Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-07

ular attention to any single one was ingen-
ious and genial He hada carriage built
to hold eight persons. 1t was cross be-
tween fine private coupe and big pub
lie stage Two big pranclnS horses drew
it, and liyeried coachman sat nigh on
the front seat. The other portion OF MI.
Kennedy s outfit was box Tor one night
week at the opera. He hired 1t from
Cyrus w. Field at SIS night, and was
a sub-tenant at that price all through last
winter and during the present season I'M
til his sudden death. For each Friday
night he invited six young ladies TO go
with him to the opera. His guests were
chosen from among all his acquaint0nces,
and not often was the same girl enter
tanned twice For each party he also
secured matron as chaperone, and he
himself made the eighth person in the
party. 10 every lady he sent huge bou-
quet of the costliest roses, tied with
very long and wide satin ribbon eX-
actly matching her dress, or at
least harmonizing with it in col
OF. To be moro exact about this
he usually obtained scrap of the chief
material in each instance. and these SAM
pies were delivered to the florist, who OBJ
suit Every Friday night the Kennedy
quarters--.he had lately lodged in the
Union League Club-with the host alone
within it. His first call would be at the
house of the chaperone, and thence they
would go the round of six honored domi-
Giles, finally bring up at the Metropolitan
with the always envied load. Mr.. Ken
needy was handsome old man, large of
stature, with ruddy, beaming face, and
suow-white hair. 1t was an odd spectacle
to see him in his box surrounded bya bevy
of vivacious girls, handsomely costumed
and profusely decked with the roses of
his providing. After the opera was over,
he always took the party to one oranother
of the most fashionable restaurants,
where he treated them to magnificent
supper. The cost of this weekly enter
tainment could not have been less than
five hundred dollars Mr. Kennedy died of
heart disease. Now, how many of my
readers will fail to remark that Of course
no old widower's heart could stand such
a complex strain as that?
When q mans afraid,
beautiful maid
Is a cheering sight to see,
That is what you heard the maiden sing
in "The Mikado." She was telling about
capital punishment which she Ind wit
messed, and her declaration that the
doomed man, just before losing his head,
gazed upon her pretty face for courage,
was always taken as Gilbert phantasy.
But the idea is actually put into practical
use in the largest Of New York establish
ments where teeth are extracted under
laughing gas. I have been there two OF
three times, and have watched this fea-
ture of the business with amused inter
est. Now, as you already know, laugh
lng-gas renders the patient oblivious but
not insensible. He feels all that is done
to him, and often makes lot of fuss
about it, but upon awakening he can re-
call nothing that had happened. 1t is
whom the mans afraid" that the beau
tiful maid" is placed before him as "a
cheering sight to see" In other words,
while the strong armed dentist stands
chair, with the gas bag ready for him
to breathe out of, q girl with an amiably
pretty face takes position close to the
opposite arm. She gazes sympathetically
yet smilingly into his face She isn't
coquettish about it. 1t may be described
as a sort of cousinly smile-that is,
somewhere midway between sisterly
grin and an ogle with no tie of consan-
guinity in it. AS the man breathes in
the gas, and loses his senses, the last
fading vision is that Of the girls encour-
aging face. The practical value Of this
device lies in the fact-and I have this
on the authority of the boss of the place
that goodly proportion of the patients
"onld become obstreperous and violent
while under the influence of the gas but
for the effect of the girls presence.
That may seem like nonsense, but in
practice il proves to be good sense.
When the man awakes he finds that his
guardian angel is still there, and departs
feeling, l suppose. that she has taken
deep and poignant interest in his particu-
lar case.-.Ncw YORK. letter to GAicugo
Ledger.