Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-28
GAZETTE SHORT TALKS,


This week we open up with another orig
lnal poem" IT is not to be presumed tina
any of Fort Worth's excellent old band!
will take umbrage at little Minuie's story
or that any of our readers will study then
in quest Of the phenomena she mentions
for. as viii be seen by her statement, she
was referring to some new brass band
The poem" may be entitled:
LITTLE MINNIE SEES THE BAND.
I've been out TO see the new band. mama;
TGey were blowing IN horns and were beating
There was one thing can't understand. mama,
AND tnat why to you have come.
Plesse tell me about it
Ny head in a whirl-
So l II know how it is
When I've grown big girl
Twas mighty hard work they we're bout.
They blowed mighty hard. with terrible din;
And blowing some cheeks pouched out, mama,
And blowing some cheeks sank in.
And the cheeks that were sunksn
Went cut at each stop,
While the cheeks that were swollen
Went in with flop.
And some OF their faces grew white, mama. -
And ONE, when they blew, got as red as a
fame.
Oh; mi! 'tw-s a wonderful sight, mama,
Why didn il do EN- the Same'
Why was it their blowing
Don't tell me TO hush
Made some appear scared, and
Made some OF EN- blush?
And some of their eyes grew great, mama,
And some OF their eyes got exceedingly
And some Of them patted their feet, mama,
Ano some OF them didn I at all
So now, my delr mama
Please tell me, pray
Why is IL the banderS
Are builded that way.
Fort Worth, Tex. 50
If all the Disappointment in love that
one hears OF were to pan out as the disap-
pointed parties felt that they would pan out
at the time of their occurrence, the world
would eventually become depopulated. Al
most every day we hear of something in
that line, and doubtless there is much in
the same line that we don't hear Of But
fortunately for the world it is usually
THE OLD, OLD STORY.
Once upon a time, maiden
StrOued along the Trinity
And her lover rolled beside her
Whispering VOWS OF constancy
Falrer, syeeJer than the blossoms
On the prairies round was sh4,
And her heart within her bosom
Throboed and glowed unanimously.
Both were young. and fond and foolish.
Neither rich the story goes,
Ma was proud and pa was mulish-
Great their love and great their woes
50 they Wept, and kissed, and parted,
NoWlug ever 10 be true.
Died the maiden broken hearted?
was the lover faithful TOO?
Pshaw! she wed Texas banker
RlCh in funds, but rather old,
Ana no city dame outrauks her
Win her pockets full OF gold:
queen Al every social party,
D5cked with lace and jewels rare,
Looking fresh and very hearty,
helgnS the victim of despair.
He-conIound the lucky fellow
Took widow twice his years,
az and forty. ripe and mellow,
Wttha brace OF little dears:
Big plantation, money plenty,
- Splendid mansion, pomp and ease,
Cured the boyish love OF twenty
That incurab.e diseased
Learn from this. ye doting lovers,
In your anguish not TO break
ANYTHING Of greater value
Than the promises you make.
Hearts are but 10 put in motion,
Blood that otherwise would cool;
Pleasure, profit and promotion
Graduate at Cupid's school,
Reader, were you ever a matchmaker
ma especially a matchmaker in a country
OwnG If SO, we can put in this talk TO
your entire understanding. The country
was never so full OF miserably bad watches
IS now. Everybody, almost, has them, and
he matchmaker IS constantly getting them
under his eyeglass-unt1 they almost
make him wish he was dead. If you are a
country matchmaker you know how it is
'oursef, and therefore do not stand in
iced of having writer of Short Talks for
newspaper tell you anything about it.
Let Us suppose that a bad job has Just
)een under the glass perpleNug you with a |
pawled jewel you could not locate. until
our head aches. At last you have found |
he trouble, applied the remedy and got the
title machine together. 1t goes nicely
With delight you are watching the little
crews chase each other in a kind of pris-
ner's base around the balance wheel,