The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
MORE CRITICISM OF DAB"
''Diek'' Closes His Argument with the Lfvel
''Kitty" OF Upton.


''Kitty" OF Upton.
To THE EDIToR-Sir: Please allow me to
close my argument in the case of Usage
Brush" VS.. "Bab, kitty" ct al.
First, 1 would like to give 'Sage Brush"
little sage (?) advice. If he wishes to
come off from this contest alive he should
sign a treaty of peace with kitty" and
present her with half a dozen pairs of
carriers. l am half disposed to desert to
"Kitty's" side OF the case since l read her
last article. She is right. Pretty limbs
are blessing-a blessing in disguise as it
were. Since kitty" confirms it, l must
acknowledge that ladies wear garters.
Not being entirely free from superstition,
can readily imagine there may be
luck in them also. l believe i could
even view pair of hose with equanimity,
but "Bab's" realistic way OF describing
them is so different from the innocent ar
ticles themselves. l know it is always
painful to revert to prehistoric events,
but l wish Kitty" would look up a back
number OF TIE SENTINEL in which Dab"
goes into rapturatics about some very long
hose. / was not shOcked-it's vulgar to
be shocked at anything nowadays-but l
jumped little when 1 read it.
kitty" accuses me of using slang, and
j plead guilty to the charge. Yet kitty"
while your language is pure, and just per
feet for HoOsler pdtOis, you sometimes
Irvine it into a boomerang. As in this
sentence: "Had yOu been as modest as
you would have it appear you would not
have found anything inmodest in that
paragraph" Quite likely, kitty" but
how did you know?
Seriously, Kitty" there are several
edged tools that you have been using in
your defense of "Bab" with which you are
in danger of cutting your pretty fingers. I
would cite as an instance "Bab's" express
sion about critics that dip their pens in
acid. Was there not a little acid on your
pen when you likened Sage Brush" to
'Bab's" Englishman? And don't you
think Bah" made an aciduous attack on
the Englishman when she defined him as
"half brute and half idiot?" / have no
reason to love John Bull and his island !:
yet / think "Bab's" criticism unjust and
even brutal My grandfather left Ireland
and settled in Paris in order TO save the
British government the expense of a rope.
For all that, | can't think that q nation
that has planted colonies all over the
world, and instilled the principles of lib
erty in them, can be a nation OF
Drutes. Neither do L sbelleve that
a nation, for four centuries, can
lead in letters, craftsmanship and
discovery, and yet be a nation OF idiots.
There are hundreds of "Babs" that edo"
Europe in a few weeks and report that
Englishmen are swine; that the women of
Holland pull the canal boats, and of Ger
many the plows; that all Frenchmen ex-
press their emotions by lifting their shout
ders, while their wives are generally some
other mans FILES de joe. We might COM
pare "Bab" with Rudyard Kipling. Kip
ling made flying visit TO America and
saw nothing but thugs, cab-drivers and
members of the demi-mcndo. Dab" ran
down to Washington and only found one
gent eman in the senate. She prescribed
bath for the senator's, and found that