Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22
The Adventures, the Woman
Who Wears a Shirt Front.
copyright, 1891, by the Authse1 .,ssye
NEW YoRK.sQft..i2. 1891.

Special correspondence of the Gazette.
had a surprise last night. Now, a sur
| prise to me is generally enjoyable, but this
surprise went past the enjoyment and be-
came interesting; L vent to see EdWaxS
Sothern play in 1.-THE Dancing Girl" | HAD
seen this clever man make make my heart
swell with joy when, as the Highest Bid
der,' he saved his lady love and all her
property from the hands of cruel men; [
had seen him when, as Lord Chumley. "
he had given his life for his friend: and
surely. no man can do more than this. And,
last of all, l had seen him as the tender
hearted prodigalE sthe.4 q Afaistegs Of Wood
harrosr. who had spent his snbstdnces and
/ then, after all, he'd gone back to the home
where they loved him and made much of
him because he wastheir own.
TIE BLAsE Man OF THEssrAGE.
And~ put mSF fan before MY facesand
gra* sifk at heap whenhe stepped be i5iss
me as she '.Dukee EuiseburyS the blase
imam II the Sorfd, the worn-oat youth of to-
dayethe uan yho5found pleasdre in vice
when be could find it at as1r Here he was
to peffection. You see q few of him in
New York, more of them in Hyde Pafk.
He has exhaused everything, and he doesn't
know whether life is thing to be taken So
riously or as a joke. He's lost faith in
woman, because he can buy them with dia-
mcnds; he has lost faith in men, because
most of them are tiresome and the rest are
knaves. What does he believe ins A bit
of girl called Nudge, whom he has SaNsT
from death by dragging her FROM sszsder his
m nSgsIS an and MnG s9& T.
that it is the goQdSniHgs in this world that
are worth doidxe and that the respect of
honest ,m4N Is worth having. Now, you
can,tsd6 this in a day, especially when
paah is infatuated by q So-called beautiful
woman.
THE LADY OF THE DEMI-MoSDE.
But, is a woman beautiful who looks the
adventuressl Is a woman beautiful whose
hard laugh tells Of her greedy, grasping
nanref@ whose cSld eyes look out DEFIANCE
rather Aan love& Not, to-day, my frieHa3,
the adsenturess who is market as With
postage stamY was in ueHoMs years
ages But to-daI1 the lady 6f sshe demi.
monde Is much squieter tbfher sister of
THE four hundred, and viesaH dignity with
any of its leaders. Even in their vices men
look for good form, and woman with her
gown cut almost to her waist, and with that
curious voice and laugh, cold and hard, that
you sometimes hear on the street, would
never suit man like the Duke of Guise-
bury. sit wouldn't have been in good
taste, you know, my dear fellow. When
was at Cambridge, you know, it would have
done, but, after all, my dear fellow, man
who has seen a deal of the world doesn't
put that type of an adventures in home;
he wants something quieter, something
more restful, and something that is going
to look like lady, even if she isn't one.'
Drusilla Ives claimed that she could be very
like one when
SHE WANTED BIER DUKE TO MARRY HER;
but she never could. She would have been
like the stale gingerbread sold cheap in the
shops, where the gilt is badly broken off
and the outer edge too much crumbled to
deceive anyone. The moral of the Dancing
% hot f1o,~a
born who are two parts wanton and the
other part devil: who are what Swinburne
calls .'loye machines and who are capable
OF making men change in a trice
From the lilies and langors OF virtue
To the roses and raptures OF vice"
MEN ARE NOT so EASILY pUPED.
That these women can make men love
them; that these women. brazeu and bold,
can make men, who have seen what they
call the world, care for them; who have an
extensive acquaintance with the flesh and
Oh, no. you are mistaken, Henry Arthur
Jones, it's boys who are attracted by such
women; not men. 1t is just possible that
after awhile, the duke would have shown
Drusilla Ives to her carriage and babe her
adieu. Up to this time, when event fol-
lowed event, she had not bored linn, but
from the day she first asked MIN 10 marry
her, and, like the Englishman he was, he
refused her. her downfall was as certain as
was his uprising. That's where the little
guardian angel comes in; the n:tle girl who
believes in faith and love, and who always
does come in, even in real life. and take
care OF the men. Bless her heart, that's
her mission in the world. And if she hap
pened to be as pretty as the one who saved
the Duke of Guisebury, it's bit of mira
Gle to me that dukes are rot running around
seeking to be saved. 4
soTHERN IN 'THR DANCING GIRL"
But, to return to the play and its NOR
Mr.. Sothern probably never did finer pic1e
of acting, nor one that made all the women
in the audience want to save him, than wheA
he represented the vicious duke. But you
don't love him as you loved the "Highest
Bidder" you don't sit and cry about him as
you did about lord Chumley," and You
don't feel as if you wanted to be amon1