Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-13
CHOOSING A WIFE.
Bah Says a Man Should Look
to the Girls of the South.
HOW SHE WATCHED THE PLAY.
The Gil Who Makes Good Wife-The Girl
from the West.
The Girl of the Metropolis-A womanly
Analysis of Different Types
of the American
Girl.

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Girl.
Copyright, 1922 by the Box Syndicate Press
| Special Correspondence OF The Gazette.
NETWORK, March Bright and piquant
Marie Jansen said to me the other day: So
many good things begin with G-there':
| girls and gum and grace" ! added to this
"And there's gin.'' She said, There's
| goodness" And responded, ''There's
| gloves and gravy" After this brilliant
combination my brain succumbed. But
went away thinking about girls-I SCORE
gum and gravy. The first is the attribute
Of Mary Anderson, that beautiful statue
and bad actress; the second is seldom good,
and when it is you eat so much you get in
digestion. But the girls, the really, rightly,
truly girls, are blissful. You see plenty OF
girls here in New York but they are not
the kind 1 mean. They are too awfully and
intensely knowing, and it is a delight TO
come across the real sort of girl once and
a while
THE GIRL FROM THE SOUTH.
saw one the other day and watched her
for an hour. She was looking at a play
that had heartrending love story in II,
and just enough of a laugh here and there
to make life worth living. When the
sweetheart was telling his love, her beau
tiful eyes looked full and soft, and there
was a little CULVER about her mouth that
seemed to say, 'Isn't that the most eX-
quisite thing in the world, that story Of
love2" And then, when the comic man
came on and laughed with his partner, she
laughed too. 1t was a little laugh that
sparkled from her eyes, that brought out
the dimples in her cheeks, and then there
came a musical sound that was birdlike in
its beauty. That girl saw nothing but the
play while it went on, and with her face
towards the stage, with so much expression
in it, living with the actors, suffering and
being merry with them, she was the most
charming being in the whole theater.
MAGNOLIA FROM KENTUCKY.
never ceased watching her; and then
said to somebody, Where does that girl
come from?"
'From Chicagop' said one. "Look what
beautiful hair she hasr'
From Boston ~ said another. "Look
at the intelligence in her facei''
And then 1 said: "Look at the romance
in her eyes; look at the grace of her body
as she gets upr' "You remember what 1
have always told you, and what 1 am al
ways quoting: You can't grow magnolias
in Observation-Disclosures girl is from the
South" There were numerous bets made
about this, and later on it was discovered
that, as usual chow l did glory in this), 1
was right; for the real girl, the pretty
girl, came from Louisville; and if Henry
Watterson gets into the White House, she
will be one of the prettiest and most grace
full that ever adorned that dreadful-looking
sepulchre.
THE GIRL FOR WIFE.
Since that day 1 have discussed girls,
until have lost all knowledge of men, and
the conclusion 1 have come to is this: If
my Oldest son ever reaches the age when he
should marry, which is about thirty, for be-
fore that no man knows how to take care of
a woman, shall say to him: My son let
US go down and visit our people in the
South" and then III pray three times
day, and twice, to increase my appetite for
devotion that when the procession of sons
and dogs starts home, the oldest son will
be engaged to be married to Z Southern
girl. And will tell you why 1 want him
to have her: First, she has a perfect be-
lief in religion, and when one says religion,
one means in everything and everybody
that belongs to her. She has been taught
to think no evil; she believes to have
sweetheart is the most delightful thing in
the world, and it does seem such per-
fectly lovely compliment to the favored one
to see her eyelids fall. and her cheeks
cover themselves with mantle of modesty
when ne approaches. She has been Taught
that husbands and wives love each other,
and she hasn't had discussed before her all
the miserable, mean, low talk of the di-
vorce court. She can't imagine
LADIES BEING LOUD VOICED, 4
dressed loudly, or not specting the gentls-
men of the family. Sometimes she saeri-s
fees herself on the altar of respect, bu9she
dies in good cause. She'll tell you how
nasty she thinks all those so-called Jokes
about mothers-in-law are, because natur
ally, if she should ever get married-and
when she says this she drops her head and
smiles in way that tells you that that's !
one of the certainties of iife-why Of course%
her husbands mother would get her love
just because she was his mother, and of
course if she happened to be a little queer
she would make the best of it, because
when people get old they do sometimes get
queer. She is not apt to be so large that
she belittles man and makes it impossible
for him to call her "a dear little woman"
She is Just the right height, because she
can look up in his face, and eyes that are
large and full, and which tell their own
stories of love or hate, are most beautiful
when appraised. And then, above every
thing else, she adores babies. If they don't
happen to have u baby in their home, she
borrows one from neighbor, gains per-
mission to wash and dress it, and devotes
an entire morning to cuddling the small
blossom and enjoying in prospective the de-
lights of maternity. Now these are some
Of the reasons why 1 want my boy to marry
THE GIRL FROM THE WEST.
l like the Western girl. 1 like her loyalty |
and her breeziness and her determination |
to have her clothes fit well and to be up in |
the latest fads. Her determination is as |
delicious as her eyes are clear-those eyes |
that look right straight through one and |
all over one, as if inquiring with great |
''Who made your cloth frock2 j
What's the last new book? Where are you \
going after you leave here, and won't you |
stay with US little longerl" like her
hospitality; there she is like her Southern |
cousin. But then she is Just little bit too |
sure; if the Southern girl errs on the side |
If ignorance, the Western girl does on the
side of knowledge. Still like her, Most |
If all am charmed by her perfect adapt
ability. She would be at ease with the /
Ear of all the Russias and equally SO when
the is giving, and she gives generously, TO
he beggar at her gates.
DON'T LIKE THE BOSTON GIRLS. ~
l don't like the Boston girl She is - |
.ressive with large D before, and shk is
with spectacles. She wantsseo
noculate you with knowledge. She thinks
he is cultured when she is merely impu-
lent, and she is calculated TO freeze lemon