Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24

NEW YORK. Sept II, lSsl-
Special Correspondence of Gazette,
If you were Mrs William Aston. would
you let frocks bought for you, and pre-
sumably fitted on you, be sold at public auc-
ton, when little over 800 would have
made them yours? One becomes the prop
erty of low music hall, the other is to be
exhibited in the window Of a shop on
Third avenue, labeled, Of course, as
Mrs. Astor's gown Viii you kindly tell
me if all idea of gentleness. of po-
likeness, and of respect for woman mas gone
out of New York; l know it exists in other
places. But / should think either husband
or son would have got hold OF those
dresses, even if they put them at the bot
tom of the sea, rather than have such
crowds present 10 see them as there were
the day that the auctioneer SO ghbly de-
scribed their beauties, and dilated on the
fact that they ought TO be worth more be-
cause they were made for Mrs. William
Aston If some other woman had done
this the newspapers would have tcemed
with her lack of delicacy, and no matter
what the government Iuay have done in the
way of cheating. or what the dreSsmaker
may have done in adding on to the price
having danced ever so little. she would have
been willing to have paid the piper.
When this kind Of thing happens it always
makes me wonder what the old, o j genera
would the original John Jacob Aston have
imagined if his wfe's frocks had been sold
at public auction.
WITH sECoND-RATE ACTRESSES
ladies whose virtue could not be doubted
and the molly crowd collected around, just
because they We're supposed TO have be-
longed to a lady. Everything goes by sup
position nowadays, as far as Il woman in
the extremely fashionable sets is concerned.
They have got so they think that they
can outvie the ladies of the demi-monde, and
that nobody will object to it; because they
are Mrs. We're de We're or Mrs. Nlontmor-
eucy Rhinelander they think they can
smoke, drink, and take morphine ad
libitum; and when they reach the
last degree, they are usually going to ms
satanic majesty at the rate of sixty miles
an hour. You think this isn't sol You
think it's what the newspapers write up in
in sensational way to amuse the people
out of tOwnl Now, I'm going to tell you a
true story: Four years ago there Was
wedding in New York: the bride was
rich and beautiful, SO was the groom,
though, properly called, one would have
SAID he was handsome. For a year every
thing went merry as a marriage bell.
They lived abroad. and when the came
back madame brought with her an English
maid. Soon the husband began TO notice
that his wife was always late at dinner, and
on inquiry, he found out that she Invariably
had a nap late in the afternoon. He thought
nothing of this 70 awhile, but. after time,
when she came in to dinner 1t seemed TO
him as if she was daZed. and as if her
tongue thicliened.
What was it. Brandy, my friends. The
English maid had taught her to drink ex-
actly as English women 90, never realizing
the difference in constitution and in climate.
And so, from having a small glass of
brandy, she had gotten to have wineglass
full. Even the brandy did not satisfy her.
She would come in tired and want to be
braced up; take the brandy and it was no
use; so she sent for the doctor and told him
he must give her some morphine. Being
good doctor, he refused this. She sent for
another, who was less scrupulous, and who
gave her large dose. This
LULLED HER TO SLEEP,
and the next day she wanted more. Grad
ually she got so that she took three or four
doses a day, the effect ceasing to be quiet
ing, but rather exciting one, and now, well,
she gives the doses to herself, takes as
many aS she wants a day, is the color of a
piece of white linen, hasn't very
much sense of right and wrong,
and the best thing that can
happen to her is that death will come and
claim her. Now. that's true story, and it
is told, not to show off the wickedness of
anybody, but to make some other woman
stop and think before she allows herself to
get under the influence of the two tyrants.
Please DO not believe by this that | wear
a white ribbon, or am Il member of ] prohi
bition society. | am not. | regard man as
a free agent; that is. as free as women will
let him be, and woman as an entirely free
agent, and j fully believe that woman can
stop doing anything she wants TO, that she
can have glass of wine with
her dinner without becoming
fearful example, and that she can
teach her children the use and abuse
of glass of wine. The worst drunkards |
have ever known have come from homes
where total prohibition was the Dy-word,
and where the boys crept out at night TO
buy glass of ginger ale, later on one of
beer, and later on one of whisky. The
descent to hadeS was at once very quick,
but very sure, after this.
FRESCOED AND UNFRESCoED BELLIES.
The girl who rougeS has gone out and the
woman whose face is washed clean is de-
cidedly to the fore. Occasionally q man
has admired a woman vino puts dab of
rouge on her face, cleverly and sAillfully,
in the evening. But the average man
who can detect rouge on a woman's face
in the daytime is very certain to OBJ
jact to it, no matter how much pref
tier it may make her look A man
has good taste. He doesn't want 20 paint
the lily. He knows that the bright pink
is not in harmony with er eyes and hair.
and if some day she should appear before
him with golden blonde hair he is certain.
if he is engaged to be married to her. to III
sist on her staying In the house until her
hair gets back to its natural color. and, if
is he married to her, to wonder whether
bleached hair is not cause for divorce. My
dear woman, when will you understand that
just as soon as you are beginning TO fade
bleached hair makes YOU look about ten years
older, and face made-up adds about eight
more. consequently, if you are thirty, you
look forty-eight, whereas, by brushing your
own hair well, washing your face clean.
wearing happy smile, you may look only
twenty-five? The fact that rouge is 10
longer fashionable will, it is hoped. induce
young women who regard being in the
fashion as being in paradise to drop the
rouge pot or the liquid bottle, and in their
places choose good brand of soap and
soft flannel wash cloth. Their admirers
will increase by the score, because
MEN IKE A NATURAL GIRL.
They don't want her to be natural in the
sense of being weed-like, but they like to
think that her skin is her own, her hair Is
her own. and the larger part of her anatomy
is her own, only they forgive the use OF a
little curled hair to make the anatomy look
better, because, after all, they don't know
it is there if it is well put on. But they see
the rouge. and they see the bleached hair,
and they feel exactly as if they had before
them the scarlet lady against whom there
is so much haranguing.
Bah IN DEATHS PRESENCE.
Did you ever feel yourself so
close to the gates of death
that you didn't care much whether
you went in or nota Did it ever come over