Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
w. G.. VEAL & CO.,
Lands and I<OanSe

that your privileges are cut Oft, dear
madam, by want of strength, rest con-
soled that the loss is not irreparable,
eitoer TO the club or to you. The only
work worth mentioning in the world, the
only kind that lasts and tells is individ-
ual work, whether of brain or hand.
One can L object to gossip on any reason
able grOund-indeed, has not DR.. Deems
lately christened it with much insight
nthe humanities of conversation? That
is when it is human and not fiendish,
for there is a human interest in other
peoples affairs, and an inhuman one.
But gossip weakens literature past toler-
alton. Perhaps this is the reason why
the most prominent woman IS club in the
country makes the melancholy confess
sion IN its yearly report that it has to de-
pend for interest on the efforts Of six OF
its members, the rest being content with
taking no part at all in its discussions.
Now, a mans club which depended on
half dozen members would turn up its
toes and die, out of sheer decency. If
you want an excuse for having a good
time, chTisten your gathering gossip
club or the scandalmongers, and try to
live up TO it. There won t be any more
harm for the admission. Calling things
by their right names lets flood of light
upon their designs sometimes, and club
known as the Old Cats or the Back biters ,
Own would probably have as little Of
their name-Yices as is consistent with
feminine nature. A good, lively club of
this kind might be q resource for tired
housemothers, who need chat and fun,
which nobody thinks of supplying them.
People who work hard and feel worn
out don Z want serious topics or anything
like study for while. They may learn
Just as much in a light way and remem
Der it longer. But strike off the clubs
and lotteries from your list as nom essen
tails until you recover the strength of
three women. Buy spring dresses ready
made, rather than bother with dress
makers, proverbiallY the most perfidious
of their sex, and the worst instructed of
any craftswomen in the cities and towns.
Don I undertake to attend all the Lent
services or get up birthday parties or
golden weddings or anything which re-
ouires outlay of nerve. Friends will be
sure to say: 81 should think she might
be able to do just this and that, - or
they doubtless will go step farther and
say: HShe might if she wanted toi'
But YOU must not mind them. Life is
too dear possession to be played with,
and you only know you have your
strength when you don Z spend it.
Every woman who values her health
this chilly, stormy spring-true breeder
of typhoid pneumonia-shonld go into
silk underwear, vests. chimiserie, skirts
and nightgowns, If she has to economic
on her dresses to provide them. Neural
gia and rheumatism are flying around +,
fell brood Of the winter seourge, and 10
cost can be reckoned dear which wards
them off. Flannel has not the same
warmth or electric action on the skin.
| A featherweight of a silk garment has
more warmth than thick wool one !,
| with the advantage of lightness. The
kuickerbockers of black silk IN fashion
are commendable when spring winds are
abroad. At sudden reel OF wind at q
street corner, a glimpse of trim black
silk stockings and rose embroidered black
silk ruff1es has far less the effect of an
expose than fieeting show of white gar
ments. And the pink and blue slumber
robes of India silk do so kindly keep off
the pains in the shoulder next the crevice
of the bedclothing when the tail of a
cyclone is showing how full of drafts q
| $4,000 year house can be.
silk underwear doesn Z mean comhin-
| alton suits in this instance, nor those
| nondescript attachments called ''leg-
/ lettes'' by women with one lobe to their
brain. As. one brilliant woman says.
whom you would ell know if gave her
away 81 wouldn t be found dead with
ZEN on!s' Kate Field tells witty and
wicked story about an old woman up in
Vermont, whose only amusement was the
village lecture course eYery season,
which led OF with Col. Ingersoll one