The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-04-01
In TEXAS.
A Sedalia Girls Impressions OF
the Lone Star State.
Fort WORTH, Tex, March %.

beau ifuI scenery along the route,
met a number of young ladies' and
gentlemen returning home from col
leges In Missouri, to spend the hol-
DAYS among old as.oci ,tious. We
played euchre, ate, drank and made
merry, as yeung folks will do. While
i'm Fort Worth l was the guest of my
uncle ex-Mayor Col. j. p. Smi h.
who, by the way, is called the Father
of Fort Worth. Their elegant house
was several times TIN own open durl"g
my STAY, brilliantly lighted and d c.
GRATED, while beauty, gallantry and
repar,ee caught up the inspiration
that echoed through the spacious par
lors ami Railways from the city YY,thaSS 9lde
pfrtIcuIaI ,<f-v.. -. I'D "''f
house: A New Years rec, pl,n III
honor of the two most i-si
ionable cIuhs-Ihe Marguerite: anu
the Ko king K'u r,srpe many
eIegiBT enter ainmeals in the han +
some homes OF Fort W"r h. | ar
rived just in 'ime for the Christmas
and New Year fe.tiviliss. The Epis-
copal rectory, the large dancing hail..
the magnificent opera house, private
mansions and, Indeed, the entire CITY
appeared one succession of "open |
doors for month. The young lad
les, beautiful and accomplished, and
the young gentlemen, polish. d and
gallant, were ali e.p ,cially kind in
calling, d living and honoring the
stranger within their gates" [ tell
you no city boas's of gre ,ter hoSpit a.
ity than Fort Worth. Tex. lis a
lovely p'ace-high and healthy-un-
deraid with the purest artesian water 4,
and is at this time undsra hi,h pres 4;
sure of progr,ss, bull ling, busting, $
booming! Like roatlets from the 2
grand trunk, her suburbs and addi- $
tions run out in every direc ion for !
miles. She is surrounded by heights {
that are being extensively improved d
and beautified, although a picture of j
glory in tn m.elves and JUS now a
grand boulevard of seven mills is h
,spping her magnifeenrly graded %
streets. | will net attempt t. des- O
tribe the charming residences aud the
business stIuc ures of Texas a.
tone, pressed brick and iron, running ST
Up seven and eight stor es high. Her v
hurches and school houses are grand a
Sea cely in her teens, they tell me
md yet marvel of beauty and enter
,r;se. 1t seems 10 me there is in
piration in the very atmosphere of
lear Fort Worth. But leaving very D.
much that is of profound interest to
pc, L must has en- on to other points, !"
again ''tD my first 10 re" as al
finish On Jan. 20, [ babe a reluc- 1t
ant adieu to this eh,rming place and 4
las met in Austin by my friend Miss ci
Arch r, her father and several gem
leme1. Next day We took a drive 81
yer the lovely capital city. Austin In
a regular society place. tN
III they seem 10 think IN On
bout lis getting up germans and th
ovel entertainments. The young IN
lies are charming and the g mile WI
len are ct your "beck and call" ca
he days were spent in calling and so
irving AMI the evenings a. parties IN n
nd !heaters. At midnight when you Oil
ere dreaming, your If forgotten in a
lumber, the soul stirring strains of the 81
r naJe would break out upon the Ia
lin SIS. TGe e were So fequent u
Ia if Il failure occurred you were cl'
-eated next morn with-"Did not ga.
ave a serenaie las: night ? that's sd
Inny." | took "a grippe Wilde here u, IN
1T it did cot keep me from going. tn'
COX cinner AMI tea several times at an
e elegant DriskilI hotsl-the fac t
Texas. 1t is compared with the leo
emit and 81 banasSet a fSIs in yo
an elegant affair given the Horti. ma
llturists convention. / visited the WI
agnificent capital building of Texas ta'
one, the various ssylums, the grand ne
ate university and points of interest pa
I'd was charmiBgly entertained and Cd:
lpressei with Austin. After a ien
( weeks visit of unaloyed pleas pu
e my next point was 'io
e little city cf Waco. 1 was rather MI
rprised at its extreme neatness, its Rh
cen, springlike appearance. 1t has {
nice opera house, three artesian suf
Ills and taking it all in all is one of o s,sl
e incest Texas towns. / met and rec
ade friends there whom shall never Syr
rget. ] came back to Fort Worth anG
st in time for Mrs }. r Hoxie's rhe
,gant complimentary to the "Mar- ais ais
erites" and "Kooking Klub," I ]
md the city somewhat less gay than sta,
ring my first visit, on account of rhe
mt, still there is much of great in OF
rest, as it would be hard for Fort 'er'
nrfh to lao. The great cattle con-. =