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

wearing lace tnat you maze yourself!
BY this time the young woman was
blushing furiously for some reason or
other, and made her escape from her
| companion s scrutiny.
A day or two afterwards the young
man and woman were playing q game of
| tennis, and the GIRL in endeavoring to
reach for ball, misjudged her power of
| equilibrium and fell with some confusion
to the ground. When The game was over
the young man remarked lightly to her:
81 want TO congratulate you upon your
| skill as u lace-maker, Miss B.-I never
saw prettier stuff. -
The young lady tried to look severe,
and made no reply TO the Youths i'm
| pertinence.
A very handsome black French poodle
! was praucing down Fifth avenue on q
breezy, bright morning in company with
a fine straight young woman whose alert
/ and voluptuous figure, together with her
handsome face, attracted to her the at
tention of all passers by. The dog was
proud of his mistress. and the girl was
proud of her dog, and the picture made
by the two was one of rare and exquisite
life and beauty.
While ali was peaceful and danger
| seemed no where nigh, ricketty and
creaking covered wagoI, drawn by a
| pitiable wreck of horse, and having on
| its seat two repulsIve young men, whose
| unkempt persons and wolfsh faces would
| proclaim them anywhere as most unde-
sirable citizens, came around the corner
of a side street into the avenue. AS the
wagon got near to the girl, one of the
| young ruftians leaped to the ground and
made quick plunge for the dog, catch
| ing 1t by one hind leg and whirling il
above his head In circle, running as he
did so toward the rear of his wagon.
| Quicker than II takes TO say so, the
young woman was in front of the young
tough, with one hand clutching his coat
collar, and the other holding the muzzle
of a small silver mounted smelling bottle
close against his face.
"You drop nv dog, you scoundrel, or
III shoot you,'' said the girl through
her tight clenched teeth.
The young fellow peered out of his
small eyes into the angry determined
face before him, and as he attempted 10
shake the girls hand from his collar,
said:
Jaw, wot yer given me, anyway.
Don I yer see, are der dog catchers,
an you ain I got no right ter have yer
purp out widout n muzzle. Der dog goes
along wild us, see?''
The girls face took on still fercer
and more ominous LOOK. The dog, still
in the grasp OF the man, was twisting to
get away aud yelping with pain.
"It you do not drop my dog this in
slant, said the girl, 81 will fire ball
square into your ugly face. Do you hear
me?'
With these words she gave the dog
catcher sharp shake, and be dropped
the dog, who scampered away to safe
distance, and solicited passers by to go
TO the assistance of his mistress. BY this
time people were coming up to see what
the disturbance was, but it was the dis
cOmtted dog catcher who had to explain
matters. The young woman put the bo-
gus weapon into the small ohatelaine bag
that she wore, blew q small silver
whistle, and accompanied by her joyous
dog, pursued her morning walk serepely
and with stately grace.
Three sisters in a Fifth avenue omni-
bus! And such sisters as they were.
The morning was brilliant with sunshine
and the air just tinged with the GOODNESS
of autumn. Everyone within reasonable
distance stopped short to watch the three
sisters get INTO the omnibus. They
formed a most uncommon spectacle,
even for New York. Surely, they were
fresh from Paris. There was a flutter
and life to their costumes that suggested
the plumage of buoyant and happy birds.
Their hats were perohed on their beauti-
full heads as lightly as accidental flower
garlands, aud as they sprang nimbly,
one after the other, up the steps OF the
vehicle, cleaning shoes on slender and
shnpely feet made themselves apparent
with truly exquisite effect.
am sure that never saw three such
sisters before. AL! their eyes, noses and
mouths were similar in their perfect
beauty. Each had the neck of her dress
cut just wee bit low in front, so that
the snowy, delicious hollow at the base
of the strong white throat was visible to
the casual gaze. l was fancying all
sorts OF things about these three graces.
They were just home from abroad said
1, where royalty had been kneeling at
their fairy feet, and were on their way
down town at this moment to buy jewels
or ball dresses for the coming winter.
How they did beam and twinkle, and |
what Intoxicating fragrance they shed.
One old gentleman in the corner of the |
stage, who had been almost thrown into |
a fit Of apoplexy by their advent, and |
who would have liked to murder the |
young man who succeeded in anticipat-
ing him in the gallant office of passing |
up the fares of the goddesses, fixed bis |
eyes on the radiant face of the maturest |
of the sisters and breathed 80 hard that |
he could be heard above the roar of the |
pavements.
After getting their fares paid, andS
settling into their seats the sisters sat IN |
splendid silence for a moment, and then |
one of them spoke in a soft, melodious
voice:
"Say, girls said she, eft that stage |
manager makes US go through that dance
twice at rehearsals day, I'll do him
up"
The apoplectio man IN the corner gave
a start.
"Well, be gives NE pains" went on
another Of the girls. "You couldn't
satisfy him IL you died for him.
The man in the corner gulped spas
medically, jumped to his feet, and
pulled wildly 1t the drivers strap.
"well, it's like this, now, do you
see, - went on the other beauty; "that