The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-10

an old anchor and moaning with an in
ward pain, and after seeing me suffering
went home stating that they had more
than got their money back.
The New England clam bake costs les
money, butts almost equally fatal to me
II you hear Of my eating another clam
bake you can safely say to yourself that
when did it I was under the influence
Of liquor. Some siren with bleached hai1
and merry ogiing eye may meet me on
the beach and drug me, and feed me 4
clam while singing to me some sweet,
sad song, but she VIII have to be better
looking than the average fish ball siren
Of story.
Mrs. Erstwhile Undertake, of Pom
gee, Reb., asksI "What shall | do to re-
gain my influence over my husband? He
gave me his hand in marriage two years
ago come next frost, and if ever a man
seemed to just doat on any one he doated
on me- That's about al he did all that
winter ia fact, and oHr yietuals got pref
ty low by spring. Thsp / spoke harshly
TO him, and he started fer hell via the
Little Pansy Blossom saloon ON Prunella
street. l have tried every way TO win
him back, sucA as he is, and have went
out Of my way to make friends write him
more than onct. VIII you not come to
my succor?"
If you cannot bring him here of course,
Mrs. Undertake, I will have to come to
your sucker and speak of him plainly as
between man and man. 1 hope that you
have treated him well on the start and
given him fair show. | viii take it
for granted that you have. IF so, now
we must resort to more turgid means. |
Will not tell you, however, what to do. !
viii only tell you what l knew to be
done once in a similar case, and you can
think it over, Mrs. Tinberlake, and feel
perfectly free to help yourself to it if it
should strike you favora5ly:
Mrs. Delay Oleson, Of Norridgewock,
Me-, had 4 husband whom she dearly
loved, for he was fine, manly looking
fellow, standing eighteen hands high, and
young, too. lie fell victim to prohibi-
ton in Maine and became a hard drink
er He had never cara1 to drink till he
found that it was against tho law, and
so then he couldn't sonslow get it out
Of his mind. Prohibition seemed to con-
stanGly remind him tlat he could not
taho drink. So he fell. It occurred
at Norzids ewock, and could have been
distinctly heard for mile or more. His
wife wept a great deal at first, but was
not unkind to him. She spoke to him
gently and lovingly, and he promised to
do better, but he was weak, and the pro-
hibition law kind of gravelled him, as
one writer has it. So he fell some more.
Mrs. Oleson was a good, sensible little
woman, who would not sit calmly on the
front stoop and let defeat follow upon
the heels Of disaster without making a
struggle.
She told Delay that sac would try him
once more, and if no failed her she would
surely not overlook it as she had before.
For q long time he turned his back on the
devils elixir and WORKED steadily at his
trade, which vas painting, granting and
kalsoTnining. also breaking colts, gents
fine neckwear and justice Of the peace.
Later on. however, he fell once more,
and came homo in a spiral manner.
smelling Of prohibition whisky, which is
also used for etching on glass. She said
nothing to him, but undTessed him and
put him 10 bed as usual. This is pleas
ing task. She laid him on the couch,
and then gathering I'D tho edges Of the
two homo ms4e linen sheets she sewed
up Delay Oieson therein by means Of
stout bah of Irvine and IA upholsterer's
needle. He asked for mora air, but she
said what he needed was not so much
air as it was a little course Of massage
treatment. So she got q new whip from
the barn. such as is used by Mr.. Legree
in beating out the brains of Uncle Tom
in that truly good play, and she knocked
the dust out of Delay Oleson till you
could hear her all over that block.
He spoke TO her about not doing it any
more, but she said she could not yield to
outside influence. She must be her own
Judge regarding the best time to stop,
So she ate a little bread and butter, put
u new snapper on the whip and went at