Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
Music Riding One of the Favorite
AmuSementS During Lent.
How Young Nan in Liquor Took a
Pair of Striped Stockings for
Snakes-Recepti0nS.
4 Timid Harlem Maiden Shows Enough Dig
nifty to Accommodate a Decentralization
for Woman Of Brains.
NEW YORK, April 2, 1890.
For the Gazette.

For the Gazette.
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lI@ ~ Holy week into Eas-
"a H%RC%R ter week, "our best
GA III EIi5 b sassiety'' is once
y MN M more ready for live
TAI/TIG ness. Not that Lent
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iRZILZIz7 n m ply changed our di-
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Wins ( ~ Among the tavorite
EL/<IWN Ks J amusements W a 8
TUGpJ D-SS - music riding. These
Mkl.DLE1G ~ affairs in the New
~ t-0f1 Y o K equestrian
a,su emies are largely attended. A
music ride meaus ride on horseback to
music. That is, people go to riding
school on certain evenings, get on their
horses and amble about the enclosure to
popular airs played by q band. Mean
while, their friends sit in the galleries
and look on. Occasionally an aspiring
girl, or possibly fat woman falls of a
horse and thus enliYens the proceedings;
but usually it is simply a monotonous cir
cling around the ring by those who like
to show their riding clothes and enjoy
social intercourse with their partners.
An easy system OF etiquette prevails.
Everybody talks to his neighboT; and, as
the pupils usually have to be properly in
troduced at these schools, there is not
much danger of undesirable persons in
trudiug themselves. Once in q great
while black sheep-she is usually very
blonde with high complexion-cOmes in
and gives the other riders something to
gossip about. Once her character is found
out, however, her tickets for riding are
quietly withheld by the management and
she is told that she will have to go to
some other school as all the horses are
engaged. There is a storm, good deal
of protesting, and then the undesirable
one goes away and the quality of the
music ride is placed beyond cavil. Per-
haps abuses will eventually destroy the
present vogue of music riding, as they
did with roller-skating.
A very young man with light, goose
down mustache, pale blue eyes, num-
Der twelve neck and large faith in his
physical attractions has been haunting
the front row OF one of our theaters
lately in the vain hope that a certain
handsome girl in the company
would recognize what a beauti-
full example of masculinity he is. His
continual communications, accompanied
ing sort of silence, but still he did not
despair, and this week, after his hard
season Of cold disappointment, he out
did himself by sending a huge basket of
flowers with the request that, If his at
tentions were viewed with favor, the Idol
of his heart should, at the performance
that night, wear a cluster of the violets
on her bosom. 1t happens that bright
little girl Of eight takes a part in the
play wherein the dudes divinity is ap-
peaTing, and the callow youth was as
tOnished when, after watching vainly for
his bunch on the breast of the leading
actress, he Dissolved them at the throat
of the child. The woman and the girl
have cOllOquy together in one scene,
and on this occasion they introduced a
few lines that were not in the author
text.
"Oh, where did you get those sweet
violets, - asked the actress.
"a dude sent them to me, - replied
the child.
"Why, you little mouse, - said the
actress; ''dO you mean to say that you
have become the victim of dudes at your
age?''
Eyes, indeed - said the child with
immense gravity, land I am to wear
these flowers when go ont with nurse so
that he may know that like him.
Then the regular lines of the play were
resumed. About that time red and
white young man, evidently hurrying for
train, was seen flying up the aisle of
the theater.
Women capable of exploits are a nuis-
ance, and one of the riding academies
has had to shut out disciple of straddle-
saddlers for equestriennes. She was
professional dress Teformer, and sought
advertisement through immodesty. She
urged that there would be novelty but no
offenSe IN the sight of woman on horse
back man-f8shion. The manager replied
that usage made the difference, and that
he wouldn t risk the shock to the specta-
tors. That reminds me of an incident
showing how even tipsy man may take
alarm. II was on the fast midnight eX-
press from New York to Boston, and the
train was al g Standstill in New Haven. !
The interior OF the sleeping car was still,
save for the rather emphatic breathing |
OF several of the passengers, that came |
behind the limp curtains of the berths. |
The door OF the car opened and q young /
man entered, followed by a colored por-
ter carrying his traps. The Young man |
was very pale and noticeably shaky. |
His eye was unnaturallY bright and his |
lips twitched convulsively. He looked |
like man that was nerved up to the |
highest tension of excitement. His |
speech disclosed the fact that liquor was
the cause of his emotion.
''Lower seven 5 mine, porter, lower
seven, dye un 'nerstan' Wired up |
New York tor it to-day, see, an here's
ticket. Hurry up, you black rascal an
show me lower seven.
As he spoke his voice became shrill,
and be drew a flask of whisky from his |,
pocket, when he bad finished, placing it
70 his lips and drinking long and raven
Onsiy, The porter showed him to his
berth, and, throwing in his hat and
boots, the intoxicated man plunged in
after them, and was silent. But soon
there was little movement in the cur
tains over upper seven. Then shrek
OF terror rang through the car and the
young man sprang from the lower berth,
dashing down the aisle aud clasDiug the
porter, who had come in from his room
to see what was the matter, round the
neck.
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