Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

have a way OF being made indignant or
happy about the little things o. life, and Gu
riously enough, it's the little things that
make the whole wheel go round smoothly.
woMAE'S DIvINELY IMPROPER HOSE.
To go from what is really serious TO that
which is a bit frivolous, l must ask:
"Have you seen ths Few Stockingsl They
are most divineiy improper; they are of
black silk to Just about the knee, and then
they are perfect flesh color, and when they
are on, they look exactly as if you were
wearing your garter on your skin and your
black stocking was glued to you so smoothly
it stayed in place.
NOW THEY WEAR GOLDEN GIRDLEs.
Next to these in the way of novelty ap-
pears the golden girdle, not as it used to be,
and not as it is worn by mere, ordinary,
everyday people, but as it is made by
first-class ieweler. and costing something
like $500; it is of the tiny links of gold, just
such as you find in the meshes of a.purse,
and it its the figure so perfectly that it
gives it, be it ever SO stiff, somewhat
plant air that is most effective. | never
can see golden girdle without thinking of
the time of Henry Ii. of France. The king
had habit of giving to each of his lady
loves a golden girdle, until at last they be-
came so common among the court ladies
that the queen could not help but say, -
good name is better than gold girdle.' -
The same rule might be applied to bleached
hair nowadays. Even the lady (?) of the
quarter world is striped like the tiger in
her endeavor to get her hair back to its
natural color, for nature is going to be the
vogue this year, and she must initiate, even
if she be not of the gentle people.
/ am beginning to have great contempt
now for the average American, be he man.
woman or child. And the reason for this
is that, unlike his French or English
brother. he doesn't know good thing when
he sees it. And this country is so full of
good things. He has keen appreciation
for whisky, a tolerably good
EYE FOR PRETTY GIRL,
he finds delight in tobacco in its various
forms, but when it comes to knowing good
plays he is just as far out of it as that funny
little dog that they call in the far South a
tyke. New York has seen two magnificent
productions-one of which / have already
talked about and which is "Thermidor"
The other is one which is no longer in New
York, but is worthy of more, a great deal
more, good than was said about it. Those
great gall-driniers, the critics, objected to
it, and yet it was not only new presenta-
ton of the story of Nero, but it was a mar
velous study of the Rome of that day. Peo-
Pile who took the trouble to look at the stage
discovered that every chair was fashioned
after the manner of that time, and that not
one of the people in all the groupings was
improperly, that Is, incorrectly, dressed, and
that, from the cloth of gold toga which
Nero wore at his wedding feast to the
crystal ball on the top of the astrologer's
wand, there was not detail that had not
been thoroughly thought out, and not
a single person in the play, from
Nero to the smallest boy, had had his cos
tune neglected or not given proper
thought. 1t was Richard Mansfield VINO
produced this, and he showed Nero as he
brutal, wicked, sensual and
selfish. He showed how he could love, as
well ms how he could hate and he made yoar
und rstand that, though Nero's love was of
short duration, it was at least love while it
lasted.
THE AVERAGE LOVER
on the stage kisses the woman to whom he
is making love as if she We're made of wood,
and she looks as if her thoughts were far
away, and because she didn't have to say
anything, it wasn't necessary to look as if
she had ever heard of anything quite, as i'm
proper as love. Men make much better
lovers on the stage than do women-I don't
know why it is. But with the exception of
TIE DIVINE SARAH,
l do not believe have ever seen an actress
who looked as if she loved a man, or even
threw enough warmth in her words to give
you an idea of what this emotion was for
which so much was to be sacrificed. But to
return to the staging of Nero" What is
known as Tyrian purple was really shown
in gown worn by Miss Cameron; but how
many among the lookers-on dreamed that |
that historic color was the deep, purplish |
red that seemed to envelop her in perfect |
artistic foldsl
The amiable MOB cries out: "Give US
good plays" and then when men of intelli- |
gence, men of study and men who are anx- |
lous to make success of their work-men
Ii IL, M. Richard Mans fa11-riro tba,o
play that is at once q delight to the eyes |
and an education at the same time, they |
stick to the play where tin can thrown at |
a bulldog is counted wit, or the low come |
dian falling downstairs constitutes the |
very height of humor. 1 feel like say |
ing, what fools we mortals be-" And for |
the first time in my life l add s'what con- |
doesn't like to say this; it doesn't sound po- |
lite to the country which you honored by |
being born in; but it is absolutely true We |
tumble along in blind sort of way, and we |
accept rudeness and contempt and dishon-
esty and irreverence and impoliteness, and |
then we wonder that our sons don't grow
up to be gentlemen. My friends,
GENTLEMEN ARE LIKE RACE HORSES,
they have got to be bred that way, and you |
can't take the ear of even the whitest of |
pigs and make silk purse. Just notice it |
in some of our politicians, and you will see |
now it works. Gentlemen do not neces- |
,arily come from palaces-the finest gentle |
man | ever met was the son of an Irish |
peasant, who came over here, made a for
tune, kept the old people at home until there |
was only his mother left, and then he |
brought her here, because she wanted to be
with 'her boy" And there was no man or
woman III this land, too rich, too well-born,
)r too fashionable, to be presented to my |
mother" and that was where he showed |
he fineness of his gentility He dared to
,al his soul his own. Very few of US do. |
We are little bit cowardly. When it comes
10 vote we don't dare to call our souls our |
OWN, because we are run by ring. When |
It comes to our wives, we don't dare tell |
hem TO speak more quietly, to be less de- |
cided in their opinions, and to choose the |
rood rather than the evil word to speak. |
When it comes to our children, we haven't |
The courage.
TO SWITCH THE IMPUDENCE OUT
If them nor the ambition to encourage the |
weeks when am not patriotic. Politically |
,hings are not running to suit me, so l have |
given up reading the papers, because am |
.ired of looking at the pictures of Grover |
Cleveland's baby, and 1 have taken to the |
heaters. Twice l have been fortunate, |
ind suppose in the language of the good |
poker player, had better draw to those |
.wo and see if l can't get full hand.
WILLIAM BLACKS POKER BOOK.
BY the by, did you know that about the |
only book that hinges on poker for its plot |
S an English one, written by William Black |
md called Prince Fortunater2 Well. it |
f, and to William Black, and to William |
Black alone, do confess to have learned |