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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09

There is q superstition about May we'd
dings, but the glorious month that is now
here is propitious. In southern climates
the forests do not take on the same de-
gree If brilliancy as in northern ATTITUDES ;,
but there is no hint of the death of the
year in cloudless skies and cheerful sun
hight. Blest is the October bride in the
matter of trappinCs, for as the cool days
are in advance, rich heavy materials en-
ter into her gowning, and the elegance
of acquired dignity as matron is aug
mented by rich fabrics. The quiet flirta-
tions of the summer bear fruit in autumn
and the crop of weddings seems likely TO
be good even in this city, whose demure
young maidens never fiirt; that is, hard
ly ever.
Marriage almost necessarily involves
1ourney-not always a tour but going,
AID the gong away gown is second only
in Importance to the dress that symbol
ICES maiden purity and wifely faith. 1t
Is often the case that a travelling dress
answers double purpose, but when this
is the case every idea of fitness is vio-
lated if il IS worn at an evening mar
rlage. In imitation, it may be, of En-
glish custom, the result OF a legal enact
brated before - q. m. Morning weddings
are becoming quite fashionable
in this country and it Is imperative, I'M
less there is wedding breakfast and the
entire British idea is carried out, that
the bride wear her travelling dress and
bonnet. Should she have attendants
they also wear bounets.
For quiet wedding the going-away
gown Is usuallv fnar in terial and fin
ish than an ordinary travelling dress, aud
may be tastefully made of the pretty
gray or brown cloth or cashmere that
comes in patterns with braided pieces for
making the sleeves, bodice and belt.
Another material that makes up hand
somely is dark blue camel's hair made
with coat bodice, that falls well over
the hips nearly all around and is cut in
square tabs. The front opens over vest
Of brocsded silk, or light cloth. Along
the tabs, or the collar and wrists of the
tapering sleeves, there should be q
slight border of braiding. A velvet bon
net simply trimmed, with gloves to
match in glace kid, accompany these
dresses.
Flowers for the bridal have been and
VIII be no doubt as long as marrying and
swing in marriage continue. Orange
flowers seem inseparable from the bridal
costumes, although it Is frequently the
case that other flowers are substituted.
Stephapotis, lilies oil the valley, white
lilac and violets being used, the latest
substitute is white orchids. These, how
ever, are too costly for universal use,
and after experiments the old favorite
prevails. A small bouquet OF orange
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If not, then l shall begin by asking you
to admire with me the superb neck anu
shoulders of the lovely creature who is so
gracefully receiving the homage that is
very Justly her due. The waist of this
exquisite ball dress is all in finely pleated
white silk gauZe and so is the apron.
which has a ruohe oil around it as pic
tured. The bands of the material which
encircle the arms are loose, and the
corsage is caught up on the shoulders by
gray pearls, in a most graceful manner.
The train is in white brocade with pale
roses and very pale pink lattice work.
Gray gloves should be worn with this
lovely ball dress, which is worthy OF
clothing either one of the three goddesses
who contended for the apple before
Prince Paris on the sunny slope OF Mount
Ida, while the very sheep gave over their
nibbIing at the sight of 30 much lowell
ness. gray feather fan and bunch
of long-stemmed white roses are among
the accessories of this delightful ball
toilet. AS Mahomet did with his fight,
SO women are apt to date the beginning
of their lives from the first ball they at
tend. And they are right, for it Is then
and only then that they realize their i'm
portanoe in life.
Copyright, 1890.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
Household.

In no instance is it the part of wisdom,
and under no circumstances is it pardon
able, to placidly await disaster when it
can be averted. A wise pilot looks out
for the rocks which imperil the safety of
the craft he guides, and however
stsunch its timbers prefers steering away
from these to testing its strength by a
collision. In the sea of life rocks are
frequently ahead and in imitation of the
ships pilot it were well to know their
location and shift the course. The fam
lily ship is indeed an ark and while floods
may not wreck II, the harmony within
must be carefully guarded for fear the
dove with its olive branch finds less place
of rest than there is without where turbid
angry waters prevail.
The particular threatening danger to
which sllusion is made, is that in the
laudable ambition of women for higher
intellectual attachments proper and
essential cultivation of homlier qualities
may be overlooked. A symposium of
woman's opinions in response to the
question, 'What shall 1 teach my
daughter?" ELECTED many thoughts on
her mental and physical training, but
not one answer conoisely said, teach her
''to wash, to bake and to BREW This
trio of accomplishments may belong to
an age that is past. but the idea therein
embodied endureth.
Some OF the mothers who read this
may remember how in their day daugh-
ters were taught: that repeated trials
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Notes.


