Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-10

he Is the dude: you can meet him any az
ternoon trying to learn to walk, and maxi
ing an effort to look like a man or dog
you can't decide for yourself how lear he
gets TO it. This was the result OF my visit
70 the dog show, which is really the best
show in New York.
HAS DOG soUL2
A woman said to me, Do you think q
dog can laughlr and I answered, " You
must have treated your dogs pretty badly if
they haven't laughed at you yet, y and then
she asked, 4" Do you think dog has a
soul2'' Now, this may not be orthodox;
never pretended to be orthodox. There
are hundreds of men and women who
haven't got souls-mean. low. contemplate
creatures beside whom even mongrel pup
is king. Am to believe that creature
who can love, who can stick to you
through sorrow and through joy, who can
distinguish right from wrong, and who can
sacrifice himself for somebody he loves is
without soul Certainly not And if the
dog that l care for hasn't got a soul and
doesn't get TO heaven. 1 shall be quite salts
fed to trot along with him wherever he
goes. 1t will be good enough for me, be-
cause viii be certain Of one thing, that the
dogs WON'T let liars and scandal-mongers
into their heaven, Il they have got to have
one of their own.
STORY OF MARIE BAsHKIRTsEFF.
heard story the other day about that
much talkedrof young lady Marie Bash
kirtsefi. II may be old to you, but il is
new to me. 1t seems that one dayshe went
to have photograph taken, and while she
waited she was amused by seeing a newly
made widow have herself pictured after
manner that is essentially French; that is,
standing in her deep mourning with all the
floral tributes to the late de ceased sur
rounding her. These, by-the-by, included
lOf M fuH r1 S1a1
white beads, inventions only possible to
the French mind. After the bereaved had
departed the young girl hunted around the
studio until she found some black dra-
peries, and these she arranged about her
self until she looked as If she were in
mourning. She rested on one of the floral
crosses which had been forgotten, and for
on which she had written in white
chalk. "Marie, aged twenty-tbree,
December 81, 1854" Now, the queer
part of this was that this picture, taken
about ten months before her death, really
predicted It, for she died on the very day
which was inswhite on that black ground
The photograph is, / believe, in the pos
session of an American girl The story is
a bit spooky and rather gives one the
creeps.
A woM1E's sPRINGTIME WISHES.
saw an article the other day headed
"What Will the Springtime Bring2" /
didn't read it, because thought could run
e little hoping bureau myself.
hope the springtime win bring radishes
that are not spougy and strawberries that
are not first cousins to lemons.
hope the springtime will bring hats that
will stay on ones heads without its being
necessary to poke bonnet pins in the
vacuum just under the hair.
l hope that the springtime will bring
warm sunshiny days, so the people will be
amiable and not three-quarters frozen, with !
colds in their heads.
l hope the sprlngtime will bring con-
sciences to dressmakers and well-flled |
purses to their customers.
! hope the springume will bring plenty |
If flowers, so that they can be given away |
and everybody can have them for the |
asking.
/ hope that the springtime will bring
some good novels; the average novelist's |
brain seems to be frozen out at present
hope that springtime will bring good
uck to everybody-the real spring day is
'uch lovely something; the sun wlnks his
,ye at you to call your attentian to the
act Of the beauty of the blue sky, and, if
here is tiny bit of breeze it's to make
Tou to have the sense of the Englishman,
he Southern woman and the dog, who
Ilways choose tht sunny side Of the street.
+ you have any curiosity about me just
ook, and that is where you'll find me;
hough am not branded, still you might
'et some knowing dog to tell you who was
nd who wasn't BAB