Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
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NJ EjP "What does it
mean?'' asked.
cit means that 1 shall make over the
material into tea gown, was the re-
ply. George gave me fifty dollars, be-
cause he wished to see me handsome at
this ball, but ED grudge me two for a
house toilet. So devised costume that
wouldn It spoil the goods for a gown.
Men of wealth will allow their wives to
have accounts at the leading dry goods
establishments, but demand on them
for a cash outlay of even S. occasions a
mild panic. Husbands who spend $1,000
dole out cash dollar by dollar to their
wives. 1t is notorious fact that many
of the dressmakers keep wines on hand
for their custo mers. The charge of
course goes into the bill. Can 1t be that
men are afraid to trust their wives with
money? what's the matter, anyhow?
Women need cash, even if all their or
binary wants are paid for by their liege
lords. What s the consequence? Women
selves supplied with cash. Husbands
are told that bill is $50 when it is only
$40. Household expenses are reported
as calling for 500 when $50 is all that's
needed. Nay, more than this, for many
q married woman is forced to abstract an
occasional S. note from the pocket of her
sleeping lord. The consequence of this
Wretched parsimony is that married wo-
men are openly and boldly mean when it
comes to spending their pocket money,
the supply of which is so uncertain. And
who can blame them? 1t ID not an I'M
common thing to hear one lady say to
another:
''She always lets me pay her car fares
although her husband is four times as
rich as mine.
Men don't always stop to think that
unless they keep their wives supplied
with cash they must go without. Where
such a couple lives at hotel it makes it
Just so much more difficult for the wife
to secure funds by trick and device, as
already referred to. Said wealthy New
Yorker:
eff a woman has all she can eat,
drink, and wear what more can she ask
for?''
Monster of selflshness, try a dose OF
like It! To sum up: This reluctance to
keep a wife supplied with cash is sur
vival Of those days when women were
treated like children. A man would
deny this vociferously and yet speaking
of the church he would say: cts
good thing for women, for they, you
know need restraint. They have plenty
of instinct but very slight reasoning pow
ers.
Are we women not wanted? Well, go
anywhere that our sex is scarce, and see
what commotIon the advent of one of
us creates. The narrow thoroughfare
known as New street down in the
banking and brokerage district is seldom
visited by q lady of any age whatever
and if by some accident young lady,
possibly pretty one, strays through at
busy time of day when the street is
thronged with men, she becomes the OBJ
ject of more attention than she can con-
veniently take care of. Such an event
fell upon a cold day of last week.
1t was about noontime when very
fetching figure of girl swlrled
round the corners of Wall street and
sailed like q yacht before the wind
straight into the ominous shadow of New
street. She was discovered by a gray
haired broker who was just turning into
Wall street. He stopped short and
looked lIngeringly after her skarrylng
form. Instantly the market took new
turn and the turn was toward the girl.
Every window had a face in it. The
narrow sidewalks were swept clean OF
men, the awe-struck bulls and bears
fiocking excitedly in the street and in
1olr 6nn -iF1or
with that half pathetic futility to keep
her skirts away from the breeze, dropped
her frightened eyes and seemed to be
telling herself that she had made & mis-
take in penetrating this threatening
thoroughfsre. a deep blush suffused her
graceful neck and cheeks and she hest
tated as though about TO retrace ner
steps. She who hesitates, as we all
know, is lost, and this unfortunate
young lady CHANGED to hesitate just
where a casual piece of ice overspread
the sidewalk. She made q sudden back
ward movement and that was the end of
her. A murmur went up from the mob
in the street at the same instant
that the girls feet went up
from the pavement, and it is safe to say
that never has the discontinue or the
stockings of lady been viewed by SC
many men simultaneously as when this
poor creature jumbled her identity and
her skirts into a varI-colored chaos. But
she did not need for assistance. There
was a general convergence of the whole
OF New street to the cold spot where she
sat so discontentedly, and she was lifted
TO her feet by several dozen helping
hands.
"Where are you hurt, my dear miss?
enquired MISUNDERSTANDING old gen
tleman wearing crimson necktie and
the latest thing Ia silk hats.
She brushed her dress and tried to look
unconcerned, but she was trembling
with embarrassment and it was OBJ
served, as she FASTENED away towards
Wall street, that she walked with
limp, IS though she had found the New
street sidewalk . rather hard scat