Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-16
Bah ON THE VERANDA
Interest in Lively Married WON.
en- and Widows.
SUMMER GIRLS DISCUSSIONS.
Love, a Game of Toss and Go-Sweet
Maidens who Make Important Poiit-
ical Predictions-Music, Ora
matte and Sentimental.
Copyrighted 1891 by the Author. !

| ON IHE NlNG. Aug H. loSl--JuSI WildL
the women DO and say is about the only
thing that is interesting at the summer
places. Man is counted as an inferior ami
mal-nine times out of ten his number is so
small that he is not counted at all. OF
course, there are girls who dance, girls who
play tennis, and girls who fiirt, but the
real interest is conferred in the lively mar
ried woman and her boon companion, the
young widow. They are the women
get in one corner of the veranda
and discuss the questions of the
| day-such questions ranging from how to
paint on china to the tariff bill Nothing
is too frivolous and nothing too deep for
them to attack. After two have started the
little talk, two or three more will join Them
and after while, to the CONSERVATION of the
| typical summer girl, she finds her few
men are drifting in that direction to hear
| what the women are saying. Just here,
this morning, there have been three ques-
| tons discussed
| ARGUMENTS On LOVE AND MAN.
The first was, In love, who are the most
| faithful. men or women" And the argu-
| ment, which grew very hot. was carried on
| between young woman who wasn't mar
ried, but who wouldn't give 4 straw to go
| with girls, a matron and widow. Said
the unmarried one, 81 must first announce
| that ! don't believe in such a thing as love.
| Affection, YES. Pleasant comradeship, yes.
| But when it comes to question of faithful
l ness, | think the things are about even-if
| the woman sees somebody else she likes
| better, she is not going to stop 10 consider
| whether even intellectually she should be
| faithful, and the man certainly will not.
| Love, my friend, Is game OF toss and 90.
| and the one why goes the soonest, is the
one who has got the most pleasure out
of it."
A round of applause met this sentiment,
| and then the matron had her say. She an
nOunced: Il am on the side of the women
Once we love, we love forever. and we
stick to Il man through thick and thin; we
bear with his faults, we eXaggerate his
virtues, we nurse him when he is i'll, we
are considerable of him when he is we'll we
want him always by our sides, we turn to
him in our sorrows and our joys, and
And, " continued the widow. I'VE let him
pay our dresSnaker bills. For my part [
think that causes half the trouble in life
Not dreSSmaker's bills; don't mean that:
but the women who are eternally faithful.
! don't mean by this that | want any of YOU
to be unfaithful, but this sticking by man
through thick and thin makes him weary,
and he would be much better satisfied if he
Were occasionally allowed Il little rope
However, don't believe that women are
very faithful | don't think that they are
made that way. They are utterly lacking
in sentiment, and the cleverest of them can
only assume it. Whereas man will choke
up, and his eyes will be full of tears. and
when you ask him what is the matter he
may say he would rather not tell you. but
eventually he will let you know that he
thought it was so sweet in you to put on
the frock he liked to pin a flower
in his buttonhole. or to have had
some special dish that pleased him
for dinner. Now, you only put on the frock
because 1t was becoming, without a thought
of him; you pinned the rose to his button
hole because you had it in your hand and
didn't know what else to do with it; and
you had that special dish ordered because
you liked it yourself. Men are faithful TO
memories, even, and woman, lovely woman,
who has every virtue in the dictionary
given to her, is as unfaithful as a cati''
Somebody said, "Oh, Catherine, how can
you say such thing! Didn't you love your
husband9''
And Catherine, with a truthfulness that
was charming because it was unusual an
swered: Yes, suppose | did, but really
have fogotten what it was like, and don't |
think / ever put myself out particularly 10
please him Somebody said this wasn't a
suitable question to discuss before Young |
girls, so it stopped Just there.
THE FAIR SEX ON POLITICS.
And the next one taken up was: :What |
do YOU think of the political situation" |
Every woman had an opinion on this. but |
is every blessed one of them were Demo |
Gratis, there could only be discussion about |
what candidates to have. A sweet blonde |
thing, dressed in 4 French cotton, for
which she had paid Worth $50. and whose
blue eyes were AS innocent as a baby's, was |
the most outrageous of the whole crowd on
the political standpoint. Said she. Il am |
ashamed Of my party. They got in and
they had chance to stay in, and they were
such miserable politicians and consummate
idiots, that they got out again They are
"a 1,1rr
and 1t will serve them just right if the Re
publicanS literally own the country For
my own part l think there is only one thor
Oughly good politician among them and |
that is Arthur p. German of Maryland-I
believe if he came from Ohio he would be
elected, but because he comes from a state
where they breed gentlemen. and where the
people know how TO eat without snOrting
like grampuSes, | suppose he won't be
elected. but he is on my ticket, and my four
votes go for him, or else they don't go for
anybody"
co!orlng, and who was embroidering a
baby's bib, said, Il always thought Mrs
Grover Cleveland a rather nice personn'
At this all the men listeners roared with
laughter, and young woman who was en-
oroidering tea cloth. grabbed her needle
and said: Let the CleyelandS 90
to Buzzard's Bay! My ticket is firmly
decided upon. am sick and tired seeing
in the White House people who haven't any
brains: flesh Is a very desirable thing to
have. but you don't want it in quantities
unless you are buying hogs. My ticket is
Carlisle and Whitney-brains and Doodle.
Mrs. Carlisle would make charming mis-
.ress in the White House, because she is so
genial and kindly, and everybody knows
what Mrs. Whitney is-one of the sweetest. |
ilndest women that ever lived
THE GIRL CHAMPIONS DANA AND wATTERsoS !
A young woman who had listened to all
his with deep interest said: Well my
dea Is that some newspaper man ought to
lave show. I bear a flag on which is
written Excelsior, and the names upon it
ire Dana and Wattsrson.' A girl from
gave wild whoop-a kind of a
eoe! yell-and three New York women en-
huslastically clapped. during which opera
ION one stuck needle in her finger. Then
he dean of this fraternity, who was a
natron of about forty, announced this:
on are lot of geese; if you want to aid
he Democratic party. why don't you settle
n one man, and not all go a-fiying around.
hooslng first one and then another: l can't
ay ANYTHING worse than that you are act
ng Just like the men of your partyi''
ANGELIC BLONDES.
There was Silence after this, and every
ody sewed diligently, and then girl said:
DO You think a blonde, nupht 70 wear |