Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
KAUFMAN CELEBRATES.
The Third Anniversary of Fer Literary and
Library Club.

llUfdFI CluU.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
KAUFMAN, TEX, March 2S.-Not-
wlthstanding her magnificent white
stone courthouse and coterie of smartesr
lawyers in the state, the old burg OF
Kaufman is in ono respect decidedly be-
hind the times, old fashioned. She has
not caught on to the latest 'tfad" of
weak beef tea, "hard tack, and
fine array of silver and cut
glass dishes with nothing in them. When
Kaufman invites you to banquet it
means a long table groaninS under its
load of roast turkey, salads, condiments
and coffee, fine cakes and something to
drink
However, IKE preliminaries to the
banquet last night were the most enter
tanning part of the programme.
The assemblage of Kaufman L. and L.
society and guests in their handsome
clubroom on the third floor of the court
house, was one that would have done
credit to q larger and more pretentiOus
city. Judge league was, of course,
presiding spirit and officer of the occa-
sion. Kaufman, socially or politically,
without Judge league would be like the
play of ''Hamlet'' with ''HamIet - left
out.
Mr.. Gossett, in his address of well
come, showed the gracious suavity of
manner, the lost and conservative policy,
which we would like TO see Fmade mani
fest'' in our next legislature. A man
who knows what to say, how to say it,
and when to stop, is no small desidera-
tum in affairs Of social or public life.
The literary features Of the programme
were made up of well-seleoted and
gracefully rendered readings and recita-
tions 'by Mrs. Garrett and the Misses
Irwin of Kaufman and Mrs. ''Belle
Hunt Shortridge of Terrell An i'm
FASHIONED and truly dramatic rendering of
Mark Antony 8 Grafton of the fallen Caesar
by Mr.. s. NJ. Lazarus of Terrell, and
magnificent music, instrumental and vo-
cal, by Mesdames Marshall, Porter, the
Messrs. Barnes, Judge league, Dawn
leahn and others of kaufman, assisted
by Mrs. George Vivers, the superb plan
list, and her brother, Secrecy Elliott of
Forney, completed the "feast of reG-
son. -
The flow of soul at the banquet board
was lnaugurating by Judge league pro-
posing the toast, 1.-THE Continued Pros
perity of Our Club, - which toast was
most appropriately and wittily responded
to by Senator J o. Terrell.
The senator made happy and original
comparison or contrast between this
''club'' to which men went at a re-
specially early hour, and took their
wives, and those clubs of his
own previous knowledge - which
meetings the senator evidently
got confused with committees
which are designed to env6lOp in i'm
penetrable mystery and oblivion the
whereabouts and ''spiritual (?)'' con-
dition of men between the hours of u p.
m. and daybreak. In response to the toast
"Our Guests, - Mr.. Gassett arose and
poured forth such a rhapsody Of pretty
compliments and cordially (please bear
in mind that Mr.. G had already drank
to one toast that we visitors
felt like that extravagant wo-
man who raves about "tlinging her
bright harp unrepiniugly down. and
tearing from her forehead the beautiful
crown of all future possibilities for the
sake of remaining a permanent guest
of kaufman. Judge Teagen then ex-
planned that ''we country people,
were a little undecided as to whether a
toast should be drank before or after the
response, and proposed then, to avoid
any possible breach of etiquette, we
should drink both before and after,
which remark indeed seemed to
prove the most unanimously in
dorsed toast of the evening.
Mr.. Gould then made beautiful re-
Spouse to ''The Sunny South, - and
Judge league, at the suggestion Of one
of the ladies with whom the judge al
ways "stands in ~ answered to "Wo- |
man, Her Sphere and Rights. -
Let me whisper in your ear |
that Fwoman' is the judges "fad, -
and when the judge had got through |
with that speech was the first time in life !
your humble servant did not 'wish she |
was a man.
Mr.. Lazarus very appropriately re-
sponded to 'sThe Stage, - and did so in |
a vein and manner so simple and yet so |
telling, that the artistic and histrionic |
world would be better off if the glowing |
and elevating words of this gifted young
tragedien were printed and read by
every theater-goer in the land.
The evening was one of the few in life
worth the living. Bright minds and
warm hearts in contact ever produce the
fairest flowers If eloquence, spirituality
and that Unborn conviction man g origin
from and cYclical return to the land OF
the gods.
But, to remind us that we are, as yet,
Of the earth earthly, true and correct
report Of this "auspicious occasion, -
compels me to say, that about O'Clock |
q. m, the erstwhile silent streets Of
Kaufman were echoing crossfiring toast
and response to the tune Of 1--WE won't