Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-31
BAB'S BRIGHT SPICE.
Lent Makes No Difference in
Her Lively Chatter.
WOMAN WITH A STIFF SHIRT.
She Wonders why the Collar Tickles Her
so-Mrs Laugtry's Chippendale
Bed--Little Revolutions
for Us ALL
Copyright 1892 by he Box Syndicate Press

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n. VI
NEW YORK, March 49, 1892
Special Correspondence OF The Gazette.
The cry for long time has been that
woman was taking the bread cut Of mans
mouth, by assuming his occupations. II
was said that she could write as well as, OF
better than he did; that as politician she
was far above him; that as a diplomat she
would have settled the Behring sea trouble
long ago, and If ever she got hold Of the
money in the treasury she would govern it
10 way that would please all the United
States. But, after great deal of thinking
land when woman thinks, she thinks hard
enough to burst the buttons of her frock),
she has come TO the conclusion that there is
a new occupation open TO man. 1t is that
OF ladyis maid. And the reason for its ex-
istence is what every knowing person would
call the shirt habit; that is to say. that the
come necessity in the wardrobe Of every
woman.
WOMAN WITH A STIFF SHIRT.
Its assumption, however, involves a
struggle. This is the way it all came
about: Lovely woman, who this year
wishes to look particularly smart, and to
have an air of decided trlmness, goes to a
shirtmaker, really. rightly shirtmaker,
and announces, with a swagger, that she
has come TO be measured for some shirts.
Ten TO one she never had shirt on before.
The whole time that wretched man is
measuring her sheitells him that those tha5
she got in London were not fitted that Wa,
and that they measured her differently in
Paris. These shirts are made exactly like
those belonging to the head of the family,
with one exception; that is, they have a
string run in the back, which pulls them
into place; they open down the front. have
the cuffs and collars regularly on them,
and, altogether, when they come home,
look just as smart as possible; and the
sifirtiiakei-, being of this century. charges
$3.50 more for making each. This is, ! pre-
sumo, because it took less material and be-
cause they are for a woman.
A MAN AS A woMAN's MAID.
Now begins the occupation of q man.
Madam has a cloth skirt and a cutaway
coat to be worn with these shirts. The
shirt is on, and the first thing to be heard
from her dressing room is call for Charlie
to come and see what makes the collar
tickle so. After Charlie has assured her
that it is because it is well starched she
lapses into silence. Then she says in low
and very pleading voice, "Would you mind
putting the studs in for me2" He does not
mind and after that he ties her scarf,
sticks the pin in the way it ought to be,
and then she shows him the tab with her
initials on it, which she fastens to a band
on her skirt. Charlie tells her he don't ar
range his this way and rather SCOTS at her,
but after she is all dressed and he sees her
beautiful delight il her shirt, that is really
and truly like a mans, he will want to ac-
cept the position of lady's maid to every
young woman who has really and rightly
shirt front.
FRoU-FRoU IN MODERN LIFE.
By the bye, do you ever go to funerals2
Generalizing, think it is wrong AS the
darkies say, one funeral makes many. But
the other day was induced to go to one be-
cause L knew the love story of the woman
who lay there placidly asleep forever. Her
husband bent over her and wept bitterly,
and all that could say TO myself was that
it was remorse. But afterwards heard Of
something that happened just before death
came into the house, and it made me
little gentle in my Judgment of the man.
You remember the story of Frou-Fr
Well. there has been many Frou-Frou
who lived and died in your time and mine,
and among them is the woman who went to
sleep only such little while ago. Her life
was curious one. When she was young
SHE LIVED IN PARIS,
and there met a young man; there was an
unfortunate story, duel away on the
south of France, and a little baby's grave.
When the young girl came back 10 this
about this, and in a very short time rich
man had asked her to be his wife. She
went to her mother. asking of her that the
story might be told him, then if he wished
to marry her she was willing. The mother
promised that it should be-but it never
was. Two days after her marriage she
said something to her husband about it,
and to her horror discovered he knew moth
ing of it, so she told him, and from that day
on he never spoke to her.
Years came and went, she grew bitter,
the world called her sarcastic, and never
supposed that any reason existed for the
cutting words she said, because, as they
claimed,
SHE BAD PLENTY OF MONEY
a handsome husband and beautiful home |
One night she went to see 'sF'rou- Frou," |
and listening to the story as told by the |
greatest genius of the day, there came to |
her this thought: ''If I speak to my hus- |
band again, perhaps he might forgive mes |
So that night she went to his room, told |
him how she felt, and pleaded that her |
yol>Sh and ignorance might excuse her /
crime; insisted on her great anxiety that he
should know it. and then-well, he stopped /
over, kissed her, and told her that the next
lay they would begin life again, and
begin a new life life full of
owe and happiness She went back to her
-oom, thew herself on her bed. and in the
morning when they came to waken her, she
vas lying asleep-in that sleep from which
here was no waking, and on her face was
he sweetest of smiles, so that dead she
ooked as young as she did when she stood
i bride beside her sweetheart.
ALITTLE WORD: 1T is LOVE.
People go and see plays and never think
ust what the result may be: never
bink just whom in the audience a part of
he play may hit; never know whether the
fleet produced on some heart is going to
,e lasting or not. You think the man never
owed the woman2 / tell you he did. Love
S a very queer thing in this world. There
re people who think they know what love
5, when all they know is affection, which,
" the by, is not bad thing, but to look for
cal, absolute, enduring love, one must
tndy man. He is capable of putting in
is heart and shutting up from the eyes of
an intense love- keeping il there
nd bringing it out when required. and
ThAt he wants is to meet the woman VINO
nows how to bring out this love. and when
he gets it, knows its full worth. How
yer, it may be taken for granted If two
eople who have tastes somewhat alike,
sch agreeable TO look at each well dressed,
Thich means pleasantly dressed, are
brown a sufficiently long time in each 9TH
RS society, that love viii be the result
viii be a successful love if only the man
ives. He is such a cranky animal
lat once he knows how a woman