Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-02

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seems to be requi-
VI ~ site to feminine
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TNYN Fifth avenue hap
n FSSY\N piness SweitZer-
IA Hk4 kase sandwiches
1SA E5E~N and beer are the
bEAAy NsaSSV latest within in Nc
iEFN'AAN Allister's set. Be-
IN Az N fore "Mac,' as
DE @E> IN his familiars call
Il N him, brought out
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S1 able Turveydrop,
he had talked 1t up to all his friends,
and had said he intended to print a fnll
account of his ideas about eating. One
night he was dilating on this subject at q
lady 8 house, when young man present
asked him if he intended recommending
Swiss cheese sandwiches and beer to his
readers. Naturally enough, this an
noyed McAlllster, but the young man
went on to say that he had sincere ad
miration for Swiss cheese and beer, and
he really believed they should be intro
duced TO the attention of society. In
stantly the hostess suggested the wis
dom Of forming party to 60
out in search of sandwiches and
beer; and, as the young man knew
moat respectable resort, where the best
a. Doth was obtainable, merry crowd
ssoQe started forth. The general agree
]. Q$ht was that it was awfully jolly to
sPartake of such refreshment in such I'M
conventional style, and from that even
ing a sandwich and beer club went into
existence. So firmly has the passion
taken hold of a number of young women
that they eat very light nner on the
nights of the club meetings in order to do
full justice TO the cheese suppers. One
married beauty, upon reaching the de-
lightful little room where the club met
on Thursday nights, called for q cock
tail.
- do love cheese sandwiches so, -
said she, land l am going to drink
cocktails so as to get awfully hungry. 1
want 20 eat three whole ones.'
McAllister has tried to put a stop to
the vulgar practice of the club, but to
no purpose. He has assured the ladies
that beer will make their faces puffy
and cheese will make their skins coarse,
but even that dire calamity Is not suffi-
GENTLY intimidating TO deter the girls
from their festivals.
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Two handsome girls on the high seat of
a mail phaeton sped at a lively gait be-
hind a fine pair of dapple-gray horses
over the broad and smooth road leading
from Fifth avenue into Central Park.
1t was II o'clock in the morning. Be-
hind the girls sat q groom dressed in
quiet livery. All this was in the best of
taste, as fashion now DEGREES it. The
tight tailor gowns Of the girls, the
large bouttonnieres stuck man-fashion
on the lapels of their coats, their tan
gloves and their high collars did not
carry the suggestion of vulgarity. These
vera thoroughbred young women going
for a very quiet drive.
At 4 'clock in the afternoon, while
the park was crowded with equipages,
another finely appointed mail phaeton,
drawn by an irreproachable team of bay
horses, and containing two young women
whose attire was in good taste in spite of
its smartuess, rolled swiftly along in the
parade and attracted marked attention
from all sides. There was a clean and
extremely elegant groom behind the
young women, and to the casual gaze the
entire arrangement, girls included, was
as dainty and proper as the correspond
ing one of the morning. Yet great
difference was there, nevertheless,
though not apparent. The afternoon
girls were of the strip that is not in
the least Thoroughbred. The unmistak-
able proof of this was to be found In the
fact that they drove in such style after
midday. Custom dictates with absolute
particularly the rules in the matters of
walking and driving in New York. A
young woman may be as horsey and
snowy as she chooses when she goes into
the park IN the morning, but when the
afternoon drive is progressing, she must
either recliue in victoria or be driven
out in a cart accompanied by q gentle-
man. She cannot by any possibility
drive her own horses at this latter time,
without being looked upon as "fast' by
everyone that is informed in the etiquette
of the subject,
Swell young women, however, can do
more unconventional things than drive
in the park after midday without being
looked upon with suspicion by MEMBERS
of their own set. A very lively lot of
the most fashionable young people of the
city went out to luncheon at q house
overlooking the Hudson river, and as
one of the prettiest girls in the party was
handed out OF her carriage by young
man who was known to feel a decided
penchant toward her, one could have
noted, if he were alert, that she wore
brown silk stockings to match her suede
shoes. The luncheon was merry one,
the drive home quite joyous and the
farewell between the young man and the
glrl at the latter's house was lingering.
I don't know how 1t all happened, but
on the following day two or three fair
acquaintance OF the young lady were
treated to a sight of soft brown silk
stocking stuffed with rare bon bons and
with q bunch of roses as crown to them.
But let us not be too severe on the rich
girls. Poor ones are subjects for satire,
too. little sweet faced, tender-eysd
girl. with an older aud palmer compan-
ion, got into train on Sixth avenue at
G o o'clock one night, and wedged herself
in among the crowd that was packed into
the aisle of the car. Her attire and the
little tin lunch box under her arm
showed her to be shopgirl on her way
homo to supper. and her pretty, inno-
cent looks interested many of the stern
business men who saw her. One gentle
IN, led hn Of