The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-22

THE LONG AND sHoRT or IT.
taking cold at night while asleep. He
was very restless, he said, and while en-
gagged in slTmber SO far forgot himself
as to kick the clothes off This bad habit
resulted in nothing serious, so far IS
others were concerned, as the young
man is bachelor, and in kicking off the
bedclothes is therefore his own worst
enemy
The writer of these lines, who as a
bachelor was also rather a spirited SUM
berer himself, suffered from cold and
exposure in the same way, but finally
obtained relief by having made TO order
a large, fleece lined bag, six feet in
length, with pickering string which
could be pulled about the neck after he
had inserted himself This worked SO
successfully that he volunteered the
recipe for the use Of the correspondent
He adopted the plan, and soon was de-
lighted TO know that he was no longer
annoyed by snuffles in the morning, and
so health and consequent Joy sparkled in
his eye. All went well until last week,
when a low, coarse burglar entered the
room Of this young man. The moon was
just in the act of piercing the tissue Of
fleecy clouds when a middle aged bur
glar, wearing a heavy growth Of bushy,
tan colored whiskers, from which one
might easily scare flock of Welsh rab-
bits, softly raised the window and en-
tered the room.
The regular breathing Of Mr. McTige
was like the gentle purring Of a Nal
tese cato -nine-tails, and the burg
lar, though alert, had no fears. Soft
ly he stepped around from one OBJ
ject of vertu to another, now and then
pausing perhaps to smell bottle of bou-
Quet d'Alps and put little pomatum
on bis beard.
All went well till the burglar. in pick
ing mp Mr.. McTige's trousers, awkward
ly upended the pockets, and with some
racket eighteen cents in money and
bunch Of keys fell out on the floor Then
Mr.. McTige gave a little start and ex-
claimed "Oh, mammal as he saw in the
uncertain light total stranger. Mr.. Nc
Tige spoke to the man and asked him
what he was doing, That made the burg
lar mad. No burglar likes to have his
motives impugned. So he came up to Mr..
McTige, and warmed up the cold muz-
zle of his weapon in the young mans
ear.
Pretty soon, though, he saw how Mr..
McTlge was accoutered, so he put away
his revolver, and with a meaning smile
he snatched Mr.. McTige from his bed,
pulled the pickering string considerably
tighter and hung the bag up on the gas
jet, so that Wellington McTige looked
like a large Christmas present. He did
not dare to shrek for fear that his sister,
who always tied him into his little bag
at night and united him in the morning,
would run to him and get shot.
So while the brutal man about town
gathered in all the portable bric-a-brac
and means in the house. Mr. McTige
hung there as helpless as a trussed fowl
and looked directly forward. Oh, it was
q sad sight, indeed. and the mental an
guish turned one side Of his mustache
NIuUe IN the nRlJ.
He now writes to this department TO
ask what was our idea in sending out
such recipe, and wishes also to know
If we stand in with the burglar interests
of the country. lt Is hard to try to do
good, and then meet with this style of
reward We do not claim to supply
burglar proof sleeping bags or designs
for same, bat we try to do right by one
and all, and we shall continue to do so
even though contumely and such things |
Rs that constitute our only reward.
The following letter comes from &
lady Of verscity and undoubted respect
ability. 1t is written in spirited |
style and appeals to one and all. give |
it as 1t is received, with much pleasure |
AS a rule, general correspondence Is I
more pleasant 10 give than TO receive. /
So | give ii.
Win you explain 10 me- why the New York !.
hotels are guarding so cS1tTully against all APP /
pearances Of responsibility? Late one evening |
found must spend a night In the city, hay 1
ing missed the train intended 10 take.
applied for a room at the -- house. ] 4
was informed they we're all engaged. told /
that lynx eyed clerk that he could furnish me |
. room or | would spend the night on a sofa 4
that stood there IN the hall lie eyed me again
In polite % way, and asked me 70 step or oEe
side while he spoke confidentially with me
There be told me thai / was too respectable
looking 10 stop in This hotel, or words 10 this
Effect His exact words were: I'VE cannot I
give you room. II You were with a gentle
nan il would be otherwise" Then / blew
hat soft voiced clerk very high into the even
ng air. | think he Gscended down again
though, so ! won't repeat what 7 said. NOW 30
seems had been a vile, uupriuciplcd woman /
applying with a man sdnirer for room al
would have been well Bat 4. a .oaely woman ]
With New YORK boarding housss
and despising New ork boarding house break
lasts was refused accommodation. What j.
The motive OF this rule, and VIII il le long
Indignantly yours. DRoF.
The rules which are used in running
hotels have to be rigidly adhered 70,
am told and 1t is sgainst public morals
Tor unaccompanied ladies to put up at an
hotel. That is the reason why 50 many
men, who are tender hearted and noble
IN every way, go about late at night
sometimes hoping that they may be af