Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-24
THOUGHTS FOR WOMEN.
Mrs. VI. WALTON, Editor.


the brain,
Ere the hearts springs are slow and
running dry
When you have lived your life,
''Twere good TO die.
II It may not be so.
II you but fight fight you may not
See the far goal but may not enter
'Twere better then to die and not to
know
Defeat-to die amidst the rush and
din,
stm striving, while the heart beats
with glorious life, IL you must fall, at
last,
Such end were best. with all your hope
and all
Your spirit in its youth,
Then, when you fall.
Far better go to die
Still toilng upward through the mists
obscure.
With all things possible aud nothing
sure,
Than to be touched by glory and
passed by,
To win. by chance. fame that may not
endure,
That dies and leaves you living while
you strive
with wasted breath to keep Its fame
And fan, with empty boast and proud
regrets,
Remembrance of a PAST
Chambers Journal.
Tuesday of this week viii be n
marked day in the record of woman's
progress along literary lines in Texas
In the lecture room Of the First Bap-
fist church at $3.50 Il. m, the first an
nual convention of the Texas Wo-
mans Press association will open.
There Will be in attendance represent
tatlve women from over the state and
there Is no doubt that the sessions
will be interesting and instructive.
The local committee comprised of
the Fort Worth members feel very
much gratlfed at the ready response
their friends in this city have made
to Il call for their cooperation. Homes
have been opened for the entertain
ment of the visitors and two evenings
are to be devoted to pleasure. :
The Wednesday club will give an af-
ternoon reception at their handsome
club rooms Tuesday afternoon from
to o'clock. That night the CONNER
cial club opens its doors and will en-
terrain the Il. W. =. A. and 7. p.
A. A program has been prepared for
this reception including the names Of
some of the first musicians and artists
of the city. on Wednesday night Mr..
and Mrs. c. II Sllllman Will enter
tain the two state press associations at
their new and elegant home on summit
avenue. That this will be an even
ing long to be remembered as an evil
dence OF the large hearted hospitality
OF the people il not to be questioned.
Mr.. and Mrs Silliman appreciate men
and women engaged In literary work,
and know the value OF the press to
state and city.
Headquarters for the members COM
ing in on the different trains will be
the ladies' parlor Plckwick hotel, and
unless there is some private arrange
ment, ladies' in the town who expect
guests Will be notified of their arrival
or can TO to the hotel to meet them.
The sessions will be open to all who
desire to attend and a hearty invita-
tion is extended to the citizens of the
town. men and women, to lend the
announcement of their presence TO
an association devoted to the best In
terests Of all women engaged in work
for the press.
In order TO explain a seeming dis
crspancy between the program for
Tuesday night as It appears in the
daily papers and In the program pre-
pared for circulation It is proper to say
that 1t was only Mt a late hour that
the entertainment committee We're an
prised tina. Mrs George England was |
IN me city. She kindly consented to
FAVOR the company with u number |
and the Mandolin club gracefully |
Yielded the place assigned on Part III. |
excellence and variety were the guid |
ing motives in preparing the proprau,
and the committee of the two assoc |
Citations are extremely gratifed at the |
success attending their efforts. They |
dial support,
II marriage is woman's sole destlnv |
and statistics are to be accepted as |
argument the conclusion inevitably ia |
that she is a failure. 1t is calculated |
that nearly G per cent OF all women |
never marry and about ten per cent |
between the ages OF thirty-fve and |
~. 's.hNe are married. rev women ~ L
intelligence are ready to admit mai |
the lack OF a husband would make
their lives blank and there are zoo |
many single women--such as Florence
Nightingale. Clara Barton and Frances
Willard who have made the world No.
ter because OF their living single 10 ni-
low an admission that lie witbo,,,
marriage is vain. or purposeless'
Looking backward and counting the
great men whose mothers We're Main
women who did not dream of AM
need of emancipation. nor had nny
known yearning for recognition in ,he
world outside the home. the o,,os.,a.
arises would the Concessions for 49,,
nineteenth century women claHor ~i W.,
ter TT them for the duties NJ ,no,es
nltyY Mary Washington pridad NJ
self on her housewifeiy accomni iiss-
ments and not upon her literar,, ~.
Iainments. The mother Of Shs,. ~
peare could not read or write 1'i'
their sons would have been ,,r, Iiat
men II these mothers had bee5 ,se
aiter modern models is by no r, u,aus
certain The mother exsrt1 eHs