The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-12

of the smlIax came the low, soft below.
ing of the buhl buhl.
The orgy was now at its height, the
dishes of phenicopter's tongues, the hVers
of scarus fish, the eels, fattened upon the
bodies of prominent people and cooked
in brine, the dishes of peacocks' brains,
tenderloin of terrapin aux flley, hot
Sauterne, bears stuffed with living birds,
ETC., ETC., were on the menu.
Wines of all kinds, from the vintage so
common at the post keller or the ratz
keller to the wines of Crete and of MASH
Gus, were served by Asiatic pages, upon
whose rich and voluminous flowing hair
the beautiful and somewhat fnicky Cleo
patra wiped the Egyptian gravy from
her taper fingers. Her companion also
did the same as soon as he got onto 1T,
but prior to that he contented himself
with utilizing the borrowed vestments
of the absent Antony. Yet we should
not reproach him now. Treading as he
was upon the borders of a yawning grave,
but seeing across the grooming board the
grinning face of Death, we may forgive
him if in an unguarded moment he did
things that were outre.
Toward the close of the feast mum
mers Cboth dry and extra dry entertained
the young people with song, dance and
walk around. The president of the Cairo
and Egyptian central dropped in on his
way horne from the depot and spoke
briefly regarding the tariff, and local
humorist gave funny little anecdote
and took home cold goose in news
paper as a reward of his wonderful ge.
MUS.
Then Cleopatra herself arose. she
cast aside her mantle, and stating briefly
in few well chosen words that she
could not make speech, not having
been constructed in that way, neither
could she sing song or tell a story, she
would, with the consent of the audience
offer aselection from an Egyptian break
down composed by herself and which
they might like to hear. While the
beauteous queen sashayed up and down
to the lascivious blessings of lutte the
picnic ice cream came in. Cleopatra said
that she would not chase any, but the
rash young man from the Spring Valley
Milk farm ate heartily of it,
AS he finished and wiped his spoon or
the hair of a eunuch the gray Of the
dawn was stealing in through the rict
hangings of the hall. An ashen looi
also stole over the face of the young
yahoo, and quickly clasping his hands tc
the base of his chest he gave a startled
cry like that of tomcat who has IA
Willingly swallowed hornet with 6
mean temperature to it. Not havirg
read the papers much, he had not no
ticed how many people were being
moved down by ice cream, and so d:
the day began to dawn the rash young as:
who had loved the queen. and swappet
his life, his hopes, his soul and hi:
milk route for two dollars worth of good
victuals, curled himself up in shapeles;
mass, and kicking two or three time:
convulsively, although, of course, it wa:
worse than useless, he gave up the ghost
Pouring a little vinegar on large
pearl, the naughty queen dropped teal
for the late milkman, and swallowing
the molten gem as one might sherry
flip she turned off the gas, rang for the
undertaken and retired 10 her apart
ments.
Cleopatra has been harshly criticised
by many modern writers for being sc
kind of wild, but we should remember
that she was called to the throne quite
Young and needed mothers guidance,
She was very wild as girl, and it has
been intimated that her father was a
clergyman. He being very strict. she
finally broke loose and made a good deal
of talk in Egypt.
Yet Cleopatra had her good points.
She was good cook and model house
keeper. She is said to have made pre-
serve out of watermelon rinds that
brought on a war with the Romans
which lasted eight years and caused
much bloodshed.
She reigned quite a spell and died
among strangers, well of, but prach-
cally an old maid.
The above IS free translation Of an
article written by Theophile Gautier,
which promised him while in France
should be rendered into the American
tongue as soon as / could get time from
nv multifarious duties. Wherever
there was q foreign word which l could
not translate exactly ! have sought &c
ase some OF our modern expressions,
which, though direct and powerful,
know are reprehensible. To be repre-
hensible is one Of my chief joys.