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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
. Pain Comes from overwork.

If Louisa AlcOtJ made her 500 900 by her
pen she earned it, and she wore a martyrs
crown TO yet 1t, too Plenty Of women
have neuralgia and premature old age
without the money to soften suffering and
they, too, write Is she did that life is d
mystery. There IS no mystery about it.
The lesson of all this suffering begins 70
dawn upon the race, that by no other disci-
pline, no less penalty, will obstinate obtuse
human nature ever learn TO obey the laws
of its own well being. One would think
that three days acute neuralgia would
teach any mortal the advantage of taking
care of ones self But ten, twenty years
seems none too much To teach this simple
lesson, bright as sunshine il the universe.
the secret of all loss and decay. that God s
viii is we should take care Of ourselves and
our health first of all We presume 70 neg
Iect this first obvious duty. and soon there
is no grace nor usefulness left in us.-Sai-
ley Dare's Letter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

calling. Marion county has quite a mum
Der of women who have been giving farm
ing much thought and are equipped to
make the business success. Many OF
these ladies are members of the county ag-
ricuItural societies, and their views are al
ways given as much weight as those ex-
pressed by the male members.
Miss Ida Richardson, who was brought
up on a farm south of Indianapolis, be-
IieTes that successful and enjoyable farm
ing depends largely upon the home man
agement by the wife. She would have the
wife be helpmate TO the husband in all
things; not a slave TO work, but a woman
who takes an interest in the affairs of the
farm and manages the home so as to in
crease the husbands profits. She thinks
the country home is, or should be, the ideal
one.-Indianapolis News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
Difference in Ancient and Modern Feet.

Difference in Ancient and Modern Feet.
Unquestionablyt the human foot, as repre-
scented by old sculptors, was larger than
the modern one, and, in fact, the primitive
foot of all people of whom we have any rec
ord, either in printing or statuary, was
considerably larger than the restricted foot
Of modern times. The. masculine foot,
forming an approximate average of four
different countries, was about u inches
long. This would require at least No. u
or 12,5 shoe TO cover it comfortably.
The average masculine foot today is
easily fitted with a No. 81 shoe and IS,
therefore, not above 10 7-16 of an inch.
Now, by the old sculptural rule of proper
ton, a man five feet nine inches in height
should have a foot H. inches long. or one
sixth his height. 1t was of no great con-
sequence what size sandal ne wore, but he
would have required d modern snOe Of at
least les for minimum Mt or No. II
for real comfort.
For women. allowing for the difference
in the relative size of the two sexes, which
was about the same then as now,
woman of ) feet inches in height would
have had a foot ten inches long, requiring
4 moderate shoe-it ought to be spoken
only IN a whisOer-No as the most COM
Portable for thar foot or No 81 As the
limit Of torture. The reason Tor the diff
ference between the old classical foot and
the modern one Is obvious, Restriction Is
what has done it.-Shoe and Leather Re
porter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

For 50 large door entirely self colored
drapcry would be somewhat overpoVerinE,
so. as q sort q background q the over ORA
pery, half width q richly coiored. bold pat
termed brocade, in tawnv gold shades Is used
The top dr.pery Is na.f a width of CHINA
silk. either entirely IN dull Indian red or
(Which Is p-etter, but lttle more trouble
some, showing ghrnpsrs bere and toers q pals
gold The long drapery al The side should be
a width ana A half. Gus djagonAlIv 81 one end
and lined with gold Three Indian red and
gold fans are tucked IN the drapery a. tbs top
The "clumDs' cf six are b@Et formed BY
gathering u sp De tHs hand AM Winding bi.
of flower wire or thread round the fold. then
tack up 'lzs snsrp steel tacls u position.
There need os no fixed pan for tEszs cIump,s.
wnica sCould % made "a ole WORKS and az
tn idea CONES 70 enc The corner coz tAIns a
Sat vito T1et yellow c-eGouse cover, and yel-
low Liberty Xix cushion Tns skstca. Il
courss, can b carried o3t IN less costly ma
eral and in varled co.o-l1xs 70 nzit spsc.Al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
She Had Burns Works.

