Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Drawing-RoOm ViStaS Seen
Through a Young Mans
MOnOcle.
Two Women Chat III Cosy Corner OF
Materials and Modes Adapted to
the Spring Dress Models.
Thorough Education the Lever that Is to Lift
Woman to her Proper Plane, Side by Side
with Observation-Disclosures.

cushions for moment 3 respite from the
throng. The swaying of the soft cur
tains and the faint odor of flowers, with
the leafy beauty of palms, made the
nook too attractive for solitude, and
soon a pleasant voice of masculine tone
said, sDo 1 intrude?'' con no!'
No other answer was possible to the
frank, smiling face, and room was made
for the young fellow, who said he was
tired of the dance.
With the frankness permissible between
friends, he said, ''What are you doing
here, taking notes?''
Eyes, on dress.
LET me give you man s opinion. -
The request was granted and the
GsLadies' Column contains his notes.
They are crude and disconnected and
were oftener of what he thought than
what be saw.
Look now, said he, at that young lady
in yellow She has made a mistake in
color and in style. Yellow is a lovely
warm color; the gold tint is suggestive
of sunshine, but too much glare of sun
shine is not pleasant. With large brown
or black eyes, hair of chestnut brown or
glittering jet, complexion like ivory,
and a tall, queenly form, that yellow
gown, with the softening white, the gold
beads around a long throat, she would
have been a goddess for men to worship.
They might even have kissed the hem Of
the train that trIpped them in the dance.
But this little nymph whose cheeks are
like apple blossoms, and hair like soft,
silkeu threads a sunbeam has kissed,
whose dimnutiv reminds one of
wood nymphs and fairies, has lost her
beauty in iuharmonious settings. Why
is it women Gan never? Something
checked him, and looking up he was
heard to exclaim: ooh, but she IS ex
quisite!'
He saw the picture entire-as men al
ways do; of the details he took no cogni-
zance. A woman knew that the dress
was of white satin, almost COW
cred with tulle, sparkling with
white JET, and was caught here
cherry blossoms, the springs own flower.
Her practiced eye took in the fact that
the train was narrow, short and plain,
and the tulle overdress plain also, that
the satin corsage was dTaped in jet and
tulIe and that tall crystal butterflies,
mounted, lowered over the flower
epaulets. Arm in arm with girl friend,
whose dress was more simple, yet not
less tasteful, they formed picture to
which the bright portieres lent the neces-
sary coloring The second dress was OF
pale mauve satin, with tulle Overdress,
fringed with hyaciuths. Bouquets of the
same retained the soft drapery as a relief
TO severity, and the gathered, old
fashioned baby waist, had deep fringe
of hyacinths clustering only upon the left
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sizes and of all sorts of colors.
"Ugh!'' he said, 81 do not like bugs;
why do sweet buds have them?'' There
was temptation to say to keep providers
away; but that would have been naughty.
The young man in his self elected Office
went on with his spoken soliquy: 81 IN
glad those pretty girls declined this
dance; they've danced often enough.
Parisians are saying that dancing is no
longer fashionable; thanks for that. I
dance, but do not like to see any girl
admire make q business of dancing. A
programme not over half filled Is in so
much better taste. l do not like to see
girl flushed with the excitement of the
music and the dance, and do not like to
see her spinning like q toy for every
man Is asking. -
The question was unavoidable: ''Do
y
man shrugged his shoulders. 81 dance,
but my sister doesn't. 1 am rather glad
of it, Then impulsively: "Do not
think l am one who can see only evil.
No, no, sweet girls; 1 dance in the ex-
uberanoe of youth, pure in thought,
word and look, but don t ask me of the
tendencies of the dance. 1t is too entic-
ing; for my part l would rather see this
best of all creation like bees, who when
gathering honey touch flower after flower
so lightly, and not like them when OPP
portunity offers TO so iutoXicate them
selves as TO perish in the sweets they
themselves have garnered. But. pray,
why should l mOraliZe? We men hover
over the buds, nay, even brush the bloom
from the flower, then go TO other gar
dens. l think it were wiser in women to
cultivate qualities that will hold admi
ration longer than a season or two.
'Ah, there 5 my girl, - in answer to
look of inquiry. ono, not mine,
only wish 1 had a proprietorship. -
Coming towards US were two. mother
ana daughter, the mother looking so
handsome IN dress of iron-gray faille,
the corsage plated around the figure
and mounted on a V-shaped stripe
trimmed with galloon of mixed gold and
steel. The corsage was continued down
in the form of a redingote. showing n
silk front to match the material. The
sleeves came high up on the shoulders
and were split their entire length, show
ing an inner sleeve of gray velvet, tight
fitting, trimmed at the wrists with three
rows of galloon.
''She's girl her mother cares for.
Chaperones? Well, yes; at least if 1 was
p woman and had a daughter l would
look after her. That girl has been taken
care of always. She was taught dancing
early, and thus learned to move with
ease and grace. Look at her walk She
steps with precision and frmness.
1t may not be poetic to dissect
that walk, but she poises herself
as if suspended by q frail cord that is
kept taut and yet never breaks. Her
waist is held firmly, she steps firmly on
the ball of the foot, no heel work there.
and the toes are straight, the pivot is the
hlp joint, and the knee bends only
slightly to make the step. Talk OF poetry
OF motion, that's the majesty of it. If L
were a girl would not lounge much in
rocking chairs aud on cOuches; it favors
round shoulders and tends to embonpoint.
am glad pedestrianism is the fashion.