Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20

| turned from Paris with trunks full Of good
clothes. has mastered an important step
| toward becoming an actress. If at the
| beginning of her career she has recircd
= 'Osler joe or had an escapade
she will be the distinguished Mrs. Some
| body. although she may not possess the
genius of Mrs. Siddons nor the womaniiness
of Mary Anderson.
Advice 10 an ambitious amateur might
| appropriately be given thus: Get an outfit
if YOU would put money i'll thy purse. ami
| win notoriery rather than fame.
Hawthorne, who wrote kindly Of hum an
nature, said: This is rather coarse world
| than an unkind one and experience proves
its truth. II often happens that Il woman
coarse in speech and homely in her ways
scatters seeds OF kindness along thorny
paths, ana brings with her
rays of sunshine that dissipate
the shadows. The plain and the poor live
closer To the heart of humanity, feel its
throbs and sympathize in its sorrows.
whereas the rich and highly cultured, re-
moved as they are from any need and
trained 10 represS ali expression
of feeling, become Indifferent, if not
callous, and thus they oftener wound
with polished shaft than do
those in humble sphere with ruder weap-
onS.
Kindly deeds glorify the manner, and the
homely phrasing of sentiments Of tender
ness modities any coarSeneSs that might be
cenSurable
Wherever the true mission of education
is accomplished the native gem is simply
polished, the diamond that was only
Il pebble plaything for the farmers children
in South Africa was as truly gem as when
after passing through the hands of an en-
pert, it was valued at $1,000 the danger to
the individual. The polishing process be-
comes one Of hardening rather than of
beautifying. =.
In the olden times when herctics and
witches We're burned at the stake their
ashes were strewn on running streams
or scattered to the four winds, but
to quote the Latins: ''Tempora
mutanter, ct nos mutamur in Ills" The
BlatSky was allowed to die natural death
and lest three cities should dispute for the
possession of her ashes, by her will this
precious dust is TO be equally divided among
them.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, president of the
board of lady managers of the Worlds
fair, has done good work during her stay in
Europe. She has interested the fair
Parisiennes in the enterprise and
organized in their city "a Ladies'
committee This committee has been
promised the assistance of Princess
Christian of Schleswig- Holstein. In Amer
ice, where all women are queens, though
uncrowued, the interest in this great en-
terprise must not flag. The committee for
Texas Is MADE up from the brightest women
III the state, ana the remainder must exel-
else 10 It's utmost their royal prerogative to
put Texas in the lead in state EXHIBITS
a certain female orator says of her fel-
lcw-women: Some are eloquent and some
are loquacious. = True, Mrs Speaker and
some are neither
1t is said that the most interesting and
valuable collection of lace in this country
belongs to j lady in the City of Mexico. and
is valued at SS0000O. The collection it is
claimed has the most complete
assortment of Spanish Old Moor
ish, Egyptian Persian ana Chinese
work i'll existence. F'rills from this collec
ton could hardly be classed with what
Bah" calls '.frivols" Second to this Is
the Vanderbilt collection, while other
American women's lacos reach all the way
from the treasured bit Of thread lace TO col
iections valued at 100000
Geometry may be very delightsome as a
science, but when lis figures enter into
womans gowning the effect is not good
\ young fellow having fondness for
pretty girls tastefully attired has asked the
editor 10 say that angles, acute or obtuse.
triangles and rhomboids are well enough
in the classroom. but III the
drawing room the student would
forget the blackboards and the grim pro-
fessor, as absturse as the science he teaches.
The mint thus conveyed is worthy attention,
IN choosing gown the better taste would
dictate that patterns of geometric solids or
intl1cacies OF any sort be ignored and only
such designs chosen as appeal 10 the mind
rather than to the sense.
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The protest last against classifying en-
Payments as mems or "womens
work, " calls TO mind another Just criticism.
Why should matters pertaining TO women
be put under column heading 'Of Interest
TO Women" and often filed with stuff
that interests neither men or women
Surely in this day of intellectual
progress, there are many readers among
women who care 10 know something other
I bah rscipes and fashions Women are in
aimos tevelEfsM, and it is quite as neces-
sary hse ~ be thoroughly acquainted
with tha'stepi that are taken in the on
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