Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-04

Brown Ichabodl--whnt is the femi-
nine Of Ichabod, by the why. Tired
nolte2 But, seriously, it's too bad.
Susan may have been tickle, but she
was always aristocratic, And now her
daughter is a shop-girl You and are
ayengedr'
''You are just as ridiculous, Mes
chimes, as you were thirty or fifty
years ago." said the general, tran
gully. you deelaim for the sake
Of hearing your own voice. Besides,
whit you say is. un-American. Grace
Parsloe, as was saying, got place as
shoP-girl in one Of the great New York
stores, don't say she mightn't have
done worse: what ! say is, / doubt
whether she could have done better.
That house, know one of its found
ers, and know what am talking
about--is like an enormous family,
where children are born, year after
year, grow up, and take their places in
life according to their quality and
merit. What | mean is, that the
boy who drives wagon for
them to-day, at three dollars a week,
may control one OF their chief depart
ments, or even become partner, be-
fore they're done with him; and, mutatis
mutandis the same with the girls.
When these girls marry, it's apt 10 be
into higher rank Of life than they
were born in; and that fact, take It,,
is good indication that their shop-girl
experience has been an education and
an improvement. They are given work
to do, suited TO their capacity, be il
small or great; they are in the way of
learning something Of the great eco
monte laws; they learn sclf-restrnint,
courtesy. and"
And human nnturel Yes, poor
things they see the American buying
Woman, and that is discipline more
trying than any nof you West Pointers
know about Oh, yes, see your point.
IL the tnthors OF the big family are
fathers, and the children are children
TO Thorn All the same, fancy tho
young ndies when they marry into
the higher social circles, as you say
they do, don't, as rule, make their
shop-girl days a topic Of conversation
at o'clock teas, or put 'Ex-shup-girl
TO So-aud-so' at the bottom of their
visiting cards"
~ believe, after all, you're snob,
Meschines, sni1 Che General pensively.
but rs was about to say, when you
interrupted me ten minutes ago, Grace
Pnrsloe Is coming ON here 10 make us a
visit She foil III, and her employers,
after doing what could be done for her
in the way Of medical attendance, made
up their minds 10 give her change of
climatc. Now, you know, us she had
originally gone to them with n letter
from me, and as / live out here, on the
borders Of the Southern desert. in n
climate that has no equal, they natur-
ally thought Of writing to me about 1t.
And OF courae | said I'd be delighted TO
have her here, for month, or year,
or whatever time IL may be. She will
be pleasure TO me, and a friend for
Miriam, and she may find n husband
somewhere up or down the coast, who
will give her fortune, and think all
the bother Of her because she, like him,
had the ability and the pluck to mako
her own way in the world"
"Humphi When do you expect her9"
"ahe may turn up any day. She is
coming round by way Of the Isthmus.
From what hear, she is really very
fine, clever girl, She held n response
bic position in the shop and"
We'll, let US sink the shop, and get
back to the Htioual and instructive
conversation that we-or, to be more
accurate, that l was engaged in when
this depression began. presume YOU
are aware that all the indications are
,acustrinos"
Horeupon, hammock, suspended
ioar the takers, and filled with what
appeared TO be bundle OF lace and
nllten shnwls, became agitated, and
developed at one end slender
.rehed foot in an open-worl,