Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07

And the game is played; yet the children
never grow tired of it.
The first time 1 wrote % dear GAZETTE, -
was nearly three years younger than / am
now, land quite three years less wiseD 1t
was in the sunny, April-shOwery weather
of New Orlea rs, where the carnival was in
its glory and roses kissed the passing
cheeks and violets the passing feet. 1t
was the spring time of nature, and of my
literary career"
Then came dear GAZETTE" from the
heaven-piercing peaks of the Rocky Noun
tains, " here the everlasting SHOWS lay in
the lap of a short-liYed summer and the
wild rose flung mantle of pink fragrance
over the canyons side.
And now dear GAZETTE for the second
series Of letters from this great city, this
epitome OF all life, ages, nationality and
weathers.
An! that last word brings US to terra
frma!
And such weather. It is all fog!-fog on
sea. river, land and sky. Last night we
could have sliced it with a knife, and
br6athed it into our grippe-weakened lungs
like frozen coal tar fumes.
Please send me barrel of Texas sun
shine or if you haven't that to spare,
nUriher; ore of those genuine old northers
which freeze and shine at the same time,
Y blowing the malaria out OF your bones and
the bad temper out of your spirit.
Yet the world goes on here. Our
Southern society had its magnificent an
nual Ladies' day; (l500 strongly our big
men observed "Old Hickory's" New Or
leans battle anniversary, and made it the
grindstOne for their present political axes.
Patti came, sang, and conquered; the divine
Sarah curved, shrieked French and saw
snakes ;''-(please, don't misunderstood, -
mean the asp, Of cOarse.) MIR. Ward Nc
AIliSter had his famous New Years bail,
and 1.-THE rest of US our jolly watch
parties, our punch bowls and sole Vaginny
erg-nOg - The AStor baby came and had
his Christmas tree decorated with illum-
mated deeds of real estate and festoons OF
Jewels and gold dollars-in lieu of the
customary plebeian ropes of pop corn and
cranberries; the beautiful snow got in
little late, but was here,-(and melted just
in time 10 pie me a mUd-pie for story on
"Wagon-beds as Snow Sleds.' - and poem
on The Voice OF the Snow" which would
have consigned to innocuOuS disuetude the
old chestnut beginning "Oh, the snow, the
beautiful snow"
Old Trinity church bells chimed the old
year out and the new year in, while Gill
more's band played Columbia, . Home,
Sweet Home,' and "Old Hundred from
the city nall steps, and the hoodlums with
their tin horns out-noised both chimes and
band.
But all this gayety is d thing of the past,
and New York has taken her Turkish bath,
utL uLd!lug anu 5Ouit, anu SCUllCG uOMu "
her Onerous duties of attending to the bust
ness of the world and having the grip. Ye
editor is back from his Christmas in the
country; old Santa has retired to the land Of
Nowhere, leaving many empty pocket
books the school children skip by, bright
OF face and flip Of tongue; the shop windows
are decorated with ''All goods at half
price" and, in Short another year of work
and push is upon rs.
We hear that Texas is to have an early
spring. u resurrection of seed-time, harvest,
easy money and boom generally, and that
THE GAZETTE is leading the van with her
new armor on and her helmet replated.
Long life and most prosperous year to her
aud the land she labors for
One Of the sweetest privileges of resi-
dence in New York is an entire TO the charm
ing home of charming Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
She is just like her poetry-impulsive, out
spoken, fascinating, pure. She entertains
in 4 pretty, chatty, homelike style, using
wonderful tact in the placing, and direct
ing of interest, Of her guests
Success has not spoiled herr in
the least. Her sympathieS are keen, her
instincts kindly, and her nature as free and
generous rs a mountain stream which
ripples and sings just because life is so
sweet. She is lat homen every Sunday
afternoon, assisted by her friend Miss
Fannie Edgar Thomas, and on rare occa-
siOnS by her most agreeable husband, Mr..
Y.
Josephine, generally in wnite,-and wears
the dearest little high-heeled slippers. She
effects ring on her plump thumb, dresses
her blonde hair in a loose, artistically
towsled manner, and is altogether original
and fetching. She is q hard worker never
ueglecting her desk for society, but sand
wlchiug in society between her desk and
her gymnasium, her swimming school and
French lessons. She is an inveterate
dancer, illustrative of which, it may be
told now, "since Christmas is over, y that on
Christmas day when she was visiting her
husbands people in Connecticut, she threw
her rose-garlaud of mischief and Dlerrl-
ment around q middle-aged deacon, dining
with the family, and made him trip the
light fantastic TO fill out a cotillion.
Near this place in Connecticut, Short
Beach. she has a summer home built after
the Eastern style of architecture and
named The Bungalow The quaint little |
house sets right on the rocks overlooking |
the sea, and its setting is unmarried by
fence or other attempt of man TO improve |
upon nature. Among her other sound |
bodied and sound-minded accomplishments, |
Mrs. Wilcox is u fine swimmer, and her |
Short Beach neighbors say it is no unusual |
thing on a summer morning to see her |
blue-clad figure, with its white arms met |
above the yellow hair, plunging OF the |
rocks into the water.
Once q month she has a French soiree, at |
WHICH any lGLEudES 6ACSp0 IIlEilSu 10 |
en- regle and at whose conclusion she is IL |
able to any bit of pretty mischief, dancing |
q pas seul or reciting poem which no one |
ever heard before or ever will again.
The habitues of her Sunday afternoon |
drawing rooms are, taken all in all, the |
most interesting people 1 have met in the |
city. being made up largely of Western |
people, artists, writer's, readers, and their |
Intercourse characterized by the freedom |
and cordiality which marks the West, and |
tiuged with Just as much favor of Bohe |
mianism as perfect salad is with onion
an appetizing suspicion only.
SIZE HEARD PATTI
I heard $4,000 worth of singing last
Wednesday afternoon, for there were 5000
people in the Metropolitan opera house, and |
their seats averaged So each, from the SEA
seat boxes to the S9-a-seaJ balcony) Dent |
ask me where l SAT, for l don't intend to
tell, but il wasn't in the boxes.
And l got the worth of my money, too
the whole S15, O00-for didn't hear it all?
So YOU see, I am Just $4,000 ahead OF Patti,
who got only 5000 for her three songs and |
the first act of LA TrGviata."
Madame Adelina Patti was one Of the
seven wonders of the modern world which
I had made up my mind TO be disappointed
in. l quite agree with MIR. Carlyle that this
world is very gullible, and intended to
throw the ponderosity of my opinion on the
side of plain truth and individuality