Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18

those to greet home that dear prodigal. the
s.Maister of Woodbarrow" Oh, no. it's a
different thing. The first are like good,
| sweet, pure milk, and the Last is absinthe
| frappe. That's the difference between
them. The play is marvelously well worth
seeing; and if you have an extensive &C.
| quaintance, you will suddenly discover that
| you are meeting these very people. and you
| wonder if everything is bad, if all women
can be bought. if every man is either cad
| or knave, and il life is o joke. And then
| you remember the sweet, loving words that
the little girl said to him when the
haven had been reached at last: These
are the words: Faith. Duty, Love, Con-
| science. Nobody can help believing them.
| Turn them out the door, they only fly in at
the window; trample them into the ground,
| they spring up again stronger than ever;
| prove them falsehoods in Greek and Latin,
and you only find that they are the first
truths that the mother tells to her baby,
| woalS's SUMNER SHIRT FRONT.
Lovely woman is now ''rastlin'" with
| the great question of the day. She asks
| everybody she meets. who has succeeded in
| solving the problem, exactly how and
| give up her shirt front with the summer
| months. She has determined to wear it all
| winter, and she hopes that il shall rival the
| fend man and make him wither with envy.
somehow, she Dent seem to get the starch
| IN II. and whether it's because of the slight
difference In her build, as far as men are con-
cerned, or not. 1t has way of doing what
the darkeys call linking up" She doesn't
care to wear braces, because they make
marks on her shoulders, but she can't keep
them down Cher shirts. mean by having
buttonhoie in tab that faStens 10 but
ton on her corsetS. lt is interesting in q
family where Young wife has the shirt
b,,Sh l,ac Of
wear them, not, Of course, because they
are vicious, but since the fall of Adam he
has been encased in one, and to see the de-
light with which a Chiraman will spread
out that wash. Given the room to himself
he will put one of madame's
BEFRILLED AND BELACED POINTED PETIT
COATS
on the chair, with the tlounces spread out
as If she We're inhabiting it; above this we
will put little silk shirt. and over this
the shirt. with that part of the tail which is
decorated with a monogram brought to the
.r1nt with high ard mighty air of govern
ing all things. Then comes the Marseilles
saistcoat, and over this Z flannel Jacket, 4
with its front sloping away, while just if
front will be laid one handkerchief, and TIE
rest concealed up the arm of the jacket H
was asked by the happy couple whom he
Numbered, why he just pumped the gentle
mans clothes down on one chair and did
this artistic study in still life. with NY
lady'S belongings or every other chair in tks-
room. BY and by, the bed on which the
nightgownS reposed, had their arms about
each other in most loving manner. His
explanation was this: .'Oh, l no hkee the
herman, but l much likee the lady-man"
After this announcement he was promptly
discharged, and ever since, when the che
man" passes his shop, lot of little papers,
supposed to be devils, are sent out after
N tn chi
ing power IN the way of starch is difficult
to get; they'll starch shirt for 4 man till it
looks like mirror, but just as soon rs they
recognize that it is a wOman's they seem to
make it more water than starch, which is
not desirable in a feminine shirt front any
more than it is in a mans.
WHERE wowAN's HEAD OFTEN RESTS.
I've always had Il sort of an idea that the
man who sang Come. rest in this BOSOM
probably wore silk shirt, because who
could rest with any comfort on 4 stiffly |
starched onei Serge or cheviot skirt. the |
little cutaway jacket, and the iaunty shirt |
or waistcoat are certainly smart, and al |
though / am decidedly opposed to woman |
with capital W Selling any of the rights |
that belong TO man, still, if any of his |
clothes are becoming, she might lust as |
well wear them. Nine times out of ten |
they are not beautiful enough to consider, |
and the tenth time they become beautiful |
because Of the woman they are on.
WHY BAB DOESN'T WEAR SHIRTS.
The prestige of having the best laundried |
and best fitting shirt fronts in New York |
belongs to Miss Johnston Bennett and the |
general impression is that hers was made |
by seraph and laundried by an angel. L |
may mention quite casually that personally |
| do not wear I shirt 'front.' decompose |
too rapidly-of course. l mean in n Delsar-
team sense, which hints at an inclination to
take an easy position, that no shirt front,
done by anybody's starch, could possibly
stand. Shirts are, think. protest against
decomposition; then, really, 1 don't know
much about he shirts, and know never
could get into she shirt after seeing it.
My paternal parent is patient; my dog is
one of the sort that incites you to ambition, |
and my canary bird can beat Patti all hol-
low, and will cheer me on to victory; but if
that shirt ever got buttoned properly, it
would have to be taken off of me with the
scissors, for l should never consent to have |
to go through what the undoing must be,
when the doing is such martyrdom.
WOULD WOMAN STAIN HER SOUL?
The usual question in regard to the emo |
lions has been started again. Some girl,
who believes she knows more than she |
ought, though I've tried to tell her that we
are an over-educated people, had for dis
cussion the other day. What would YOU do
Il ii lic Wouiu save tllt lONeU, Wlen |
he was in dire trOuble." l don't exactly
snow the meaning of the word dire y but
t always suggests ink to me: so that if the
nan loved was fool enough to fall into an
nix river and lie would land him out. |
should unhesitatingly tell that lie Tell it
without a CULVER; tell it, and look at the
villain who had pushed him in, as if l We're
he sublimated essence of truth, and 1
wouldn't tell lie. even for an ink-soaked
husband. My opinion of the state of affairs
vas not popular.
DIFFERENT WAYS WOMEN HAVE.
One young woman wouldn't stain her
soul even for one whom she adored. All
,ther, a young woman who wore eve
classes, and was q pronounced aguostic,
aid that, while of course no would wish to
ell that which was untruthful, still some
might be made by which. !
without telling an absolute untruth, the
nan toward whom one felt wrong might be
aved. This was lovely, but it brought out
rom woman who was sitting in the cor
Ter, a woman with shirt front and soft.
elt hat, this leading remark: 'sWhat !
would you think of man who would not
ell n tarradiddle for youl" The hostess
announced that luncheon was
eady, and we heard nothing more of the
question Of the day. These little seances
ire very interesting-they make you won
Ter what women are made for. aud after