Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

who told me that he had spent all of last
night seeing sights TO transfer to novel.
one thing that he witnessed will serve
NV purpose Of giving picture of pitifnl
life In New York
g Il cup of coffee and a plate of but
ter cakes: see?''
The speaker was a pale faced girl with
burning eyes, slender, oonsumptive
figure and cough. The scene was
coffee and cake restaurant on Sixth
avenue, and the hour was in the morn
ing. colored man was sweeping the
wooden floor, and youth in q white
apronssin front of an open fire, was
Ola GSang n white paste upon large pan
Gpd wasehinG with eyes, thet were not
Lsatiy fahgued but also crooked, the spots
sssu Enaa russell tint.
ssHoH many cakes kin yer eat dis
mornin' Lottie?' called out the young
man in front of the fire.
1.-TWO of 'em, guess, Jimmie. - re-
sponded the girl. 'Aud have the coffee
hot, will yer: IN shiverin' inside. -
There was few insteuts of silence,
and then Jimmie spoke again.
"Don' I you want ter sit up here by
der fire, Lottie, - suggested jimmie.
'oh, | guess not, - was the reply.
-
few more moments of silence.
81 m going 70 the hospital termorrer,
Jimmie. - were the next words that
broke the stiffness.
"WhHt fer, - asked Jimmie
''Me chest is weak - replied Lottie.
al got a friend that's o doctor, and he's
gOu to put ms into the hospital. lie
says | m all run down, an guess l am
can I stay mp late now like | used TO
without couEhin' an amt got APP
petite all day. I'Il miss your butter
cakes while I'm in the hospital, JIM
ME.
The young man IN the white apron
looked studiously ct the girl s face, as
be put the cakes and coffee on the table
before her. He arranged the butter,
sugar and spoons about her, and care
fully placed his towel at her side N lieu
OF napkin.
"Well. yer ain t lookIn' well, Lottie,
sure enough, - observed the young man.
"Yer've got red cheeks but yer thin.
Perhaps yer stay up too much nights. -
"Wen, what else kin l do, - asked
Lottie, uibbling at a cake, end as she
looked away through the glass front of
the saloon into the dark street her eyes
filled with tears.
making an awkward attempt to brush off
the table and offer little sympathy ut
the same time, "wouId you like me to
send up some butter cakes to the hospital
once in q while. can't nave 'en nos
but they might remind you of your good
Old break fasts in here. -
Lottie declared she would be delighted
TO get butter cakes al any time, and
when she got up TO go she assured Jimmie
that he was en- awfully good fellow.
"Well, my little wife Is about your
age, Lottie, dye see, said Jimmie,
''an' l know she d like someone to think
of her if she was in your luck. -
Lottie smiled rs she coughed out re-
ply to this.
our wife. Jimmie, never could have
my sort of luck.
AS the wretched girl went out into the
dark frosty air, Jimmie stood conIem-
plating her, and when she had disap-
prared in the gloom he observed to him.
self:
~ wonder If it's whooping cough?'
Going back to the table where the girl
had sat he noticed that she had eaten
small section OF one butter cake and
drank half OF her coffee.
May rise 10 question OF privilege!
That IS what legislator says, | believe,
when ne wishes TO comment on things
that have been said about him in print.
First, then the famous French author,
Paul Marguerite, mas published a novel
with heroine named "Clara Belle. -
She is a dear, good girl, too, and en-
American heiress 10 boot. Indeed, not
only is she booted, but gloved, millin-
cred and altogether toileted in the most
stylish aud costly manner. And beeuti-
full, Yes; with big, open eyes of heav-
emily blue, q complexion like natural
growth of Dresden china. and hair of
chestnut hue. As the French haven |
yet slanged "chestnut into synonym
for "old - there $ no chance for you TO
construe that part of NJ. Margueritte's |
description Us guy. How do i know |
that he meant me at ali? Not by hisJ
rapturOus protriRture-I' IN no such ego! |
list Us man might be, for women |
never are-because l confess that the |
imaginary picture isn't remotely like |
the original, but by the fact that he |
makes his "Clara Belief speak numer- |
Gus quotations from my letters. L am |
much obliged TO the gallant Frenchmsu |
for introducing me SO agreeably to his |
secondly, the New ork sun devotss /
long and considerable editorial article TO
less agreeable Misrepresentation of me.
Not intentionally. Neither Charles a.
Dana nor any of his staff IS ever impo-
lie TO lady, but mistakenly. l am
quoted in that article as saying, "our
city fashionable women go to pieces early
IN life;'' that [ drew "a debutante of
The McAllister set, dainty and delicate
a miniature ivory with fpefh litSa |
pearls, skin like this petals OF q rose,
ayes full OF warmth and feeling, figure
ravlshingly beautiful, and her whole be-
ng breathing intelligence, sympathy and
'pirituality; and that then, with a
yroan that csn be heard even in print,
set down tbs fact THAT ut Twenty-Five