Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-18
IN BRIEF.

epOchs loves manifestations are similar.
traditional customs disclosing it are pre-
served. The abuse Of these has caused
some Of sthem to fall into disuse while
sthers, though perverted, still exist
It is not necessary to tell the young peo-
pie that to-day is ST. Valentines day, and
from the display in the shop windows dur
ing the past week there seems little doubt
t5e DAY Will DO honored. Valentines day
and leap year are too tempting combine
% be overlooked.
The origin of the custom Of sending
valentines is obscure. Some writers af-
arl that the custom has descended from
the Lupercalian feasts celebrated in F'ebru-
airy, swhen the names of young women
were put into box and drawn by the men
as chance directed. Afterward the Chris
tan clergy. unable to abolish the practice,
as was their wont in pagan lands gave the
day patron saint and allowed he custom.
This theory ofthe origin is not well sup
ported, for in nations remote a similar Gus
tom prevailed aud to this day the reason for
its observance is often given, that on this
day birds select their mates. In Lorraine
and Maine in France, the custom recog-
uized equal rights. for men and women
threw into box the names of their chosen
valentine, and the drawing sometimes
created confusion, but as an old writer
quantity observes: -'The man stuck faster
TO the valentine that had fallen to him, than
to her to whom he had fallen.''
The practice of sending absurd and
offensive valentines. and also that of costly,
has given the custom disrepute but so long
IS the fun was good humor, or the senti-
nent pure and innocent there could be no
harm
It was certainly good instinct that
prompted maiden to choose her knight for
twelvemonth and her knight if Bayard
was complimented by her choice, and all
the more ready to draw in her defense
The days of knighthood have passed, but
chivalry remains and there are few chosen
valentines even in these prosaic days who
will not honor the sentiment that leads
man TO defend woman and encourages
woman TO rely upon him as her protector.
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In the spirit of fairness nothing can be
more proper than the prominence given
woman in the coming exposition at Chicago.
America owes much to two women if not to !
three. Columbus had q mother, a wife and |
q patroness, and TO the last two he owed |
his success az discoverer. A woolcomber |
b. trade, who can say that in the quiet |
home evenings his mother did not interest
herself in her boys studies and proudly |
encourage his efforts at chart-making?
Who can doubt when at the age of thirty
four he marrled Miss Palestrello he had not
found In her a sympathetic listener, and
that she, as well as he, knew the value of
the dover she brought him IN the charts,
journals and memoranda of her father, an
Italian navigator in the service of Portugal,
then the most advanced country in naval
enterprise. His wife is said to have been a
woman OF fine education, of brain and am
bition.
Il Is easy then to believe that in all the
Encouragement that came to her husband
the wife upheld him and, with that IN
oaunted spirit common to women, she IN
fused hope when defect seemed inevitable.
Every child knows that when men turned
4 deaf ear to his arguments, when he was
!eered at and turned away from the courts
Of Portugal and of Genoa, Isabella of Spain
became his benefactress, even pawnine her
Jewels for means necessary to a small
equipment
Women are justly interested in the
Columbian exposition not only because that
for the first time they have a distinct rec
ognlion in the arrangement for exhibits,
but also because America owes much to ;
those noble women VINO enabled Columbus /
in October, 1892, to plant the cross upon
the island Ct San Salvador.
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Observation teaches that in business {
there is a marked difference between men
and women, and to the latter's dissdvan-
tage. Men so into business as game of
skill, and look upon the winner as holding
The better hand or knowing better how to
use it. Neither do men chs-ish animosity,
but as il other games of chance, after the
tight is settled they meet on friendly
grounds.
Women in business, as a rule, cannot d.
vest themselves of personal prejudice if S
hot resentment. If they lose, some one is
o blame other than themselves, and that
me incurs their dislike. They do not re- l
i:rict their displeasure to the individual or
o the transaction, but dispense it literally
nd persistently. i,
This Characteristic manifests itself in So :
ial life and has giv~a rise to many a quip a
nd lest at woma2'e expense. This is CAPT
ally ILLUSTRATED in a sketch by John Lsech. 2
\ Q1artette are playing cards. the two men !
'rgosed are shown in splendid humor, in E
act, immensely amused at the fury of their
part1ars, whose glauces do not v
Iced the malicious utter4nces as interpre-
af9n
Until women learn to bear defeat without il
la se and success without arrogance they
al never hope to equal men in business Ii
Methods, for PERI onal lies or dislkes can I
ever be agents Of success. v
Human nature IS prone to oVc-estinate c
hat With is itafcult to se~pee, Aai tbs
1iaatiOa put .son money IS az sAc.rsion.
sansa. Money IS powe-. but the
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