Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
when she came in to dinner it seemed to
him as if she was dazed. and as If her
tongue tllickened

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him as if she was dazed. and as II her
tongue thickened.
What was itl Brandy, my friends. The
English maid had taught her to drink ex-
actly as English women do, never realizing
the difference in constitution and in climate.
And so, from having small glass OF
brandy. she had gotten to have wineglass
full Even the brandy did not satisfy her.
She would come in tired and want to be
braced up; take the brandy, and it was no
use; so she sent for the doctor and told him
he must give her some morphine. Being a
good doctor, he refused this. She sent for
another, who was less scrupulous, and who
gave her large dose. This
LULLED her TO SLEEP,
and the next day she wanted more Grad
ually she got so that she took three or four
doses day, the effect ceasing to be quiet
ing, but rather exciting one, and now, well,
she gives the doses to herself, takes as
many as she wants day, is the color of q
piece of white linen, hasn't very
and the best thing that can
happen to her is that death will come and
claim her. Now. that's true story, and it
is told, not to show off the wickedness of
anybody, but to make some other woman
stop and think before she allows herself to
get under the influence of the two tyrants.
Please do not believe by this that wear
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bition society. / am not. / regard man as
free agent; that is. as free as women will
let him be, and woman as an entirely free
agent, and l fully believe that a woman can
stop doing anything she wants to, that she
can have glass of wine with
her dinner without becoming a
fearful example, and that she can
teach her children the use and abuse
of glass of wine. The worst druukards
have ever known have come from homes
where total prohibition was the by-word,
and where the boys crept out at light TO
buy glass of ginger ale, later on one of
beer, and later on one Of whisky. The
descent to hades was at once very quick,
but very sure, after this.
FREsCoED AND UNFREsCoED BELLIES.
The girl who rouges has gone out and the
woman whose face is washed clean is de-
cidedly to the fore. Occasionally a man
has admired woman who puts dab of
rouge on her face, cleverly and skillfully,
in the evening. But the average man
who can detect rouge on a woman's face
in the daytime is very certain to OBJ
tier it may make her look. A man
has good taste. He doesn't want to paint
the lily. He knows that the bright pink
is not in harmony with her eyes and hair,
and if some day she should appear before
him with golden blonde hair he is certain,
II ne Is engaged 10 Dc married 10 ner, 10 III
siSt on her staying in the house until her
hair gets back to its natural color, and, if
is he married to her, to wonder whether
bleached hair is not cause for divorce. My
dear woman, when will you understand that
just as soon as you are beginning to fade
bleached hair makes you look about ten years
older, and face made-up adds about eight
more, consequently, if you are thirty, you
look forty-eight, whereas, by brushing your
own hair well, washing your face clean,
wearing happy smile, you may look only
twenty-five! The fact that rouge is no
longer fashionable will, it is hoped, induce
young women who regard being in the
fashion as being in paradise to drop the
rouge pot or the liquid bottle, and in their
places choose a good brand of soap and
soft flannel wash cloth. Their admirers
will increase by the score, because
MEN LIKE NATURAL GIRL.
They don't want her to be natural in the
sense of being weed-like, but they like to
think that her skin is her own, her hair is
her own, and the larger part Of her anatomy
is her own, only they forgive the use of a
little curled hair to make the anatomy look
better, because, after all, they don't know
it is there if it is well put on. But they see
the rouge, and they see the bleached hair,
and they feel exactly as if they had before
them the scarlet lady against whom there
is SO much haranguing.
Bah IN DEATHS PRESENCE.
Did you ever feel yourself so
close to the gates of death
that you didn't care much whether
you went in or not9 Did it ever come over
you, when pains were very bad, that per-
haps they were the last ones you would
ever have' And if it did, perhaps YOU felt
just as have for the last two weeks-that
beautiful death-beds, but, in the
midst of horrible pains, my one desire
has been: so! let me dep and
l didn't care whether the family
all Enelt around me, or whether I made
dying speech, as most villains do on the
scaffold, or not. l only wanted to get rid Of
the pain. have got to respect so many
this letter you all know have been.
1 have got to respect the great, great
virtue Of rubber bag to hold hot water.
l have got to respect the great, in
tense burning desire to aid you that comes
with the mustard plaster.
have appreciated the value of ice.
have known what it is to have a cool
drink of milk, and l have laid and Won
dered who designed the diabolical wall
paper in my bedroom.
l have learned that when you are sick
you don't want the people who talk loud, or
who wear .aky shoes to be about.
l have learned that pair of crocheted
slippers worn in bed will keep your feet
warm.
have learned that when you get so tired
of one side of the bed, it takes the strong
arm Of q man to move you over to the
other, and that you are Just as apt when
you get there to want to go back within five
minutes.
have learned that there are nice medi-
cines and nasty medicines, but that the
nasty ones prevail.
1 have learned that while professional
nurses may have a olty in life, while they
may be very knowing young momen, that if
you are i'll or in pain, the best nurse we can
have Isl the woman who bore us-our
mother. BAB. =
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