The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-08
R1LL NYE AND OSCAR WILDE.

The aesthetic editor of the Boomerang, Bill
Nye, had an interview with Oscar Wilde, and he
gives his experience:
We went down to the overland train, Thurs
day evening, to see the great aesthetic. We
picked him ont without any trouble, and tackled
him for quiet little talk, all by ourselves.
Mr. Wilde is very tall, with face like a
broad-ax We told him that our name was Nye,
the great Wyoming aesthetic. He smiled like
the rolling-mill, and shook hands.
He wore a soft hat and kind of steel-colored
velvet sack coat. He also wore his hands in his
pockets clear up to his elbow joints. He wears
a kind of Byron collar, and necktie the
color of a diseased liver. His pants were Of a
gray material. and held in place with pale pink
Pum suspenders. These were shown as he
STONED over, his coat being cut just below the
shoulder blades. His shoulder blades are high
and intellectual.
He wears his hair long. with hay and little
mementoes from the sleepiug-car in 1t. His face
is thin, and when buried in piece of PIE must
he CHASTITY sight
Mr. Wilde's teeth are evidently his own No
body could make teeth like them, and escape the
VIGILANCE committee. They are broad and PROM
ineut. with a tendency to 20 out and look for
air. He does not seem strong, but his breath
proves this impression to be erroneous MI
wilde wore a silk handkerchief the color Of the
illustrations found in public documents descrih-
ing the cattle plague.
He spoke of various topics with a seductive
drawl, wiggling his Timber, angle-worm legs as
he spoke. aud posing like a giraffe with the
collie for the benefit of the ladies who stood
near lie wipes his nose in a languid yet soul
ful way, that makes you wish he would do so
again.
land and he tossed his name in the air and said:
aAh, | don't know whether shall survive OF
not"
"You get good deal of free advertising, 1
see y said the boomerang man, gnawing a little
fragment from an irregular piece of navy, and
tboughtlessly stepping on the patent leather
shoe Of the great esthete.
ssOh yes- said Os., he Strengthened mp,
and extended his neck up through his collar till
won could see the scolloped edge of his chemise.
ives sir. Most too mnch of it. Still, 1t pays
moderately well-he, he, he However, II ~
absolutely stupid of them to make such beastly
and peculiar little jokes upon me, you know.
We had a good deal more confidential talk
With him before the train left, which we may
give 10 the public, after q while; but at present
space forbids.
Mr.. Wilde's complexion is very pallid, with
here and there q little piuple that relieves the
mouotony some He wears no beard or nous
tache af all, but makes mp for that with large
growth of hair on his head, which falls IN grace
ful festoons over his shoulders, like horse
tail over an olive green dashboard. He Is just
as full of soul as he can be, and walks, and
breathes, and exists like two-year-old steer IN
n cabbage grove. He smiles every little while
like coiicky baby in its sleep, and signs, and
places himself in statuesque position, rs though
something had given away in his apparel, and
he was trying to keep his ethereal pantaioons
on till people looked the other way.