Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10
IN RRIEE.

IN BRIEF.
US, We love "our ownn the best, but
why IS it that ii is ''our own towards
whom there is the least manifestation of
affection, Day after day and sometimes
year after year those most beloved live
without caresses or words Of endearment
yet almost everyone will own 10 a fondness
for evidences of affection and AL have a
yearning for love. There is no sight more
lovely than "A home where loye prevails and
in which the mem bers of the family vie
with each other in 4 desire to make those
who dwell under the same roof happy by
manifesting, not only in acts OF kindness
but by word and caress, the love that is
precious because divine
man is reported to have said that he
had lived forty years with his wife and
children without kissing any of them.
Think Of the cheerleSsuesS of such home,
and Of what 4 woman must become under
such pctrfying Influences Think of the
young life chilled. the affections blunted and
noble sentiments dwarfed in sunless
home, il such dwelling could be called
home
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tooth, the look that repels all sentiment, or
it may be only the absence of the kind word,
the neglect 10 perform an act of courtesy
such As would be invariably rendered
stranger, are sufficient to grieve 4 sensitive
nature and fatally check the growth and
ripening of that love which is the strongest
of bonds
The absorbing perplexities of daily life in
business and at home have 4 tendency %
make husbands and wives. fathers and
mothers careless, and pain is often inflicted
without thought. Said wife, Kiss me
while live;n a dying mother said, You
never told ne so before, " when the son bent
over her and whispered in the ear fast
growing dull, you've been good mother
to me-
Why should we be so chary in evincing
love for the ones at home, or show so little
appreciation of their efforts to give pleas
ure! If the wife, mother or sister are
kind, if they lock pretty or say bright
thing what reason is there for chariness in
praise2 The language of compliment passes
current in the outer circle, and there are
few who do not use it in greater or less
degree. Is there any just cause for with
holding il from circulation within the
charmed circle Of homel
Praise for well-doing is better stimu-
liant than fault-tinding, whether it be be-
slowed on children or their elders. Con-
seriousness of well-doing is pleasing to ones
self, but that the well-doing is pleasing to
others is a Stimllant that nerves TO further
effort and goes on compromising pleasure
until the hands that wrought so faithfully
are still, and the soul, grown full of love, is
called 10 dwell forever in that kingdom
where love reigns, and where the well
doing of earth is not only remembered, but
is commended before the great assemblage
and erernally rewarded in the presence of
the hosts of heaven and earth
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Musty old doctors comprising the sanitary
board III Vienna have recommended u tax
upon trailing dresses. as 4 measure TO re-
strict what they please to term most dan
gerous and unhealthy fashion. If the recon-
mendatiOn becomes Il law. the Office of tax
collector will not be u sinecure Imagine
this Paul Pry, with tape line in hand, over
hauling women's gowns to see if they are
OF legal length. and the storms of abuse he
must receive from the owners At seeing
their robes SO sacrilegiousLy handled.
While it must be granted that trailing
street dresses are not neat. and that much
OF the nastiness, owing to mems unceanly
habits, is thus carried of on women's skirts,
even a. emperor who IS absolute will be
apt TO find that his power is not supreme
when he lnvadeS the realm of fashion
There is little likelihood that any attempt
TO create such a tax would be made in
America. for while American women have
quietly submitted for more than i century
10 taxation without representation, and
American men bend under the bur-
den of the Mckinley bill, madame
IS likely 10 resent any interior
ence in the matter of long skirts so
long as the trailing skirt is in style.
Women vote unanimously for city legis-
lation that enforces the keeping clean of
streets and pavementS, both is 4 sanitary
and decent measure, but will continue to
hold up the trail, even al the risk of show
ing a trim foot and small ankle, despite
NlASib AiICh may say VI VIC dOSolhIlN III I'LL
tidiness of the fashion.
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Egotism has many phases and IS often !
carefully concealed under quaint DISCUSSES,
but it is somewhat startling to hear and !
that from well qualified critic, the most |
popular poets charged with this in their |
poetry.
Ordinary mortals who fail to 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 |
have done this for their own selfish ends, |
and have frequently written neither poetry |
nor English. Poets have always been sup
posed to lie close TO the heart of nature, and
their utteranceS to be the simple ones that