Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-08

BEFORE reaching this favored island IL
was nv luck to spend days at hosiery
of another sort, close to a huge summer
garden, the daily resort of shoals OF eX-
cursonists I stayed because not strong
enough to get further, but the study OF
the average American society fascinated
bv its hideOUsness, DIS long as one couid5
not get away from it. such enrelleVees
yulgaritv en- masse, 1 never saw befores
Money seemed plenty, the people Were
welI-to-do small manufacturers and bust-
ness men with their families, On
the inevitable ''yOung TelloW&
and his "girl - who might be
wife or sweetheart The women dressed
well enough, with abundance of cheap I
bracelets and Rhine stones, eardrops,
good deal of lit and mOire, and common
embroidery. There had been money
enough spent on them evidently, and l
have seen women far worse inexpensive
" dressed who look pretty as pinks and
bluets, but these women could not hit
their own style at all. Their gowns had
the look of
READY MADE THINGS,
of being manufactured from unsalaDIe
remnants, and ratified for. The dresses
were trying. but endurable compared 10
the manners which went with them.
Talk Of insular English manner! 1t is as
gelatine to ice beside the isolation the
would be genteel American feels bound
to preserve. Seven days did five pairs OF
people sit down at the same table, IN
house where they could not help running
against each other at every turn, ana
three times dav they sat down in SOL
emn silence, without so much as bend
of the head in acknowledgment Of the
e. n
little to say to each other. l never was
afraid of talking to anybody, and felt
the truth of HamestOn S opinion that we
lose the best flavor of life by neglecting
these wayside exchanges of speech. But
in Rome do as the Romans, and held
nv tongue sacredly, to see how long the
state OF things would last. 1t petrlhed,
instead of dissoIving. This IS TAR re-
mort of the conversation between the
couples, husband and wife:
''What have they got for breakfast?
''Same old thing.
uCawd, mackerel, beefsteak, ham n
eggs. [ wish they'd have gTiddle cakes
every morning; / like griddle cakes,
and they lapsed into silence.
Between the parties st the next table
who were ueighbOTs from the same town,
hilaritv reigned The first words OF con-
| versation left to gentlemen always were:
Glow are the BOstO1s?
Oh, the sweets of Intercourse depend
! ing on ''What's the score? Thirteen to
! three, close thing. New Works am
| in if. are thew If the human race are
| limited to exchanging ideas on two or
! three topics solely, one prefers the
! weather to the national game. Happily +,
! listening informs me that baseball comes
! to an end some time in September. The
| afflicted majority who do not take the
! slightest interest in professional games,
| feel as if the torture lasted thirteen
| months to the year.
There were varieties to the perform
ance. When the child was down to
| breakfast early enough, there was lond
| dust between a nine-year-Old girl ana
! her fond mother, as TO what the young
| head of the family would have to eat,
| which, from its clamOr, took the lead OF
| conversation in the dining room. What
| ever the topic, it was sure to be punctu-
| ated by the high, shrill tones Of the Ju-
| veniIe. Did one mention San Francisco
| ssI've been there;' for the benefit OF
the public, "Say, Mr.. -, I've been
| there ), Some one shows q stereoscOpe
view at the Paris exposition. The pipes
| s+rucll M: ~ was to the centennial
I
| hilton. but l WASH t. - Happy New
! Orleans? Again, one mentions Rye
Beach. 1--WE got an aunt lives at Rye
Say, mamma, haven't !? You said
had" IN ringing tones, which put
a stop to everything else fol-
the time. These terrible under
bred children are the destruction
of the public peace wherever thew in
trude, and their fond parents smile un-
| conscious of the nuisance their offspring
make of themselves. The more disagree
able the child, the more Obtruse the par
| emf rightly it should be the other way
The old rue that children should be seer
and not heard might be posted in public
Dlaces to advantage: 1t isn't at al
necessary for people to be high toned
as this class phrase it, or even educated
| The,bithiest talk, and best entertainment
WILDE found from some man or woman o.
j native intelligence and observation whose
good manners are the result OF earl!
training in some oId-fashioned. clear
{.feaded household. AS rule the Old
Fashioned people dress IN Dette
taste and their manner /
far ahead of the pretentiou
Younger sort. But, oh, dear Americans
whatever do you in tse'way of improy
ing your manners, begin. by dropping
abuse of your faresat hot63S or boarding
l house. If it doesn't suit @Sou are no
Obliged to stay or if you are, few word
with the proprietor gay mend the mat
ter; words you are toe cowaFdIE to speai
Z In the, right place. Slut to-shear weI
dressed brntes growing o9sratheir foo
and finding fault with it, gives an i'm
preston of the lowest depths of society
It is a degree worse than that othe
travelling inflfction, the woman who SET
herself to be studiousIy aggravatingly
model of cheerfulness under all ciroum
| stances. l have fallen in with. her e
l route two or three times and would will
iuglv change my tickets to avoid he
. company again.
+ AN INFLICTION OF CHEERFULNEss.
+ She has read somewhere injunction
! | IS TO the beauty of cheerfulness, an
seeing things in q sunshiulng light, an
! | studies to illustrate it in her proper pei
! son. On a sound boat, Of a, SultT
night. in a ladies cabin crowded wit
: wan. tired women, for whom there
. not a stateroom left, too weak and di;
p consulate to speak, this spirit of cheer
Ito rln2