Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01

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| without being in the least degree lion, an
observant person is very apt to pick to
| pieces those who come within the range of
| their vision CHANGING over the throngs
| to be met in the journeying, the escorted
| girl is sure to pass before the lenses. She
| is not the girl who rows. shoots, and plays
tennis with her own and other girls broth
| ers The latter is at her ease, and carries
| with her an air of good fellowship that is
| unmistal<able But one who, while she is
| partially awake to the belief that she is de-
| sirable, has not arrived at proper esti-
mate of herself, and is jast little too anx
| ious that she be agreeable to her escort.
| Her marked effort to please draws atten-
ton TO herself and unwittingly she betrays
more of her real nature than she would if
| she were a sef-reliant woman. Some
| times her want OF self-contidence is
| shown By timidity of manner. and
| there are women who never get beyond
| this stage always receiving the attention of
their escorts with a gratefulness that is
scarcely dignifed; others not quite sure of
| their rights and fearing encroachments
| friends among those who can be so service
able: while third class employ the arts of
| coquetry. tricks of the eye and of speech,
| little gestures and beguiling glances 10 hold
| at their side escorts who commonly prefer
to do the counting.
| However pretty girl may be she wins
respect from true gentlemen only by 4
md 1in nf
self respect that enables her 10 receive at
tentIons from the opposite sex not as favors,
! nor yet as rights, but as testimonials of
their appreciation of her true position and
pure womanly qualities.
Opinions differ as to what femininity
truly is and it is not easy TO classify or
define, but the instincts of 4 properly bal
| anced character will rarely fail a woman if
she heeds them. II is all right, girls to have
| escorts when you can, BUTT is better to rely
on ones self and not allow them to feel that
they are Indispensable.
If one were called upOn TO name the sub
tie influence that III all stages of the worlds
history women have eXerted over men
there wC$lld be hesitation. and yet after
pause would not the majority say that the
power lay in that indefnable quality which
for want of better name the world calls
| refinement, Like many subtle essences,
| refinement is known by its effects. 1t is
| seen in such little things as the ends of
glove fingers, in the pinning of bonnet
strings and the white CLEAN of q dainty
handkerchief, and yet its posSeSsOr in
fuenceS kings wherever their kingdom.
Negatively, it is not in the woman who
permits herself to be ''dowdy'' at home,
where her kingdom is. To the refined
woman her house dress is of as much i'm
portauce, if not more, than others, and she
is not careless of the arrangement of the
details Of her toilet. 1t seems hardly con-
sonant with true refinement to appear be-
fore husbands and brothers with hair done
up III curl-paperS, and Yet this is so COM
mon as to make the most courageous shrink
from Il wholesale denunciation of the prac
tice. therefore. at This point of the argu-
ment an appeal is made to the better taste
of the reader rather than in the indulgence
of phIllippc.
The refined woman in her coStuming will
not select the toiletteS of actresses as
models for her imitation. She will rather
choose that which is suitable and becoming
i'll color, material and fashion. leaving bar
barrie display 10 the Stage. Neither will
she dress hastily: when going on the street
she will know that her honEet is straight,
that her hair is all right, and there will be
no torn drapery or other disorder to occa-
sion anxious questioning; she looks neat
not precise, and will be considered j we'll
dressed woman where another dressed
extravagantly and carelessly will fail.
Possessing refinement, even hopelessly
plain and homely woman becomes attrac-
tive, and the best of it is that while nature
alone can give regular features, it is in the
power of every girl to cultivate that re-
finement which is more potent than mere
beauty possibly can be.
Under the shadow OF the bank building
in Philadelphia where her husband igno-
miniously betrayed his trust as president
of the Spring Garden bank Mrs. Kennedy
has opened store for the sale of fine pre-
serves. That woman in her former posi-
ton should have the courage to do this is
an added evidence that there is an element
in woman's nature which enables her to be
brave in the face of misfortune and to rise
superior 10 disgrace.
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The supreme court of Michigan has by 4
recent decision practically given every man
4 right to half the earnings of his wife.
Human parasites will doubtless flock to
state where they can draw their sustenance
from women's earnings, but women who be-
lieves in their rights will not be caught in
the snare. When l woman learns that she
can maintain herself she does not vearn for
man to support or to endow with even
half her worldly goods.
CHAT ON FASHION.
Among the new fall styles that are now
out are to be seen many new silks. showing
4 decided change. Figured, brocaded aud