A gentlemanly book agent who canvas
ses the territory adjacent TO Chicago re-
Gently spent q day out in the fashionable
quarter of Hyde park with an expensive
edition Of Burns works. lie made several
sales and finally called at a house where he
was met by an deliberately dressed lady who
appeared interested. Whose works are
they" she inquired. Burns works, ma
DAM" replied the gentleman. as be pre-
pared to show his sample copy. But tell
me-" interposed the lady, which Of his
works they are. We have some already.
Are they his poetical or his prosical works."
The agent fled.-Cnicago Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
A New York Family.

There Is something pathetic in the life
and surroundings of the refined poor. They
are usually persons who have come down
in the world, and their pride always ex-
ceeds their poverty There is a family in
this town of a father of II, a mother Of Co.,
an unmarried daughter of IS, a maiden
aunt of G5 and an uncle Of 68, who exc out
an existence by cutting out needleWork for
a large underwear shop down town. The
uncle and father were merchants here forty
years ago. Owing to feeble health neither
was able to regain a foothOld after the
crash. A friend of many years standing
sees that the rent Of their four rooms is paid
each month, and few others who knew
the family intimately in their days of pros
perity send clothes and other necessaries
and deGcacies occasionally. Four of them
the father, uncle, aunt and daughter
cut, cut, cut, all day long, and when the
week comes round frequently find that all
four together have earned less than so,
while the old lady, aged 60, who is spryer
than any of them, attends to the house
keeping.
In a half dazed state the uncle who looks
fully ten years older than he is, crawls
into street car twice week burdened
down with two immense packages bound
for the warehouse in the lower part of the
city. Notwithstanding that these five peo-
pie dwell in the most crowded and noisiest
part of this great town, they live as far
away from their neighbors as hermits in
the backwoods. People in the same house
with them do not even know how one is
related to the other Some Of their more
worldly minded friends have limited that
the uncle and aunt ought to be placed in
some home for the aged, but the father,
who is the brother of both, Will not have it
so. The home life of these five people is
singularly quiet. When night comes they
sit around and talk in low, sad tones that
sound like echoes from another world
New York Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
The Olive Tree.

The height OF an olive tree is usually
twenty feet, but IL ) sometimes as high as
fifty feet, and il reaches an almost fabulous
age. One recently destroyed az Beauheu
had a recorded age Of five centuries, and II
was thir1y-six feet in circumference. The
olive tree Is exceedingly prolific under cul-
tivation. The fruit yields about 20 per
cent. Of its weight. exclusive Of kernel, IN
oil Italy is said 10 produce 10000 and
France 100000 gallons Of oil annually.
The tree does not veEetat9 readily beyond
1000 feet altitude or - degs. lsi.tude--E&-
change
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
Some Sensible Remarks on Dress Reform.

Some Sensible remarks on Dress REFORM.
You see we are grown modest and fearful
of some nameless, imaginary moral evil.
We have become ashamed of the way God
made us, and we cover ourselves up, just as
if the human figure. were a deformity. Who
first invented clothes which make men look
like stiff, forked, shapeless forps? The
ancients showed the lines of the female
figure and gave piquancy TO its plancy,
its graceful 1eXibility. Today the women
put themselves in stays and load themselves
with bustles and stick themselves out with
all sorts of improvements until they look
still attractive, but falsely, unhumanly
attractive | don't believe the Grecian wo-
men, those from whose figures gOddesses
were modelled, had bit better forms than
the women of today
The race in California is simply wonder
full in it's development Of anatomical
beauty, judging by the display one sees
any day on the street But it would be a
great deal more effective if the costumes
permitted the supple grace of nature TO be
shown. Every now and again the female
lecturer comes along to teach new fads
about dress and to air new ideas about
hygiene. The principle OF all health is free
dom of action of the body and plenty of eX-
ercise, and the principle of health is, curl
ously enough, the principle of comfort and
the principle of beauty of form. When in
the olden times men and women wore
clothes that looked odd and quaint in cut
to US, if they sacrificed comfort it was to
appearance. We sacrifice appearance and
get no particular c0mfort.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
Harmless for the Complexion.

