Wichita eagle., 1889-04-18
CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
Bill Nye Tells What He Knows
About This Famous Woman.
Incidentally the Author Also Gives Cur
rency to Some Things He Doesn't Know
and Nobody Else Ever Heard of
A Revision of History.
bill Nye, in Boston Globe,

lblll Nye, IN boston CTloOel
A constant reader has written to know
something of Charlotte COrday, and as the
letter has been referred to me, take great
pleasure in stating briefly, and in glowing
terms, what i am able to recall of this &C.
centric young woman's life.
Charlotte Corday was born on a foreign
strand, now known as Normandy, named
in honor of the large speckled gray horses
with thich, piano legs and gross necks, that
come from there to engage in hauling beer
wagons in the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Here Charlotte was born in the year 1893
Like the record of Mr.. Spartacus, who in
speaking of his own experience said that
his early life ran quiet as the clear brook
by which he sported, the childhood of Char
lotte Corday was almost devoid OF interest,
being umonotonous and unanimous. as a
self-made man said to me not long since,
referring to the climate of the South
She early turned her attention, however,
to the matter of patriotism, hoping to OBJ
tain livelihood in the patriot line some
day. She investigated the grievances of
France, and gave her attention almost eX-
clusively TO the invention of some way by
which to redress these grievances. Some
of them had not been redressed for centur-
of themselves.
According to all accounts, the grievances
of France were, at that time, in full dress
and short sleeves, ready for the ball to
open.
1t fell to the lot of Charlotte Corday to
open the ball.
She was beautiful girl, with clear blue
eyes, placed at equal distances from a tall,
lght-colored nose, which was pale when in
repose, but flushed delicately when she was
in tears. Her ripe and rudy French
mouth opened and closed readily when she
was engaged in conversation, and her
white and beautiful shoulders, ever and
anon, while she talked, bumped themselves
like hired man on his way to dinner.
She had, also, tresses of hair of that pc
culiar Titan variety which is supposed to
go with freckles and high temper The
historian SAYS that her hair looked black
as it divided over her fair forehead and
hung back across her shapely head, but at
night, as it was draped across the richly
carved frame of the au reyoir where the
fire light of the Norman Hose Company
could play upon it, you would have thought
ii bright and infiammatory red. Char
lotte Corday was tall and graceful and
when her elastic step and heroic feet fol-
lowed the light measure of some gay
French tune at an Octobsr pumpkin peel
ing, she could dance on for hours without
Earring the glass in the windows very
much.
The costume was simple and did not cost
great deal II consisted of a Normandy
cap of cheese cloth in shape like the tail of
setting hen, and trimmed in front with
real French lace from the ten-cent counter
Her dress was all-wool delane with pink
stripe IN it and trimmed with the same
Her other dresses was different. Her
stockings were tall and slender as seen
hanging on the woman clothes line at
Caen, but her heart was gay and happy as
the day was long.
Charlotte Corday was one of large fam
lily whose descendants were called
Corduroy. They were the instigators of a
style of road that has done more to shorten
the spinal column and Jolt the iejunum in
TO chaos than any other line of inventions
throughout the United States.
Charlotte Corday had voice which &C
companied her in all her rambles. and it is
said that il was very musical ana sounded
first rate
Her parents wero poor, so she had very
few advantages as viii be noticed at once
by the careful student who reads her MSS.
to-usy anu nollCes Wnere she mas frequent
~ spelled cabbage with k. She spoke
French tiuently but was familiar with no
other foreign tongue whatever.
She took great interest in politics, but
did not indorse the administration. She
1eit more especially bitter toward gentle
man named Marat who was rather literary
IN MS habits and who also acted as kind
OF chairman of the National Central Com
mlttee- To his other work he had also
hooeo the tedious and exhausting task of
picking out people and indorsing them as
suitable persons to be beheaded. Being a
journalist he haG to write hard all the even
ing to get the hook fun of red-hot political
editorial copy, and then when he should
have gone to bed and to rest he had 10
take the directory and pick out enough