The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
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certain amount OF adverse criticism, be
luuse the eye, uHaccustomed 10 the new
Iuodcs. treats them much in the same way rs
new acquaintances are met. The canning
is close and curious and often hypercritical.
The trailing skirt invites criticism, but IS
# quite as dirty as has been charged. a
snort skirt scarcely clears the ground,
while q trailing one must be held mp. 1t
was not because of skirts in the filth that
thc women of Pittsburg, through the health
commissioner, have made 4 radical move 10
prohibit promiscuous expectoratiOn. Des-
Eicated sputa, it is well known, IS conveyed
into the lungs and breeds deadly disease.
Expectoration is 4 most disgusting habit,
and 4 habit largely. A home commission of
mothers would do good work for
the health of communities and the decencies
of life by teaching their boys, as well as
their girls, that splitting is vulgar in the
extreme, and should be avoided whenever
possible, and when ii becomes imperative,
should be done quickly and in private.
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The question of 4 city park is being agi-
tated, and there is a bare possibility that
II no very distant time there may be Sc
rured land for park purposes. Now is the
time for the mothers to put in their plea for
gardens before grand parks. Think how
delightful it would be in the summer morn
ING TO send the little ones with an elder sis
ter or the nurse 10 play under the shade of
green trees and amid the pleasant sights
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of tinkling fountains. Then, too, when twi-
light drops the curtain, buttoning it with
stars. 10 sit with the father and husband in
cool shadows and forget III soft moonlight
the cares that infcSt the day. Certainly an
acreage park would be i great luxury, but
squares about the town for tired laborers,
in and out of the house, are prime necessi-
ties. 1t would be well to urge this before
the time when II will be necessary to tear
down substantial buildings to give the
crowded jewellers in Fort Worth breathing
spaces. -
Mrs. Margaret L. LANCASTER in talk not
long since to a company of ladies on The
Well-Equipped Woman took the ground
that versatility was an essential character
With all due respect to the opinion of this
noble woman, and never for one moment
questioning the desirability of knowing
something of everything" and the impos-
Sibility of knowing everything of some
thing we feel obliged TO differ with her
somewhat For social intercourse there is
no woman quite so delightful as the bright
lions with sense, but i'll the hard, every
day world where the majority of women
are battling, it may be for actual existence,
that woman who has only versatility and
no specially fights losing battle. The
hard lines that come 10 women in the strug-
gle for life are largely due To the fact that
there is no one thing which they know
thoroughly and can do well. The apprentice
ship system is we'll nigh abandoned and It's
abandonment Is 4 wrong done all parties. II
is particularly unfortunate that girls, of
whom there IS Il growing preponderance,
are not being prepared by thorough train
in" Tor the positions they wish TO occupy.
Business is business" IS not dogma in
their creed, and they fail to appreciate
more fatal TO their real interest than any
want of drawing-room tack or minor
breaches possibly can he.
II IS not meant 10 cenSure any means by
which women become attractive. nor 10
hint that attractive women are only super
hcial but this is meant, that, in this the
womau's century. it is important to her
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thoroughly and that she cultivate tact
which IS the true essence of kindness
and begetS in the truly tactful a desire TO
spare the feelings of others. u tact that
men are said 10 possess in greater degree
than women. Much as women must blush
10 admit. is il not true that they utter Of
tener tnan men little cutting comments and
with blandest smile thrust their tiny
weapons into the quickest part.
The step-mother. the mother-in- law and
the matchmaking mamma, all come under
the ban of cheap wit that repeats itself ad
uauseum. Vet many families owe their
after prosperity 10 their careful bringing
up by some devoted woman WHO without
an irreparable loss. Then toe, the mother
in-law fills a niche in the household that no
one else can. and when the puny wall of the
frStborn awakenS the feeling of paternity,
on whom but the much abused mother-in-
law does the newmade father rely for
counsel IN that darkered chamber. and ever
after when the gentle ministrations of
woman, experienced through hours of pain
sorrow. are needed
Then, again. what contempt is heaped
upon matchmaking mother, merited
contempt when in its usual application it
Is understood 10 be the maneuvering sordid
mother who would, with little less gross
ness than a Caucasian, sell her daughter to
the highest bidder. Legitimate match
making begins at an early age, and another
is recreaut to her duty who neglects it.