A mixture of honey, lemon juice and eau
de cologne is exceedingly useful to whiten
the hands when discolored by sun, wind or
work, and may be kept mixed for the pur-
pose in d small toilet Jar. Take a wine
glassful of each ingredient and mix we'll
then pour into the jar and keep tightly
corked. This may be applied night or day
and the inside of the fingers rubbed with
pumice stone.-Herald of Health.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

A famous astronomer denies that s.ars
twinkle, and decLa-es thai tie Poe: who
wrote Twinkle. twinkle. little star was
of his base The s-srs stand up there Ike
hard brlck IN q val. ara ala toe rvylnkliag
Is done by voRr eTe- u = one q those
optical oelus5ons u Elch aol't cost q cent
and are always CT had when waited
Detroit Free Pres
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

1t is said that Lady Pauncefote, wife Of
the British minister at Washington, was
much amazed when, in answer 70 an in
formal announcement that she would be at
home on a certain Saturday afternoon from
to 6, !, 400 visitors presented themselves,
most of whom insisted on shaking hands,
although she had never before heard of
their existence
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
4 Cnrlinnl nird WHO Wit. on Robin.


In a certain family in Buffalo there is a
Gagged robin which has been the household
pet for ten years The robin is now aged.
He has lost all his teeth and one eye, and
his plumage wouldn't be looked at twice
10y q uiiiCer. E.s less are weak and so
are his toes. and lie can 10 longer cling TO
his perch ana MARBLE hilariously. SO he
sits on the floor Of his cage, and, like the
dow in the song. mourns and mourns and
mourus. At any rate he did until carui-
l>ysi s,isii ,7ss5 f,,.s "a 1. 5>-C Win him.
The cardinal bird j. in the heyday OF
youth. and from tlc first ne cast a pitying
eve ca his aged companion. After observ-
ing him awhile Il occurred 10 him that be
might iii up some OF lis spare time wait
,ug on him. So lie uow takes the bread and
things that are put IL the cage and moist
els them and rolls them into w&ds or pei
lets and rams them down the robins
uesopLaEus.-BuGaloC Courier.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
Modern sboppfnr.

Customer-Neckt.es Waereu l find
'em2"
Floor Walker in sixth avenue lad es'
storeEGo 70 the end u this alley, turn TO
your right. 70 70 the end q tais building,
turn into the annex up one fight
Customer-UP one fight Then can !
take ny cab III drive 70 some place
where / can Eet a ueckEle IN the same coUn-
= I'm II when AK for it--Chatter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

4 man at Bennington, W. olIers3 q
prize % the one cste58Ez tEs u1ost rats 4
EirI filed E barrel t~s fail q water. put
some chat on top and sprinkle! eGeese On
that, AID u one week h44 =. drowned rzts
70 show I'D for tEe pre- Sc ng7s wsz1rs .
silk dress 20 reward Ter sAregzLzezs De
t-oit Free PreSs-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

The decoration for a conservatory door
shown in the cut will serve for any double
door which from Us width 1, something Of a
task TO draPe gracefully Th!s sketch was
arranged for a room with rich, tawny yellow
paper, red and gold friezs and carpet with
Indian red ground.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

The postmaster generals attention has
been called to the condition Of about a
hundred women employed in the mail bag
repair shop at Washington. They are com
PEELED to mend forty bags daily for $50 per
month The work Is hard, the building
unhealthful and it is claimed that as a con
sequence many Of the women become sick
and die.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

A dover chest 10 hold the brides trous-
sean Is coming 70 be looked upon as the
proper thing. the chest 10 be a carved an
a4Ue, if possible. The old longing for q
dover To set the troUsseau with Is also con-
tinued-PhiIadelDAia LEDGER.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
Ms Mattfe Mitchell. dauRhter Of sena-

Miss Matte Mitchell, daughter Of Sena-
tor Mitchell, of Oregon, has the reputation
in Paris of being the most beautiful Amer
lean woman who has ever been seen in that
beauty loving and beauty drawing city.
Another very handsome American girl
abroad is Miss Ella Russell, who has manly
accomplishments, and who makes her ap-
pearance in grand opera at Covent gar
den during the season.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
pres. Of English women.

