Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29
not ENOUGH YOUNG MEN,
Bus New York Girls arc Quite Equal to tho
Emergency.

Bus New York Girls are Quite Equal to the
Emergency.
New York Letter to Hartford Courant.
This Is not the time to tell about 1t, ex-
cepi there is no time like the present, but
perhaps outsiders scarcely realize the
sort Of struggle and fight that goes on In
society for the necessary number of gal
lants to render young girls life endure
BILE at balls and parties. There seems to
be redundancy of nice girls, and-it
is humilisting to acknowledge it-not
enough of the other sex to 60 comiorta-
bly, around. will let you into some OF
the secrets of it all by describing leap
year german that was lately held st Del
monico's, in which the msidens assumed
the role of men, and as far as possible,
acted out their characters.
Have the following from flower OF
the innermost circle. She says: 81 de-
termined to show the whole set just what
1 had suffered. 1 began with young
man with whom did not care to dance,
so after one turn remarked in my char
acter of blase New Yorker: BEG pardon.
Miss -, but isn't you balayeuse torn2'
mo, indeed said he ii e. ,she) briskly, sus-
pecting something, mo indeed, 1t only
LSCQS o plus out, cAClaluSuf oueA -
pity to ruin lovely gown likeo and I
hustled him e to the dressing room, IS I
had in my day been hustled, and left him
there, while 1 went of to dance with
another girl. He could not stir; he had
lost his chaperon, and he had no escort.
with whom to appear in the ball room.
"Then 1 wandered over to the other
scion OF noble house, and signing deeply,
said: "Will you sit in the conservs>-
toryY" Having got him there l leaned
over him and remarked with q gloom,
"What thing it is to be in such 5eastly
hole as / ana clerk down town In my
fathers office, with $1,000 year to live
on. How can 1 ask any girl brought up
in luxurious house to exchange
it for my lot? Women, too
are so exir.vagent nowadays. On,
couldn't-I wouldn't-dare ask one Of
them, whstever my feelings must be. L
must-I will be SILENT And then 1 led
him back into the ballroom ,nd took my
mournful eyes and piteous story to the
next make-believe girl, but he, to my
surprise, spoke up Immediately, all the
words jumbled together, as l tell you:
'Oh, no, don't be silent. Why, girl
to every luxury would not
in the least mind resigning 1t al to-
become the wife of man she
really loved and going with him to New
Rochelle or Brooklyn or even Jersey, she
would willingly, gladly wear her old
clothes and go to cooking school and be
perfectly contented with the 81 800, which
would be quite enough, especially il one
went to Europe every summer and bougns
ones things over there. 1 acknowledge
I was quite taken sbsck st that, for-we
do, I suppose, sometimes say something
like it."
/ will add the blight speech OF another
girl, and then cease telling secrets. me
same evening, having goae back to their
original characters, 8 young gentleman
in rather q conceited manner having MADE
the old confession that he was much IN
love, but WAS not possessed OF large
enough income to marry, received tne
reply: 40, that makes no difference, Tor
il is not so much wages am looking for
ss the advantages Of . respectable ana
comfortable home"