The newest shoulder oapes are lined
with fancy silk.
Rosettes and chouX have taken the
place of bows of ribbon with flying ends
New basques are cut on their lower
edges IN scallops and crenelations.
Pointed Jokes are as much used for
fancy wraps as for dress waists.
There is furore predicted for bands
of trimming made of ostrich feathers.
A Henri H. ruff ornaments the neck of
every finished dress sent out by fash
ionable dress maker.
The newest bonnets are either very
dark or very light, and all are small.
Gros-grain ribbon having satin edges
will still remain in favor, especially if of
an excellent quality and handsome APP
pearauce, whether of black or coiors.
The fashionable face veil has dia-
mond-shaped mesh with one or two
from which they take their name of
beauty-spot wells.
Plaid costumes on the bias are more
seen on the street than any other. Shep-
herds plaids and pinhead plaids in
black and white are trimmed spariugly,
but effectively, with black velvet.
Theater bonnets, either in capote or
roque shape, are small, and in lieu of
the velvet strings which have been used
during the summer there Is bride
of roses or 1ne flowers close under the
chin.
Large soft felt hats will be used for
children. Wreaths of small tips, fut-
ings of ribbon and wings are used for
trimming. Scotch plaid Tam o 'Shanters
match the dress plaids exactly. Best
hats for the little ones are velvet faced
above and under the brinl.
Dainty aprons are of wash silk in any
delicate shade, hemmed with briar stitch
ing in the same color and with pockets
and lower frill of lace. Black silk
aprons with the hem, the handkerchief
pockets and pointed belt embroidered In
colors, are quite as fashionable as those
in colors.
Frluges are much used. They appear
in short lengths on pattern dresses as
part of the design on the lower edge of
panels that are caught together just
above them, giving q tassel effect. and
as finish at the bottom of the bodice.
Often colored bodice has a yoke and
collar, together with deep sleeve, caps
and cuffs of black velvet and a black
silk fringle about the bottom.
Full corsages are frequently varied by
a trimming of velvet ribbon carried from
the shoulder seam on either side round
the front edge of the armhole. 1t is then
brought in oblique direction toward the
center of the bust, and the strands,
meeting there form point. A second
length of velvet, carried round the edge
of the bodice to the point in front, and
combining the full pleats in corresponding
fashion, makes pretty yet simple de-
coration for slender figure.
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EDITED BY MRS. II. R. WALTON.

blossoms is often surrounded BY frill of
handsome lace. In the dress trimming
there is less lace worn than in the spring
and the veil is prettier OF silk tulle than
of any other material. 1t should be
ample, short over the face and reaching
nearly to the bottom of the train at the
back
Material for wedding gowns is of the
richest quality, there are white bro
cades, white satin embroidered with
pearls, peau de sole and repped silks,
white bengalIne and crepe de chine. For
draping there Is no material can rival
mousseline de sole, II adjusts itself in
such soft folds about the form and is OK
tremely pretty on the front of both skirt
and bodice, and is itself an exquisite
evening dress for debutaute. A we'd
ding gown is by established custom high
neck d and has long sleeves, yet mod
istes know how TO compromise by cutting
the neck heart-shape and filling it in
with Grape, and having long embroidered
sleeves to hang away from gloved arms,
thus reconcilIng the bride-elect to SO
radical O change in her evening attire.
The gloves are of undressed kid and
the slippers that incase the feet that are
soon to step into untrodden paths are of
the dress material. A word of caution.
Do not make the mistake of adopting on
that momentous evening some new
fashion of dressing your hair. Let your
friends see your hair as they have been
wont TO see it, and which in their eyes is
the most becoming.
In the matter of wedding gifts fashion
is on the side of good sense, and the day
of numerous butter dishes and ice
pitchers, of knives of no conceivable
service and the various snowy gifts of no
practical value is past. The foreign
fashion of giving house linen, bed fur
nishings and the many little things that
are essential, but entail the expenditure
of considerable money by the newly mar
ried couple. This fashion has the addi-
tional recommendation that there are
few who cannot afford some little token
of their esteem, little drawn work, a
set of napkins or towels with the mono
gram wrought by loving fingers ia more
to be appreciated than such gifts as only
represent money.
Blessings on the October bride, may Its
brightness enter into her life and any far
off vista of disaster that might come be
softened by the tender haze of an au-
tumnal sky.
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Cross People.
Harper's Bazaar.


