The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-01
CURRENT LITERATURE.

A fancy has arisen for parting in the
hair, writes Mrs. Mallon in the June
Ladies' Home Journal. Few women can
stand one just in the center of the head,
for that requires good forehead, per-
fectly outlined pair of eyebrows and
straight nose. However, the hair can be
parted on the top of the head little 10
| one side, or indeed, if it is becoming.
very much to one side, and the parting
not allowed to come through the short
fringe which is just over the forehead,
and which produces softening effect.
"Shakespeare's philosophy is like
Gods rain. 1t falls upon all ;.like-upon
prince and clown, peasant and peer,
says Walter Blackburn Harte IN the
June New England Magazine. His
princes in their humanness give the lie
to divine right and every aristocracy
that ever was or ever will be; but none
Of his contemporaries ever arraigned
him for treason. His clowns give the
kernels of all PHILOSOPHERS, so that the
veriest dullard, to whom the different
systems of philosophy are meaningless,
can be a philosopher at secondhand.
Shakespeare's characters belong to diff
ferent nationalities, but they could
assume the mask of any nation and still
belong to the whole of humanity. We
never think of Hamlet as Dane. He IL
to every man, himself; and at the same
time he is the tortured heart of all man.
kind. If composite nation were made
tomorrow of all the nations under the
sun, Shakespeare's men and women
would represent and correspond with
the type. He gave us souls and not
national masks"
Maxim, the inventor of the Maxim
gun. one of the greatest of American in
ventors, explains in the June Cosmo-
politan how it is possible to build with
out further discussion a flying machine
which will travel through the air at the
rate of 100 miles per hour; this without
the aid of any gas.
Rev. David Swing on the Chicago fire
i'll the June Scribner:
All beyond was furnace. Here, and
little after midnight, the fact that the
city was doomed, that my home was
doomed, and that tens of thousands of
persons would be homeless and penni
less in few hours, was fully realized.
Before me lay in one mass of fire dis
trict nearly mile long and fully four
squares wide; and, under wind which
was almost hurricane, this red army
was advancing. At intervals, like
minute guns, came the boom of some
falling wall. turned to go home. The
tumbling buildings made a solemn sound
like the pulsation o. volcano, or the
heavy artillery of some field of battle.
George P. Putnams sons have Just
published pratt Portraits" and "Test
Pronouncer." The first is an excellent
series of sketches of New England life
and the second Is model little help to
correct photography
Frances G. Sparhawk, who believes
the Indian would work if he had an
opportunity, submits the following in
HarFer's Weekly:
1t goes without saying that this Apache
Indian is educated, and it should be said
that he is in position to know what he
is talking about, being employed in gov
eminent service on reservation in Ne
vada. As he is among Indians of diff
ferent tribe from his own, tribal preJu
dice has nothing to do with his views.
He was asked by letter:
How many of the men and women on
your reservation would work if they had
work to do and were paid when it was
done?
His answer was, "All."
How many Indians are there who
would like to go out among white peo-
pie and make their way if they had the
opportunity!
He answered, "All; but they have an
idea that they must remain inside of the
reservation"
How many with reasonable help,
would be able to do this (come out of the |
reservation, and live where there was
work.?
Answer, "One-half."
T. w. Higginson in Harper's Bazaar:
The Quebec bishops and priests indulge |
the dream of building up a series of |
dioceSes and parishes, stretching down |
the Connecticut valley, until it reaches |