Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

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NV |T es at the Metropoli-
| TX KIN = tan are all abuzz
Il E4x1Z..TJ with gossip. The
| ~ N$IS5ICct1cgM season Of social fes-
,NA tivity has so recent
- @/>/H/c57 ly expired that its
favorite place for chatter. Not only do
the beaux go from box to box during the
performance, but the bellies, too, inter-
change visits. So l will write of what L
heard said at the Metropolitan in single
evening. Of course, it will give a trivial
and thoughtless insight Of "society, -
but if the reader will please to consider
that underneath all this froth there Is
greater quantity of good, admirable and
sedate material, no injustice will have
been done. To begin with, here is
story that was told of a girl with well
known family name: There is a youth of
twentY-one among the fashionable peo-
pie who is not regarded with any serious
ness by anyone besides himself, for
his whole employment of life consists
of dressing with absurd elegance and
exhibiting himself on the promenades
and in the playhouses. One of his par
ticularly painful peculiarities is that he
never wears an overcoat on cold day.
There are, perhaps, fifty young men out
| of the entire population of New York
that affect this fashion voluntarily, but
he is the most noticeable, for he is very
| thin and conveys the impression that a
smart breeze would pass through him
| Added to his disdain for the overcOat,
this young man staggers under truly
| comprehensive affection for all woman
kind. 1t is generally supposed that he
has proposed already for the hand of
every desirable girl IN society, and has
| been quickly refused in all sorts of fash
| ions. About a week ago he offered his
| hand and fortune to a splendid young
woman of twenty-five or more, VINO was
on here from Boston visiting, and whom
he had only known for day or so. He
saw the lady walking on the avenue one
afternoon and, dashing up to her,
begged permission to walk with her. His
request was granted, and two blocks
further on the proposal of marriage was
formally made. At first the Boston girl
was astonished, and then she was
| amused.
81 don t think you need a wife," said
she, smiling.
"Oh yes, 4 do, don t you know" ex-
claimed the youth, 81 IN getting awfully
wild and 1 need a wife ever SO much to
keep me within bounds.
''But think you need something else,
before you get q wife, went on the
| Boston girl.
"And what is that?" eagerly asked
the dude.
"An overcoat,' replied the maiden.
After some hours OF reflection, the boy
got it through his head that the Boston
| girl had made game of him.
81 say - he said to her, when he met
her at dance that night, 'I think you
are an awfully cold girl.''
The maiden laughed, and replied:
"Oh, you find me so, because you don It
dress warm enough. -
! And now the dude is having an over
! coat made, for he says that he believes
girls have suddenly taken an aversion to
men who do not wear them.
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One rumor that went the round of the
boxes that night at the opera was that
diamond brooch, one OF the finest in
Mrs. William Astor's collection, had
been stolen.
cit happened this way said the in
formant. "You know that she has
| watchman who keeps in protective dis
lance whenever she goes to or departs
from a public gathering at which she
wears valuable Jewels. Well, at the
Bradley Martin ball, somehow or other,
thief was substituted for this guardian,
and he managed to steal the brooch"
'Is that so?'' exclaimed.
"Oh, yes, - was the reply.
But it was not so. as 1 soon ascer-
tanned, and quote it only to show how
much more trustworthy is the news that
is printed than that which is spoken
Some night, however, there IS going to
be big crime in connection with some
social affair bold and well planned
raid will be made in Fifth avenue on an
Astor or Vanderbilt carriage, 500 900
worth of diamonds will be jerked from
the person of the lady inside, and the
highwaymen will likely escape with their
plumber. AS / glanced around at the
matrons in half dozen boxes, and tried
to estimate the value of the jewels III
sight, L marvelled why some of those
Western gangs of tram robbers did not
come out of the wilderness into New
York for feasible plumber.
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That man g intentions in staring at a
pretty woman can be greatly misuuder-
stood had good proof, according to O
story told by lady at the opera In a
restaurant on Fifth avenue, the room
was pretty much deserted, save for the
presence of an unaccompanied girl who
ate toast and tea at one table and a good
looking young man who dissected
canvas-back duck at another. When |
the young man had demolished his bird
he sat back in his chair, and for the first
time his gaze fell upon the girl eating
toast. An expression of evident interest
sprang into his face, and he fixed his |
eyes upon the girls countenance and |
studied it with an avidity that was OBJ |
servable to the walters standing about
and that was not lost upon the young |
lady herself The latter cast a swift |
glance at the starer and then began to |
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