Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-22
IN BRIEF.

IN BRIEF.
Draa- land has other inhabitants than
.,,agI IN dreams they happily smile.
rts-a..tar softly singing the sweet lullaby
t..b.r dreams. She thinks of the to-mor-
..,rs when the little one who now lives so
,,,r her heart shall be her pride and her
.r III. dream for the son mingles mo-
...-1,ve with ambition, and dreaming she
.-,rs for aim career that shall bring him
f.-r. and honor. For the daughter she
..s. in clear visions. social triumphs and
br.sh, future, while the soft suffusive glow
,r hey check betrays some eXpectant
,s7rtb, If Joy. such as crowned her own
happy e.r.hood.
All are dreamers; as we work we dream;
were II not so life would be monotone,
AM tie gray Of November days would be
o.r- IL al. Among workers few are more
rfysu 10 dreaming than are writers, nor do
.tav asaam only In Imagination they also
r..r.. their workshop with sympathetic
..t,ais. whom they do not and may never
Sec. To them they speak in thought and
gworis. Writing becomes speaking, and
tie writer feels that present with him, yet
a1iyyfsible. are those with whom ne holds
communion. as though face to face and
friend to friend.
Dreams cone to naught. The mother, it
raq be- is called up higher befor her life
work is complete, or, sadder still, disap-
viutmeut teaches her pleasant dreaming
10 proved uaught but idle pastime.
some DAY the curtain falls between the
inter and that dear company which has
,.le work Il pleasure and life not purpose
s.s Then comes the knowledge that this,
.u, has been Dreamland, but 50 delightful
lis been the silent companionship that it is
impossible 10 restrain Il sigh over a van
,Led vision and for the cutting asunder of
an tutercortmuuion so intangible that when
the severance comes there can be no warm
c.aspug Of hands nor an audible adieu.
-
Southern readers of the November num-
Der Of the Century doubtless remember
paper by Mn Tillett of Nashville on South
ern WomanhUod" This has received an
editorial notice from the Boston Transcript,
which has called forth well-written pro-
test from Miss Clara Conway This we'll
known educator of Southern girls inveighs
agalnS, that uufairness which cites as a
Eerrese" ,ative of the young women of this
section a girl who had only read one book
IL i've years, and retaliated hyinstancing
lie Boston girl who, while taking notes at
recent lecture in that city, asked her
1elEhBor he spelling of "cid." Neither
t-s- IS representative, nor ought to be so
Considered by citizens of either the 'land
Q. the elapsed" or of Boston the hub"
Ia support Of Miss Conways faith in the
S1liheru girl and that ''she is eminently
worthy Of the best in the gift Of any Ia
-sn'' she entiOns class of thirty In the
sol'h who are studying by way of prepare
"nior The best colleges in the land. and
i''.lles that within stones throw of
Boston thc-e are several who are fitting
hF English university study. If further
hi.E44'iau were needed as foundation for
ll.aei Ill southern women's capacity, she
ives fact that Is not generally known,
.~s IS hat for several successive years the
''zt offered by the London Shakespeare
ste,g for the best examination paper on
--.'e2 subject Of Shakespearian study has
'''- carried of by American girls whose
-ls' arr Il the South, and refers to Miss
''-aA h. Ilckuor Of Boston as authority for
'.' SAT- want. II is these girls that the
'..or o. the Transcript SAYS they have
n.y. -e'd of the grade of the best Northern
''-s4e' but that secondary schools are
'-'-'aHi for them. Miss Conway per-
''-c-tg asks, why Discriminate Should
.-s American girl of the South go hu ngry
--a i'H her sister of the North there
s''' De colleges of the highest grade? Miss
'""4s retort is polite and dignitied
+'-A-"at but for writers such as the
-,s''@ editor, and for all those cherishing
-'''" seeuonaism, there is 4 lesson in the
'-."'-al which closes her brief article and
"-.'f repeated; The responsibility of
.-'--te les with those who have the
'-er yisig.."
= sometimes said of new communities
."e have no society. Perhaps this is
AZ .ae narrow limitation of the word.
'-- AXIS Of society where none in
and Il when alone one may have
~. 80 surely in an aggregation of social be-
'"''e ought to be society. Society, ac-
-. -'ls /, The usual acceptation of the
- Is d patched-up affair; into its crea-
~ '-,eG odd material and when complete
-. structure is of the composite order
~, ,',-' mat symmetry which an artistic
n W Tue i've orders gives to architecture.
'!esN society should be the confedera-
r.. D. that is MODEST in humanity,
~ Vsether ny the golden law of char.
H.. -~' IN lhketh nor speaketh no evil, is
f., anu sulfereth long, but too often it is
Che. eh'ylrgs and burnings and all un-
s,s ''@oleness. Where culture, refinement
h. Nuer grace should abound there is 10
ps,. '-Iu larger admixture of evil-hearted-
e.r --1 vicious gossip, which with the
sa,r r'l' OF glitter and show. whitening of
b. ,''-efs that is purchasable in fashiona-
ua le'y' DO not permit the higher, purer
-O0!er TO give it Tone That a commun-