Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03


SNThA ltl FN8Hi been away ut all,
zNIA llb fyEyk! and is foollng the
NA hlShE5/%t spectators by means
2--Alr nEs0s Ila of her costume. l
kfSIIEN24hSg1l IA,fd1 know a soubrette
%4lSEa45a-zSST who colors her face
brown in order to make it corrob-
crate her account of q trip to the
White mountains, the fact being that the
highest altitude che has attained this
summer is the fourth story of New
York boarding house. And while we
have the merry maiden with us we are
not dull. She is SO provocative of pleas-
ant incidents.
A Sixth avenue horse car dashing up
town al CLOCK in the morning. Sit
ting bolt upright on one side Of the car
alone, q surprisingly fine young woman.
She is modestly dressed, and her face
and bearing have an air of refinement
that is out OF place at such an hour with
no one about to guard it. A stout forid
young man in one corner, with small
dark eyes fixed on the face of the girl.
Another young man, tall drowsy, 1iashy,
but interested, gazing IN from the plat
form at the same girl. There is GER
tainly no sign made by the young woman
stared at. She holds her purse and
paper covered novel lightly on her lap,
and gaZes abstractedly into vacancy
The car continues uptown until 1t reaches
Fifty-third street, when the young
woman turns her handsome eyes up at
the conductor, and expresses by
a light smile her desire to be let
off. The man on the platform
and the other men inside the car, cast
hasty and envious chances ct one anoth-
err. Without looking to the right or left,
the girl steps gracefully from the plat
form and hurries into the darkness of the
cross street. Instantly both young men
plunge after her. 1t is q race. The
conductor is so interested that he holds
his car for moment, IN order to see the
result of the rivalry. One man is al
ready at the girl IS left elbow, the other
at her right. She pauses, and looks first
ut one and then at the other. She is
perfectly serene; indeed there is pleas
ant smile on her face. Suddenly she
gives little start, and making slight
movement back in the direction OF the
car, says:
"On, 1 have left my purse. -
1t is sufficient. Both young men utter
an ejaculation which means that the
purse shall be rescued, and side by side
they run race back to the car, which Is
yet at a standstill on the corner. They
do not seem able to find the purse. The !
conductor, on being questioned, declares
that no purse has been left in the car.
The men spring towards the girl once |
more 10 make their report. There is no |
girl in sight. Presently, through the |
vacant darkness, comes u silvery peal of |
laughter, and then up the street some |
AZ 80 a1a Nnl
door is heard. The young men stand |
looking at each other mutely for mo-
ment, and then both smile in a CHASTITY |
way.
"Have a cigar, - says one, extending |
a handful of the weeds.
81 was just about offering you one, "
responds the other.
Then they both board the car again |
and squirIn beneath the sympathetic |
Chances OF the conductor.
-
Whenever l desire to see something d.
ysrtiug in feminInity I lake q trip to one |
of the popular day resorts down the bay.
On the deck of Couey Island steamboat |
my attention was attracted by a young |
mother engaged with a bottle gratifying
the appetite of her baby.
About five minutes after the child was
satisfied his father came on deck bring
ing with him glass of beer for his wife.
The baby, upon seeing this desired it for
himself, and the fond parents imme-
diatsly poured a share OF it into his open
mouth. The child enjoyed the beer ex-
ceedingly. The husband went below
again and brought back to his wife a
sandwich and a large pickle. The pickle
became an immediate object of great in
fn ha hoh v xrh IN demanded |
himself, and received it without remou-
STRANGE from his parents, cheertully in
serting one end of it between his lips and
smiling his satisfaction at its
acidity. Presently, the steamer
ran out of the smooth water in the
bay, and began rolling a little in the
waves of the sparkling sea. At just
about that time the baby permitted the
pickle TO drop from his pudgy fingers,
and fixed his young eyes into space, as
though he was giving deep thought to
some problem that had suddenly struck
him. Then he made up face, Dug his
fists into his eye, and, after spssmodio
gulp, set up q howl of distress. The
young mother, confident that he had had
sufficient to Cat, could not make out
what allied the young one. She danced
him up and down, clucked and cooed at
him, shook a rattle at him, tried TO get
him interested in passing objects. but to
no purpose; the boy screamed till it
seemed as though he would split.
"Tbere n lst be pin sticking into
him - said an old lady sitting near.
''CuttiAg his teeth, 1 suppose, 'hsaid
another.
The whistle OF the steamer. blew, but
the boy brought 1t TO a stop in short or
der by his superior whoop. After some
moments of this mild-eyed old gentle
man stepped up to the young mother and
said:
''You have not yet given it any pine-
apple or watermelon. -
The bewildered young woman looked
up into the speakers eyes. She did not