Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23

and even elegant. Suddenly thong ht
struck her. Perhaps it might be her
husband. That good man WIS dragged
in front of the glass and placed alongside
of his anxious mate. Immediately the
mystery was solved. 1t was her mUff
and his beard! The one was an exact
counterpart of the other-in texture, in
length, in color; and the effect was lu-
dicrous to an extreme degree. 1t really
looked us if the husband had the muff
on his chin and face, or that the wife
had her hands ensconcei III the beard +,
just as you choose. In other words, the
beard and muff were an exact match
aud you can't imagine the funny effect
produced hy this similarity. Moral ::
Don let your muff match your hus-
bands beard. -.
Two constant figures at theatfical first
nights are Il fat, baby-like young man
AMI conspiouously pretty young woman.
The former ears some slight resemb-
larce TO the baby hippotarnus in Central
park, AMI the latter bears no resemb-
lance to anything but herself. To the
establishment and annoyance of an audi
ence the young woman invariably ap-
pears with her escort during the progress
of tue first act of play and sweeps down
TO her seat like a duchess going to court.
She is dressed III pearl gray gown
trimmed with silver, ana long train
ruStles behind her. Her neck is bGre,
and IL is this feature that recently brought
ridicule upon her She iluuted voiumiu-
ouslv into the theatre one evening and
took her seat. which CHANGED TO be di-
rectiy in front of one occupied by q we'll
known young fellow who hal been dining
heartily. aud was i'll Il somewhat frolic-
some condition of mind. He fixed his
eyes upon the broad stretch of bare neck
the instant it came in front OF him, and
for a matter of fifteen minutes ne s;udird
1t with the utmost care, much us Il con-
uoisSeur will study M exquisite minia-
ture. Then he drew card from his
porket and wrote in plain letters upon
1t the words:
drop in nickel and see the rest OF
the girl come out,
Attaching this carefully to the edge of
the corsage by means of u pin, the Young
man sat conteniedly back in his cha r,
folded his arms and proceeded 10 enjnv
the stage performance. When the hip
pOtamus escort assisted the young
woman with her wrap at the end of the
play his eyes caught sight of the card,
and its inscription caused his neck TO
swell with Indignation until 1t I'd as
though he must fall dead from apoplexy.
The misch evouS young man behni,
however, Was Lusr at this time recog-
zlng the snlutation of q thoroughbred
girl Il short distance away, aud was
crnwdiug forward to exchange verbal
greeting with her. The fat esror. at
tempted TO rhaw the eud of his snail
mus ache, but finding it TOO short he
allowed RAGE 20 fade by slow degrees
and followed the long truiu of his COM
punion out of the theater.
A large, long and red nose was the
hrst thing noticeable in a young man who
sat In front row seat at resort where
Il famous Spanish dancer Is shocking,
in most delightful manner, large gath
erings bf the suggestive twists aud
shivers OF her eloquent body. The next
feature about the young
man was his persistent and boisterou.
method of attracting the attention OF
everyone TO his emphatic appreciation of
The performer. ''Brava, bravo, bra
vissiina, he shouted, at the same time
kept time to the noise of the dancers
feet by Shaping his hands together in
the Spanish fashion. The audience was
generally annoyed by the fellows i'm
pertinent disturbance, but the beautiful