Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-01-02
A MAN OF PARTS.
THE UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCE OF
A STAGE AUXILIARY.
Sailors. Nixgcrs, Injuus, Peasants, Gyp-
sizes and Joints''-showins Re-
porter Various Characters"
New York Herald.l

New York HERALD
"You figure in spec:acles, don't you'"
asked the reporter, as the newcomer oc-
Cured to his memory IN connection with
military pageant and procession OF an.
Gent stage men-at-armS.
Il fggers in anything I'm paid for figger-
in in," said the other. Il figgers in spec
tacles with a spear as hasn't got no point
onto it, and plate arror made out o paste
board and oil kind o rum films
There was an air of misanthropy AMI
cynicism about the man that was quite mel
ancholy.
Don't you like it!'
Not if I knows myself. it don't pay.
Fifty cents a night, and sometimes a dollar,
With an engagement now and then at $40 a
week il there's some foolery to be done.
doesn't pay chap like me. It's a bad bust
ness, tell YOU
THE FUN OF THE THING.
@But the surroundings are pleasant, ]
should think!'
"Oh, them be bowed What's the fun g
carrying a wooden spear around and hold
ing string O. paper flowers over dancing
gals head, or putin en- one O. them old
Roman night shirts and hollerin' yerself
hoarse over some bad actors spousin'l 1t
amt no good, tell you. And then to think
of hanging around a timber throne and
drinking out o gilded goblsts with not
blessed drop in 'em. and dinin' ever 50 jolly
on property grub, with the orchestra goin'
like nal and the gals with their cast iron
smiles hoofin' it around you, and the people
thinkin' what high old time you're havin',
and you all the while a-dyin' fer glass o
beer. There amt no fun in it. !"
you've appeared in many partsF
1--WE been sogers and sailors and niggers
and Injuns and peasants and Gypsies and
joints"
"And whatl7
"Anl joints. Joint, in tho pantomimes,
with b,g pa'teboari head and body to
match-them what eats little kids in the
story book"
1Oh. giants!'
Il said joints"
"What dill you have to dor
"An kinds o foolin' If You want ma to,
I'll perform
@Good. Do so.n
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS.
Tbs figure stood half upright, with his
arms hanging down to his thighs he looked
Ik. a hired man on strike.
That's a waryear,' said he.
He marched across the room liko O mute
at a funeral.
"Roman soser goin' to battls." he ex-
planned.
He grabbed his hip and thigh pockets CO.
incidently, and as hs jerkei them up, gave
q bob Of the head.
@Able seaman" he remarked
He waddlei like a duck and swung his
arms like windmill
He waved his hands In the air and bawled
@Hey, yeh, yehi"
Excited populace."
He repeated the gesture ami shou },
GDown with i'm! Down with 'imI'
"Mutny or war"
He hoped about, brandished one fist.
beat the other on his mouth, and yeIied:
"Injun on tbs war-pathi"
He sank on the grouni and stretched out
his limbs.
Al stir for tableau,n he said.
HAPS AND MIsHAPS.
Wien he got up he busted his jacket, and
then, turning about, he mutterei:
TEENS the kind o games got to tackle.
There amt no fun in it, l tell you There
amt no fun in it
Then, as though nursing his indignation
for O rev explosion, he walked the room si-
lently before he said:
"'Sides all that, I've had to bs birds AMI
brute boasts and Lord knows what. 1t
makes O man mad to be in such company
and to be talked to as that kin1 Once
was roc. which is a big bird in 'Sinibad,
the Sailor and had to be let down from
the flies to carry Sindbad away. Tho first
roc they had got drunk and droppei Sind.
bad ON his head, so that be Cursed awful
and bounced the roc On that account
was careful like and grabbed Sindbad under
the arms He was crank. Sindbai was,
and he says, That's hi Of q way for a
roc to catch a mani With that / says, Ii
you don't like this roc, blowei but you've
got to fly away yourself and l dropped
him plum down on the stage and got oven
for his sassin' me that way. A fellow ha.
to stand good deal when he makes a men
agerie Of himself"