The English seem strangely Indifferent
70 dress. One can wear almost any kind q
apparel here and no- excite comment
have seen tlinzs Qarzd-uE tie streets EeZs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23
The Verdict

OF ALL who have used Ayers Pills
~ for BihouspeSs and Liver Com
plant is that they are the best ever
made Being free from any mineral
ingredients, and sugar-coa;ed. Ayers
Pills are adapted 10 all ages, consutu-
tons. and climates.
Having used Ayers Pills for many
years in my practice and family, I feel
Justified in recommending them as an
excellent cathariic and liver medicine.
They sustain all the claims made Tor
them. w. 4. WeStfall, NJ. D., Y. P.
Austin < y. W. L. L. Co, Burnet, Texas.
ayers Pills keep my stomach and
liver in perfect condition. Five years
AGO | was afflicted with enlargement Of
The liver and with a severe form OF dyS-
uen>ia. most OF the time being unable 70
retain any solid food on my stomach
finally he-an 70 take Ayers Pills, and
after using only three boxes OF these
magical pellets. was we'll man. -
Lucius Alexander, Marhlehead. Mass.
II you have Sick Headache, Consupa-
ton, Indigestion, or Piles, Try
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-23

Neither Marshes Nor Forests Have Been
Able to obstruet It's COurse-UncIe
Sans Lighthouse Buildings Mainly
Buried-A Prank of Wild Nature.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

purpose being to simplify certain matters in
connection with the machinery of the club
and to transfer certain responsibilities to
committees instead of dealing directly with
them BY the club membership; apt to prove
unwieldy by reason of its size.
An Obstacle Removed.
Prior to the adoption of the new constitu-
ton there had been certain episodes based
upon political factionism, and although
their immediate effects had been salutary in
clearing the murky atmosphere of threaten
ing clouds, the warmest friends of the club
thought it wisest to remove future oppor-
tunities for the expression of feeling beyond
the pale of the floor. A lively struggle for
supremacy in the club was ended by an en-
phatic expression as to the com position of
the Executive Committee, and since that
placed each and every member OF the club
on record, no divisions of opinion have
threatened disturbance of the prevailing
harmony. Such questions are by no means
unusual in political organizations, and it is
70 the credit of the membership that every-
thing was open and above board, and that
woends which in other clubs might have
ranked deeply, in the Americus members
have LEFT no sting. In other words, storms
which might have wrecked any other club
have been veathered, the harbor of protec-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

ton has never been deserted, and the moor
ings to Republicanism have never been
slipped.
As a factor in national politics the
maiden effort of the club was brilliant
success. 1t was the banquet given at the
Monongahela Hosue in 1887. The rugged
greatness of Ulysses S. Grant had always
been excessively admired by the club as
whole, ana the suggestion that the first
banquet be in honor of the memory of that
ideal chief met with an enthusiastic
assent. 1t was happy idea to achieve
national reputation by paying a formal
tribute to the hero of Vicksburg. The guests
of the evening were Governor ]. B. Foraker,
Colonel F. d. Grant and William Nc
Kinley, Jr. Colonel Grant is now United
States Minister to Austria and Major Nc
Kinley is the leader of the Lower House of
Congress. General D. H. Hastings, who
subsequently, nominated John Sherman at
Chicago in 1885, and is now an active can
didate for Governor of this State, was also
guests. accompanied by several members of
General Beavers cabinet. The occasion re-
ceived respectful attention from the press of
the country, and was so undoubted success
triumph in 1888.
II Doomed Harrison.
The national checkerboard was interesting
just at the time the second Grant banquet
was given by the club. Blaine, the greatest
political player OF the day, was quietly
domiciled at the Arno and making his
moves from long range across the water.
The nominee for the Presidency was the
subject of column after column in the lead
ing papers of the country. and with Blaine
unentered the most ea0Ar speculation was
rife as to candidates. ian after man was
taken up and discussed in the press, and
every utterance of American statesmen was
being scanned by the public.
Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, who had
been living in practical retirement since his
defeat by Mr.. Turpie in 1886, accepted the
invitation of the Americus Club to be pres
ent at their second banquet, and Ohio's
putative candidate, John Sherman, also
agreed to be present. The best men in the
nation were interested in the announce
ment that the probable candidates from
Ohio and Indiana were to measure wits at
the Americas board. Neither speech vas a
but thatof Mr.. Harrison's
was surprise. His boom was fully started,
and its course is a matter of history too re-
cent to require repetition. The other
quests on that occasion were Governor
Beaver State officials, and Richard Smith, |
If the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The third annual banquet was at the Sew |
,nth Avenue Hotel last year, at which Sem |
stor Quay, the most eminent active member
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
AMERICUS DIRECTORY.
FULL ROSTER OF THE NAMES GIVEN
FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Merchant Elbows Politician - Tradesmen
Cheek by JowI With Lnwycrs-A spice
ofSenators and sprinkling of Houora-
bles-FIedgeIing Statesmen Galore, and
Federal Officials TO Leaven the mass-
All Good Republicans and True.
A marvellous membership has the Ameri-
Gus CLUB, recruited from the ranks of West
ern Pennsylvania Republicanism with an
astonishing nonresident contingent. What
power the club would exert when directing
its guns against common foe can best he
estimated by examining the expert politi-
clans in its ranks, chief among that array
appearing the form of the Beaver statesman,
whose leadership caused victory to perch
upon the club colors in the last campaign.
The bulk of the members are drawn from
all walks of social and business life, and
their names are representative to the highest
degree. No list of any accuracy has ever
before been furnished the public. and that
subjoined has been compiled from the books
of the club by the courtesy of its Secretary,
Mr.. George S. Houghton. The fattering
growth Of the club in the last two years has
been as much as anything due to the impe-
tus the club has impaired to State and nation
al campaigns, and puts it well up with any po-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

