Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19
THE TEXAS GIRL
Grows Homesick in New York
and Writes About Prairies.
AN OPEN AIR AMUSEMENT.
An English Riding Master Dressed a la
Whiskers-A Few BuClling Ponies.
The Graceful Texas Rider and the
Upright Englishman.
NEW YORK, April 10.
Special Cores ondence of the Gazette.
"Tis the month before the month of May;
And spring comes slowly up this way


Special Cores pondence Of the Gazette.
"Tis the month before the month of May;
And spring comes slowly up this way.
She gives US smile, or even Lastly kiss,
thee runs back like 4 timid, or an arch and
coquettish child, leaving US for days to
glum winter.
But we see her influence quite plainly
and permanently in the light of the beauti-
full spring costumes, and captivating hats
and bonnets, which are masses and bou-
quetS of bloom; and in the millinery stores
and departments, regular gardens Of
beauty.
The magnolias, too, in the parks and
squares are beginning to show color, hang
ing their heads a bit. and seeming to blush
At having come before their leaves. These
magnolias are not the Phryne of the South,
who filings open her golden heart, so gentle
and simple, disclosing the secret of his
witchery to every passerby, and loading the
air with her delicious and prodigal per-
fumes; but the quaint and formal Japanese
magnolias, with their oddly shaped pink
and purple blossoms, hung like candelbra
on the bare branches and looking as if they
had Just materialized off rice paper fan, or
bamboo screen
But Oh the Prairies.
o, my heart think of the prairies of West
TexaSl
Don't know how the pastures are one
broad smile of beauty! You would not think,
ii you had never seen it, that prairie could
be so lovely and gracious 4 thing. Along
the irrigating bitches and in every bit of
shadow, here and there, are clustering and
crowding blossoms of pale pink, deep rose,
purple, violet and pure white; while the
broad gaze as the sun falls on whole slopes
of vivid scarlet and acres of clear daffodil
yellow, burning gold the very concentra-
zion and radiance of the living sunshine it.
self The mesquite trees are Just in leaf
and look like tender green willows. The
myriad varieties of cacti. those queer Great
ureS, who, like some people | know, as
sumo thorny ways to be catching. are I'M
folding their SplendorS of orange, blood red
and rosy pink: and they alone are enough,
in their blooming time, to glol1ty the whole
region.
Ii Is the time of round-ups. too. and of
sheep clippings and shearings. Saddles are
resinched, new slickers purchased, wagons
provisioned, and the ''outfit" starts for the
''round-upS.' There is 4 trampling of many
hoofs, tossing of myriad horns, multi
fold lowing and bleating, and the voices of
the herder, the dipper, the rustler, the
brander, the hot iron. and the believing,
protesting maverick, are herd in the land.
The arroyos are up; the whole face of
earth laughs back to the laughing skies:
the air is wooing. seductive, intoxicating;
the beeves are sleek and fat, and your sad
die pony, that was turned into pasture last
week to rest up, is as broncho as wild
mustang of the plains.
Now, what delight to get on him and set
tie once more that question which has been
argued out between you on many we'll
fought field, but which after 4 weeks rec
reation on his part, always presents itself
again.
Before you start you may feel dull and
half-hearted; but you may not De sure but
that marriage is 4 failure, and life not
worth living. At the end OF two hours you
come back, your gloves in bits and strings.
your habit covered with mud. your cap
drunk and disorderly-your best gloves,
your SWEETEST habit, your most injurious
cap, But there is much Joy and a large
sized and industrious circulation within
you.
l long ago discovered that circulation