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

blessed with reason. ble amount of In
telligence, has thrown away he life II
her experience Is vAlueless to girl Of
twenty. II
At forty man suspects himself fool,
Knows Is at fifty, and reforms his plan.
tits no insult Eto one of the other sex
who has not told OF half as msny years to
ADMIT that foolish things may be said
and done In company of fifty oEktFo
hundred young men and women II len 10
themselves.
81 didn't feel respectsblel" WAS the
report OF girl who, for the first and
only time in her life, WAS 'caught," to
use her phraseology, at one Of those un-
chsperoned entertainments, because
she CHANGED to be spending some
days with the family who gave 1t.
, HThere wss not asEemen over thirty
years Of age In the roam, aud the aim Of
theleldest being to reosayess mach atten-
ton as the youngest, the affair came
alArminely near degenerateag into rofnp.
1 understand now why big dseeing parties
used to be known as 'routs 'a
"I wonder why Mrs. A was 50 par
ticulsr in asking il there was to be CRAP
erone in each sic gh2" said one girl to
smother as gay party stood on tke snow
one moonlight night awaiting the t1nlng
of two four horse sleighs.
"Oh, that is one Of ner foreign faasi"
II joined the other. "When she heard
there would be but one mstron for me
whole party OF US, she stipulated that her
girls should go in the same conveyance
with her. Isuppose she cannot trust them
without an oyerseer. I shall make 1t
point to go with the unauthorized mob!"
Sac kept her resolution, and the mob
asser ed their right to the name by rae
ing, hurrahing, singing, drinking and
comic songs while passing through town
and village streets, driving upon drifts to
give, the escorts an excuse for holding the
girls in their seate, and other pleasant
OF the party sfterWard made humble apol-
ogy to chsperone and mothers.
'Tt was disgraceful," they confessed,
unworthy of well bred mill hands, not
10 say Of those who call themselves gen.
tlemen and ladies'. But put twenty-four
young men and women il q sleigh behind
lively team, when the moon Is at the
full, and the air is exhilsratipg as iced
brandy and Water-And what can you ex-
pect?"
While We are receiving testimony from
those most interested in this matter (and
it is all an hentic), let us hear another
girl, bright, fond of fun and talk, and al
ways sure Of eligible partners wherever
she goes.
"If attend a reception or ball without
my mother, lie awake after getting
home, reviewing what have said and
done that night, lest may have been
guilty of some absurdity or indiecretion.
II mamma Is in the room / am entirely at
ease. Should nv spieits carry ne too
far should know 1t at once from her
eyes. She acts as safegeard, balance
wheel, you know, and Is, oh, such COM
fort!"
The same comforting influence per-
yades the mothers own drawing room
when she helps receive and entertain her
daughter visitors. It is bad sign il q
young man "does not care to call at a
house because the old lady is never out
Of sight," and pleasing Indication OF the
heslthfulness OF the friendly association
on both sexes, when the home mother Is
appealed to as benign erbiter, q core
spondent In whstever interests "Ghe chill
dren and their friends"
Young girls in good society, especially
in citles, no longer take country and park
drives en- tete-a-tete with young men to
whom they are not betrothed or related
by blood. Our grandmsthers saw no
shadow OF improperly in the practice or
in the acceptance on the part of q young
unmarried woman of the escort of q
bachelor near her own age for journey
by laud or water. This last action IN the
girl Of to-day would be severely criticised
unless, again, there Is an acknowledged
engagement Of marriage between the
two, and even then too much circum-
spection cannot be exercised by the
betrothed pair, az the records of privately
circulated newspaper scandals prove.
In the very feArlessness of her purity
our girl Is prone to give occasion for
to the enemies of Whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are OF good
report"
Il is sharp and sad lesson that makes
her to know, for tall sf.er life, that the
good does not always look good, that
fairness may be made to seem foul If OPP
portunity and ill-will serve one another
in the devilish work. For her own sweet
sake prudent custom provides her with
watch and ward. Not-let her lay to her |
hurt delicscy this balm-not that
we fear lest she will come to
wrong, but because nature
and humanity cry out against the sp-
proach of evil that may overshadow her
spotless fame. Men guard most jeal- |
ously that which is most precious, most |
pure, most passionately beloved. 1t is
the right Of women-as women-to be |
kept clear Of the fogs Of malign gossip, |
the mud Of SANDER, of whatsoever will
injure her in the regard Of true manhood
or-sDd this yet graver evil-detract |
from her seli-respect. This right and the |
discrimination to maintain is lie at the |
base Of most Of what appear, to unframed |
eyes, rigorous and needless regulations. |
To make ones self conspicuous by |
open contempt of conventional and, in |
the msin, wholesome social laws Is the |
first degree of the descending scale. To
be "fast," "loud," "high," "hy" Chow !
msny synonyms our national slang die
tionAry offers for the next slide y, is so
nearly and SO dangerously sllied to culp-
able iDdiscretion that the slander-mon-
gers, belonging as they do to the ''im-
pressionist school," seldom pause to
discriminate between them. They nevor
halt to distingafsh actual imprudence
from poslttse-hnd emediless-infamy.
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