Wichita eagle., 1889-11-02
cleaned out the betterit will be for every

man and woman who owns property in
this city.
Not being lawyer we do not know the
scope of court decisions nor that of the
statute touching conspiracy of this char
acter, but that it is both conspiracy often
brought about and bolstered up by fraud
and misrepresentation there is not doubt
and it seems that there ought to be some
redress, or at least some way for COM
munity to protect itself against this palpa-
BILE outrage whereby individuals are not
only wronged and hundreds of thousands
OF dollars tied up, but which throws dis
trust over the title of everyones possessions.
The nefarious transaction is not only
conspiracy to defraud, but is often fraud
and forgery combined upon its very face.
These hell hounds who do this dirty work
have no expectancy of ever obtaining the
property. but simply to so cloud the title
as to force its owner to submit to being
robbed, and it does seem that if the thous-
and or more people who have been victim
lied in this city in just the way we have
cited, should get together and organize
that somebody might be sent to the peni-
Tertiary or otherwise commensurably pun
ished
DRESS IMPROVEMENT.
Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller arrived at the
Metropole last evening and will lecture to-
day at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist church,
on the corner of Market and First stIeets.
Her subject will be Dress improvement"
and as the seating capacity Of the church Is
limited and no portion reserved, il is adj
visable to come early.
Thesubject is not unfamiliar to the la
dies of Wichita and quite a wide spread
interest is manifested in Mrs. Miller's
work. The main points of the discourse
are of necessity the same as given in
Wichita before, but the subject will be pre-
sented in many new and attractive lights.
Healthful and correct dress is the burden
of the theme, and the lady not only shows
how both objects can be accomplished, but
fully explains how it is within the reach
of everybody. The adoption of Mrs.
Miller's methods does not entail any addi
tional expense in dressing. but on the
contrary is move toward economy. The
lecture will be the first step, and although
the extreme costumes are exhibited it is
more for the purpose of giving the listener
a better insight into the theory. The ultra
fashions cannot be adopted or indeed ap-
preciated until the fundamental principles
of the reform are thoroughly mastered.
Mrs. Miller will open her lecture in
81, 500 costume in the extreme style and
will illustrate as far as possible every idea
by an object lesson. In an interview she
said that her mode of dressing did not
make plain people beautiful but simply
improved them, nor could she be held re-
sponsible for peoples bad taste. To illus
trate this point she said that by watching
ladies in the street any fine day one might
see plain person looking quite attractive
and the next instant see woman naturally
beautiful looking positively ugly for the
reason that one had good taste in dress
and the other had not. There is the same
latitude in the Jenness- Miller costumes.
Until one is we'll up in physical culture
an extreme costume would certainly i'll
become them. Mrs. Miller continued that
she was willing to wait for results and felt
certain that time would find her most ex-
IRENE ideas popular with people of culture
and taste. Perhaps one of the most fiat
tering incidents in fashion to Mrs. Miller
is the fact that the latest Partisan fashions
very nearly resemble the costumes she is
SO earnestly working to introduce. This
will be Mrs Miller's last lecture tour as
the work is too laborious. This will be
the last opportunity to hear her in Wich-
ita and the remainder of the lessons must
be learned from her magazine.