The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-15
WORLDS FAIR CITY.
A Breezy Letter on Matters Of
General Interest in Chicago.
The Weather aud the Fashions-A Queer
Arrival in the Great Metropolis
Efforts of wheeimen for
improved Roads.
Especial Chicago Correspondence


people if 1 find persons who carry out
the principle of being in the swim to
an almost ridiculous extent The pres
ent spring and summer has not been
very favorable to the development of
the ordinary bright spring styles, cal
culated for bright, warm, cheerful
weather. Still it seems true that there
must be fashions to suit the time and
that fashion wears out more clothes
than the man." or the woman either,
although he is but ''deformed thief"
and should not be supposed to spend
much on his toilet 1t may be true,
after all. to use a vulgarism. that a
ship is spoken of in the feminine gem
der because If costs so much to rig her.
To be stylish in the matter of hats
for women, it seems at this season one
has to be ''in the SWIM" taking the
words literally. The last few months
have BEEN more powerful argument
than sermons and Sunday schools in
favor of the probability of the story of
Noah and the food. Everything gets
more watery except the water, which
is getting thicker all the time. And so,
to come back to the first starting point,
are the fashions. One has been ac-
customed to see roses, daisies, lilies,
lilacs. piuks and other laudlubbers
among the flowers. on feminine head
gear. Bat water lilies and bullrushes
were quito revelation to me when | saw
them on several hats last Sunday. They
don't look bad. The hats are big
enough to represent a pond; then why
not have pond lilies?
At other times they have repre-
scntcd prairies with daisies and
anemones and all manner of grasses,
SO that | often thought what feast a
COW would have if she were let loose in
street car when it is filed with
women going shopping. A little more
rain and those tender-hearted people
who object TO women wearing stuffed
birds on their hats will find nothing
more TO rail at. The hats will be orpa-
mented with stuffed bull-frogs and
tadpoles.
It may not be exactly in keepingwith
nature to wear morning glories along
with pond lilies. Morning glOries are
not made of rubber or oilcloth, as every
observer of nature knows. Consistency
is Jewel. but femininity, otherwise so
fond of jewclry, does not wear this one
conSpicuO usly.
There must be some dry places re-
naming somewhere in the country. l
arrive ut this conclusion in the first
place from the fact that the water we
have been having in this part of the
country must be withdrawn some
where else. and secondly, from having
seen a potato bug. / don't believe
they are good swimmers. nor are they
fond OF city life. They prefer the soli-
tudo and tranquility of rustic home.
! So do many farmers, they say.
But politics makes strange bedfel-
lows. and so a potato bug may get a
bed in a farmers pocket handkerchief
the comparison is a triiie moldv. but
you can't keep things fresh this weather
and find himself transported into a
howling mob of politicians intent on
| raising merry Ned and making presi-
dents. A country delegate to the late
democratic convention here, while
! crossing La Sale and Randolph streets,
{ and being obliged to employ all his
mental and bodily faculties to keep
| from under the cable cars crossing that
corner in three directions at once,
pulled out his handkerchief and dropped
a potato bug in the middle of the
street on the hard stone pavement.
The police officer stationed there
noticed the curious creature -
mean the bug. of course for
few minutes, then made the sign of
the cross and approached it, firmly
/ grasping his club. He stood there in
, the middle of the street for half an
l hour-I did not time him, but he told
! me so afterwards-and watched the
poor thing trying to find hole to crawl
( into. Ii ran around fast and furiously
and finally disappeared in the cable
! conduit HE was about as badly off
! in the crowded streets as the country
man that brought him in" said the
officer. 1t was quite an event, the ar
rival of that little stranger. He had a
crowd of boys and some grown people
around him, wondering what it might
be and how it got there and what it
! lived on.
+! You have all heard of the man who
fell from srnCke-stack hundred feet
high and before crashing through the
| skylight of the roof below shouted at the
| top OF his voice to some people he
saw under him: Look out.
, I'm coming" l was reminded of
him when hearing of the tum-
! bic that a workman took at the
worlds fair grounds the other day.
! The story was told by one who claims
/ to have been a witness to it. The
workman was busy near the top of the
horticultural building and fell down
/ from height of sixty feet, landing.
! fortunately. ON sandheap and square
| ly on that part of the body which was
made in natures own upholstery shop.
| He was dazed for a few moments, then
raised his head, looked up at the top of
| the dome from which he had taken
such a precipitous. descent and said:
That was deuce.of fall, wasn't itF''
! With that he picked himself up aud
| took walk around the grounds to
steady his nerves.
The wheelmeu are creating a good
deal of stir Just now. There are TWEEN
| ty-five thousand of them in Chicago.
/ They have over forty clubs Some
times they think they own the earth.
as when they have their regular spring
road race to Pullman, at other times
they are glad if they are let alone. The
| latter has been their favorite frame OF
mind of late. Park policemen have
been unusually busy lately arresting
all wheelmen who did not carry lamps
after dark II is one OF the queer in-
consistencies of young municipality
like Chicago that it requires innocent