Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-28

as mortals never knew before, and which
makes fools of women, is sign of not only
mental but physical decay in the race. 1t
comes largely from the fact that men are
becoming effeminate, or else women
wouldn't laugh at them when they put on
tulle skirts and do a skirt dance"
WOMAN WHO LIKES BIG MEN
Until the American man is physically
bigger, women will, it is likely, commit all
sorts of follies. l do not believe in woman's
suffrage; what do believe in is that fools
of women, and unfaithful women, should
each have sound whipping in the public
square. Goodness gracious If this were
carried out, there would be no getting past
Madison square, and the druggists round
about would make fortunes from salves to
cure, not wounded honor, but bruised flesh
This old lady would be splendid one to
train wives, but, like all people with de-
cided opinions, she has decided fads. The
chief one is for big men. She carries this
to such an extent that she goes to a church
where the parscn is six feet two, for she
says she wants to listen to man who, she
feels, can knock the devil out physically as
well as mentally. She doesn't even care
for small women. Her only excuse in her
heart for my existence is, that inherit my
size from grandmother, and consequently
couldn't be blamed for it. l ence pleaded
with her for small but delightful Great
ure, and, although quoted that woman
should just reach to mans heart, [ was
silenced by her look, and the information
that she ought to be on level with his
brains, and so be some sort of a companion
for him.
RESERVED FOR THE MEN.
What a deal that companionship means
That companionship between man and q
woman. that grows sweeter and stronger
and stiller as the months go by. 1 say
stiller because, as two people learn to
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hearts, they do not need to speak every
word; look tells. And this companionship
is no more possible between two women
than it would be between two parrots. 1t
is formed Of a man and of woman. 1 am
very conventional, my friend; I hope you
are, too. couldn't love any woman in the
world as l could man, and couldn't sac
rifice for any woman in the world what
would sacrifice for man. The good God
made US that way. He didn't make US to
waste our love letters and coquetrieS and
our hearts on other women; no, indeed;
they were intended for men. Sometimes the
man takes the heart and cares for it and
loves it untilit beats with pride and joy and
love for him; sometimes he takes it and
sights it and forgets it and hurts it, and it
beats with love for him just the same and
the brain that belongs to IL comes and says
to it, he doesn't think, he doesn't know,
and the heart excuses. and grows broader
day, when 1t ceases 10 beat, everybody
knows then what dear, loving heart it
was, and most of all is its loss felt by
THE MAN WHO NEGLECTED IT.
You think your heart would rebel against
this-this quiet submission, this sublime
bravery! 1t might, but what would you
gain by it? You would be no better and no
happier woman if you opened your heart
and said to the multitude, Come and look
at my hurts ~ How many would put oil on
the bruises and how many would put
vinegar! Keep your hurts TO Yourself, my
friend it's decidedly the best way for the
world at large, and it makes a better and
a stronger woman of you.
After this you may be surprised to hear
me say that / don't think much of sermons.
Well, don't. Not as they go nowadays.
woMAN's IDEA OF A SERMON.
My idea of 4 sermon is one that lasts
about five minutes, and in which am told to
be less quick tempered, and you are told how
to be less sulEy, and somebody else is told
how to be more generous, and still some
body else is told how to honor his father
and his mother. l don't want to hear SER
mons about creeds. | don't want to hear
sermons that tell the $500 different mean
ings of one line in the Old Testament; I
want a sermon that is going TO make you
and me better in a practical way. l like
sermon that takes the ten commandments
and reads between the lines.
A MODERN TEN COMMANDMENTS.
L Thou shalt not worship thy dinner.
III Thou shalt not fall down and worship
brandy, burgundy, or any wine in bottles,
for the sins of the father will descend upon
the children unto the second or third degree
of them that are drunkards.
III. Thou shalt not speak lightly of that
which thy neighbor honoreth.
". Thou shalt not make the Sabbath day
one of horror, but instead, gladness and
good will
Y. Thou shalt not make light of the
weakness Of thy father or thy mother. for
age and weakness will come TO thee some
day.
VI. Thou shalt not hurt by word or deed
any living thing.
VII. Thou shalt not defile myself with
mean thoughts or words.
VIII Thou shalt not long for. with an
i'll will, that which is the possession of thy
neighbor.
TX. Thou shalt not talk scandal.
X Thou shalt not speak of love to the
wife of thy friend.
When l began to write this thought It
might turn out song; instead OF that. it
has turned out sermon. Well, it's pub
lished on Sunday, or close unto it so read
learn and inwardly digest the wisdom Of
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