Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
BREWERS AND BOTTLERS BEER AND MANUFACTURERS OF ICE

the bloom of youth; that large contin-
gent will retail i white and gold edition of
How 10 oe Happy, Though Married ;"
that Dixey will sell stuffed heifers, and
give lessons in grace; that Bob billiard
will stand as taiIor's dummy; that Barry
more will sell sticks of mint candy for the
dear girls; that Maggie Cline will whoop
the business up, and that Denman Thomp-
son will lecture every half hour on ''What
l Know About Cards. OF course, t1is
may not be true, but these are things Tat
have been told me. It is also said thht
number of well-known managers viii sell
taffy and that the prettiest woman Of the
stage will have charge Of the glove cohnter.
Her name is not given.
THE GREAT NAPOLEON.
Every now and then hear of some great
person who adores Napoleon Bonapagte;
who collects locks of his hair, and pieces Cd
his clothes and who tries to stand and look
like him. Bonaparte was never a hero Of
mine. but he did say one good thing in his
lifetime. It is this: ''No man dealing
with the pressure of business can be ex-
pected to write a legible hand; all he can do
is to set down dots and leave 1t to others to
decipher them.n There is an immense
amount of truth in this; of course it is
little hard on the people who have to de-
cipher the dots. My grandmother wrote
clear dRe italian hand on letter-sized
paper, 6HQ OI SeuuluS 6iSDb
pages OF advice and information to her
daughter at school If she were living to-
day she would think that this generation
had never learned to write. But that is
Just where the trouble comes IN
they rhave. They began all right,
but they were nipped in the bud.
At a very early age, each one Of Us care
fully and primly, with fine pen and black
ink immortalized that truth: "PerSeyer-
ance is the secret Of success Later in
the book it was announced in the same way
that s'Honesty is the best policy" And
these great truths were in round letters
with beautiful shadings; the LIS were tall,
the Us were short, the rs were properly
dotted and the Y's did not have tails like
Q's. All life seemed fair and the copybook
especially so. A success had just been
made when it was announced that we would
have to begin all over again; that the angu-
lar English hand was in vogue, and we had
to sit Gown, make our OS sharp, uncroS5
our Is, forget the shading, and bring out
in most vindictive fashion and the sharpest
English writing IF at first you don't sue
coed, try, try again" And the consequence
was-well, the consequence Of this hybrid
teaching is the handwriting of the Ameri-
can woman of to-day. 1t is not Ineligible
and it lacks character. 1t is not hand
writing that you can love.
DISTINGUISHED PEN TRACKS.
Funny how we do get to care for hand
writings, and how much they seem to tell
US. have one letter written in a magnif-
cent, plain, clear hand. that brings before
me one vision-a dignifed man IN his cardi-
nails robes, putting out his hand in bless
ing 1t IS letter from Cardinal Gibbons, !.
and every word in it. every letter, seems %
say, blessed are the pure in heart" Thefe
is another IN the same package with 1t; toe
writing is cramped, small, and you need 70
H. - 90 NJ Won
before the mystery is solved. 1t is the
writing of Henry Irving. Then there is
firm, clear, plain writing, that tells you
that large, firm hand held the pen. Tt did.
1t was Mrs. Langtry who wrote that. Then
there is Ellen Terry's-it's plain enough,
but she writes on thin paper, with the
blacklist of ink, and the combination is
not happy one. I made up my mind that
she was not my ideal Marguerite
after 1 saw this letter. There is
a small, neat distinct hand-that is Wilson
Barrett: and Just beside it is one that's a
bit of puzzle, but it's puzzle you can
soon manage, and then you realize that 1t Z
is Sothern's, and you can imagine how
Lord Chumley might have penned that.
Fanny Davenport's is large, clear, inter
esting writing-feminine, and yet as full of
strength as is the woman. Jane Hadlng's
is most dainty, on delicately-hued paper
and essentially French In the close, neat
formation of the letters. There is one
letter that smile at seeing-the writing is
not very distinct, but can any writing be
distinct when there is chance Of Montmor-
ency pushing an arm, Of the kitten up
setting an inkstand, or of the writer stop
ping to have few idle thoughts all to him
self You know who thatisl It's letter
from the man who has brought more happy
hours to more people and written more
kind, sweet things than all the other men
in the world-it's Jerome K Jerome. En-
thusiastic2 Perhaps / am. But that is the
only way in the world people can keep
young. By the by, IL would be
just as well for me to announce that
MI OWN HANDWRITING
would never gain me Q good character.
Submitted to a member Of my own family,
it was limited at, with all kindness and love,
that anybody who judged me by that would
conclude that l was a combination OF Luz
cretia Borgia and the young woman who
swallowed pins, and in whose cold corpse
were found several millions. Ones family
never IS nice to one when it comes to criti-
cisn; still that's no reason why you and
and everybody else who write badly
needn't be happy.
HAPPINESS AND SUNSHINE.
Being happy is entirely in our own hands.
II we Will just make up our minds that no
matter how bad things are, they might al
ways be worse; If we viii cOnciuds TO be as
CHEEKY as possible under all circumstances,
We wiz not only be deal happier our