Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-16

Seyeral OF tHe HiVes PS -
.,,,atv ladies' have asked us to urge
M adoption of certain afternoons for
...o,vinr of calls by all ladies living
T. one part of the city. AS Fort Worth
s,s long since outsrown the small
..rn population our social conditions
~ sneh that this is rendered almost
ohsoluto necessity. Nearly every
..,nan who moves in society belorNs
I .ro or more clubs, not to speak of
Asrch societies and other social afunc-
.ians that make u claim upon her
.,vss Monday for church aids, Tues
avs for the literary club, Wednesdays
~ nav calls, Thursday for the whist
synb FRIDAY for household affairs, and
saturday TO receive calls. This leaves
snt little time for reading, shopping or
ars's own dear friends, and as society
women no longer lead the putterny NE
~ long and wrongfully ascribed to
ssr an afternoon in which nothing
.i,her socially or mentally Is accom-
1 ,lshed is a sad wasting of her time
,naeed There can be nothing more
snnoying after having gone the city's
sntire length to make call than to
Ne greeted with mot at home" or Just
agone out where If one afternoon in
.seh week was reserved for callers,
no one who receives has her house
| Mold affairs so arranged that callers
are real pleasure. and those who
4 make calls have the assurance of ac-
! compl!shing something more than the
4 mere formality Of leaving q bit of
cardboard with servant. If several
4 ladies' living in one part of the city
4 would agree ON one certain afternoon
and those living in another would soon
j AZ one other and SO on until all are
agreeaby pleased. This is time
4 honored custom that is observed in all
I other places of any social prominence
4 Notwithstanding the fact that certain
Newspaper fadists are continually tell
Ing US that calling Is going out of fash
A ION. and we see no reason why 1t
4 thould not be observed in Fort Worth
4 We give a clipping below from one
4 Of the current magazines, which we
I trust every sweet girl graduate and
Il iebutante will read As the average
girls idea of a social life is such mis-
taken one. we hope this brief sketch
will furnish her food for serious
thought. Our only regret IS that we
haven't the lecture in detaI.j to give
our younger readers:
A lecture on the characteristics of
sThe All-Around American Girl" was
Delivered recently by Mrs. Kate Gam
nett Woods, whom we conceive to be
somewhat Of an expert on the subject,
being one herself, before the members
Of the Professional Women's League.
she said many excellent things and
among others offered an opinion found
a on long observation that the "Daisy
Miller type of American girl is rarely
found at home, though occasionally
encountered abroad
"Eyen at the national capital" re-
marks Mrs Woods, where the cosmo-
polltan nature of society would lead
one to expect frivolity of the most po-
tent type. l have found under all the
conyentionalities and even behind ex-
posed arms and shoulders, warm, kind,
tender hearts, ready to be ruled by
"a wise heads, Fashionable society has
been unjustly accused many times. 1t
~ u often only a thin veneer put upon
Folld material
There is class, however, that de-
serves consideration. These are the
children of weak and ambitious par
enls who have mistaken notions Of
Place and power. These girls defy the
proprietes of life, and are generally
NE daughters of men who have sud
deny acquired wealth without a sense
q the responsibility wealth brings.
They are the girls who disturb us in
our concert rooms, who make eyes at
young men on the street, and talk of
Washers and flirting. These girls are
dangerous in any land, but especially
IN our free America"
we coincide with Mrs. Woods con-
customs very closely. The real high
ociety girls of America in New York
snl other cities and in the small towns
ana villages where culture, or sense
" me decencies and the dignities of
nie is blooming, In many homes, are
~ IKE sounding brass and tinkling
ymoals of human beings, but are flu
y heart and radiate goodness far be-
soha the comparatively narrow circle
y which their charms receive social
eppreciatIon.
me loud and noisy girls to whom
Nis Woods latterly alludes are never
a..staken' even by foreigners, for typi-
y. american bellies or ladies of fash
& 'h9ugh silly newspapers chronicle
mer festivities and print their names
s saer delusion that such puffery
aps TO sell papers. If these foolish
ss.sa'ures, who, however. are happily
~, realized for what they are fire.
Sushty taken, probably-such is the
.s.,Hte goodness of most women-they
"vaia hasten to mend their manners
.nu cease to be violators of common
''nse and public propriety.
MIS- Harry Cassil has had the pleas
" OF visit from her brother, MIR
rsst u. smith Of Cleveland, O., this
Miss Teacy Day, the accomplished
ssshler of DR.. Day of St Louis. is or
sHit to her charming friend and
f 1Ss mate, Miss Olive Turner. sO9S
-, J. II, Webster of Dallas called
n, several of his friends while in the
w thursday last.
s.s, ~; . f. Hayden. one OF the most
II 10Y and popular citizens of Lit
-'ek' Ark. is visiting in the city.
~ Ladies' guild of st. Andew's vii
Nh, iete champetre on Thursday
serss, az the new church site for tn,
SUI OF the church lot.
hisas and Mrs. ]. II. sllliman enter
tcis,s, me State Homeopathic Medica
f. Eessy az their beautiful home in thu
END. on Wednesday evening
Highest of all in Leavening