Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
SHIRLEY DARE.
Women and Their Wants This Season.
Less Beautiful than Last Spring.
Must Eat Food that Has the Greatest Nour-
ishment-silk Underwear to Counter
act the Effects of Chilly Spring
FOR the Gazette.

For the Gazette.
The page from which have just risen,
in a prose poem exquisitely carried out
in Hawthorne vein, has these words:
And what of all things that monuments
are built in memory of, is most loved
and soonest forgotteuP Is it not beau
t!ful woman? Who loves her for the
beauty she once possessed? Is there in
all history a figure SO lonely and despised
as that of a woman who, once the
most beautiful in the world, crept
back into her native land withered
being?'' It is true. Yet against this
decree of age and uGliness should not
women set themselves with all the skill
their fertile brains furnish2 The hand
has been put back nearly twenty years
on the dial of human life, which lasts
till the sixties, where at the beginning of
the century it was doomed to fail at
forty. Men have forced back death,
should not women outwit age and decay
These are questions to be repeated and
pressed upon the consideration.
Women look less beautiful than usual
this spring. Many OF them have had
sore struggle with the winter epidemic,
PHYSIQUE are as tedious as the sequele of
scarlet fever or typhoid, from which a
patient cannot call himself recovered I'M
der year. It will take many days
basking in the warm sunshine, many
days breathing the deep free winds
which stir the blood, and many nights Of
sound sleep to restore the tone TO IN
strung nerves. If the work is half done.
as 1t usually is, the penalty will be visi-
BILE in sallow faces. lack-luster eyes and
dropping forms. Women must perforce
learn wisdom.
Not few will find themselves forced
TO simplify their social work, and drop
much of the routine, useless duty which
has absorbed them. The woman who is
a member of eleven clubs, political.
literary and charitable, will be obliged
TO ignore them so long that il is possible
sba may find existence more endurable
without than with them. For the mere
routine of these time-stealing woman e
clubs makes an enormous waste of time.
SO many letters of invitation and notih-
cation, so many explanatory notes and
circulars are Indispensable, and so much
polite figuring must be done to make the
meetings interesting, that no one with
real aims In art or study but finds her.
self obliged 20 choose between her proper
work and this formulating and posturlng
mainly for the sake of giving Mrs.
Maneuverer credit for being president
over large society. That is the most
any of these women g clubs amounts to.
Itas the end and origin OF their being
ana keen- witted men awake TO the fact.
one of the most effective officers in q
prominent association IN o large city said
lately IN my hearing: ''The ladies aux
iharies want us to fly round and do the
work for them while they eat cake and
ice cream: send us on ereands, and then
take all the credit When they come TO
our aid, il takes our available force 20
wait on them, and 8 day to clear up
after thern;'' which confession could be
echoed by many hard working officers of
benevolent societies. AS TO the glittering
geneality of Shakespeare and literary
clubs, their usefulness is summed
up by bright young member who writes
that "a set of old hens get together AID
pick other people TO pieces. and an
other speaks OF them as s'gossip served
on trays with Shakespeare or Browning
TO float on tescups. So II you mourn