Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01
BAB'S MERRY PEN.
The Autumn Air Sets it Chatter
ing Most Brightly.
OF THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK,
Their Hobbies and Their Fads-The Man
at the Bar-What VIII Keep Men
Home?-Men Can't Bow Grace
funy-How We Bow.
Copyright, 1891, by the Box Syndicate Press,


are back that they are getting full, too; at
least l have never seen so many gentlemen
who had evidently been seeing friend, as
now pervade the streets of New York.
woMAN'S IDEA OF DRINKING.
Personally, l never could imagine what
there was in standing up at bar and firing
Il drink down your throat, as if there were
so much to 60 in during your lifetime, and
that you had to hurry and get it in, or else
you would be left. / can see deal of good
fellowship in sitting down at
table and talking about Kitty
and the children, and stocks,
and how cotton is this year, and who is the
prettiest girl in town, and during that time
slipping at long drink; but a short drink,
aimed direct at the throat of masculinity,
as coolly as coal at hole, | cannot UNDER
stand. Some people say that men don't sit
down and talk about Kitty and the babies,
and that kind of thing. Well, maybe they
don't: but whatever they do. it looks more
sociable than the barroom way.
WHAT WILL KEEP MEN HOME.
YOn know have n special fad on this
subject, and when ! get TO ventilating it the
. family usually leave the house, while the
dog whines Not that they don't believe in
it. for they fully agree with ME about it.
but it has got TO be an old story with them.
When home is made pleasant, women wear
deceut-fitting clothes, proper drinks are
given 10 them with their dinners or their
suppers. then the men won't go to bar
rooms to hunt for them. | consider that
concentrated wisdom, tied, not with blue
ribbon or white ribbon, but with red, white
and blue, which is much more patriotic and
wears better.
MEN CAN'T BOW GRACEFULLY.
Another thing you notice as people come
home. is the queer way in which everyb body
bows to everybody. The average man has
about rs much knowledge OF what consti-
tuteS a graceful bow as n gentlemanly
Thomas cat. His conception of the part is
TO walk forward, give u sort of swirl to his
body, grasp his hat off his head and put it
back With great rapidly. That the man
taxes off his hat and the Thomas cat doesn't
is probably due TO the fact that the man
has hat and the gentleman who makes
melody for US in the evening hash t, other
wise their modes of salutatiOn are similar
HOW MEN AND WOMEN BOW.
A woman nine times out OF ten bows with
d smile. She doesn't move her head much,
but she seems TO offer her best smile,
which has been in training all summer and
which is now at your disposal a man I'M
less he happens to wear eyeglasses looks
idiotic There is neither smile on his face
nor recognition in his eyes. He is 4 Great
ure who knows how to conceal his feelings.
He may have sworn that you are the only
person he ever loved last evening, but you
boots may glitter, there is not the slightest
token of recognition in his face, though he
does take off his hat. A very young boy
bows as if he was afraid he were doing
something wrong; he remembers that his
mother told him
He MUST TAKE OFF HIS HAT
when he met Mrs. Jones, and he looks all
around to see if anybody is staring at him,
jerks it off in a great hurry, and then real
ICES nobody is looking, and by that time
Mrs. Jones has passed and is prepared 10
tell his mother what very rude boy he is.
In time de will get over this. An old man
bows as he was taught to in his youth. He
sweeps the air with his hat, and in a low
tone, you hear, Good morning MADAME
He doesn't know they pronounce good form
out of fashion. Dear old heart, It's a pity
there's not more like him who would real
iZe that the way to make ladies is to behave
like gentlemen to them.
YOUNG HEADS on OLD SHOULDERS.
Isn't it Hamlet or some of the people in
the bible or Shakespeare who concludes
that all the world is mad, or something to
that effect? Well, if all the worlds not
mad, at least the greater part of the old
women in it are. They have taken, taken
violently, to the use of enamel and rouge
They have taken with an intensity that is
painful, to the wearing of sailor hats, ana
they are too gurgly- giggly for anything in
VIC WIN OuitC " ~ iUC III tic
park here every day, end they have been
riding there for several years None of
them is under seventy each of them must
use box OF rouge and lot of white liquid
on her face every day. One of them in
clineS to vivid green brocade, with black;
another wears shrimp pink with black lace
on it: while the third INDUCES in a black
and white brocade with n white straw
sailor hat. used to believe in the survival
of the tittest. That doesn't prove it. Why
are not these women taken out of the
world, to which they no ornament. and
where they never would be missed if they
went to Africa with Stanley.
HAVE THEY NO KIND-EEARTED FRIENDS
to tell them how they lookl / am not sew
enty, but | have never found that | lacked
friends kind enough to tell me of my mis-
doings and my general human nature. but
these old ladies don't seem to be rich in
friends Of that sort. It's pity, isn't it?
Indeed, to do a little gossip, there's u young
woman here in the city who says she gets a
diamond every time she tells the shrimp !
and black old woman how young-looking
she IS. think there's more money made |
by fiattery than anything else in this world,
and with the average wol an the thicker |
you lay 1t on the better she is satisfied
THE FASHIONABLE COLOR IHIs WINTER.
What are you going to wear this winter2 !
Y GU ough to appear in black. That has the |
cachet given it by the great French dress
maker who only two years ago said nobody |
under sixty should wear black, but Who has |
changed his mind now, and thinks that he |
can make blonde or even brunette, look as |
lovely in black as in any other |
shade. 1t is true that he wants glistening |
tones for the brunette-satin and silk that |
IS almost as bright and which is heavily |
for the blonde he wants soft, |
Ringing crepe cloths, caShmeres, henriettas |
and occasionally dull silk and all the beauti- |
Jul, clinging stuffs that are developed in |
black 1t is said that one of the prettiest |
women in New York will this season will |
his season devote herself exclusively TO
he wearing of black and white-white be-
ng for the evening and black for the day |
line. She knows that her house gown will |
permit her wearing great yellow topaz,
hat will glow and glisten like sun on her
BOSOM. She knows that with her white
sown cut low her garnet necklace will |
make her skin and the gown look winter.
md if there is any fine lace or feathers ar
'anged about the bodice she can stick a
,earl here, diamond there, knowing that
t will glisten effectively among her laces
md mystery films.
WOMEN WHO LOOK WELL IN BLACK
Mime. MOdjeska looks well in all black; so
Ices Maude Harrison, Sadie Martinez, and
Georgia Cayvan. Mrs. Langtry, with her
,ure skin and that wonderful FURNISHED
,rown hair, can, of course, wear black most
Effectively, and the black lace frock made
ace and jet that she wore in LAS in q
looking glass" will be remembered as the
deal gown by women who understand the
TT Of dress.
THE STYLISH WHITE VEIL.
Curiously enough, with the fancy for the
lack GOWNS has come the liking for the |