Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15

steamer. was down to meet friends
you know. Cad, but that beautiful girl
is going to cut wide swathe in society
next season, my boy. Why, she is the
most beautiful woman in town to-day
Such hair, such eyes, such healthy
buoyant, rosy youth l have not seen in
many day. But see you are with the
majority. She brings her mother with
her, eh?'
Harry did not respond to this sally f,
but hastily ordered brandies and soda 4,
and then taking up another subject at
once. After few moments he left the
club.
"What ais Harry" asked the hearty
admirer of the new wife. ''He didn It
take my praise in any sort OF way at all &.
Did go too far? Shouldn't have raved
over the girl as 1 did?''
"WeH,' said an old gentleman in
the corner under the circumstances you
might have profitably exercised a little
more discretion. The lady yon took for
the mother-in-law is Harry's wife.
Harry married her millions. The young
beauty with the hair and eyes and youth
that you went mad over is the old lady g
companion.
The innocent blockhead Immediately
proceeded to get intoxicated in order to
forget bis terrible mistake. Not only
was he sorry to have hit his friend so
hard, but he knew every man In the club
would be running up to get look at the
beautiful companion. If that compan-
ion is not married before warm weather
it will not be the fault of those club
men.
-.
/ The eXclusiveness of some Of the clubs
is amusing to disinterested observers, blu t
CALLING to those who personally suffer
from it. Although New York ''society"
that is to say, the most self-assertive
that there is IN the way of society-is
founded upon wealth, and depends al
most entirely upon the fact that its men,
bers are millionaires, yet let any rich
outsider attempt to push himself for
ward instead of waiting for such recog-
milton as may be little by little accorded
to him, and he will be most numerically
snubbed. Such punishment was lately
administered to a certain author and
dramatist whose books and plays have
made such hit that that he suddenly
awoke and found himself not only famous
but rich. He had himself proposed for
membership in the Calumet club, sort
VI OASIlOOG ITOIu Tie NATURALLY
he was biaokballed by the snobbish mem
bers. 1t hurt, but he might have ex-
pected it. One of the leaders in the
four hundred once kept small country
tavern and livery stable, often driving q
hack himself. But that was forty years
ago!
One of the most successful of men who
have walked into swelldom has met with
a bad defeat. That man is Chauncey M.
Depew. The fair has gone to Chicago,
or is going, and that is a blow to our
Chauncey. His general success has not
been one strictly of personal merit, not
withstanding his genial character and
elOquence. He attached himself to
family which has grown great and
he has grown great with it. Depew came
from up the Hudson river and was not
particularly bright young man. He tried
Wall street OH his own hook, and failed
for large sum in those days. When a
lad his father called out to him one day
to come and help scale some shad which
the old gentleman was going to salt
down. Chauncey obeyed with alacrity,
seized knife and fish, and began soraping
from the head toward the tail. The ell
der Depew dismissed the lad with
shake of the head, and a mournful:
'Ah, Chauucey, what are you good for,