Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
IN BRIEF,

| Without question there is no higher
| name than woman. 1t was the name be-
slowed upon the first mother b. her
creator and should be worn worthily by all
her daughters. The term ''lady'' is often
misapplied and used inappropriately, par
! ticularly does it seen out of place when a
minister of God uses it in his prayer or in
| the marriage ceremony. 1t is the man and
woman who arc joined together, and
women Invested of social ranks who need
| the intercessions Of the suppliant. Custom
has given to LADY, a meaning that is quite
| as appropriate to "woman," and by right
| should not be divorced from it, for to be a
! true woman is the nobler and more difficult
task. To be 3 woman il its highest
| sense one must arise, and to blend mind,
soul and body in such a way as to work out
life's great duty is . labor that calls into
exercise the highest faculties women
possess.
To be lady in the outward seeming
may be acquired, yet unless the woman
be present it will be 4 seeming only, for
however fair the flowers and rarely beauti-
full the foliage resulting from cultivation,
the fruit will be only sapples of sodom"
unless the tree derives its life from pure
source. -.
Young women are by no means exempt
from the mania known as "cacoethes
scribendi," but many Of them eagerly seek
place among writers before they have
served necessary apprenticeship. Genius
has been well defined as the capacity for
hard work, and young writers ought net to
expect success to crown their earlier eff
forts, nor be discouraged at what they re-
gard as failures. The history of almost all
who have achieved greatness is that of
struggle aud disappointment and of per-
sistent effort continued through long. years
OF weary waiting. -
Fabulous prices are being paid for in
struction in what is called the Delsartean
system; by it women are presumed TO be
taught grace in pose and in motion. The
pupil is expected to stand, Stoop and sit ac-
cording to rules that seem to be adapted
only to boaelesS creatures. The subject is
expected to ''decompose," not in the usual
sense, but to be in condition that is at
tanned by langudly stretching the arms
above the head and by putting the body in
receptive state. Just what is to be re-
ceived is not very clear, particularly as the
next step is TO get the Delsarte wind by
breathing with every muscle. The new
craze appears to be reaction from the
mannish fad, but it is by 10 means certain
that the athletic girl is not to be preferred.
What is most desirable is that young women
be easy and refined in their movements,
alert, vivacious, full Of life and spirit, and
withal sweet, modest and womanly,
Among social arts there is none more de-
sirable than the art of listening, yet how
few good listeners are to be met in society.
There is perhaps no greater trial of ones
patience than that of listening to q prosy
taIker or of smiling at an oft-told joke, yet
opportunities for its exercise are most fire.
quent. Good breeding forbids inattention
or interruption on the part of the listener
and this is one of many instances where
good breeding and good heartedness clasp
hands. -
Women justly value personal appearance.
That they are willing to use artificial aids
in defying the inroads of time is well at
tested by the enormous sales of cosmetics
and such preparations as are advertised to
restore youth and beauty. Now the near
est 10 specific against the inroads of time
is determined abstaining from worry To
wish things were different is folly, and a
want of faith for tomorrow is well nigh
sinfulness. A nurturing of dissatisfaction
writes wrinkles on brows that should be
unwrinkled, and deepens burrows that time
alone would scarcely trace. Simply wish
ing, as has been said, can do no good, then
why should thought dwell on fruitless
fopicsa 1t is certainly better TO cultivate |
contentment, and thereby to decrease at q |
wonderful rate the number of prematureIy |
old women. A look into the placid faces Of |
members Of the various sisterhoods teaches
that anxious cares for tomorrow, and a cul- |
tivation of envy among women Of the world, |
makes lines, they would give much in after
years TO obliterate.
There is nothing more gratifying to tho