Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11

favored in England. for it gives them an
opportunity to say: well, YOU know. I'm
beginning TO get quite old now, and don't
want people to say that | am dressing too
vOung." When Il pair of bright eyes look
right straight up into Il masculine face. and
the complexion. which is as clear as cream,
is visible, and the man wonders if the girl
is really in earnest or il she has any idea
how absolutely sweet and young. she does
look. This is one of the charmes of the art
of dressing. The woman who is not afraid
to dress a little older than she is. is the
woman who is going to look young for al
time. Remember. that | do not mean the
girl who dresses like Il dOwdy, but mean
one who assumes the bonnet that is q tiny
bit matronly.
MANS IDEA or wOMAN'S WEAR.
BY the by, don't you think that mankind
in general is extremely careful about what
he thinks women ought owearl Do We 90
careering around Directing 10 his s,ockir gs,
or asking whether lie wears garterS or rDts
Do we bother the lives out of ourselves bV
thinking whether his trousers had better b.
suspended by his hips or his shoulders! O.
do we care whether the ugly things 40
wears under his trousers are made of wool
or cast-ironl Certainly not. Well, he goes
To work and will lecture for two hours on
the evil of the corset, knowing nothing at
all about it.
WHEN BUsTLES WERE WORN
an extremely comfortable armchair, and
dilate on the folly of the hustle, on the ugli-
ness of the hustle, ana the general sinful
ness of the hustle. Now that the hustle is
gone, he is pitching into people for wearing
skirts that drag woman down. He
needn't be so troubled about 1t. Women
are not going 10 be dragged down unless
they want to. They generally have funny
little way of their own of getting what they
want, and when they want it-but petit
coats! just get a man talking about petit
coats from his standpoint. and he will argue
for two hours. and then when You quietly
say to him: do you think trousers should
take their place." he rushes out of the
room, and says the more girls go to college
the less they know. As for powder or
rouge and bangs, well, he regards them
both as inventions OF the evil one.
MAN NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL.
Now, what does man want woman -
have9 He don't want her to have petticoata;
he don't want her TO have corSetS; he don't
want her to have hustleS; he don't want her
to go without bustles; he don't want her to
have false hair bangs, or rouge, and yet ha
wouldn't give up one of his rights to her to
save her soul
He nearly upset the CHILEAN question by
directing to lovely woman wearing four-in-
hand scarfs, and it's only because she
would DO if, that he has allowed her---ha
puts it that way--to wear a pique waist
coat 10 accompany her new cloth Jacket.
Man is an animal who is never thoroughly
understood. He can be fiattered into
anything, and yet one word to the wrong
and the game is lost.
He prefers to govern your woman friends,
and is bitterly opposed to Miss Blank, until
he has heard she has said something pleas
ant about him. and then he wonders why
you don't have her oftcner to dinner.
He is surprised that women spend 50
much money on dress, and yet he declines
to show the bill for his last springs over-
coat.
He thinks that woman's place is al
home. and while he emphasizes this, ha
doesn't apply it to man.
He thinks man was made first, because ha
would then be able to set an example To
women, and he did. and she had to walk
out of Paradise, and her only consolation
was, that she could say: IL told you sou
After all, men are not SO very bad. that -
to say, they are not as bad as women.
At least, that's the opinion OF BAB.