The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-10


/ Where the barber has such high and
cloud piercing notions, is it to be won
dered at that the city itself is so refined
and so excelsior? The day, / dare say, is
not far distant when the sausage making
atelier will be as common in Brooklyn
as the man with the long divided skirt
frock coat is now.
The red necktie is certainly contend
ing in spirited manner for the New
York and Brooklyn right of way with
the frock coat, which has beautiful
sweep of kilt, reaching considerably be-
low the knees. Some attribute this i'm
ported English idiocy to one cause and
some to another. but you viii find when
you come to figure it all out that the
able and brainy tailor wishes not only
to make for you a new style of frock
coat, but top coat also, for otherwise you
expose your new and astonishing skirts.
| 1t is rather a pretty custom for those
who have trim hips and natural and
beautiful sweep Of tolu7ture, but for the
pumpkin seed order of architecture with
sloping shoulders and broad, intellectual
hips, together with gait which occupies
the entire breadth of the sidewalk, the
long frock coat simply emphasizes the
eccentricity and advertises a doubtful
attraction.
met several days ago a bright speci-
men of the college graduate. He is an
old friend of mine, and living illustra-
ton of the advantages of a collegiate
education. He is very prosperous, though
not in the line of any profession. This
is, of course, a disappointment to his
parents, but not to him. He always
hated the professions, but admired other
avenues for obtaining a livelihood. He
earned his first money as a child by re-
turning valuable Maltese cat on which
there was a reward of twenty dollars.
Seeing the advantages to be derived
from this branch of trade, he soon re-
turned other valuable cats for which
there was a reward offered, and soon
after that he added to his trade that Of
the valuable dog.
He has been very successful in the cat
tie industry in the far west, he says, and
with nothing to start with but tired
steer, tireless branding iron and no
bility of purpose. Coupled with his col
lege training, he has made out by the
natural increase and geometrical pro-
erosion, as we call it in mathematics, to
own large and very fine herd of eight
thousand head of good cattle.
''And do you attribute any measure Of
your success" / asked him the other day,
''to college educstion?"
Not to the college education as you
regard it, perhaps, but to the stimulation
which natural genius receives at college"
''Ah, and how so, pray? There is q
good deal of discussion going on all the
time over this question of a college educa-
ton versus practical education. Where
in now do you regard a college training
as especially stimulating to genius"
well, will admit that was not a
success from collegiate standpoint. l
was practically blackballed and sent
home several times to my parents, but
they had pull and / was returned. My
genius did not lie in the direction of the
classics or of higher mathematics or rhet-
oric or the languages, but in the direc-
ton of invention and evasion of arbi-
trary rules For illustration, it was
found after / had been in college two
years that every examination had in