Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-21

walks through the world with his eyes
open must know. My notion IS that in
the majority of cases cold maidism' is
the sign manual of self-respect, self
sacrifice or modesty. OF course
the men who have been dis
ccuraged or rejected by Fsupe-
rior' women very soon cast their affec-
tons upon woman who is cast more in
their mouli. These women are no doubt
'only too happy to accept the chance'
when offered. But does the fact that
two mediocrities have found their affiin-
itv constitute them the superiors of the
women who prefer a single life to mar
rage with a man they don't love?
Perish the thought! 1t is unworthy
place in just and generous mind.
And what thinking person, if he or she
have eyes TO see, and ears TO hear, has
not noticed the imbecility and stupidity
of men-not two men, nor dozen men,
but hundreds, nay, thousands of them?
Watch them, for instance, at picnic,
or evening party, and you will very often
notice how utterly oblivious they are of
the presence of u truly modest, sensible,
gem of a girl. while all their attentions
are bestowed upon the fiighty and flip
pant. Listen to their conversation and
you will find it to consist of little else but
silly nonsense, or spiteful comments
upon others. The quiet wallfower's
discourse is pure, sensible and morally
elevating; but the majority of the men
she comes across are unable to rise to her
level, and thus 1t happens that she actu-
ally goes through life without even hav-
ing one 'chance' to jump at. Pre-
posterous as the assertion may seem, she
is oft ha in, fa
untram melted Lv ever-recurring sick
ness, worry, domestic difficulties and
disagreeable, exaoting, egotistical, sell
fish husband. That there are numbers
of good, kind, generous husbands is, l
thank God, an established fact; but who
can deny that within the radius of
every single woman's observation there
must be many Benedict whose persist
ent characteristics are quite sufficient to
make sensible woman hesitate before
she consents to ally herself with a SINH
larry undesirable specimen of male con-
descension. To sum up under this
head, my observation of cold maids'' is
that they are in most cases infinitely the
superiors OF the people whose intelleo-
tual smallness is SO great that they can
only see virtue in women who have
married, no matter what the motives or
circumstances attending their marriage.
There is a most beautiful creature now
singing in metropolitan theatsr whose
pink and perfect charms have quite capti-
waited the entire city. Regarded from
every point of view she is
delicious parsonage, and no one would
think of blaming anybody else for falling
in love with her. She is like q rose or
peach, and l have yet to find a cynic
stopping TO consider if she is as exquisite
OF soul as she undoubtedly is to look at.
In one act of the opera that the beaute-
Gus woman graces she wears many jew
els. The large majority of spectators
believe that these are mock gems, VAL
ued in the aggregate at something like
Sl00. Those jewels. OF course, are false.
was in jewelers. shop one day this
week when the beautiful creature in
question entered and talked with clerk
concerning the repairing of pin that she
had broken.
"This is very fine diamond, mad
am, SAID the clerk.
''All my jewels are exceptionally
good, replied the actress, with some
exhibition of pride.
81 am well aware of that fact re-
sponded the iewsler. AZ have admired
them often, madam -
s.Then you have seen me, asked the