Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-03

better than sitting about all day in dime
museum.
"Oh, it is no choice of mine,'' said
she, with perfectly happy smile.
"Whose then is it, - l asked.
"My husband s., she replied.
"That's he, showing the freaks. 1 hate
| snakes, of course. l couldn't have
! touched one two years ago any more than
| you could. l got married thinking
should be taken care of, but Jim is a
worthless fellow, and be can't support
me to save him. l first went into the
show business as a hair freak. l had
my hair bleached yellow, and arranged
it so it stood all over my head. But those
things are only worth about $40 week,
| and l began to look for something bet
ter. There was a snake charmer sat
next to me in the show il those days,
and began by touching the snakes with
the tip of my finger. When
found out that they couldn't hurt
me, on account of their
fangs being taken out, managed after
a while TO get used to the feeling of them
and would handle them for my own
amusement. The man that owned the
snakes died, and just before he went he
told me to take the snakes and to give
the dime museum offered me S25 week
if would do the act, and so one night l
stopped every bit OF feeling in me and
stood up before the crowd and wound the
things around me. don't like them
now, but have grown almost indiffer-
emit. Last night one of them put his
face right on my mouth and it made me
sick.
"what do you stay in such a disa-
greeable business for?" asked.
The smile faded from her face and she
snapped the silver snake bangle viciously
on her wrist. "When you marry
brute,'' said she, "he makes a brute of
you; that is, if you love him.
''And you love hin2'
eyes; once in while, when he is
sober.'S
twas in one of those eleven o'clock
horse cars that catch the crowds from
the theaters. There was crush of wo-
men and a hauling, irritable lot of men
packed unoomfortably sn the aisle.
Only one occupant of the car was in
genial mood, and he was a tall, strap
ping young fellow that had borrowed an
abundance OF good nature from the cup
that invigorates.
1.-THE Gre ator, % he said confdentially
to man on the platform "made every
thing in the world. He made the earth,
the sky, the sea, the beasts, and he
made you, he made me and he made-a
daisy. Move up gentlemen and let this
pretty lady enter the car. -
He pressed the crowd aside so as to
allow good-looking girl, accompanied
by Young man, to get inside. Then he
20
ntce,to stand up. Too beautiful. -
His eye scanned the seats and he dis
covered that large obese man of an
evident selfish character was occupying a
space quite sufficient to hold two. This
man he touched lightly on the shoulder
with his walking stick.
81 think said he, f'there is room
side Of you for lady to sit down. Move
up, please.
The stout man glanced up and grunted:
AGO to the devil -
The inebriated man Strengthened IN
and looked thoughtfully at the other.
"Say, see here, you, - said he reaching
over once more and touching the fat man
with his stick, Ell am intoxicated, but
I'm get over it. You re a hog, and you II
never get over it..
The car rolled on in silence, and the
good -natured 1nebriRte passed the time
ia whistling ssLittle Annie Rooney" for
matter OF two miles.
-.
Here Is more serious story of drink.
Not over q year ago young man came
out Of fashionable Fifth avenue club
house at night and fell head;ong down
the steps, narrowly escaping death and
receiving cut on his forehead that lie