Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22

Il 81 ORNfAmn
though really and truly / would ra,ias
see an absolutely plain stage than come
/ OF the ridiculous settings that have -,
| gwen 70 us lately. We Americ1rs s,,syoa
ana suher, and suffer. and / am srro
| noht Know why we do Il. IA a nuito
uine tne worm turned, and demanded
| lnat Wnen II crawied to the tbenter h
s s,,i nave presented to II good PLAYS
properly mounted, and acted NV ~,
and women who know sometbing ~ Nv. ~
world which they depicted Where IL The
manager who Is going to give ms tbisY
nm sure fortune Is waiting for him.
WHEN. WOMAN DISCARDS HER
CORSET.
E. TO 20 from theatrical affairs TO frocka
i Is my painful duty to annoupee tbet In
the house we no longer hive moral
support in the way OF STAYS INIT tbot
most Of us are drinking ten and dining
IN Empire frocks, that come hearing lie
announcement, mo corsets" IA Re t,
lovely illustration Of what the reform
people are always talking about-thnt is
snat me women WHO leave of corsets
leel themselves freer and more indepen-
ueuI more virtuous, more honest, and
more nearly the perfect woman Il moan
IT'S lovely illustration against Their
theories, for without corscts woman
loses OIL moral backbone. and wants 10
loai ON dlyanS, read novels. and either
drink tea or smoke cigarettes. witch
ever may be her wcakneys--tea Is nine
but that's another story.
Inc slender, hthe girl looks very well
without the protecting bones, but the
iuuy inclined TO curves looks about as
immoral rs anything / have ever seen
III ! had u son old enough TO be married.
should see that he never got into the
society OF women who discarded thpse
essentially feminine adjuncts, the stavs
and j don't know that / should approve
OF the ones who wear the LITTLE short
things that they call the empire stays
they are not quite what they should be
Win low-neck gown; they don't come
down quite as far as they ought with a
elose-htting gown. Madame Patterson
bonapnrtc once showed me her wedding
gown, and, as Il fitted the figure closely,
IL seemed TO my uneducated eyes M
rather-well, 10 nice; but young woman
OF today, In her empire gown. could
give the ladies Of the court of the Em-
press Josephine number of points.
l had the doubtful felicity Of seeing
one dress the other day She wore "A
pink cloth empire gown, very close Gt.
ting, and cut very low In the neck. Under
this she had
A PAIR OF PINK SILK TIGHTS.
While to keep the short stays from
hurting her, she had a band of pink rib-
bon about quarter OF yard wide
wrapped around her body above her
waist, and fastened with small safety
pins, the short stays were put on over
this and the effect can be left TO the
imagination. ] heard a sensible woman
talking the other day she was talking
about her SON, and she said. Poor fei- |
low, ] am very much interested In see
ing who his first love will be, because
a mans first love always has such an
eneet on ms character; am hoping that |
u VIII be young married woman who Is |
clever, for he is interesting, aud II she |
X really clever she will never get him |
INTO trouble and she win educate him" 1
What do you think OF that as "A speci- I
men Of the ideas Of the Ninteenth century |
You and would want our boys TO fail |
IN love with some pretty young girl, |
marry her. have n house full of babies, |
aud be naturally happy; but this good |
mother Of the world wants her bow To he |
by a clever young married |
woman; later to find young girls stale, /
lat aud Improbable: then grow cynical.
o lose bis belief in women, but 10 lead l
he coullion well, 10 talk well and to be
It ease.
Oh. dear, me. how old fashioned / am:
wish you had seen that woman look NJ
HN HNNftN AhA vi blilAth-e Nf lunuEnI IL
iery vulgar! Vulgar indeed! She was
he vulgar one in wanting TO make her
10Y abnormal. ! can't believe the world
$ wrong. | think il must be only a see
ion OF It. But Ids section has very
unpleasant way of forcing itself, but
here are number of things that force
themselves upon us,
THINGS FORCED UPON US.
II is forced upon MS very firmly about
his time OF year that we had better pay
,ur bills
IL Is forced upon MS very positively at
III times OF the year that the American
woman is n great power.
IL Is forced upon us ut all seasons,
hat the average young man, with lean
ne toward Anglo-mania should be extin-
'uished quietly, but firmly
II Is forced upon Us when the winter
lays are here, that TO eat your straw
erry You have TO poy good price for it
II is forced upon MS when the chill
Winds blow, how delightful it must be
D live in Il town whore one doesn't have
o buy coal, but can burn natural gas
10 Is forced upon me early In the morn
ng, that getting out of bed Is never as
leasant as getting In.
IL Is forced upon nae just at this min
&c, that a man In Buffalo promised me
dog, and il hasn't come. Has that
lan the courage 20 disappoint
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