Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-06

| quietly submitted for more than century
! 20 taxation without representation, and
American men bend under the bur
| den Of the Mckinley bill, madame
/ is likely TO resent any interfer-
/ ence in the matter of long skirts so
| long as the trailing skirt is in style.
! Women vote unanimously for city legis-
I lation that enforces the keeping clean of
/ streets and pavements, both rs sanitary
and decent measure. but will continue to
! hold up the trail, even at the risk Of show
! ing :. trim foot and small ankle, despite
what men may say of the a6surdity or I'M
! tidiness Of the fashion
-
| EgOtism has many phases and is often
I carefully concealed under quaint DISCUSSES,
| but it is somewhat startling to hear, and
that from 4 well qualified critic, the most
! popular poets charged with this in their
! poetry.
I Ordinary mortais who fail 20 understand
! George Meredith and Robert Browning will
! take a certain malicious pleasure in know
! ing that they are charged with hurting the
/ English language .'by undoing all The purity
and precision the Eighteenth century won
! for it at great cost and pain; That they
/ la &c done this for their own selfish ends,
( and have frequently written neither poetry
nor English. Poets have always been sup
/ posed to lie close 10 the heart of nature, aud
/ their utterances to be the simple ones that
/ appeal 10 all who have not bartered their
/ birthright, and there seems I truth in the
/ charge made against these two writers,
when it is remembered that it has been
thought necessary TO organize societies for
the Interpretation Of the thought supposed
| 70 be enwrappcd in the mysticism they
affect. Authors have 4 duty to their read
! ers. and the fact of societies and hanLb books
TO explain any mans writing is serious
accusation against him. If the message
these poets have claimed to be theirs TO con
vey IS SO difficult of comprehension in TINS,
their day, what viii it be to the generations
| 10 Gomez Better the homely song of him
who sang Of the peasant than all the versl-
flying of the modern who thus sums UP his
NEIL bod
As ] walked by myself, I talked to my
self, and thus 10 myself talked l..
The autumn days have come now in the
Northern !atitudcs; the naples begin TO
put on their bright hues ard the golden.
catching and hiding in its heart the warm
golden tints of the summer sunshine now
! lavishlv scatters her boarded wealth and
/ Gajly mods gay blossoms 10 every passer-by.
/ This month the September girl expects
sapphire of her own, and 10 miss her birth
stone IS to fail OF possession in the sweet
favor Of life. l. IS hoped her friends will
not forget the pretty superstition she cher
ishes and that her jewel case may show
many such favors from those who love her.
Do any Of the readers of this column IN
duige in paper-covered literature2 If so,
lst them read Miss Kate Sanborn's adopt
ing an Abandoned Farm" She tells of her
failures in most fascinating way, and the
book is entirely tree from that unhealthy
sentiment which IS found in what DR.. Tai
mage denOunces Is summer reading
One may lie in i hammock and read This
with pleasure or while away the dullness
lectual nature. Fiction such as this, if it be
fiction, has the ring of hcartiness and is no
more encrvating than are the soft blue
skies. skinm!ng swallows, soft-tinkling wa
ter. the faint perfume OF flowers and AL
that go TO make a summer holiday restful
ard happy. -
There IS danger of bringing wrath
upon Your devoted head by saying, and yet
truth has in all ages had its martyrs, and
why not add another to the noble army!
Why cannot mothers learn that excessive
foIdncss for their offspring is a weakness;
pardonablc perhaps, but still a weakness
that often exhibits itself in forms very try
ING 10 others
Reader, have You not ever called upon
mother for the purpose of having pleasant
conversation and found yourself thwarted
by some obstreperous youngster whose
every movement you arc called upon to at-
miro! However pleasant the interchange
OF thought would be, all is abandoned for
the worship of mammals ''prettiest,
sweetest and best of babies" Mothers
should remember that ever since Cain cut
his first tooth and crowed and jumped in
Mother Ewes arms. babies have been per-
forming the same maIvels, and that il is
better for the babies and their mothers that
they Be not always on exhibition.
Mothers who live in their nurseries and
think only Of their maternal duties, risk
growing puerile and thus becoming uninter-
esting 10 husbands and friends Love the
babies Of course, but do not expect every
one to see in them all the perfections you
discern, and remember that babyhood is
short. and i is necessary TO knap The mind