Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-19
She Talks Entertainingly OF Va
rious Matters.
A STAGE STRUCK BEAUTY
And Some Of Inc Claims She Presents for
HlslriOnlc Honor Az About Our Neigh.
bors Objects 10 Hor Existence
Bah as She Looks.
Copyright. 1893, by the Box Syndicate
Press, New York;
dor The sunday Gnzettc1


New York. Feb. IL. 1893.
l had very indignant letter the other
day / don't think IL ought To have
been allowed 10 20 through the mail.
But then, OF course. Mr. Wannamakers
letter carriers didn't know how nasty 1t
was. IL cume from a woman Size OBJ
Jected to my existence. she's not the
first one who has done that Then she
said she thought ! ought to be doing
something better than standing up for
the rights of mnu; and She added land |
SUPPOSE she meant to be- sarCastic-thut
She SUPPOSED land she underlined Sup
posed'1 that my mother had been
woman, aud consequently ! ought 90
stand by item. II ! had ever had any
doubt on this subject. | should bc In
dime museum earning several thousand
dollars n week: but unfortunately. close
research proves that ! was born like most
other people.
Then the lady went ON 10 say that she
was sure | was lacking I'm ideas: that
women were angels, HAT men were
brutcs, that ! was worse aud that /
was a frivolous, llght-headed person
don't deny amy of these imputatiOns She
can call me anything that she wants il
she win stop using stub pen and put
ting her letters so CLOSE that II fakes q
mumitying glass 10 tell Il from an r.
! can see the woman; her teeth were set
hard as she wrote down her opinion. aud
every hair IN Ter head BRISTOL with
EXCITEMENT AND NASELlNE
as she put forth what she thought In
black and white. She also said that the
mother who bore me would regret IT,
Now what wax the use of snying thnty
It's too late in the day to change affairs.
and funny enough the mother who bore
me rather approves of me: ! think IL Is
because people generally take us for sis
ters, for even mothers have their little
weaknesses.
Then the writer thereof announced that
size was certuiu that ! couspucd with
actresses and people who played cards.
and that WIS undoubtedly given to
music Of q light character. ! do. j am.
! always thought conserving meant get.
ting married. and ! can't marry every
body ] know, hut ] do know a churm-
ing lot Of people some of whom play a
delicious game of poker. aud one or two
who are so delicate In their operations
that they cnn get Your money from you
and make yOu feel as II they were do
ing YOU great tuvOr. IL Is usually man
aged hw holding four nces when Won have
"A fun hand. As TO music. ia rather
hear somebody sing MY Sweetheart
the Man IN the Moon land, by-the-by.
the typewriter is TO be married I'm june,
or Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me Bow
wow than anything that Wagner ever
wrote or that was howlcd in German or
Italian: and To make matters worse.
I'd much rather hear French play on the
banjo than listen 10 Paderewski. My
tnstes are low" The woman struck me
there As for friyolity. ! wake mp laugh
| ing. ] then play with the dogs and ]
laugh every chance got. II / only could
learn To whistle ! should be happy; but
] don't seem to have the mouth or 20
have inherited that great rift
Bah AS SHE LOOKS,
The good sister who wrote to me has
led me into this sort of autobiography
because she dared me 20 sass back.
and nobody can "snss' me with impunity
or stub pen She said she didn't be
lievc / was u woman, and / wouldn't
toll what I looked like. Here goes for a
pcn-and-iuk description Unfortunately
! am small, though n man who Is worry
fond of me SAYS there Is no pleasure In
hugg'ng a giraffe, which Is cousoling
Then ! haven't GOT much hair. II was
| took OF In an uuldudly way, owing To
Illness and is now lust long enough TO
curl but ! try to make il look proper by
parting u I'm the middle. / have brown
| eyes, ! should have preferred them to
hnvc been blue, but | wasn't consulted
| My nose Is straight and / have all my
| teeth hut one. which, It Is necessary TO
| state, 4 the special wisdom one that
| would have kent me from the paths of
| primrose. on which | love TO daily.
wear five and three-duarter glove and
! q number two slipper: | eau get into one
| aud half but ] don't like anything
| tight. can sew some Int | think | can
| play with dogs hcttcr. | am n frst-class
| EOusc-kepper, and when the newspapers
stop paying me for syndicate letters |
expect TO advertise In the most impor-
| tnnt one for such position with an
| elderly gentlcnnn who leans towards
m0trimony J viii feed him so we'll that
! he will forget all about natrimony. !
! do not walk WE'LL prefer To ride In
| chaises, | love novels | adore a good
ulay. and new fruck will make me
happy. but ! can't tell Won inst how
| happy e will make mo, though I'll nut
it on for eyeryhody's benefit aud regret
that there are not more people 10 see IT,
| That womnn hits the nah on the head
I am frivolous hrt YIN feminine.
WOMAN'S MIGHTY REIGN.
Somehow they seem to be together and
/ have known q frivolous woman endure
more make THINGS happier for others.
and cause the whole world To be better
because of her existence don't mean
that ] ann that sort Still ! have seen
that sort The woman who can walk
To the moral scaliold and suffer without
wincing for somebody else Is usually
the woman who can dance all night
throw ruse-huds nc her sweethenrts. and
put ON her finest frocll and suffer her
awful doom. ! stand mp for the rights
of man; but still ! know there is a lot
OF good about women. Nobody needs
10 sit down with stub pen TO write
me u letter 10 tell me that. Woman
genernlizmg, is getting very cocsy She
Is running the Chicago fair. aud She
has q toerahly large say in everything
else. II she Is good-ooldng. she can cet
ON the stage, and IL she has got the sense
10 be purely feminine. she can yet hcr
work taken ON the newspapers love
10 look at the masculine woman who rs
going to make great success by putting
tue intellect of man into her work
for | always know with what dnii
slckeniug ihUd her work tumbles INTO
the waste basket.
EDITORS ARE THE SNfARTEST
MEN,
in the world, and they touch the hutton
every time when they want Il wonen's |
work 90 be W0manly. That's her chance |
for success Size can be iusi as clever
ana Just as witty. and ten times ma /
original bnt il will be after "A feninine
fashion. She can jump al her concli- !
sions quicker than anything / know ana /
to reason things out Then she eefs
stupid just iancy a womnn saving III {
her cook we viii have birds ,ani,sb, p
lhat enough, Why should she 70 INTO
n long lruumafH mil ~. ~