Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-29

three, and he came fourth with no one
behind him.
"What will you do in the Welter
handicap Tomorrow
"Play Tormentor straight for Ave
hundred. Then I'm going to take the
long odds on Flora Ban in the Breeze
stakes. One, two and three at five
hundred q clip. -
And so the talk goes on. The out
slider, not conversant with the eloquence
of racing rhetoric, would fail TO find
much entertainment in the conversation,
but he Is sure to be struck by its origin
ality, and he listens to 1t much as he
would to the chattering of a group of
foreigners. Only the other evening l
heard nice looking young man remark
ing that he could not understand the en-
thusiasm that some men could get up for
horse racing, this observation being
prompted by some words he heard
uttered by quiet looking man who sat
at neighboring table. The young man
who failed to appreciate the beauties of
the turf was a commendable and promis-
ing clerk in a brokers' office down town,
earning the neat, but not burdensome,
salary of $1,000 a year. The quiet look
ing man whose interest in horse racing
he could not account for was the book
maker who had become famous the day
before as the winner of $50, 900 on q
single race. Had the clerk been aware
of this he would then have guessed the
secret of the race-track fever.
x*s
There is usually something very meek
and mild about the neglected unlovely
girl in society known as fwall-
fiower.'' We have all seen her sitting
sheepishly or resignedly with her mother,
striving to smile on the surrounding gay
ETY. of dance, and acting as though she
would faint away if q man begged her to
waltz. found the thing quite different
down in one of those free and-easies in
purlieu of the Bowery, where the dizzy
dance progresses each and every night to
the whangle Of harp, fiddle and asth-
matte piano, and the fabrication of every
style of drink except water. This is a
very rare resort, this particular one, aud
1t is patronized by limited number of
the most select ''toughi'' in the lower
end of town. At about u 'clock one
night this week a dance that was some-
thing of a com romise between the gslop
and hornpipe was in operation, with
everyone in the hall partlcipasiqEE
except one large framed and .senefo6ss'
featured girl, who satss*6olt up
right against the wall, awning at the
dancers and beating timsyto the music
with her heels. Her hatI adorned by an
ostrich plume that stuckAp straight for
nearly foot, was jemm6d rather hs69
over the forehead, giving Sa1leg girl
somewhat rakish and belligerent appear
auce. She was evidently a little annoy eI5
by the scene of animation before be
and she certainly did look lonesomeSe-
ing the only thing in the place th2*was
not cutting capers and wearing n con-
tented smile. Suddenly the girl sprang
to her feet and uttered an ear-splitting
howl. The musicians were thrown into
melodious confusion at once, and all the
dancers came to standstill. The girl
had her feet planted wide apart, her
hands olepched and as she gaZed back at
the eyes turned upon her she emitted an
other howl, giving an excellent sug-
gestion of q Sioux Indian. Something
vas wrong with the young woman. Il
"Say, wot's der matter. Kittie? ~
called ont young man from the opposite
side of the hall. "A
s'Matter, cried Kittie, 81 just ts{;
yer wot's der matter, see. I did
come here for no decoration. 1 CO
here ter dance, see. Now I'm ready.
I've been sittin here with cold feet for
an hour. Now I'm done. I dapea,i
right now or / smash Julia Hennessey1Br
putin a ball an chain on Jimmisd
Bradley. Jimmie invited me here ter
night, and now he STAINS me up Ill.,
empty kag and dances wild another ~.
I'm goin to smash her, see, right now. -
The angry Kittie moved across the floor
toward little girl in red jersey, with
hair to match, who was clinging TO q
bullet-headed' youth wearing queer
dress suit with paper collar and a set
of coral studs. Before any damage could
be done KittIe was surrounded by large
crowd and was pleaded with to abstain
from hair tearing, which, after consid-
cradle parley and the transferenee Of
Mr.. Bradley from Miss Hennessay to |
herself, she agreed to do. She was soo4
winding about in the maze of the mon
grel dance, wearing by far the largest
smile in the room This incident proves
that girl need never be 'wall-fiower,
il she possesses the courage to press her
claims to attention.
The coarse, brazsn and confessed
wickedness Of great city is never SO sad
to contemplate as the half hid, hypocrst-
ical kind. There ia maisstics proud