Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-01
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
The Mail-Carrier Enjoying Excep-
tional Popularity-Battalio Drill
on Sunday Afternoons.

The Mail-Carrier Enjoying Excep-
| tional Popularity-Battalio Drill
on Sunday Afternoons.
| ST. LOUIS, Mo-, September 26.-The in
dustrious postman in st. Louis has sudden.
| ly become an object of great interest to hun
dreds of people who generally pay not the
least attention to his movements. This is
place next month, and everybody in society
ID wondering, as usual, about the invitations.
These 60, like kissing, by favor. and they
event of the year, and to be seen there, to a
great extent. establishes ones position in
the social world. Applications for invita-
tiOns are made to the box of the Yelled
Prophet at the postoffice. Presumably the
requests are forwarded to the potentate by
foreign mail, for no one ever knows who
passes on the suits of thoee who write, and
the postman always brings the first informa-
ton of success in the form of a big envelope
containing the invitation. Many who ask
for invitations do no. get thoin. They may
understand the reason pretty we'll, but no
word of explanation ever comes to them
from the prophets presence. The aim of
the prophet is to make his ball as exclusive
as possible, and he is always more gracious
to visitors from abroad than he is to city
people, rejecting the general spirit of hos
pitality which is in the air during these
times of festiyity.
Ono of the occupations by which clever
st. Louis women make themselves lndepen-
dent of men Is conspicuous just nov, while
the city Is full OF strangers. One of these
women used to be stenographer for large
business house here, but she soon found the
field too circumscribed for her talents She
went to the wife of a man who is connected
with the management of hotel, and ex-
planned her wishes to her.
''Will you send for Ire whenever you hear
of strangers in the city who wish to be guild
ed IN their shopping. and shown around
town at the same timer? she asked.
The other woman took an interest in the
girl, and helped her. Last year she made
only little money, bnt this year she has had
letters from SO many ladies who are coming
to the city this fall that she has given up her
position in the Office. and has made up her
mind to shop for living hereafter. One
finds on inquiry at the hotels that there are
other women who are doing the same thing,
and making good living at it.
Rather Unexpectedly another attraction
mas been ADDED to the program by the man.
talon drill of the military every Sunday |
afternoon in Forest park. The companies |
are the crack ones of the vol |
unte,r soldiery in the city. As the EXPOSE |
lion Is not open on Sundays the entertain |
ment is one which is appreciated. The first |
brill which had been announced with an |
idea of bringing people out to see it took |
place last Sunday, and the four car lines |
which run out to the park, were crowded all |
day. The parade ground Is on the border |
Of the largest lake in the park, and the
scores of boats were seized on early in the |
afternoon by visitors who rowed out in the |
water, and watched the evOlutions from |
here secure from the jostling which those Oh
he land had to endure.