Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17

Send your card on the wedding lay.
young Naval Officer asks: ssAmI expected
to wear my uniform at private parties2 It Is very
| stiff and uncomfortable.
No; an army or naval officer must wear
his uniform on state occasions or visit
10 his chief, to weddings and TO fancy
balls, hut he is allowed the freedom of
! plain clothes on all other occasions. 1t
might be whispered in his ear that he
looks much better in uniform than he
does in plain clothes, however.
1t is q great drawback to the brillianey
/ of American streets and American par
/ ties that all the men are in solemn black
The beauty and popularity of fancy balls
4 is therefore keenly appreciated by all
lovers of color and costume. IN Europe,
4 where at every ball, even in So
Der England, are seen men in
uniform, in costume and with or
! ders and ribbons, the effect is very much
! handsomer. Every street in a foreign
city is enameled with costumes. The
! Turks the Persians, the Tunisians walk
| about Paris and London III their gay
! dress; the brilliant scarlet OF the guards
! and common soldiers lights up the city of
| the Thames, and in Rome the soldiers,
! ecclesiasticS and occasional visitors from
! foreign chimes make the narrow COrso or
the bridge of st. Angelo brilliant; while
our streets are innocent of any such en-
Enlistment. In Spain the drivers of
carts and of donkeys are handsome in
their gay rags, while the passing matador
is superb, Nowhere but in America are
all men somber; so we advise the young
naval officer to wear his uniform when
ever he can.
matilda writes 81 have lately returned
from Europe and l wore a head dress of gold
bought in Rome at party in London; heard
afterward that was severely criticised as having
worn coronet Now have l a right to wear
coronet if please?''
No, women going abroad should be
very careful TO not assume the insignia
of rank The fondness which some
Americans have shown for the titles and
guided equipage of rank has caused them
to be laughed at, at home and abroad and
they tell Of one ecstatic young lady who
said that she loved to breath an air
which was thick with archdukes and
princes. These women are the toad
stools, even worse than mushrooms of
our best society. They are exceptions
and not the rule.
Maria Mclean asks for some advice
about dinner giving and accepting.
Dinner invitations should only be ac-
copied from those whose acquaintance
you wish to keep Some vulgar and ILL
bred persons have been known TO accept
Il dinner invitation and to cut and ignore
the kind entertainers ever afterward
This is the height of vulgarity. BE
careful to be punctual at the dinner
hour, to enter quietly without any form
ality, and if your hostess does not intro
duce you you enter into conversation with
the person next you. In England no one
is introduced, but everybody talks.
Fifteen minutes is all the time allowed
a tardy guest. More than that should
not be allowed the most distinguished
person.
The host can give his right arm or his
left as he pleases, to the lady whom he
escorts, it is generally the right arm, but
the other guests should notice and follow
his example, The host and hostess can
sit at either end of the table, or in the
middle, as they please, or mix them
selves up. A round table, now so much
the fashion, is used to obliterate any ne
cessity of a head and foot, but the
principal lady guest must sit at the right
hand of the host.
The lady of the house has meantime to
place the gentleman she desires to honor
on her left hand, but she should explain
why she does so.