az believe. " exclaimed bright wo-
man one day, "that l would rather have
really wicked person in the house, if
he would only be good natured, than to
live with the best one who was Cross"
This was extreme, but any one who
has ever endured the society of an irri-
table companion for many days will feel
sympathy with even this strong state
ment. Such companion is a species of
torture.
1t sometimes seems as though almost
every duty were more forcibly impressed
upon the young than the duty of amia-
bility. In many quarters this virtue is
absolutely at a disadvantage. The cross
ones are likely TO get q reputation for
greater ability than the pleasant ones.
'FoOls, - we are told, ''are always
amiable..''
II is reasonable to expect that women
should be less amiable than men. Emer-
son says: "All healthy things are
sweet-tempered. - 1t is only within a
few years that women have begun, as
class, to take proper care of their health.
Even now they are not expert in the art,
and more than half our women are semi
invalids. A woman mode of dress,
her diet, her indoor and monoIonous life
have all been against her. Women are
more conscientious than men. They
ought to have more principle about
keeping pleasant face on; but when the
whole nervous system IS a jar from in
sufficient nourishment and close air, an
angel could not always keep her temper.
1t was only she who "felt so pretty and
so pleased all day. who ''could not take
the trouble to be cross. When one is
baffled and thwarted each day, cross ness
becomes luxury that most women are
100 prone to indulge in.
But oh! how it spoils and degrades
family life!
''See word. how it severeth
Oh, power OF life and death
In the tongue, as the preacher saithi'
We may not all of us be able to culti-
vate the highest virtues-constancy
generosity, magnauimity-but we can
ell keep a civil tongue for those around
us, and put on pleasant expression If
we try. Availability has been pooh
poohed too long. 1t is the source of
more comfort and pleasure in any home
in which it is practlced than many a
more Wanted virtue.
1.-THE music that can deepest reach
And cure all ills is cordial speech
By all means let US have more of it in
our homes.
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were made at bed-makng, sweeping and
busting before mother said it was we'll
done. How simple, yet how vexiug was
table setting, when time and again, all
was taken off that the cloth be laid
straight, and each dish was scrutinized
with eyes that let no thread of lint es-
cape notice. Then too the drill at sew
ing, from overseam to button hole, each
stitch inspected, and ali finished work
overhauled. Interspersed with this was
the kitchen drill, and the daughter of an
old fashioned mother learned 10 pride
herself in her white loaves and crisp
pastry, i'll her delicate cakes and well
cooked meats. Not that in those DAYS
there was no bad cookery, because neg
lectful housekeepers are likely to be al
ways with us, but it is the wiser ones
that are worthy of imitation. All
girls expect some day to be
housekeepers as much as all
boys expect to engage in business,
and it is as much folly to expect one as
the other to be successful without previ-
Gus training. The girl must serve an
apprenticeship as we'll as the boy, for
her vocation is as important as his. Her
responsibility in the home is equal to his;
he provides the means and she cOmpasses
the ends for good living. The homely
adage is too often verified of the man
putting in by the shovelful and the
woman casting out faster with a spoon.
The subject of healthful, economical
cookery is not an insign ticant one, nor
study beneath the consideration OF INTEL
lectual women. The philanthropist that
doubles the growth of grass gets meagre
return compared with one who teaches to
women the value and the methods of
good cookery. These are only learned
by careful observation and practical ex-
perience. Books are but aids. Most of
the recipes are too extravagant, and the
man with the tin bucket needs good pro-
vision against the waste of vigor that
severe toll exacts. 1t is well enough for
girls to know how to make salads, ices
and cakes, but the guardians of girls are
recreant to high trust when they fail to
have them thoroughly taught "to wash,
to bake and to BREW in the nineteenth
century rendition of the phrase.
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Patter of the Single.

