The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-22
HENRIETTE ON MEN.
She GiTas Epistolary Evidence Of the
Worth and Faults Of Wichiia's So
Getty Msn-A GirFs Letter
and It's Contents

Last week ! omitted the men. The
| lapse has been weighing Oh me eyer since.
have heard myself criticised without
| stint for my sketches on Wichita society
and l have hardly the heart to say more
To speak sincerely, | did nos realize that
| the society people OF our city would be SO
hard to please.
| Now, by way of exculpation of myself,
| shall submit something in regard TO the
men, and az the same time refrain from
saying anything myself.
| To explain. Sometime since, within the.
tweithmonth, young lady from another
state visited me and became quite popular
in the society of this city. After she had
been here matter of three weeks she
wrote gossipy letter 20 girl friend at
| her home, describing her experience in the
| circles here
OF course I knew of the existence OF this
epistle, and feeling that / had sighted the
men, l wrote last Monday for this letter,
and happily it had not been destroyed.
! 1t is written as any frank, ELUSIVE and
/ intelligent young woman would write a
letter. and that part which pertains to the
men have given intact, with the excep-
I ton of two erasures in which she roundly
| expresses her dislike of two young men,
/ one of whom constantly had the scent OF
cigarettes On his breath. and another who
/ was a native of New York city and was
bored by everything western. do not
( give these. 1t would not lie right to inten-
| tionally hurt anybody. And by making
/ them public, l would DO the young writer
| herself an injustice. This is the letter:
DEAR GRACE-I am having a perfectly
| lovely time. This is beautiful city. So
many beautiful trees and long. wide ave
nues. l think Lawrence avenue here is
/ the prettiest street | ever saw il M life,
and reminds me of that avenue we saw Il
| Cleveland on our excursion last summer.
The people here are awfully nice have
been to six parties already. This was one
of the boom towns of the west, and people
that were dreadfully poor became sudden
ly rich. and many who didn't have enough
20 sport wheelbarrow before are spread
ing around in double-eeated carriages.
But haven't noticed that anybody is rude
because OF so great a change in fortune
for every body acts as though they had
been used to it all their lives.
/ think the boys here are ever so much
nicer than the boys at E.. They don't
gentleman here who reminds me Of our
Charlie Bremen, only he is handsomer. His
name is Ed Campbell He was at the
party last night. The girls say he is dread
fully proud of his good looks. But yon
know, I always admired proud people
when they have gos something to be
proud Of.
There was a man az the party last night,
Grace, that | picked out for you. He is
just the fellow you would like. He is said
to be dreadful gossip and he is hand
some. What else would you want. And
he runs a drug store, just as your father
does, only it is larger. His name is Mr..
Hoffman.
Another handsome young man is George
Hammann. He has very dark hair and
eyes and wears diamond, such big dis-
mond. in his necktie. When / was talking
with him be Strengthened il five times
with his fingers.
Ralph Neiderlander is a tall young man
and the girls regard him as great catch.
His father is one of the richest men in
town. He is a great dresser and every
time have seen him since | came here, he
has had on different pair of trousers. He
was at the party last night, but [ didn't
get ia talk TO him, because he was paying
his attentions to another young lady here
who is said 10 have captured him l think
would Ike him, though.
Do you remember that Chicago man who
visited in E. with Mrs Davis last win
ter: Well, there is a man here the exact
image of him. His name is VIII Smith.
He is quite popular He is always very
clean about his dress. and a girl whose I
brother runs laundry told me that he
sends in the biggest bundle Of collars every
week Of any man in town. We played
cards in the fore part Of the evening. then
had refreshments and then we danced.
played several hands with a young
man who has just moved to Wichita from !
somewhere in Missouri He wears glasses !
and is quite dandy dresser. He told me |
this was the third party he had been 20 I.
since be came. and so as we were both I
comparative strangers we enjoTed our /
selves very much. His name Is Fred 4
RIGHT. He told me it was pronounced /
like Wright
got awfulIy disguised with one Of my |
partners, but OF course l didn't show it, |
who trumped my ace twice. However. l 1
nearly fell In love with him before the
evening was over His name is Bruce
Pr!ddy, queer name, isn't ito and he is
tall and slender. But on, ny, so polite
and polished and such a graceful dancer.
He told me that he just adored Strauss
waltzes and believe l could have danced
all night with him
think I epjoyed the dancing more than
anything else l wore my failie silk with
the collar out and neck decolette. Just
little, you know. Auntie insisted on put
ting a white ribbon streamer aud a bow
on the shoulder and she said / looked per-
tectly charming, but you know she always
fiatters- She gave me her diamonds 10
wear. and l was half scared 20 death all
evening for fear of losing them The
young man who brought me home (Oh, no,
1 won't tell you his name, noticed il and
took ny hand 70 admire it. And I notice
that he took long time TO expatiate on
its loneliness. He Is the only real imDu- /
dent fellow l have met in Wichita yet He
= Eoin: 10 call tomorrow a gbt aud zuutie
declares that sic VIII rsnaiu II the pzrlor
the euti-e evening Well we Just danced
and danced. I wsnted 70 dance with
yo1nE gentleman named Sherman Sk5a-
1er, 5us ! noticed that he Cld1'J dance a.
all The g.rls told me- that be had given
up dancing, because the gil he was en-
gagged - vas su active worker n the
church ard di6a't approve &C dancing
51t cs was such = handsome boT tbz: 7
wasted 20 aaacs WIKI him Re 1as such
sqlAve. solid shoulders aac clear. rudy
complexion. rs -ai- y Te-y da-k red
s1E Es : vs-y 11-a admired bE al the
ci-.s - -5cv be Coe>r'S dzrcs.