Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

| Special Correspondence OF The Gazette.
New YORK, March Bright and piquant
| Marie Jansen said TO me the other day: $50
many good things begin with G-theres
| girls and gum and grace" I added to this,
"And there's gin" She said, There S
| goodness" And 1 responded, There S
gloves and gravy" After this brilliant
! combination my brain succumbed. But l
went away thinking about girls-I scorn
| 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
gals here in New York, but they are not
! the kind l mean. They are too awfully and
! intensely knowing, and it is delight TO
| come across the real sort of girl once and
4 while.
| THE GIRL FROM THE SOUTH.
saw one the other day and watched her
| for an hour. Shs was looking at play
| that had 4 heartrending love story in it,
| 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 qEiyer about her mouth that
| seemed to say, "ISn't that the most eX-
| qusite thing in the world. that story of
| loye2' and then, when the comic man
| laughed too. 1t was little laugh that
| spar,iled 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 sOmuch expression
in it, living with the actors, suffering and
| being merry with them, she was the most
charming being in the whole theater.
| A MAGNOLIA FROM KENTUCKY
| Inever ceased watching her. and then
said TO somebody, Where does that girl
| come from2"
"From Chicagop' said one. 'sLook what
| beautiful hair she has ~
From BOston!' said another. "Look
at the intelligence in her facet"
And then l said: Look at the romance
| in her eyes; look at the grace of her body
| as she gets up!" "You remember what
! have always told you, and what 1 am al
ways quoting: You can't grow magnolias
in Massachusetts, girl is from the
| South" There We're numerous bets made
about this, and later on it was discovered
that, as usual chow l did glory in this),
was right; for the real girl, the pretty
| girl, came from Louisville; and if Henry
| WaUterson gets into the White House, she
| viii be one of the prettiest and most grace
full that ever adorned that dreadful-lOoking
| sepulchre.
THE GIRL FOR WIFE.
Since that day I have discussed girls,
| until I have lost all knowledge of men, and
| the conclusion l have come TO is this: If
my Oldest son ever reaches the age when ne
should marry, which is about thirty, for be-
fore that no man knows how to take care of
| woman, shall say to him: My son let
US go down and visit our people in the
South" and then I'll pray three tunes a
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 a Southern
| girl. And l 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 a per-
fectly lovely compliment to the favored one
to see her eyelids fall, and her cheeks
scover themselves with a mantle of mOdesty
wheh ne approaches She has been taught
that husbands and wives love each, other,
aud 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,
dressed loudly, or not respecting the gentle
men of the family. Sometimes she sacri7f
fees herself on the altar of respect, but shell
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 a 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 ga 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 baby in their home, she
bOrrowS one from a nelghbor, 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
Southern girl.
THE GIRL FROM THE WEST.
I like the Western girl 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
rapidity: ''Who made your cloth frockl
What's the last new book! Where are you
going after you leave here, and won't you
stay with US a little longer2" I 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
of ignorance, the Western girl does on the
side of knowledge Still l like her Most
of al am charmed by her perfect adapt
ability. She would be at ease with the
car of all the Russias and equally so when
she is giving, and she gives generously. to
the beggar at her gates.
DON'T LIKE THE BOSTON GIRLS.
I don't like the Boston girl She is az
gressive with large D before, and she is
impertinent with spectacles She wants to
inoculate You with knowledge. She thinks
she is cultured when she IS merely impu-
dent, and she is calculated to freeze lemon
ade into ice cream if she sits by it long
enough. / have heard of Boston men
marrying, but have never heard of Boston
women doing ii. To the uubelief is a
sign of the higher education, and love and
ali its sweet and noble actions perfectly
silly. suppose they enjoy life. wouldn't
vouch for this. II ever they do break loose
they become perfect avalauches, and dur
ing Lent scrub the church steps for the
sake OF religion, and afterwards almost
publicly caress some well-known lion in the
name of art The Plvu,o-1tb Rock rY,aee &C