Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13

Home Journal, and addresses herself to
girls. in recent number Of this magazine
tells her Youthful clientelles what girl will
need to take with her to boarding school.
The scholarship contest now running in
THE GAZETTE has directed the thoughts of
mothers and daughters to a going away to
school, and perhaps led to pulling thought
as to what ought to be packed in the promised
trunk. Miss Woods first counsel is to have
a good-sized trunk, with compartments for
the various belongings. Then the ordinary
furnishings of work basket, toilet case
and writing desk, including calendar and
all the appliances for writing. In dress,
she enjoins simplicity and warmth, which
means good supply of warm fannels,
plenty of substantial underwear, thick
shoes. and L few neat dresses. After de-
failing further minor needs, she sums up
her advice most worthily by counseling
girls to take to school that which is needed,
wherever one is, good supply Of common
sense. 1t is rare article, and the packing
will be very unsatisfactory if this is omitted.
Il viii be needed at every turn, needed in
saying "no," needed III regulating
dress and expense, and needed
in daily intercourse with schoolmates. The
closing injunction is to carry plenty of
agreeability, which will enable the pos
SCISSOR to overlook faults, condone offences
and win friends. The last precaution given
is to forbear all gossip and avoid as far as
possible whatever might prove to be evil
Il is pleasant to note that the little seed
sowing done in this department last week
has already began to repay the doing.
Reference is made to the suggestion that
before the hard winter comes the prominent
women of this town, young and old, should
organize for charitable work. II was fur
Their suggested that as The Kings Daugh-
ters' was already Il perfected organization
doing most excellent work in many large
cities, it would be well TO organize here
branch society to work under its auspices.
The hints have been acted upon in so far as
calling the ladies together. They have had
several very pleasant meetings, and there
is every prospect that before the wintry
blasts brins suffering there will be in this
city body of willing workers who will be
equipped and ready to do the work the
king enjoined.
Organization IS necessary to efficient
work, and once the noble hearted women OF
Fort Worth are in line, as they will be,
there will be not only no more misdirected
charity. but there will be an increase of
true philanthropy, which will broaden and
Leautify the character of these devoted
women, and also lift up the downhearted
and stimulate to effort those to whom
hope has been well-nigh stranger. Sun
light dispensed floods the soul of the dis
pensing one as well as the souls of those
over whom it sheds its genial influences"
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A lady who writes kind things of this de-
partnent asks by letter if there is any re-
storative for gray hair.
Whatever may be claimed for nostrums
there is no preparation that will restore
hair to its original color even though, as in
her case, it is prematurely gray.
A young woman can ouly exercise sub
mission TO the inevitable which sometimes
poses as cheerful resignation. In this in
stance, however, the submitting ought to
be made easier by the knowledge that gray
hair is fashionable. and SO desirable that
many ladies have recourse to the bleaching
process that they may have lint-white locks.
Only few days ago Il lady scarcely thirty
five years of age said to the writer, I'm
proud of my gray hair; | would not have it
brown again if l could" The hymn is right,
gray hairs do the temples adorn, and every
woman as she ages looks younger if her
hair is white.
Gray hair is thought TO give the wearer
a distingue air, and certainly if to be in
fashion is to be stylish this lady friend
ought to be satisfied with an adjournment
nature has given and fashion sanctioned.
DR. Holmes INDUCED in sly laugh at his
maiden aunt who he said would twirl her |
wintry curl in spring-hke way, but in
later times we who have wintry curls are |
allowed by fashion to twirl them as spring |
like Us is becoming.