Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-21
JORDAN WATER.
To the Editor Of the Eagle:

Queen Victoria seems 10 nave reailZeU
the fact that her nobility needs reforming
All the world knows the morals OF the
English aristocracy are bad Many heath
ems, on whom millions of money and tears
have been expended, are lambs Of limo
cense compared 10 them.
And their corruption is not for the want
of education or religious instruction. The
established church has done her best fol
them Victoria, the head OF that church
is model Of virtue and domestic proprel
". 4 divorced woman can't gain admit
lance to her presence. She don't allow
newspaper accounts of the Campbell di-
vorce case to come into her house. And
she is right about that, as it is dirty affair.
So were the Pail Mall exposures" But
closing her eyes and shutting her doors
against scandals don't wipe them out of ex-
istence They are there, blot against
! public morals, how much soever she may
| ignore them The world sees them and
has its opinion about them.
Victoria should take cognizance Of exist
ing evils and seek to correct them, even
though found among her kinsmen and
mobiles, earls, dukes, lords, bishops and ach-
bishops, or her own sons.
The pope of Rome feels his responsible
ity for The behavior Of his people more
than that. His holy bulls" are constantly
sent, even to Ireland and America, COM
manding the poor Irish to submit to the
powers that be" and the Americans to
keep out of Knights Of Labor organiza
lions and ''be content with such things as
ye have" His head is level about keeping
pc oplc under. He knows his business.
But Victoria has not been equal to the
emergency Of bringing up her boys and
other headstrong boys under her charge III
the way they should go. She has not given
enough attention to it. Her mind has
been too much absoi bed in what kind Of
stockings her daughter should wear, and |
how low in the neck her maids |
Of honor's dresses should be; and how /
much Of their skirts should drag on the
floor While fre'ting over these matters
and John Browns sprains, her Vale family |
have slipped out from under her thumb.
| an sorry for her, but knew how it
would turn out. Though stout built VIC
man. her head is too light, to be a head as
big as q church. ! guess she knows it by
this time, unless her self conceit increases,
IS does her avoirdupoIs weight. 1t is pos
;ible that she realizes her mistake, espec-
ally with males We judge so from the
'eform recently inaugerated in her own
amily No doubt she weeps in secret at
what might have been, had she thought of
his reform sooner. 1t is in the matter of :
christening Beatrice's baby. d,
The little thing had to be sprinkled &C
ording to the laws Of England, and some t
rown person had to promise that it would I
orsake the world and all its wickedncss, Z
n order TO have its sins wiped out, before
hat committed any.
~ alIiS HtiiiiS liiIiIt5 hd'l bCtil uOiiC lOi
Wales, and many Of his uncles and cous
as without doing them any good worth :
cent, Grand mire b. took a new depart d
re for the salvation of this last offshoot /
f royalty, and sent to the river Jordan for :.
;atcr to sprinkle in its little face for Athe ,
God Of It's soul !
1t is to be hoped that this will work I
eel. And if it does let the good work 90 q
n, other kids have souls to save as well as
'eatricc's baby As the head of the |
hurch Victoria must provide for their sal |
alton, if it takes hundred ships and !
he of camels from the sacred river to !
uez canal, ali laden with Jordan water. /
he Archbishop Of Canterbury should be /
resident Of the water works, with the
lotto, Roll, Jordan, Roll!' and never i
sign, till every baby in Chri>tendom has L
al some Jordan water sprinkled over its T
tile pcri-cranium. .
If that don't reform the world the laws /
ust he amended c
80 mote it be BETSY TRATwooD.