Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-23
DANGEROUS TONGUES.

honor cannot blot IL oui
DANGEROUS TONGUES.
Somebody Is man who made a prom
ise 10 his mother hat he would look
nft'r some little orphans, and hc keeps
his word. Being n man and being gen
erous he makes them comfortable and
happy, aud the gosdps sit on affair and
pgglc, and look knowingly NJ each other.
and after u while one Of the most im-
pudent will say something 10 the man.
something intended 20 be funny, and the
man will look dGzed aud wondering and
then hc will 10 OF by himself and think.
What Ia tho use Of trying 10 do right
when YOU are always misunderstood -
And when those orphan babies are men
aud women thcre viii be- some old gos-
sip ready to wink and make nasty sug-
gcstions about their birth
II is hard 10 put IL down, this talk Of
the fOul-mouthed. If / had my way !
would have everybody who said or oven
limited low and Nulger things about their
ueighbors made 10 stand in the public
square with their hands tied together
bearing on their breasts the letter 5,
which stood for "Scnndalmnnger, in
bright blue, and then have their mouths
washed out with yitrol. Don't you agree
with met And then what would you DO
with that awful weapon Of the scandal
mongcry For he doesn't coniine himself
10 his tongue. / mean the anonymous
letter. A thief ia the night Is honorable
beside the anonymous lettcr-writer
Against the first you can use muscle, You
can raise your voice. you can make some
sort of a light: against the last You can
do nothing The fact that you are w0-
man forces you To keep still before this
indignity, against which there IL no re-
dress and 30, woman or man, you have
20 suffer like somebody with a hidden
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compensation there comes some loving
act that will cause you TO forget the suf-
ferng.
What Il the matter with men and wo-
men that they can't do the nice the
kindly thing one toward the Otherf My
friend. il Is quite as easy, and, In add
ton, Il would make everything 10 80 much
smoother Sometimes ] think that In
the various sort OF hells that have been
described, that one will be the most aw-
full which Is intended for the scandal
mOngcr the beast In human form who
takes away the characters Of women,
the honor of men, and even dares throw
its dirty Slime over the histories Of little
children. But, there. ! don't want 20 talk
any more about H.. Unfortunately the
scaudulmunger exists, and somebody with
greater muscle AID more brain than !
win discover a powder some day that VIII
e1termmate the entire species
THE OP-SKIRT AGITATION.
A very nice woman wrote me and ask
ed me II / were going TO wear a hoop,
skirt Ii was something 10 which / had
never given any thought, but after read
ing the letter. / pOndered Would II
don't think / would. ! will tell You
why. In the first place, l don't thnk,
should ever learn 10 SIT ON u correctly,
1 am sure IL would dare when II oughtnt
TO. and make things generally uncom'
Portable; II en-, too. as ] have q ridiculous
weakness fOr heels, / should probably
nut my foot In H. and the lying woman
would be- a description of me as l came
down stairs The h00p-shrt does not
possess charm for me. IL does not
seem cOquettlsh, it Is not gfacelul' ahu'
certainly though nobody sees one when
one Is undressed. still one likes the mir
ror 10 show back something rather dail-
~. aud this would boz impossible with
hoop-skirt / have been told they are
diguhcl. Perhaps they are. but 70
produce a dignihed effect a woman apout
4 feet high would be- needed, and' a. 1
am ever 80 far from being ihaI ! doh
propose 20 make myself look Ike
paper weight-all lower and no upper
portion By-the-by. ! think even men
have TO confess that women have dress
ed well for the street WITHIN me lasl
few years. The plain cloth skirt htllh2
the figure evenly and easily, the bodlce
with It's simple trimming, the slopihg
shoulders and fun sleeves, all tend %
make not only a useful, but an extremely
becoming costume
The tailormade froCk has always been
an incentive 10 cleanliness The gni
who wore one liked her skin 70 be as
light az possible, and her hair as udy;
and when she knew that her boot showed
AS she walked, she did net oIalt any OF
Us buttons. nor was she satisfied Win
broken lace lied IN q knot. She GOT 70
b. very particular about her gloves AMI
II she wore linen in any way was
immaculate Personally. ! ul-J menei0n