Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11
IN PETTIC0ATS.
Politicians, Slot Machines, Bon
nets and Smugglers.
MANS IDEA OF WOMAN'S WEAR
lie is, at Times, Observation-Disclosures Can
Fool Him, and Yet He is Not So Bad
After -ill-That's What One
Woman Thinks, 1t Least.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.

NEW York, Oct. You have probably
never connected romance and flannel petit
coats. The flannel petticoat has seemed 10
you the very apotheOSis of that which IS
practical-but that shows how much you
know.
ROMANCE IN FLANNEL PETTICOATS.
Flannel petticoats are at present consid-
cred tine most desirable of gifts from 4 fe
male Damon TO her feminine Pythias. OF
course, the Damon has her special color:
the one in which her room is draped, of
which her paper is the proper shade and
her wax corresponding in hue; conse-
quently her flannel petticoat harmonizes.
1t is really 4 thing of beauty. \ young
woman, who had assumed as her favorite
hue that much admired shade of lavender
that is favorite with the Princess OF
Wales had given her on her birthday tlan-
mel petticoat that suggested mitigated woe
rather than anything else. \ small dog in
the family had died, and for this reason,
dull colors were being Worn, but the skirt
itself
WAS SOMETHING TO DREAM ABOUT.
The upper part of it was made of laven-
der flannel, light in weight and as smooth
as possible. The edge was a band or laven-
der satin ribbon, then came row OF laven-
der black lace insertion, then one of the
ribbon, and last of all u full frill of black
lace. The band around the waist was Of
lavender silk, and the ties i'll the back with
an lNCu-Niue FlDDON Oh Tue SGlIlc cOlOr.
Such petticoat as this would console a
woman, even for the death Of the dog. They
are shown in white and pink, pink and
black, white and blue, and black and white.
The last is, it must be confessed, little
startling, but anything that suggests the
magpie combination is liked.
TIE POLITICIANS OWN BROADWAY.
Were you ever a politician9 And do you
see any use for their existence! Some poasS
little dot is dying with fever next door&H
young woman who can only count nine9Eo8r
years is i'll with it just across the street,
and somebody's mother is so very i'll with
it that it seems as if death will soon hover
over the household, and the fault OF all this
lies in the hands of the politicians. Thres4
summers ago all New York was dug pRto
let steam heaters go in. The next Suyhmeef
it was re-dug to make new pavemeu4SsS4hd
now 1t is in an open condition that the cable
cars may traverse the streets and that the
population may die of fevers ami low sick
nesses brought on by the frightful smeilzf
you couldn't call them anything else-that
ARISE from the depth Of the streets. You
know | wouldn't say one word If this was
done to help anybody; but it isn't IT is
simply done to put money in the pockets OF
the politicians, and we submit TO 1t because,
we haven't got 4 particle of independence III
our bones. In fact, think we have reaqhelT
point when, after 4 while, we will regard
getting the bones under ground as the best
thing that could possibly happen. L didn't
want to be steam-heated; the old streets
were bad, but they were no worse than
those we how; and, as for the cable cars. |
don't suppose they will ever let dog ride
in them, so / am out of them.
BAB DOESN'T LIKE POLITICIANS.
New York Just at present looks like 4
country village, with an occasional large
hotel here and there. Women twist their
ankles trying TO cross the street, small
l~,L III, md in,
learn how to walk, and man, lovely man.
who is the only politician known to us, oc-
casionally drops his hat i'll the mud, and
then l yeaIn for choice collection of
words, that are not really bad, YOU know,
but simply expressive, and would give all
the money possess to little pckanin ny
from down ole Virginia who would do
song and dance act on the hat. Politicians are
perhaps necessary, so are those abOminable
beasts that inhabit beds, and which are so
prettily called in London "Norfolk-How-
ards" But isn't there some sort OF powder
that can do away with the ''Norfolk-How-
ards" and the politicians 1T the SAME time,
Civil service wasn't worth cent, and we
have got to get something better than that
il we ever expect to point to New York city
as even a moderately clean place.
woMAN's PENCHANr FOR SMUGGLING.
All women who are coming over from the
other side are having beautiful tine SNUG
u. III.
though 1 do believe in the Bible, the Koran,
the Talmud and the Light CT Asia" re-
gard smuggling as the one right that woman
has above all others. A piece OF lace is not
worth a row CT pins unless it has been care
fully put in a dress pocket and smiled past
the inspector. A new diamond brooch has
no chan a unless it's put on ones hair. and
a hat worn over it. Oh. there may be pleas
ures on earth, but there is nothing quite
compares with this. As for the women in
spectors, I'd jump overheard before would
let one of them touch me! Just fancy the
way they would pull and haul your clothes
and ask if frock that fits you Ike glove
is your own.
WHERE WOMEN LOOKS BEST.
Women should not occupy political
Offices. The only Office they really occupy
well, and where they can stand, is that just
in front of . looking glass, with mans
arm around them, and their faces to the
glass so they can see just how they look,
even at that critical point when 4 man tells
you that he loves you as he never loved any
woman before, and you are willing to take
his word, though you can still see there i
smudee of powder on your nose.
HERE, INDEED, IL A BRUTE or MAN.
A brute of man. 1 can call him nothing
else, has invented machine by which,
when you drop a penny in the slot your age
Is told. Now, who but fool of man
would ever do such thing as that, He
would know no woman would ever get on
it, unless she was quite certain it was out
of order, and he might also know that no
man with any respect for himself would
get upon it unless he had reached that
most fashionable age Of forty-four. A man
is supposed to be like canvas back duck
not worth picayune unless he is little
high. The man who made this machine is
a Doctor Somebody, and the only thing left
for him to do is to go to a colored aged wo-
mans home, for there they are so deadly
fond of telling you that they were ninety
nine four years ago, that for once truth
would be mighty, and prevail
WHERE TRUTH STRONGLY PREVAILS.
! know woman who has been telling her
friends for several years that she was
twenty-six; somebody, some mean cat of a
woman, got her on that thing. telling her it
was weighing machine, and to her horror
she registered thirty-eight years. New,
this sort Of thing is going TO bring trouble
in the family,s you know. When a man
thinks he has been kissing twenty-six, it's
rather come-down for him to know that
he has been deluded, and that the darling
of his heart is really thirty-eight. That's |
where he is a gentleman donkey.
ALL WOMEN CAN FOOL MEN
He ought to credit woman for her clev- |
erness and give her three or four extra |
kisses because she could fool him, and say |
him a capital H and the other two letters |
the next size. There has never been wo- |
man yet who couldn't fool man. He may