The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-16

| leu uer 10 the DlOcK, Wnere an ODtuSe
Ratchet was ready to behead the Door
and somewhat senile fowl. Twice she
spat on her pink palm and grasped the
weapon, only to give it up again. Twice
she gathered her strength, but the fowl
appealed TO her so powerfully that she
turned away. The third time she raised
the Ratchet she held in her right hand to
take the life of the hatchit she held in
her left, and closing her eyes, with
a faint groan, she brought down the
shining blade with all its force, cutting
off the beak of the poor hen just back Of
the front teeth.
With a shrek Of agony the great So
ciety leader went TO her room and flung
herself on the bed. After taking long
draught from beautifully lacquered
tear jug holding about a gallon she be-
| came calmer. The hen was found years
after half way up the rain water pipe of
a deserted chateau, and was recognized
by the absence of a bill and the ANAL
gam filling in one of her wisdom teeth.
Ali Bahia, Cairo, Illinois, writes to ask
how long it takes to properly digest the
food we most commonly eat.
That depends Of course on what Ali
most commonly eats. Patti de fol gras
requires three hours and forty-fve min
utes. Roast canvasback duck, stuffed
with olives and followed by a short,
crisp speech on the tariff, requires over
four hours for digestion Roast beef re-
quires three hours; soft boiled eggs
three hours. Also hard boiled or fried
on both sides, or ''blind in both eyes,"
as Mr.. McAllister so naively puts it in
his great work on society as he found
it, suffering from exposure.
Frontage de brie requires three hours
and thirty minutes, baled hay one hour
and twenty minutes, custard pie three
hours; potato top greens with pigs jowl,
a la Delmonico, requires two hours and
eighty minutes; milk two hours and if
teen minutes, homemade bread made
during the honeymoon three weeks,
angel food made from celestial recipe
twenty-four hours, chicken sauterne two
hours, chicken passe three hours, chicken
alum-ode two and three-fourth hours.
Lalla Rookh, East Friendship, Rhode
Island, asks: 81. When is the proper time
TO put on a full dress suit, and what
should my wife wear when l am dressed
in full dress suit? 2. What will full
dress suit cost? 3. Should one wear full
dress on communion Sunday unless in
good standing in the church? 4. You
must mix up a good deal with the best
.saANy L.
drinking there as we read about? s. Is
there any way of removing birthmark
or superf1uous hair? 6. Who wrote Beau
tiful Snow? z. Where can | get Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion?
s. What is good for sleeplessnes5? o.
What would be good verse for an
autograph album"
l. The proper time to put on dress
suit is dinner time, according to the best
usages, though if we have picked up
dinner, and in the middle Of the day,
often omit the full dress and come down
in the same suit which l have worn in
the forenoon while breaking steers or
doing other light household work. Din
ner dress contemplates, however, that
the dinner shall not be earlier than
o'clock. People who eat dinner promptly
when the noon whistle blows rarely
wear full evening dress at dinner, for
they would have TO again shuck them
selves before they could resume their
blowing. Nothing is in worse taste than
the custom Of blowing or husking corn
in full dress. If you have just pur-
chased a new dress suit, you viii proba-
bly, wear it a little earlier in the day
than you will after you have had it some
time. Do not be too eager, however, to
wear it, for it is very poor taste indeed
to wear full dress at dejunay or at mass.
Your wife should also wear full dress
when you do unless she should prefer to
remain out of sight. The wife's full
dress may consist of lace overdress with (
waist and skirt, or skirt anyhow. Some
wear a corSage in place Of the waist, and
filed in with illusion. though it is more
common to scorn all efforts at illusion
and be perfectly frank, open and above 7.
board. At first your wife viii hesitate .
about appearing in full dress, but by re- /
sorting 10 stimuiants she will overcome .
tins natural reserve and converse with /
great freedom.
.. A full dress suit will cost you the /
price of good COW at least, say from .
SO to 500, though the former price will /
give you as good satisfaction if done by /
a good honest tailor as the latter. In /
you can get one Of equally good
quality for So, and there viii be enough
extra cloth in the suit to make your little
boy nice overcoat.