Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-11

a girlish figure, pleasing to look upon and
essentially suggestive Of youth Lolita,
well. who ever thought anything of Lotta's
fgurel She will look
SIXTEEN WHEN SHE Is SIXTY.
Kate Forsyth has most magnificent
figure, it is Juno-like; but, if you remem-
Der, it was not Juno who fascinated man
kind; it was the smaller, hssome and more
womanly Venus whom they adored. Chris
tine Nilsson long ago grew too fat, and then
she is not womanly looking; she is too sug-
gestive of the Vikings to delight humanity.
Mrs. Brown-Potter is bony; but Mrs.
Brown-Potter is so essentially feminine
that her bones seem to know how to curve
and make the lines Of her figure at least
womanly to look upon. Mrs. Leslie Carter
is slender, but well formed and graceful;
all her movements are pleasing, and when
she takes few dancing steps she delights
the gallery critic by her hghtness and the
fact that she has no angles. Many of the
women of the stage have extremely beauti-
full figures, many more are, ike those on it,
too fat or too thin, and very often where
they might use lambs wool adVantageously
they apply too much. or do not know how
to use it correctly. Who of Is has not seen
chorus where symmetry was exhibited by
series of Jumps, presumably fat, and then
spaces as fiat rs the desert of Saharal
The woman who doesn't know how to
make herself look better by the disposition
of her belongings had much better not at
tempt to do anything but let long, lank
nature announce itself Among the fash
ionable SET, God figures are the exception
rather than the rule, most OF the women
being too fat OF course this does not apply
to the young girls, but they, like all Ameri-
can young girls in the North, are apt TO be
at the other extreme, and that is, 4 little
scrawny. We are of so many nationalities
that it is amusing to hear Of a woman who
trac g her fine figure to the different blood
size inherits. She says: 81 got my hand
some neck and arms from my English grand
mother, my hips from my French grand
mother, my clear pure skin from an Irish
grandfather and its smoothn sss from
Spanish one. The smallness of my feet
and hands I inherit from my mother, who
is an American, and my quickness in solv-
ing all this from my father. who is an
American politician, born in ireland"
A woMAN's POLITICS.
Jumping from curves to politics, should
like to say that 1 am in training for the
next DR. .sidential election. This may mean
not much to most people, but it means a
great deal to me. because my political
career has been varied. At a very early
age, and under the tuition of q Quaker
grandfather, was an old line Wing; later
on, HHCu L 10 TGdu, L DeCdLQ6 dl
ardent follower of Charles Stuart, and was
a Royalist from my backbone. Evidently,
hadn't much backbone, for after 4 course
of French history, became Bonapartist.
During the F'ranco-German war l spent
three days with some German friends. and
espoused that side, returning homo singing
1.-THE Watch on the Rhine''; as the family
were all opposed to this I changed my con-
viction, and the Marsellaise was thumped
on the piano, aad l tried to make 1t sound
dignifi5d on the banjo. After that took
positive Democratic stand.
A woMAN's IDEA OF PROTECTION.
Now, by the advice of some man, who
thought that a woman ought to know some
thing, have been reading about the tariff
question, and don't know what 1 am. l
don't know whether l am believer in pro-
lection, or whether | am a free trader. l
like the name protection much better than
I like that of free trade, because protection
suggests that of some one taking care of
YOU, which the other don't. But if you
could get things in without having to pay
any duty on them, you lose the pleasure of
smuggling; though, if the duty were too
high, and you were caught, you would have
to give up all your buds. l know what do
believe in-I believe in home industries, and
if we American women had half the feeling
on that subject that the English women
have, we would be making the finest fabrics
III ULe WOTlU tGIG. when Gu6 SuRdSGuGu0
of that unhappy Princess Victoria was an
nounced, Immediately the Countess of Zet-
land began to take up = subscription in Ire
land to buy her wedding present. Was
that subscription going to buy her a piece
of jewelry in London or PariSl Certainly
not. II was to be spent in Ireland: sit was
to buy for her the finest piece Of Irish lace
that the Irish lace makers could weave
Another subscription, taken up either In
Manchester or Birmingham, was to buy her
brocade for one OF her wedding gowns, the
design to be drawn by an English artist,
and the silk TO be woven by English weav-
ers. Now, that is what l call patriotism,
and that is what call encouraging home
industry.
BAB WAKES PATRIOTIC.
Do you want to know what ruined Ire
lapd9 Absenteeism. All their rich people
went to London and spent their money, and
the shops and manufactures at home suf-
fered. Every summer millions Of dollars
are spent by Americans in England and
France, to the detriment of the industries
in this country, and, if they don't look out,
We'll suffer as ireland has l do believe
that, with proper encouragement, every
thing made in the world could be made just
as well here, unless, perhaps, it is the beer
brewed in Dublin, which is said to be better
because of the water put in 1t; however,
we could bottle up little river like that
aud bring 1t over here. As nation we can
DO anything we want and 1 think we are
awful fools not to want. 1t is proper and
right to be ambitious in the right direction.
and to long to be better and have things
around you better.
WHAT WOMAN WANTS.
want to have it settled in my mind just
what I am in q political sense. You want,
if you have the right to opinions, to stick
to them.
want to meet an honest politician. You
want, if you know one, to herald his fame
far and wide.
I want to see all the miserable gambling
holes and dreadful places where our young
boys go suppressed, either by hanging or by
fire. You want, if you have got any influ-
ence, to use it for this purpose.
l want the weather clerk conferred with
so that we may have regularly clean
weather. You want, if he is an acquain-
lance of yours, to tell him this
I want-but there, want so much; and
you, you'll just sit and smile. and say it's
one more woman talking, and give her
what she wants. VIII she get it? There
was very pretty song sung here some
time ago and the line ut the end of each
verse will answer that question. 1t is,
Maybe will, but doubt it" BAB.