The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-02
TEXAN IN GOTHAM.
Lost Among the Shops of the
Great Silken Eazaars.
INVESTED IN A CROCODILE.
Five-Inch Dragon, the Darling OF Her
Couection-F.niS Fault with Booth
in Hamlet-Bernhardt in Ira
vasty-Morailess Art.

|
NEW YORK, March 25.-At home I was
wont TO consider myself, and am sure was
| regarded by others, as a person of refine
| ment: but here I'm afraid | am looked upon
| as sort of superior savage, an aiEiable and
| amusing barbarian.
They move about so quietly: they never
| appear TO draw L deep breath or have 4
| sudden or violent emotion. ! seem to want
room, to be always humping nay elbows
| both my real elbows and my verbal ones. |
am losing confidence in my mind for suita~
bly, diluted terms, and cautiously qualifying
/ my voluntary statements.
If it's like this in Gotham, what would it
be in the modern Athens2 l think they
would muzzle me, hobble me, shoe me with
| list and tie cushions on my elbows, then
connect me with z fire and burglar alarm
and hope for the best.
feel it in my bones that shall grow des-
perate some day and hit somebody's crazy
bone, or step hard on someone's corn; and
We'll see II I'm the only one with nerves to
feel, or voice TO express my joys and sor-
rows with. This being held u sort of wild
thing will do its deadly work, and l shall
break out and give them
ATAsTE OF Ny QUALITY.
The primitive idea of man the warrior and
woman the love and comforter seems quite
obsolete when you look at 4 very large class
here. There are such armies ana armies of
clerks, small statesmen, assistant boOk-keep-
ers and such; men with small salaries, pale
cheeks, narrow chests and neat white
hands: and moving among and beside them,
the other armies of women; business
women, working women, literary and pro-
fessioual women stoUt-hearted, seif-reliant,
capable; earning living for themselves,
aud often for husbands and families. too.
1t is a sort of knocking about of accepted
traditions, the romantic order Of things in
ysrted.
bara banp roin1 ohnr1+ oTnopc, tho shonc
From the dry goods stores, these great ba-
Ears OF silken and luxurious attire, alluring
ornament dainty perfume, and all those
terrible and irresistible engines for the bat
terry Of beauty; gaudy adornmcnts and raw
ishmentS to delight the heart OF Josephine
or . Rose du Barry, to uumGn SemTamis,
and win glance from Boadicia herself
from all these got away
COMPARATIVELY SAFE AND WHOLE.
But when ! came 10 the japanese store l
was captivated, enslaved, enchanted. l do
so love japanese tixings! The li.htness and
delicacy, the sharp, angular, refreshing
grace of their constructions, the impudent
drollery of conCeits, the outrageous, yet
good huInored sarcasm of their grotesques
and the supernatural horribleness of their
two-by-nine monsters all tickle and delight
me UNNECESSARILY.
] feel under the fascination of collection
OF birds, snakes, bugs, animals and COB
Inns, in plaster fur feathers and scales,
averaging about the size of a small ink bot
tie and weighing an ounce or SO apiece
From this gay and festive company, this
gang of wild, scampish, demoralized cynics,
this Hecate's rout OF feeliuS, ibing ZOO
logy, ethnology, and fancy -run-Inad. l
only escaped away when l had beggared
myself and both my companions.
/ bought = crocodile with 4 leer) that
gives me the most delightful jumps a
skeleton sea-serpent that would be more
effective means OF reform than whole
inebriate asylum; an ape, porcupine, a
some revised and improved breed, parrot
Of most viilainous and deprayed counte- |
nance, q staggering insolent and
DIssIPATED OWL,
fat and contemplative toad; pig who
knows the history Of The beginning of things, |
has discovered the whenCe and the whittier, |
and solved the problem OF the wherefore |
(all for 20 cents. tOo) besides several others |
that don't think would translate into Eng |
ish at all.
But tho darling Of my collection is FIVE |
inch dragon, SO utterly frightful and ap- |
paIling that all the ugiiness of he Others
sink into mere insigniticancc in comparisoa
His scales. that stand up along his serpYH
tine bacl, in uOrrent rows, are little sheH |
doth glare with are china, and he Tolls StRf
a little red muslin tongue from between |
hooked and grsbful fangs, and surrounded |
by grin, The unspeakable malice and soul
less venom of which Though well knew it
to be purely Pickwickian) makes my flesh to
crawl, my heart to slow up, my temperature Y
to go down and my hair rise up every timas
encounter it. o, he is bewitchingl&
horriblel Never, sure, did plastaE
and red flannel wear such looks -
cool DEvILTRT.
he cost eighty-fve cents, and by virtue
OF his higher price. as well as his superior
gifts, is regarded by me-and by all Of
them, too---as the choice and master spirit
of the assembly.
never lack for sensations now 1 sit
fascinated before this gathering Of en-
bodied sins and follies, crimes, mistakes
and failures, gay efropteries, sluggish in i
differences and suIlen despair. I believe
that under their uncanny influence I could
write wild, wierd tale; one that would u