Opinions are much divided as to the
efficacy of spanking" so called.
There are mothers who pride themselves
on "never laying a hand' upon their
children, and the fiat has gone forth
among educators that the teacher unable
TO manage her class without a resort to
corporal punishment does not deserve 10
be teacher. Well, all can think as
they please, of course, but there are GER
tainly times with children and moods in
children which call for a genuine, old
fashioned spanking as means of grace.
AS not few mothers can testify from
actual experience, bad tempers and
naughty ways have often been "nipped
in the bud' by little physical pain ad-
ministered just at the right time.
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- -0t@ DV reply ludL may
be so, but savages don't hug when they
dance. - Possibly not, but they join
hands, palm to palm, fholy Palmer 8
kiss.
Now as regards this question of hug
giug while dancing. its one of those bug
bears which certain people coniure up
with no little JUNCTION. 1t affords them
far more pleasure to 90 this than the So
called "hugging' does those who en-
gage in it. 1t is hard to make
love to a woman while you are dancing
with her, as any dancer will tell you.
Waiting, the way Americans waltz, is
the work of art. 1t calls for your whole
mind, and hence if you will take the
trouble to observe the faces and express
sions of two dancers, you will discover
that they are terribly in earnest, that it
is largely a matter of business with them I,
and that to judge from their intent and
preoecupied manner, they are engaged
in trying TO fit round pegs in square
holes. The enjoyment is in the after
thought, just as the full flavor of the
wine can only be enjoyed after you have
swallowed it. or the pleasures of an
evening passed with boon companions
are sweetest IN remembrance.
The lady of the initial belongs to that
class known as the rose bud; !"
although not exactly debutante, yet
she is certainly not more than second
season girl. A glance at her toilet will
convince you that she is girt for battle in
the merry war of amusement. In plain
English, she is dressed for dancing and
dressed with great taste, too, being clad
In pale anemone- blue bengaline, pleated
at the sides and trim med with old silver
galloon. The style and make-up of this
simple gown is altogether charming, in
particular is the belted or zoned effect
thrice repeated very original and artistic.
AS to the color of gloves 20 be worn with
this dancing dress, that is largely
question of personal preferment, but If
IsSOu want to achieve signal triumph set
it off by wearing black gloves. They
will look strikingly well with this dainty
costume, and bring out its full flavor and
enhance the beauty of your arms.
II is pretty generally conceded that the
American girl Is the best Walter in the
world. l mean as this dance is danced
in our ball rooms. The English woman
waltzes as a pendulum swings, an uu-
ceasing and unvarylng monotony so
regular in its motions that you might
keep the time of day by it were 1t to con-
tinue long enough. Not SO our 1.-THE,
active and vivacious countrywomen. She
waltzes as l have striven to indicate to
you, not only with her body but with her
mind. English women converse IN an
exasperatingly slow and collected manner
while they are enclrclIng the room in
their comfortable one, two, three style.
1t is the prose of motion, and yet strange
to say, they are quick and elastic on
their feet when it comes to athletics.
Here they let themselves out,
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ANOTHER AMERICAN CARDINAL.

