chill
Gren and their friends"
Young girls IN good society, especially
in cities, no longer take country and park
drives en- tete-S-tete with young men TO
whom they are not betrothed or related
by blood. Oar gr4ndm5thers saw no
shadow OF improperly in the practice or
in the acceptance on the part Of O young
unmarried woman of the escort OF
bachelor near her own sge for s journey
BY land or water. This last action in the
girl of to-day would be severely criticised
unless, again, there ia an acknowledged
engagement Of marriage between the
two, and even then too much circum-
spection cannot be exercised by the
betrothed pSir, as the records of privately
circulated newspaper scandals prove.
In the very tearlessness OF her purity
our girl is prone to give occasion for
blLsphemy to the enemies Of Whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are Of good
report"
Isis sharp and sad Lesson thxt makes
her to know, for sall sfler life, that the
good does not always look good, that
fairness may be MADE TO seem foul If OPP
portunity sud ill-will serve one another
IN The deviiish Sork. For her own sweet
sake prudent custom provides her with
watch end wsrd. N3t-let her l&y TO her
hurt delicacy this bSlm-uos that
we fegr les: she will come to
Wrong, but because nature
sud Humanity cry out against the sp-
preach Of evil that may oyershadoW her
spotless fame. Men guard most jeal-
susly that which Is most precious, most
pure, post psssiopstely beloved. Il is
the right Of Women-as women-to be
keps clear Of the iogs OF msligu gossip,
J6e mud Of SANDER, CT whatsoever will
injlre her in the regard OF true manhood
ol-&Dd this i yet graver evil-dstract
from her self-respect. This right and the
discrimination to msictSln II lie at the
base Of most Of what sppeAr, to unframed
eyes, rigorous and needless regulations.
To make ones self conspicuous By
open contempt of conventional and, in
the main, wholesome social laws is the
first degree Of the descending scale. To
be "tAsl," cloud" high" "fy" Chow
many Synonyms odr RLtiouAl slang die
sioHary @ re for the next slide ,, is so |
nearly and SO dangerously allied To cup
able iudiscretion that the slauder-mon-
gers, belonging ss they do 10 the sim
pressiolist scnool," seldom pause to |
discriminate between them. They nevor
halt to distinguish actual imprudence
from positive-snd emedjless-iufamy.
- MARION HARLAND.