Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
For still in mutual suffrance lies
The secret OF true living:
Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness OF forgiving!
~. G. Whittier.
Line Upon Line.

Line Upon Line.
In anticipation of q storm that has not
been prognosticated by Foster or any
other prophet the writer bends the head.
Fortunately the "sRy' that women are
said TO be fond of indulging in will hardly
reach an eyre of security.
Women are beginning to notice and TO
comment with more or less asperity on
what they term decline in names
noticeable among men. Said lady no.
long since, 81 remember the day when
every gentleman rose at lady entrance
into the room and remained standing uu-
til she was seated, when he barred his
head and stood with hat in hand until
she passed, and in every public place and
conveyance she was given precedence.
Now this is changed, men sneak 10 me
with theiI hats on, they even talk TO me
sitting down while l am standing, they
throw themselves in careless attitudes IN
my presence puff tobacco smoke IN my
face, jostle against me on the street, and
contest my right TO seat preoccupied by
themselves. - All this was told with
al aggrieved air that left no room TO
by stood her daughter, who said she was
going out to the club, her attire was
mInnish from the crown of her saucy
head to the patent tip Of her
"boot," aud while the language
of the mother was gentility, the speech
of the daughter was of vocabulary not
authorized in schools. What the mother
said was true, 80 far as the assertion
that great changes had been witnessed
BY her; but If she intended to affirm thai
the gentleman of to-day was not the
peer of a gentleman of any period she
was trying to prove more than was war
ranted The reason for this change, her
daughter with her coat, boots and hat,
her shirt front and four in hand tie, was
the emf .diment. Women cannot be
vines and oaks at the same time, nor do
such opposite qualities often dwell in
the same person.
The demand women have made for
equll rights with men is not limited,
and men are likely to grant most READILY
those that are in accord with self-in-
diligence. A common agreement is
usually reached by mutual concessions,
and the extreme ideas of men and Of
women as to woman's proper rights are
vet to be so modified as to make all
things agreeable.
Women need not be impatient to usurp
men places. The instinct of woman is
not to democracy. She seriously objects
to being jostled, and it is the rights of
sovereignty that she specially Graves.
Now comes the question, are women
themselves as mindful of the courtesies
of daily life as they would have men?
Does it not occur to the reader that quite
as often she has experienced rudeness
from her own sex as from the opposite
one. A bit of personal experience fits
here; once when standing in u crowded
street car in New York, faint and suffer-
ing young man rose to offer his seat,
his lady companion, for that was what
she looked, pIucked his sleeve and told
him TO keep 1t. Time end again are to be
seen men older by n score or two, giving
up their seats TO ladies', courtesy mot
a right that does not receive the slight
est ack nowledgment from the recipients.
Again if young men are not US gallant
as "when l was young whose training
is at fault? Have not their mothers of
that polite period reared them? If men
are I'LL bred what about the hand that
rocks the cradle and rules the world? If
men are selfshly regardless of the claims
of other women, have they not learned
this lesson in household where the boy
tyrant ruled mother and sisters. 1t is
well that women talk softly of a-lack for
which they are in a large measure re-
spOusible and bestir themselves at once to
see if by their own marked courtesy, ana
the home training of the boys the evil
complained of may not find its remedy.