The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-04

One of the best posted women in town
| spends good part Of her time reading
Bertha Clay's novels. She doesn't care il
they are trashy" she enjoys them.
| The closing event of the season will be
the entertainment given by the. Irving
| school at the Crawford on the 10Th instant.
A very interesting program will be given.
One woman here is notable for her mem
DRY. She never. fOrgets anything, how
ever trivial. But people do not like her
there are so many things that should be
forgotten.
The greatest "Tom-boy" in town, when
she is at home, it is said, does the greater
portion of the homework and is indispensi-
bic aid to her mother. Yet people talk
about her.
The man who reads Cicero in the orig
inal Latin and is a general authority on
! language has a woman for wife who can
use as much slang in five minutes as the
gddiest girl in Wichita.
A great many women cleaned house the
past week and one man. He lives on
EmpOria avenue. We could tell that it
was man who cleaned house here, be
cause he put all the finest furniture in the
back yard.
Mrs. H. G. Toler Will soon give her spec
tacUlar Operetta, ''Theakla," that many
Will remember was presented some years
since with great success. y number OF
society people are in the cast. Miss Mabel
Peirce will appear in the title role.
It is now proper to eat fish with two
forks. The smaller one, taken in the left
hand, is to be used to separate the fish into
bits and to remove the bones before it is
carried on the larger fork to the lips.
Mr. Arthur J. Burroughs and his sister,
Annie L., sister and brother to Mrs Prof.
A. w. Sickner, arrived Thursday from
their home in Buffalo, n. Y, to speud the
summer with the family of the professor
One of the biggest women in the corpor-
ate limits of Wichita hasn't dress that is
not covered all over with frills and dra-
peries, yet she complains of her corpu-
iehcy. She ought to dress plainly. She
wouldn't look half as big.
Mrs. Todd gave a luncheon yesterday at
her home on Paramount in honor of Mrs.
Stafford, of Chicago. The guests were:
Mrs Stafford, Mrs. Spalton, Mrs. Lervis,
Mrs Hewitt, Mrs. Priddy, Mrs. Mccoy.
The day, the luncheon and conversation
were delightful
There is only one aggravated case in
town of the man who viii not tip his hat
to a lady, but he has the big head. When
a man has not enough courtesy about him
to take off his hat TO a respectable woman,
it Is a sign that there is something the
matter with his head and it is pot all on
the outside.
Society has spring fever like everybody
else. The entertainments growing fewer
and smaller and the dances and the hops
have disappeared altogether The time
for the appearance of lawn feteS and ice
cream socials. What the people are going
10 do this summer. \ good book, shady
nook and hammock Will be the most al
tractive.
There is a Wichita woman who Is most
heartily hated for no other reason than
that she has two measly girls that she
always insists on showing forward. Her
friends can not call on her. but what the
httA fairies are in the parlor, they cannot
walk with her but that they tag along.
The consequence Is that she Is left sevrely
alone.
The social season in Wichita is drawing
to a close. Society people are going to the
mountains. staying At home and lOungIng
about N hamTnOCkS, boating. ana As the
heated portion of the year approaches,
avoiding 10 be one of large crowd in close
rooms. An occasional lawn fete and
church social is sufficient during the sum
mer 10 prevent anything serious IN the
way Of ennui.
What do women do with so many little
things. Their dry goods bills are large
enough az the end. but there are seldom
any large items in them. They are usual
": Pins, 10 cents. remnant Is cents,
needles > cents, thread ) cents. ditto ,
cents. ditto 10 cents, hairpins 10 cents,
remnant Is cents. oue-eighth yard silk j.
cents. ditto cents, thread 10 cents. ditto
10 cents, one-SiXUh yapl ribbon ( cents,
ditto Is cents; ditto everything until the
hill has amounted 10 a biz sum at the end
The members of the eighth grade OF the
Emporia Avenue school gave Mr. Ira
Pearce quite Il surprise Friday evening
Games were PLAYED. after which refresh
mentS were served. The following are the
ones favored with invitations. Misses Mel
lie Jackson. Floy Stanley. Alice Wells.
Nellie Russell. Mary Wilson. Myrtle Hin
ton. Lille Post. Mary NcNair. Inez Cred
iior. Emma Pearce, and MeSsrS. Louis
Van Swearingen. Ira Pearce. Can Wood