Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-16

Clothes has mastered an important step
| toward becoming an actress. If at the
beginning of her career she has recited
"'osler Joe" or had an escapade
| she will be the distinguished Mrs Some
| body although she may not possess the
| genius of Mrs. Siddons nor the womanlineSs
| OF Mary Anderson.
Advice to an ambitious amateur might
| appropriately be given thus: Get an outfit
if you would put money in thy purse, and
win notoriety rather than fame
=
Hawthorne who wrote kindly of hum an
nature, said: This is rather a coarse world
than AN unkind one. " and experience proves
its truth. 1t often happens that Il woman
| coarse in speech and homely in her ways
| scatters seeds Of kindness along thorny
paths, and brings with her
rays of sunshine that dissipate
the shadows The plain and the poor live
closer to the heart of humanity, feel its
throbs and. sympathize in its sorrows,
whereas the rich and highly cultured, re-
moved as they are from any need and
trained TO repress ali expression
of feeling, become Indifferent, if not
callous, and thus they oftener wound
with polished shaft than do
those in humble sphere with ruder weap-
ons.
Kindly deeds glorify the manner, and the
homely phrasing of sentiments of tender
ness modifes any coarseness that might be
Gems urable.
Wherever the true mission of education
is accomplished the native gem is simply
polished, the diamond that was only
a pebble plaything for the farmers children
i'll South Africa was as truly gem as when
after passing through the hands Of an ex-
pert, it was valued at $1,000; the danger to
the individual. The polishing process be-
comes one Of hardening rather than of
identifying. -.
In the olden times when heretics and
witches were burned at the stake their
ashes We're strewn ca running streams
to quote the Latins: "Tempora
mutanter, ct nos mutalnur in Ills The
change in this instance is that Nine.
Blatsky was allowed to die natural death,
and lest three cities should dispute for the
possession of her ashes, by her will this
precious dust is TO be equally divided among
them. -
Mrs. Potter Palmer president of the
board of lady managers of the Worlds
fair, has done good work during her stay in
Europe. She has interested the fair
Parisiennes in the enterprise and
organized in their city a Ladies'
committee" This committee has been
promised the assistance of Princess
Christian Of Schleiswig-H olstein. In Amer
ice, where all women are queens, though
uncrowned, the interest in this great en-
terprise must not flag. The committee for
Texas is made up from the brightest women
in the state. and the remainder must exer-
else to its utmost their royal prerogative to
put Texas in the lead in state exhibits.
-.
A certain female orator says of her fell
low-women; Some are eloquent and some
are loquacious. True, Mrs. Speaker, and
some are neither.
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1t is said that the most interesting and
valuable collection of lace in this country
belongs to i lady in the City of Mexico, and
is valued at $500, 600. The collection it is
claimed has the most complete
assortment of Spanish Old Moor
ish. Egyptian Persian and Chinese
work in existence. Frills from this collec-
ton could hardly be classed with what
Bah" calls "frivols." Second to this IS
the Vanderbilt collection, while other
American women's laccs reach all the way
from the treasured bit of thread lace to col
lections valued at 100000.
Geometry may be very delightsome as a
science, but when its figures enter into
woman's gowning the effect is not good
A young fellow having a fondness for
pretty girls tastefully attired has asked the
editor to say that angles, acute or obtuse.
triangles and rhomboids are well enough
in the classroom, but III the
drawing room the student would
forget the blaclboards and the grim pro-
fessor, as absturse as the science ne teaches
The hint thus conveyed is worthy attention,
in choosing gown the better taste would
dictate that patterns of geometric solids or
intricacies of any sort be ignored and only
such designs chosen as appeal TO the mind
rather than 10 the sense.
Taprotest last against classifying en-
PLACEMENTS as mems" or "women's
N6fk,' calls to mind another just criticism
Why should matters pertaining to women
be put under acolumn heading, "Of Interest
to Women,' and often filed with stuff
that interests neither men or women!
Snreay, in this day of intellectual
there are many readers among
women who care to know something other
than recipes and fashions. Women are in
almost every field, and it is quite as neces-
sary that they be thoroughly acquainted
with the steps that are taken in the on