Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-22

! tHey the snort haireu, angular anu
spinsterfied company that prejudiced
person might expect. Many of them are
young, handsome and bewilderingly
charming, with their airs half saint and
two-thirds angel. IL must be so utterly
uice for man, who has the neuralgi
for instance, TO have Que of these dainty
other-world creatures pronounce their
shibboleth and then take a silent measure
of his psy chology; for be you six feet
two, with waist glrths in proportion,
they scoff at your physiology and are ut
terly blind TO your anatomy. 1t is re-
marked that as soon as wo-
man is enrolled among these
| prophets and teachers she
arrays herself in velvet and diamonds.
That of course makes the new cult very
attractive. But some of them are born
to the purple, and their unworldly max
inns and nun-like airs, contrasted with
their luxurious attire, are no less be-
witching than bewildering TO the unln-
| itialed. When such names, however, as
Mrs. Cyrus Field and Mrs. Pierrepont
Morgan are cited as disciples, the locker
on feels certain respect for them and
for il, though it be altogether beyond
her reason. When, moreover, these
curious people declare that they cure
the tobacco habit in its most inveterate
forms, every lady in the land turns an
attentive ear and feels a rising hope of
a good time coming. Especially so that
large class of daintily attired women
who are obliged to patroniZe the elevated
railroads, where it is often impossible to
find decent spot to sit in or to stand on
owing to the presence of the splitting
tiend.
nth do loH
delicately costumed she looked as if she
had stepped from q picture where the
artist had painted a poets dream of
fair women, was utterly disconnected
and Disguised by this cause. She oc-
cupied a cross seat in q Sixth avenue
train when two fiashily dressed men took
the seat across the aisle facing her. The
car filled up and every strap had its
living pendant, making change OF
seats impossible and egress from the car
extremely difficult. The man next the
aisle began describing wonderful horse,
punctuating his discourse by q food of
tobacco juice directed toward the lady.
At the first shower she pressed her skirts
together with her fastidlously gloved
hand. At the second, which came
nearer, she tucked them about her feet
and held them with both hands. The
man saw her movements and her
cramped position but made no pause ID
discourse OF punctuation. He seemed to
try how close he could come to her with
out hitting her, and perfectly certain
that he could manage it very cleverly. A
gentleman on the seat opposite the lady
had been absorbed in his newspaper, but
becoming unpleasantly aware of the big
geyser discharging near by, looked up to
In nd
casting an angry glance at the horseman,
he opened his newspaper and spread it
over the lady 9 lap aud feet. The Of |
fender stared an instant, then under |
standing the situation, resumed his story
and his stops.
Now, if the mental batteries of about |
one hundred and fifty scientists could |
have been concentrated on that fellow |
and reduced him to a juiceless, air-tight, |
innOXiOus mummy, what enthusiastic |
most of that carload |
of disgusted humanity would have be-
come. l doubt, though, if even one |
hundred and fifty tobacco curers could |
have preserved such hard-rinded speci-
men.
A scene one often witnesses in Broad
way is the legitimate outgrowth of that
false modesty SO common in this country.
A lady will be permitted to go her way
along that busy thoroughfare with her
dress opened behind or some tape or string
dragging from beneath her skirts, and [
no one will call her attention TO the faet5
will take a look at her. sSfhe
faces of some will wear a sympatEizing
look, of others grin. The poor wman
will halt every now and then in froAt of
win nN,fn
her back outward, making the faces of 4
the disarrangement more obyious than T
over. ~
Among men, the custom is t& be al
most too kind to each other. p .SsE
"Sir,'' said kind hearted Newt
Yorker to stranger beside him in q
street car, "your tie has slipped mp over
-FOUR collar FL
az don't wear collarl'' was the
yruff reply.
But women are SO afraid of each other
hat one will be permitted to wander
about picture gallery for an hour with
some string or tape or fastening hangin2ss
Town and no one will inform her of~fhe
'act. It's mean. Suppose she does
'turu all colors'' when told of it, she
amt be otherwise than thankful when
The cools down. 1 dom say that q man
IT q woman either, has the right to stop
l lady on the street ana say: "Excuse
ne, madam, in putting on your eye
1rows this morning you got one
or "excuse me, madam,
7our shoe Is united and if you III put your
DOT up L III tie it for you There are
hings that mad better be left I'M
lone, but it s not so hard to draw the
inc.
A blush has overspread the cheeks of
Ill the prettiest girls on Murray Hill.
They are self contained, proud and
milling, but they are all pinkly suffused
n the daintiest, sweetest manner possi-
lie. Such Frightening up of complex
ons has never been witnessed before and
Everybody but the girls themselves have
,een bothered to find out what the cause
f the heightened coloring might be. The
nvious have mentioned rouge and the
.ood natured souls have wondered If the
pring atmosphere did not contain an ar Is
ent influence that was felt only by thu
heeks of pretty girls. The secret cap$
ut the other day. The blush origina&d
nth, the return of certain beautsful
Dung married woman from Egypt,
There she has been living with her is-
and, who is an army officer in the IN
lish service, for some years. When &he
unload thu xrboIa pvorId want inf. aau&o