tion would expand into the most famou
political club in the United States.
1t was the original intention to have sim
ply a marching club for the Blaine cam
paign, and with that end in view q gentle
men gathered in Select Council Chamber OF
August 2, 1884, and organized. The follow,
ing officers were elected at the first meeting
President-John A. Reed.
Vice President-William p Bennett
Secretary-Willlam T. Reiter.
Treasurer-Charles c. Baer.
Captain-Lewis T. Brown.
First Lieutenant. D. Littell.
Second Lieutenants-Samuel D, Hubley.
Harry T. Rowley.
number of names were suggested and
q committee was appointed to decide the
matter, lively dispute waxing warm be-
tween the advocates of "Corinthian'' and
"Americus." The latter name was finally
chosen because there was Democrat, club
in the eastern part of the State of that
name, and it was thought expedient to have
Republican Offset Such considerations
would not have prevailed if the foresight
had been in line with the hindsight How
ever, no one has ever questioned the
euphony o; the name, its applicability TO
the club, or the wisdom of its choice.
The Clnb's Rapid Growth.
The club marched valiantly and take
great pride in the immense majority rolled
up for Blaine in what Lincoln was wont to
call the Estate of Allegheny" Excursions
were made to various places, and the ora
torical element of the club woke the echoes
all over Western Pennsylvania. West Yir-
ginia was raided and her voters euthused,
and the club dropped into Ohio several
times to give Foraker boost After the
campaign had ended the greatly increased
membership of the club and its brilliant
record led to the permanent organization Of
of the body as political club. Advocates
Of the social side of club life were met by
the argument that to be distinctive polit-
ically there must be but little attempt at So
cial pre-eminence.
Upon that basis the club started and has
had its wonderful growth. Its immense
nonresident membership at the present
time has generated sentiment within the
club In favor of clubhouse with provision
for material and creature comforts as we'll
as mental entertainment The whole mat
Wi AO"S'Ci, ID Al dOegduCe dt Tie present
time. The permanent organization was
achieved by reelection of old officers and
the addition of the following committees:
Executive Committee
John D. Littell, II. d. W. English,
Daniel Dempsey, John McKaln,
Marshall Johnston, William S. Brown,
james NJ Sprague, Richard Barrows,
Allan c. Kerr, w. T. Reiter,
A. NJ. Keppel.
Constitution and By-Ldto Committee
(PERMANENT.)
4. P. Ramsey, c. F. Odell,
a D. W. English, E. l. Devore,
A. c. Kerr.
A constitution was gotten up under which
Che club lived until this year, when a new
and much more elaborate and thorough
constitution was reported and adopted, its