Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-20

| From Our Regular Correspondent.
NEW YORK, March 70. AS lovely
woman does nothing without going to an
| extreme, she is just now rushing matters
as penitent. Where she doesn't believe
, in any religion, she makes politics take its
| place, and no matter what she may elect to
| be, it seems to result in making her thirsty
| and causing her to drink quarts of tea, or
| phosphate, or whatever her favorite tipple
may be.
| WHEN WOMEN ARE PENTTENTIAL.
have a very positive belief myself, but I
am never so disguised as when l see a lot
| of women having religious "spurt" You
| see, they have worn themselves out during
the season, and with the impudence only
| possible TO women, they have concluded to
offer their tired bodies, their weary brains
and their weakened intellectS to religion.
The way to do it is to meet in the morning
in some dimly-lighted parlor, have the best
| reader take a chapter of the Bible and let
the women with the widest magma
tions criticise it, while the rest of
them cry, think how spiritual and
lovely life might be, go home to their
been so good in the morning they can do
what they like in the afternoon. They gen.
orally feel like going about expressing an
intense contempt for every other woman
who hasn't the same spiritual advantages
that they have, and they will blockade a
blissful morning they have had, and cause
more general blasphemy and Indignation
than has ever been known before.
TRUTH WELL SPOKEN.
l saw young woman who belongs to a
small band of workers of some sort yester-
day afternoon determined to get a glass of
soda water. OF course, this was her right
and privilege; but her religious society
hadn't inculcated in her that first evidence
nj n of / ANN a1~l
because she banged and pushed, had no
sympathy for anybody, and the ''400'' in
front Of her and the 400" behind her alike
suffered. She meant to have that glass of
SODA and she meant to shove everybody
near her; and when she got it every woman
earnestly prayed that she would spill it on
her frock; but she didn't. No, indeed she
drank the last drop of it, scraped the glass
with her spoon, trampeG on peoples toes,
annihilated children, and five minutes after
wards met friend and told her at the top
of her voice ''of the exquisite, spiritual
time we had this morning." 1t makes me
feel like saying Spiritual fiddlesticks ~
when hear women talk like that; it makes
me think that society formed at home
and consisting of one, which would be for
the prevention of quick speaking and ILL
temper, and for the promotion of good man
,ners and gentleness, is the kind that is
needed during Lent. But to return to re-
igion.
MEN MORE RELIGIOUS THAN WOMEN.
The average man is really very much
more religious than the average woman.
To her being religious means singing badly
written hymns, listening TO long sermons,
putting penny in the collection box, and
signing over everybody else as lawful sin
ners." To man it means keeping rather
quiet, deciding in his heart what is right
and what is wrong; doing as near right as
q = ha md
letting his neighbors take care OF them
selyes-that is, spiritually. Now, those
women who are accusing themselves of be-
ing the vilest sinners in the world are ab-
solutely vain of it They never claim to be
a mere ordinary, everyday sinner. oh, dear,
no! They are the very worst, ard they think
that the world is going to be turned upside
down, and that everything in the heavens
above and IN the earth beneath is occupied
with their miserable, mean, petty little sins.
Dirty little sins, don't you know7 sins that
a self-respecting dog would never dream of
committing. Upon my honor, I believe
some of them are SO inedably anx-
ious to convince you that they are
the worst sinners that ever lived that they
would like to have you meet his satanic
majesty and hear his opinion Of them. The
chances are that he will think so little of
them that he will use them for kindling-
wood. The trouble is that they need
physical rather than an emotional treat
ment; they want something to thin their
blood, and they want to test the value of
sulphur and m0lasSes for few mornings.
Then, after that, they viii discover how
much good they can do st home, and they
will stop wailing about being sinners and |
turn in and be honest little saints who are |
net aware Of their own virtues.
BEs on Mr. BLAISE's LETTER.
Very lately the question has been brought