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

up about mother-in-law, and we all read a
letter written by James G. Blaine defend
ing his wife. 1 don't know Mr. Blaine. but
II there IS anything that would make me
turn Republican, if l were Democrat it
would be that letter. 1 don't know who is
to blame; l DON'T care; but I have an i'm
mense respect for the dignifed silence that
has been kept by the Blaine family, and I
make my best bow to Mr.. Blaine for stand
ing up for his wife As for that Judge in
Dakota, I hope the Republican ''pull" is
strong enough to puV him out. Just sup
pose it was your boy or my boy, who hadn't
married Just to please uS-that boy, re-
member, was once the little baby that you
held in your arms, or I in mine, as
helpless as only babies are. You watched
over him, you tried to make the best
of him; he leaves you and you don't like it.
It's only human nature. You'd be queer
and l would be queer, and it would rest
with his wife to make herself so entirely
close to your heart or my heart that in time
we could get to feel that we hadn't lost
son, but we had gained daughter. Idon't
believe there is woman living who cannot
do this if she loves her husband, and 1
think the low, vulgar talk about the infu-
! ence of mothers-in law about the marrying
a mans family is abominable. It's true a
man Is commanded
TO CLEAvE To HIS WIFE,
but the wife of whom God himself approved
was the one who said to her mother-in-Iaw:
THY people shall be my people" A
French girl or an English girl expects to
become one of her husbands family; it's
only the American girl who puts herself up
on pedestal and announces that she will
do as she pleases. We all know that pride
goeth before a fall, and I for one shan't be
sorry when she is taught less independence
and more gentleneSS. Don't you suppose
that what that judge said hurt the hearts
of more people than could be imagined2 1
don't cali that justice; don't call that dig
nifty; l call 1t low personality and a dis,
grace to any court of justice OF course1
am looking into this all from a womaAss-
point Of view, and from the woman's point
of view I wish to say, again and again:
''Mr. Blaine, every woman in the United
States who is married and has borne her
husband a son thanks you for the defense
of your wife"
WOMEN WHO TRY TO KEEP YOUNG. ~
What's the matter with the old women?
1 call them that because I don't see any,
nice sweet, gentle women any more sec
fat, red-faced, rouged, powdered woms6 of
sixty who wear sailor hats in the daStipS-
and who display large part of their anat-
omy thoroughly covered with flesh in the
evening. Women who are grandmothers
lead the cotillion, and the sweet, gentles
lady, who was an example to her grand
enced by her grandsons, has Disappeared.
This is a result of an effort to keep as
young as possible; at least, that's what
they call it; but oh, what mistakes they
make Not very long ago a baby boy of
four years declined to kiss his grand
mamma, because he said he didn't wSft to
swallow the red stuff. Because of his good
taste he was promptly whipped and sent TO
bed. Now, that small boy was perfectly
right This question of letting children
kiss everybody, and indeed forcing them to
it, is decidedly objectionable. 1 don't won-f
der that sometimes the poor little souls
resolutely kick. ~ ~.
AMAN's IDEA OF KISSING. ~
There is nothing in this world fuite so
sweet as kissing a baby; indeed, its the
only kiss worth having To see it submit
perfumey little mouth like an o, and waits
for you to discover Just what mouthful of
the breath of Araby you get when you put
your lips to it. A mans idea of kiss is
very funny. In the first place, he throws ]
it as he would baseball-with entirely toosi
much force. A kiss ought to be a memory
in second, and as delicate as a rose leaE
a mans idea of kiss is that it ought p
suggest a porous plaster, or a postage
stamp. Then, like Scotch whisky, a mans
kiss is inclined to be a little smoky. Oh,
no. they've no idea how to kiss The truth
OF II Is that one should KISS a baby IN the
mouth, woman friend on the cheek.
or a son on the forehead-and
sweetheart, well, let sweetheart kiss ron
on the throat, or your hair-any plaee but
on your lips.
THE WOMAN WITH BANG. fss
By-the-by. apropos of hair, I should like
to say that this is time when the woman
with bang is most unhappy. she needpaS
set her heart on its being beautiful, forsft's
as uncertain as Cleveland Democrat Thief
reason is that it wants TO be a short bang,
permitting some of the forehead to Show, |
so that the idea that the future mothers of |
our country are adj idiots viii not be con-
veyed to the locker on. Now it is difficult |
to make short bang fluffy, and yet that is
desired, too. Irons, queer-shaped kid roll /
ers, bits Of curling paper, all sorts of things /
are used to try and make that bang stay as
it ought; but it won't, and the result will
be that the American woman will rise up
IN her might and go through the summer
with an uncurled bang, and look exactly as
L she had escaped from Sing Sing.
THE FUTURE OF THE BANG.
It is not a pleasing outlook. But then
here are a great many things that are not
pleasing. Il is just possible that this bang
question may not seem Of great Importance
20 mankind; but assure you that 1t Is, for,
Until we women get it fully settled as to
he future OF the bang, we will not be in |
he best tempers imaginable, and, no mat |
er how upset he may be himself, a man