Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
FOR the Gazette

MISUNDERSTANDING ne"' Original anu
Observation-Disclosures fills growing want.
'14I4l L,ll ijilH>-SSS In city like this are
generally four or FIVE self-invited guests
at every large reception. Five hund red
or a thousand invitations are issued, and
it is simply impossible for the hostess to
des ignate the Interlopers in the crush
If the supper may be reached without
going into the drawing room, the self
invited guest usually pays his or her COM
pliments to the eatables only. All that
is called for at an afternoon reception is
plain walking dress or business suit. The
self-invited guest, however, is not as
general thing affected with modesty. He
or she generally walks boldly in and
trusts TO luck TO get safely out again.
At large receptions the refreshments in
clude soups, salads and ices, and the self
invited guest may save several dollars in
the course of a week by simply following
the crowd. He or she knows that there
is not one chance in a thousand that
any hostess would admit that her assem-
blage was swelled by unbidden persons.
This makes the game almost perfectly
safe, and during the season mskes living
quite reasonable. when one has a fur
nished room.
Audacity seems to be on the increase in
my sex. The prettiest girl in whole
nest of beauties that sat in q box at q
comic opera the other night was one of
those irrepressible creatures that famine
or death could not control. She looked
gentle and good, but her actions con-
WINGED the onlooker that there were
chances of her having partaken quite
freely of the glass that inebriates, for
besides the roseate flush that beamed
over her cheeks there was deviltry of
manner about her that could not have
been absolutely innate. 1t so CHANGED
that the stout and bald gentleman play
ing upon the bass viol stood Immediately
beneath the box wherein the pretty girl
was sitting, so close to her, in fact, that
the long handle of his viol extended up
ward almost TO her perfect nose.
For some moments after the opera
began the girl gazed interest
eddy at the instrument without
apparently listening to the music that
progressed on the stage. Then, while
no one but herself was watching, she
leaned forward and extending a gloved
hand, twirled one OF the keys out of
severe discord that caused the leader of
the orchestra TO glance sharply round
and then the pTlma donna was thrown
out of tune by the false notes that con-
tinued to come from the big fiddle. The
fat player reached excitedly up to the
keys of his instrument and placed it into
tune again, but no sooner had he done
so than the wicked girl in the box reached
forward and unscTewed several of the
keys at once. It was at an important
time during q solo, while the viol was be-
ing utilized as the principal accompani-
ment, and the horrible discords that
moaned forth were more than the audi
enCe could bear. The pTima donna stop
ped short in her song, the orchestra con-
ductor banged his baton madly against
his music rack, and every payer in the
band lost his head, the result being chaos
OF the worst kind. And while this in
sanity reigned the cause Of it all, the
pretty girl In the box, sat calmly back in
her chair, making faces of sorrow at the
misfortune that prevailed around her.
When the player of the bass viol got his
instrument back into condition again
and the opera was progressing smoothly
the mischievous beauty looked fully as
innocent as the best scholar in convent
school, and no one but she and l was
conscious that she was little devil with
the face OF a saint.