Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16


the gentlemen.
Dinner cards should have spray OF
autumn leaves with some kind OF Iruit
painted in the corner, and your eues's
: hould be requested 10 use vines auu
leaves in trimming their dinner tollets.
A figure of the goddess Ceres shouio Dc
promIneut on the mautel and be appro-
nriateIy hung with vines and festoohs oi
tiny apples and nuts.
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We are all literally on the IN owe now.
October ia ONLY second to May in its pro-
cessions of loaded vans, express wagons
one-horse trucks and hand wheelbarro"s
bearing our household goods to new
TEMPLES, Twice a year the spirit VI
change holds sovereign sway, anu tnis
processlonal tribute goes through tho
streets in token of our loyalty TO ns
commands. Only those who own tueir
houses are exempt from the calls OF thiS
spirit, and eve they are coming 10 to"i
from summer quarters with huge cara
vans of luggage, thus fulfilling the law
IN the very letter. Everybody obeysteF
in fat. even the basement jewellers VINO
can move no further than the next
block. | saw family yesterday, in
PROCESSION all their own. The lsther
carried a small cooking stove, whlch sum
| bore the glow of the breakfast fire; the
| mother basket of delft with teapot ana
| coffee pot on string hanging at he'
side like fine lady's chatelalne; tneh
followed six children, each with soihe
| article of furniture suited TO IT'S siZe'
| The eldest girl bore the baby on one arh
| and the coal scuttle on the other' anu d
| Jolly boy marched to the music Oh MS
| in
looked suspiclously like the famliy
prowler. An were smilingly conscious
| of being in the fashion, and what dio
they care If the change was only from
| basement to BASEMENT
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Everybody, in fact, looked Jolly. me
lords and ladies of the hne houses aFe
coming home eager for the round OF
winter pleasures, the dweiiers IN aparl-
ments W no put their goods in storage
Iest Nav and went TO the coun-
try-some to the martyrdom oil
country relations-are now locating IN q
new part of the city; the stay-at-homes-
all-summer are securing change OF an
and scene by moving from the east slue
TO the west and from the west side to the
east. so through all the toll and turmol
we are having q sort of carnival OF hlgn
spirits and high anticipations. Inc OH
style of entering house as BRIDE, nav
ing children born and married there, aus
leaving il only at the last great remoVai
ia now wholly abandoned Us to stald anl
unenterprising for this lively age. %
from thousands of fiat roofs come I'M
thud, thud of the carpet beater, Will
clouds of dust ascending to settle oo"l
and filter through houses and ciothins
and the tick took of the carpet hamne 81
fills the air. But if you consider th'
dust as so much cloudy incense ascend
ing to our household LARS and penant
and the tick took the echo of dancing fee
of invisible home farries-why, you WI
, be like all the rest of us, immensei
Jolly in this monstrous moving time.
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Why, oh, why do our city fashionabl
, women go TO pieces so early in life, Will
, our men, even If they do get fat an
bald, still look neat and dapper, an
, have a style about them until oVertake
:, bv the seventies? Take New York ds
|, butan,e OF the McAllister set, dainty an
, | delicate as miniature on ivory, VIII
warmth and feeling, figure ravlshihsi
beautiful, and her whole being breathi
, intelligence, sympathy and splrltuaiit!
7 Yet at twenty FIVE, with married III
/ of two or three years, they begin TO faoe
/ at thirty the bloom IS gone; at thirty
II five they are passee; at forty theY d.
I old women. But not so the man aoot
town. At forty he is still erect as a tasu
a ion plate; at fifty his hair and teeth peg
to go. but not so his sprightliness, his II
# te rest in things, his elbow touch with u
:, spirit of the times. In word, as
> grows OLD in the flesh he seems to brlght'
= intellectually and that, mind YOU
: the secret of his perennial bloom
His breezy, CHEEKY way o.
a ceives you. He acts like mt
n of thirty, and as his rotundity increase
a he wraps his toga tightly around MIN Ill
=, Strengthens up like boy OF eigntee
ar He is as constant to his bath tup as ne
90 to his sweetheart, and speaks as ane
A. tionately to his tailor and barber as
:. they were his own brothers. He Is car
10 full what he eats and when ne eats
;, drinks sparingly. sleeps nine hours dali
- and is as neat with his hands as gil
He is regularly manicured, pediour
,, and massaged. All this costs HIM he
no of trouble, but egad he gets his rewar
M Didn't you ever meet the MaJo
r. Well, you are likely " cuSouut0' !"
T. any fine afternoon, between four a
he six, saunterng up Broadway, osil
o. pretty girls and hating now and then
n chat with some club man. The Major
en- nothing If not superlstive. The We
i'd nvery' must be used in describing nj
in He is very bald, very dignlfied, very
all cided in his manner, very fond OF stew
he terrapin. very much addicted to VIII
DIV very particular with his dress, very
IRE voted to his Young wife and very ne
ng sighted. But oil that doesn t prev
to, the Major from being capital old
100 low, one of the most popular men
de the New York club, where
", may be seen and interviewed early
he evening, for after dinner the major q
Tot himself up to his young wife, goini
ew the theater, opera, reception, or
id. not. Sometimes, but rarely, the mi
erv stays out late-not more than three III
ich a year, however, then he is apt
err come home more near sighted than e'
ow Strange TO say, when he has druu
her little too much wine, the MAJOR peco
MI as Jealous as a Turk. He imagines
xed his young wife is In love with every n
tie friend who visits the house. and trem
rob when he sets out for home lest he inc
ms empty bed and a note saying that she
ian gone with younger man.