Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
Fo-tLe Gazette.

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1 ~EAeE@-5N y and proper people
~ /Az8f\ / sat calmly through
= /<|SA ~ three or four acts
I /Zlf5sfs of double mean
( ElErgM } J ings and saIacious
Gj I repartee without
- III shiver or qualm Of
ga ~ LEaAI conscience.
s "Oh," said
y ---rfS they, cit doesn't
k1TTrTf IS{ sound so bad in
49,; s5 Fren c II, you
IN fSSY know
ANi NJ1EY Since then, near
Iva quarter of q
century q knOWl-
lss-ey edge Of the French
EZe@>--zsssz@zF~ language has be-
crr7a the cOmmOnest thing III the world.
Young ladies especially in all refined
families read it with vengeance. The
novels Of lola, Belot, Maupossaut and
CberbuIliez may all be had at the Mer-
cantfie HDrary-works which, if rem
de-ed honestly in English, would make
yolr hair stand on end. Week in and
week out, these dainty young misses
troop into this library and draw ont the
worst and the vilest of modern French
literature A few years ago young
1gdv at one of the patriarch balls was
seen to drink champagne from the neck
Of the bottle. According to her own ad-
mission, she had read many Of the novels
Of the Partisan school Of t0-day-than
winch nothing could be viler. These
novels are all on tap at the Mercantile
library.
Has II ever occurred to you that the
fad Of New York women for physical
culture and manly sports is really point
inc toward q future generation of ANA
y0us9 What else can come of it when
women fence and practice with the broad
sword, and handle rifle or shotgun, pis-
rol or saJer. without a morsel Of fear.
Some of our most lovely and delIcatelY
reared women are perfectly at home with
weapons that short time ago would
have sent one Of the sex into Mysteries
only TO look az them. They mean bust
ness, too one of our young ladies, a
belle at home and abroad, not only bears
herself Creditably in riding to hounds
hut shows daring and endurance on
foot in the shooting season that is rarely
excelIod by men. She wears skirts a
foot from the ground, Ieathern leggings,
ana StLNIE BbDLHs tuIlISS lEE OWL IlltG
ct shotgun, and her game bag, fairly
outcimbs and outruus the men of her
party and with no apparent fatigue.
She brings down birds, squirrels and
rabbits with uueTring skill, and is plan
mig bear hunt in some of the Western
wids for next summer. She says she
fban not be satisfied till she has shot her
grizzly. Yet this girl in society is as
sweet and womanly IS if she had never
handled q weaDon more formidable than
q hairpiu. How opposed all this is to
the old Ideas of what Is lovely in a wO-
man. What the hsrvest will be of such
q vigorous seed-tme it would be hard to
predict. This is what an elderly mascu-
line observer says:
1.-THE most serious question of the day
l. What viii our women do next.
They We gone into everything; college,
Che professions, business, literature, and
how they are clean daft on physical cul-
tuTe. They can make themselves over
from lean scarecrows to plump bewltch-
ing Hebes; they We thrown off the cling
ing invaldism Of my time and stand
shoulder to shoulder with men in pluck
and eGdurauce; and that isn't all,
oemme. They have clubs, and clubs,
where they handle all sorts of subjects
without gIove-get q woman once to
talking on things and She I'll rush in
where well, where we men fear to
tread. Then some of item are studying
the constitution and political economy,
while parliamentary laws are mere q, b,
5 TO these Portals. And still they
dress and pose with an art that takes q
man right of his feet, and they dance
auc sing, and fiirt till he can t tell
whether he is on terra frma or whirling
through the ether in a balloon. There's
where the danger Is, by CAD! They can
>Aoot and fence, swing a cutlass and
ilde bareback man fashion, and what if
they should turn next to politics. They re
not going to stop here. What if they
should rise in Il body and demand a
vote. BY the great god Mars! We
should all give in, every mothers son OF
us. When women can quote the consti-
iu'on and crack pistol in defense of it,
Fetjlcoat government ism I a great ways
o1-oh, good Lord, deliver us!''
Imagine the chorus of silvery laughter
ana the beautiful defiance of bright eyes
NAT answer this poor old croaker.
1t Is not now the custom for ladies to
array themselves IN the delicate fnery
OF SpTin2time and parade Fifth avenue
Oh sunday, but very pretty, though
Dol thoroughly informed young woman
seoIned the later edict of fashion and re-
solved 10 paralyse the inhabitants of the
CITY with sight of herself in vernal raj
UVnl. She was a remarkable picture as
sue uoated airiIy along in the
pFeeze, and the throng going home
rom church was so dazzled that
d S'oNped to watch her pass. Her head
was laden with a multitudinous bunch of
Ilnh and white roses, while her dainty
r~(s-'-l'ope gown seemed spun by spiders.
No one on the avenue was quite so well
Sa"sAed as she, and albeit she shivered
SIGNIFY when the searching breeze ca
Ls'seo her thiuly covered shoulders, she |
vas paIpably proud that she should have |
D'eu the most striking and stylish wo-
tI"1 on the promenade at time when all |
ere striving 10 secure that distinction
~ the corner of Forty-second street two |
.@SAeu uTchins of about ten years of age |
s.Oppea short in the middle of the ave-
Lus ana stared at the futtering girl as
cue swept like butterfly through the |
HoWd on the sidewalk.
-. Hi,ey, Bonesy, - called one, 'Iuk at