Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
The Adventures, the Woman
Who Wears a Shirt Front.
LADY OF THE DEMI-MONDE.
Does the Adventures Deceive Men?-Sothern
in THE Dancing Gi1''-Summer Shirt.
Where the Head Often Rests-Why Bah
Doesn't Wear Shirts-WOuld Woman
Stain Her Soul for Man?-What Men
and Women Were Made For.
copyright, 1891, by the Author

NEW YORK, Oct. IL, 1891.
Special correspondence of the Gazette.
| had a surprise last night Now, sur
prise to me is generally enjoyable, but this
! surprise went past the enjoyment and be-
| came interesting. l went to see Edward
| Sothern play in ''The Dancing Girl" had
| seen this clever man make make my heart
| swell with joy when, as the Highest Bid
| DER" he saved his lady love and all her
| property from the hands of cruel men;
had seen him when, as Lord Chumley,' u
| he had given his life for his friend and
surely. no man can do more than this. And,
| last of all, had seen him as the tender
hearted prodigal, the Minister Of Wood
barrow" who had spent his substance, and
then, after all, he'd gone back to the home
where they loved him and made much of
him because he was their own.
THE BLAsE MAN OF THE STAGE.
And l put my fan before my face and
grew sick at heart when he stepped before
me as the Duke of Guisebury." the blase
man of the world, the worn-out youth of to-
day, the man who found pleasure in vice
when he could find it at all. Here he was
to perfection. You see few of him in
New York, more of them in Hyde Park.
He has exhaused everything, and he doesn't
know whether life is thing to be taken Sc
riously or as joke. He's lost faith in
woman, because he can buy them with dia-
monds; he has lost faith in men, because
most of them are tiresome and the rest are
knaves. What does he believe in? A bit
of a girl called Nudge, whom he has saved
from death by dragging her from under his
horses. and who saves him from death,
moral and physical. by making him see
that it is the good things in this world that
are worth doing, and that the respect of
honest men is worth having. Now, you
can't do this in q day, especially when a
man is infatuated by so-called beautiful
woman.
THE LADY OF THE DEMI-MoNDE.
But. is a woman beautiful who looks the
adventuress2 Is a woman beautiful whose
hard laugh tells of her greedy, grasping
nature, or whose cold eyes look out defiance
rather than love? Not to-day, my friend;
the adventures who is marked as with a
postage stamp was IN vogue some years
ago. But, to-day, the lady of the demi-
monde is much quieter than her sister of
the four hundred, and vies in dignity with
any of its leaders. Even in their vices men
look for good form, and woman with her
gown cut almost to her waist, and with that
curious voice and laugh, cold and hard, that
you sometimes hear on the street. would
never suit a man like the Duke of Guise-
bury. sit wouldn't have been in good
taste, you know, my dear fellow. When
was at Cambridge, you know, it would have
done, but, after all, my dear fellow, man
who has seen a deal of the world doesn't
put that type of an adventures in home;
he wants something quieter, something
more restful, and something that is going
TO look like lady, even if she isn't one
Drusilla Ives claimed that she could be very
like one when
SHE WANTED HER DUKE To MARRY HER;
but she never could. She would have been
like thu stale gingerbread sold cheap in the
shops, where the gilt is badly broken off
and the outer edge too much crumbled to
of ba
Girl" seems to me that there are women
born who are two parts wanton and the
other part devil; who are what Swinburne
calls '.love machines aud who are capable
Of making men change in trice
From the lilies and langors of virtue
To the roses and raptures of vice
MEN ARE NOT so EASILY DUPED.
That these women can make men love
them; that these women, brazen and bold,
can make men, who have seen what they
call the world, care for them; who have an
extensive acquaintance with the flesh and
the devil, be fooled by them-is it possible7
Oh. no you are mistaken, Henry Arthur
Jones, it's boys who are attracted by such
women; not men. 1t is just possible that
after awhile, the duke would have shown
Drusilla Ives to her carriage and babe her
adieu. Up to this time, when event fol-
lowed event, she had not bored him, but
from the day she first asked him to marry
her, and, like the Englishman he was, he
refused her. her downfall was as certain as
was his uprising. That's where the little
guardian angel comes in: the little girl who
believes in faith and love, and who always
does come in, even in real life. and take
care Of the men. Bless her heart, that's
her mission in the world. And if she hap.
pened to be as pretty as the one who saved
the Duke of Guisebury, it's bit Of mira
Gle TO me that dukes are not running around
seeking to be saved.
soTHERN IN THE DANCING GIRL"
But, to return to the play and its moral.
Mr.. Sothern probably never did finer piece
of acting, nor one that made all the women
in the audience want to save him, than when
he represented the vicious duke. But You
don't love him as you loved the Highest
Bidder" you don't sit and cry about him as
you did about 'Lord Chuulley," and you
don't feel As II you wanted to ba among