Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-02-21
HARVEY KENBEDY, OF NEW YORK,

HARVEY KENNEDY, OF NEW YORK.
His weakness was Fondness for Young
Ladies-Idis Novel Method for Getting
Their Society.
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e-kIEsNs6sM printed as to the
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Il FIJI, Ell NII~T which his de use
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0HHHHIhtGM q. Metropolitan
UIlNiittfMBH Opera House. Mr.
& II NUIliITI ylN Kennedy was q wild
Ai iH l|[MI#N over. He showed no
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~ 49, and MS method Of
getting their society without paying partic-
ular attention to any single one was ingeD-
ious and genial. He had q carriage built
to hold eight persons. 1t was q cross be-
tween fine private coupe and big pub
lie stage. Two big prancing horses drew
it, and a hVeried eOUchman sat high on
the front seat, The other portion of Mr..
Kennedy's outfit was a box for one night
q week at the opera. BE hired 1t from
Cyrus W. Field at S1T5 a night, and was
a sub-tenant at that price all through last
winter and during the present season IN
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 acQuaintances.
and not often was the same girl enter
tanned twice. For each party he also
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himself made the eighth person in the
party. TO every lady he sent huge bou-
quet Of the cOstliest roses, tied with
very long and wide satin ribbon eZ-
aotly matching her dress, or at
least harmonizing with it in col
he usually obtained q scrap of the chief
material in each instance. and these sam
! pies were delivered to the florist, who OBJ
| tanned ribbons for the eight bOuque. to
suit. Every Friday night the Kennedy
/ barCuche would start out from his own
/ quarters-he had lately lodged in the
! Union League Ciub-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 enVled load. bIr. Ken
! nedy was a handsome old man, large of
/ stature, with a 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 or another
/ Of the most fashionable restaurants,
! where he treated them to a magnificent
/ supper. The cost of this weekly enter
/ tainment could not have been less than
/ five hundred dollars. MIR. 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 a mans afraid
A beautiful maid
Is a cheering sight to see.
/ That is what you heard the maiden sing
| in "The MikadO." She was telling about
a capital punishment which she had 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 a 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 or
three times, ard have watched this fea-
ture of the business with amused inter
est. Now, as you already know, laugh
ing-gas renders the patient ObliviOus but
not insensible. He feels all that is done
to him, and often makes a lot of fuss
| about it, but upon awakening he can re-
when 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
at one side of the victims
chair, with the gas bag ready for him
to breathe out of, girl with an amiably
pretty face takes q position close to the
opposite arm. She gazes alphabetically
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 a sisterly
grin and an Ogle With no tie of cOnsan-
guinity in It, IS the man bTsathes 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
would become ObstreperOus and violent
while under the influence of the gas bat
for the effect of the girls presence.
That may seem like nonsense, but in
practice it proves to be good sense,
2 When the man eWakes he finds that his
guardian angel Is still there, and departs
, feeling, I suppose, that she has taken q
deep and poignant interest in his particU-
: lar case.-NelO York. letter to c. BjcGgC
Ledger.
Stoves for Monkeys.
Keeper Ravens of the Gress Zoe
, / craWled on to the Fair street dummy