Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-01

that she had taken little too much beer,
was poor, old and not pleasant to look upon,
and those sleek, well-fed brutes, for they
| were that, who yawned and looked out the
window at her and never gave her a helping
hand, has made all the blood in my body
boil. am so ashamed of them. Indigna-
| ton wastedl Possibly. But we women
happy about the little things of life and Gu
| riously enough, it's the little things that
make the whole wheel go round smoothly.
| WoMAN'S DIvINELY IMPROPER HOSE.
! To go from what is really serious to that
which is bit frivolous, l must ask:
| "Have you seen the new stockingsa They
are most divinely improper; they are of
black silk to just about the knee, and then
| they are perfect flesh color, and when they
are on, they look exactly as il you were
wearing your garter on your skin and your
| black stocking was glued to you so smoothly
| it stayed in place.
NOW THEY WEAR GOLDEN GIRDLEs.
Next to these in the way of novelty ap-
| pears the golden girdle, not as it used to be,
F.! and not as it is worn by mere, ordinary,
everyday people, but as it is made by
first-class jeweler, and costing something
like $500; it is of the tiny links of gold, just
such as you find in the meshes of purse,
and it fits the figure so perfectly that it
gives it, be it ever so stiff, a somewhat
plant arr that is most effective. never
Can see golden girdle without thinking OF
! the time of Henry II. Of France. The king
had habit of giving to each of his lady
loves golden girdle, until at last they be-
came so common among the court ladies
that the queen could not help but say, "a
good name is better than a gold girdle.''
The same rule might be applied to bleached
| hair nowadays. Even the lady (l) of the
quarter world is striped like the tiger in
her endeavor to get her hair back to its
pl<yIn for
vogue-tffs year, and she must initiate, even
EkeMe be not of the gentle people.
+ am beginning to have great contempt
row for the average American, be he man.
woman or child. And the reason for this
is that, unlike his French or English
he sees it. And this country is so full of
good things! He has keen appreciation
for whisky, tolerably good
EYE FOR A PRETTY GIRL,
he finds delight in tobacco in its various
FORMS but when it comes to knowing good
plays he is just as far out of it as that funny
little dog that they call in the far South a
tyke. New York has seen two magnificent
productions-one of which 1 have already
talked about and which is 'sThermidor'
The other is one which is no longer in New
York, but is worthy Of more, great deal
more, good than was said about it. Those
great gall-drinkers, the critics, objected to
it, and yet it was not only new presenta-
ton Of the story Of Nero, but it was mar
Vicious study of the Rome of that day. Peo-
pie who took the trouble to look at the stage
discovered that every chair was fashioned
after the manner of that time, and that not
one of the people in all the groupings was
improperly, that IS, incorrectly dressed, and
that, from the cloth of gold toga which
Nero wore at his wedding feast to the
crystal ball on the top of the astrologer's
wand, there was not detail that had not
been thoroughly thought out, and not
single person in the play, FROM
Nero to the smallest boy, had had his coss'
thought 1t was Richard Mansfield VINO
produced this, and he showed Nero as he
was-cowardiy, brutal, wicked, sensual and
selfish. He showed how he could love, as
well as how he could hate, and he made yous
und rstand that though Nero's love was Of
short duration, it was at least love while it
lasted.
THE AVERAGE LOVER
on the stage kisses the woman to whom he
is making love as if she were made Of wood, !
and she looks as if her thoughts were fay
away, and because she didn't have to SAG
anything, it wasn't necessary to look asyif|
she had ever heard of anything quite as M
proper as love. Men make much better
lovers on the stage than do women-I don't
know why it is. But with the exception Of
THE DIVINE SARAH, "A
I do not believe have ever seen an actress
who looked as if she loved man, or even
threw enough warmth in her words to give
you an idea of what this emotion was for
which so much was to be sacrificed. But to
return to the staging of Nero" What is
known as Tyrian purple was really shown
in gown worn by Miss Cameron but how
many among the lookers-on dreamed that
that historic color was the deep, purplish
red that seemed to envelop her in perfect
artistic foldss
The amiable mob cries out: 'Give US
good plays" and then when men of intelli-
gence, men Of study and men who are anx-
ious to make success Of their work-men
like Mr.. Richard Mansfield-give them
play that is at once delight to the eyes
and an education at the same time, they
stick to the play where tin can thrown at
bulldog is counted wit, or the low come
dian falling downstairs constitutes the
very height Of humor. 1 feel like say
ing, 'what fools we mortals be-" And for
the first time in my life / add t'what con-
summate fools we Americans are" One
doesn't like to say this; it doesn't sound po-
lite to the country which you honored by
being born in; but 1t Is absolutely true. We
tumble along in blind sort Of way, and we
accept rudeness and contempt and dishon-
esty and irreverence and impoliteness, and
then we wonder that our sons don't grow
up to be gentlemen. My friends,
GENTLEMEN ARE LIKE RACE HORSES,
they have got to be bred that way, and you
can't take the ear Of even the whitest of |
pigs and make silk purse. Just notice 1t |
in some Of our politicians, and you will see
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