Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-24

the girl expressed her keen admiration
of gems, not as helps to personal adorn-
ment, but as examples of an art she
would like to study. Mrs. Morgan sent
to the bank where her more costly jewels
were In safe keeping. When the casket
was brought she spent a long time with
the girl whose eageruess was 80 far
above vanity, or envy, or covetousness
and whose delight SO unequivocsl were
in themselves Il study. Her enthusiasm
and her intelligence were so great that
the practice of the lapidary's art was
the dearest wish of her heart. When
the girl left Mrs. Morgan service she
entered upon a course of study and
training pointing toward fulhllment OF
her most ardent wishes.
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Now that the hustle Is likely to make
Its appearance again, after protracted
retirement, it may pot be out of place to
give a glance at the pedigree of this
strange article of dress. 1t Is literally
as old as the hills, and, although Carl
caturists here ridiculed 1t, satirists lam
pooned it, theologlans Numbered at it
and Lawmakers Suppressed it by statu-
tory enactment, yet it still lives, and
will live SO long as women. exist on the
ldSo VI buis pituCL III luo uhgS Vi ESFl-
cles and Aapasla the Athenian women
built out their hips by some sort of
hustle, and this fashion must have been
kept alive during the dark ages, for With
the Renaissance came the vertugade
from Spain-a sort of pad which
served TO puff out the skirt. In a very
short time this primitive hustle was sup
planted by the farthineale or hooper
npff ia
sued an edict against farthingale, al
though he owed his life TO one, for dur
ing the massacre OF st. Bartholomew,
when the assassins entered the place he
hid under his wife's hooped petticoat.
In 1919 an eminent French woman was
cited to appear in court and answer for
her contempt. She did so, apparent
ly, wearing the offensive hustle
and glorying in her own audacity.
But fancy the feeling of the judge when
Informed by the accused that her lips
and circumambient rotundity were all
her own. They took her word for it,
and discharged the fair prisoner. In
IT'S it was bigger than ever. and took
the name OF 'pauier,' or basket. This
was the grandmother of our wooden
crinoline. In order to accommodate the
queen, Cardinal Fleury ordered that
seat should always be left vacant each
eide of her. Before the advent of the
panier. actresses had been accustomed
to wear short skirt, reaching only to
the knee made of coarse stiffened linen,
but the cracking noise was so great
that they were abandoned. But let our
anxious male friends take heart. While
1t is true that the hustle is coming back
again, next ason IL will be modest
retiring little hustle, and 1t will not of
fend the most fastidious.
a girl had fallen off the roof of
tenement in Sullivan street. The Clan
Gays, Coughlins, McNamaras, Sweitel-
helms and Gordleonls, while standing in
their doorways TO catch the stray breeze
of the broiiing night. had been surprised,
at the sight of large dark figure coming
down from above and striking with
substantial thud in the gutter. When
the crowd had assembled it was found
that the young woman that had made
the swift descent had fallen upon a heap
of hay that had been pitched out of Mr..
McCafferty' e truck stable, 1t having been
useless either IS fodder or bedding, ow-
ing to the prickly burrs that were min
gled with it. When they turned the girl
over so that her pretty face was exposed
to the moon, Michael McNamara, who