Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-27

own pleasure ana hnt ne WAS M
under surveillance. Fort Worth is no
walled. and its many approaches ar
mover closed. The doors OF It's home
are open to our friends. and you, ms
friends. have the key that unloclts oul
hearts. Still. all that this ancient Gus,
tom conveyed Ia now yours, and what
we most desire is that you win enter
and take possession, using freely what.
ever will conduce to your comfort and
will tend TO convert this visit Into a
happy memory.
'And now allow me to present 70 you
our honored president. Mrs Sydney
Smith or Dallas, who will address you"
President smiths Reply.
madame Chairman, Members of tho
Texas woman's Press Association
Ladies and gentlemen:
mo sweeter salutatlon could we
claim thnn the words that have Just
greeted us as guests Of tho resident
members OF our association and OF
your fair city. From the moment OF
The words your voice neglected,
Seemed written In your eyes
The thoughts your hearts protected
| have just found expression through
such a happy medium, through
| speaker so full OF ready sympathy FOR
| the occasion which brings us together,
that In thus extending TO us YOU open
handed hospitality, we accept 1t with
open-hearted appreciation, a natural
response TO the feelings prompting II.
THE possibilities Of success IN
meeting like this depends great deal
on environment You have done your
part and now II remains with us TO
work up 10 our capabilities. Tie prime
object OF our association is co-opere-
ton for the general good. That each
Individual shall bring whatever OF
knowledge or experience she has gain
ed In the prosecution Of her life work,
and thus Will cnsue commlngling OF
congenial spirits, an exchange OF
friendly sympathies, an interchange OF
practical ideas-fraught with untold
good In fruition. In order to ac-
complish this all the surroundings
should be harmony.
"Rumors are rife OF recent as
samhly of good women In Il certain city
which fell into the hands OF Phllis-
tine as It were-they were the modern
Instances. Not that hospitality was
stintcd. that was given them ad lbi-
tum-but the concomltunts thrown in
We're advice, admonltlon. ad1urntion
ad initum. We are more fortunate
for we are doubly your debtors. as
though our highly esteemed vlce-presl-
dent, you have made US feel perfectly
at home. claiming us as guests MS a
right, by reason Of the unity Of pur-
pose which binds us together as
whole. II IS said that minoritles are
never felt until they begat revolutions;
not that we contemplate any oyerturn-
ing OF present systems; but the spirit
Of the age is to cooperate. TO COM
bine, and thus bring about or hasten
desired results. The individual counts
as little, and humanity works en- mass1
for humanity. Through cooperation
the humblest worker IN the scale Of
human endenVor can become factor
OF vital Importance IN the worlds pro-
gress and civilization and today we
bear witness 10 the fact that some OF
the most difficult and Intricate prob-
lens OF sociology and good govern
mcnt hinge ON the relation OF labor to
capital Combine combine, seems TO
bo the keynote that brings humanity
In accord which results in concert Of
action, and Il does not seem strange
or unnatural that "A few chords should
strike the ear of woman vibrating as
her heart always IS 10 tender thoughts
for her own and the worlds good, re
ochoinr the song Of pence on earth
and good viii toward men. She is try
ing TO keep time 70 tho march OF pro-
gress and hasten the day when the
pacn will be sung OF universal re-
dcmption.
"A little more than year ago. the
Y, w. p. A. was organized A prellmi-
nary meeting was held last fall-a mid
wear acssion--at which an Interesting
program was carried out, and we trans
acted a little business. I win not an
uoipatc our secretary's report, but tho
most important result of this little
meeting, amid the noise and confusion,
hurry and buHtle or u great fair, was
that we learned TO know something OF
each other; that we began to get ac-
nlimfH1 A .F
was Acknowledged, and while each has
Independent Views as 10 the prosecu-
ton Of her work vet FOR encourage
ment and inspiration. there Is nothing
Ike assurance or friendly sympntliies
from those who engaged In gimilnr
work appreciate the difficulties 10 be
met and overcome.
Through mans ingenuity, labor
saving Inventions have lossened tns
friction In the daily trsadmiII OF eyetsy-
day home life, aud they have given
woman moments Of spare time. when
In these latter days are being more
and more devoted TO intellectual oul-
ture--from the sewing aud Dorcas So
clctlea, which cultivated the social and
charitable aldo OF her nnlture have peen
evolved the literary clubs. press rIub-
ana other distinct organizations NJ m
tellectum activity and growth.
Man Is a gregnrlous animni-in-
clined TO go IN herds though none OF
us Ike to DO ciassed AZ OF the common
herd All animals poascss curiosity.
WHAT one does all arc Interested In. in
more or less degree. On the motive
prompting the action depends whether
y 10 httle or great, and strange to say.
the scale OF human interest is not al.
WnYs properly balanccd-the weight de-
pcndinE mnnN estimate or It's value
and Importance, Snch r. life. Right
here ] would like To deflne the wors
gossip'-you know tine reputation
these sclf-suue sewing and pnrcns 80
cieues, literary clubs and other nsso.
cations OF women have In connectfon
win tne ordinary nueptRtiof OF this
Word. a woman ana gnssip nre ii.
most synonymous terms. hut X Won viii
look IN the dictionary, YOU will ma
that gossip IL the foundation OF all SO.
cal intcrcourir. A gossip ana n gcan-
ual-munyer are two very difYercnt nor
sons l.ife IL noe made up Of ,.ren+
actions, and II IL often the little thinrs
Whloh count most IN the sum totnl ~
human happiness. 10 gossip-to' dtss
cuss these little things IN a bri.sht
Dlquunt mannCfS-is wOmit's n,,rticut,r
forte, hence this reputation. Never IL
the history OF thcworld have the pennie
OF the earrh been In such close cont,fr
nieltion--tifno ana space are nnnshi-
ltaed. and the worlds doinrs mr.. ~
everyday cognizance, ManNTlId ~ ~
one big family ana the dafiv povs;67--
per ~ iirst OF NIL the chronIcIer ~
events which 20 10 make h..tory 1,no7--
ngnin, nothing more nor less Than a
great big goasip--And, shame 10 ssv
must i add thai Dtlnr xts.,,.f -