Peter Richard Kenrick, Archbishop Of St.
Louis
The red hat of a Roman Catholic car
dinal IS to be awarded to Archbishop
Kenrick of St. Louis. The venerable
prelate> is the oldest member of the
American Catholic hierarchy. On Au-
gust II, 1890, he was 81 years old. The
weight of years, however, does not pre-
vent him from exercising his Episcopal
duties. His see is one of the largest in
the United States, and he directs its
affairs without the assistance of a
coadjutor. Archbishop Kenrlck
was born in Dublin and made
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correspondent writes, ''but she dresses
in q theatrical sort of way. Once / re-
member seeing her ct a club tournament
in bright scarlet dress. white hat
like boys, and q transparent black
parasol that could not have been much
good to keep the sun off. She wears her
hair in the same fashion as her sister
very loose and blowsy about her face and
in the back as if it were just on the point
OF falling down. l never thought her
very pretty, but she is undoubtedly
striking looking, and dresses to accen-
tuete that peculiarity''
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A Chapter on Chow Chow.

Chow-chows for autumn. Even per-
sons Who ordinarily dislike the common
fiery chow-c elbows find the following
recipe for French chow chow peculiarly
appetizing and delicious. For the mate
rial of this chow-chow select quart of
large, firm, green cucumbers, cut IN
rather thick slices and across in half
once; quart of small gherkin pickles or
small cucumbers not over two inches in
length, a quart of white button onions
and quart Of green tomatoes sliced and
cut in pieces. Measure the sliced cucum-
bers and green tomatoes after they are
cut up. Heap up the quart measures of
button onions and tiny cucumbers, aud
to add to the whole one large carlifiower
divided up into little fiowerlets, and four
large green peppers cut up in coarse bits.
Lay all these ingredients in brine made
in the proportion of cup of salt to gall
Ion of cold water. Soak the pickles in
this brine for twenty-four hours. Then
scald them up in the same brine and drain
them. Make a paste of cup of -four,
six tablespoons of ground mustard and
one of turmeric with little vinegar.
Add q cup of sugar and enough vinegar
to make two quarts in all. Let the mix
ture boil up till 1t is smooth and thick
stirring it all the time, as it is very liable
to burn. Add the pickles to it while it
is on the stove, and the chow chow is
done. A chow-chow in which all the in
gradients are chopped fine is made as
follows: Select two medium sized heal
of firm, white cabbage, half a PEI u
green tomatoes, two quarts OF Arm, ripe
tomatoes, half u dozen green peppers
and two red peppers. Chop all these in
gradients as fine as you can and pack the
mixture in layers of salt. Put it in
coarse bag of burlaps or some similar
material; lay it across q rack improvised
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Are Natural.

In connection with the coming of the
natural girls who call leg leg, comes
in the city one can see many "made-up"
beauties, at the summer resorts they
have been far from numerous. Whether
the change Is due to the hot, horrid
weather or to good taste only time can
tell. Another fad the dear girls have
inaugurated is the preference for natural
finge--nails, well kept, but not glazed.
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Immortality.

Jean Rousssau-Though L were to have
no other proof of the immortality of the
soul than the triumph of the wicked and
the oppression of the just in this world :,
that spectacle alone would prevent my
doubling the reality of the life after
death. So shocking a dissonance in this
universal harmony would make me seek
TO explain it. 1 should say: can does
not finish for me with this mortal life;
what succeeds shall make concord of what
went before.
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A Cook Book Free,

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zETTE who sends us 81. so in cash wssxxlktt
send the Weekly GAZETTE opaSad and
the Household Cook RaaR;515 pages,
bound In CLOTHS ordering paper
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Fort Worth, Tex.
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in the far West. So. too, if you seek
this quality of ''styls" as manifested i'll
so-called full dress, you must not look
Tor 1t among imitators, but among orig
inators, for imitation always falls short
OF originality. This is canon of art.
The third illustration will eXemplify
my meaning. Here you see an original
creation IN the line of ball costumes. II
is the perfection of good taste and
correct judgment. 1t is inventive
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his ecclesiastical studies and was Or
dained in Ireland. He came to this
country in 1888. He became affiliated
with the Philadelphia diocese, in which
he labored eight years as assistant pas
tor, superior and professor in the do
cesar seminary and vicar-general. In
lS4l he was appointed coadjutor to
Bishop Rosati of st. Louis, whom he
succeeded on his death IN 1913. In 1S47
St. Louis was made an archlepiscopal
see and Bishop Kenriok became arch
bishop. Archbishop Kenrick is called
1.-the Grand Old Man of the American
Hierarchy,''