The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-10

contempt for the r. S. V. business; a
man who would attend german at the
queens place dressed in little brief au-
thority and a fawnskin vest. talking OF
the best time of the year in which to as
sassinate the hog and other matters for
which her majesty did not then, and
does not now. care continental.
Imagine, then, if you please, man
like Franklin at the royal table sweet
ening his consomme, talking of the TO
tation Of crops and putting Worcester
shire sauce on his terrapin. Now we
can do this sort of thing with IMMUNITY,
because we are great nation. But at
that time, when our currency was print
ed on Gordon press and our standing
army had not had a new pair of boots
for six months, the American minister
attending royal donkey party with his
pantaloons tied down over the legs of
his boots to keep the snow out and rab-
bit skin ear tabs sewed on his Mackinaw
hat would naturally injure the social
standing of our nation with foreign
powers.
Here dwelt Sir Bulwer Lytton, who
wrote his most celebrated poem, "Lu-
cille," on this ground. Colonel John
Hay lives across Sixteenth street, so also
does Henry Adams, grandson of John
Quincy Adams.
Imagine, if You please, the mighty
contrast between the Washington of the
present-fulla Of elegance, refinement,
difficult words. settled up with a nice
class Of people like Mr.. Blaine-com-
pare, say, the Washington of today,
where l sit. environed by everything
that can environ one; compare, | say,
such a city with the low, wet, snipe
infested flats where once the rank thistle
nodded in the wind, and the low, some
what vulgar Indian. on whom there Is
nothing but shell necklace and jag.
We live, indeed, in rapidly growing
age, an age of wonderful development.
And this reminds me, though possibly
the reader may not see exactly how, of a
young man whom | met in the cars of
the justly celebrated Richmond and
Danville railroad yesterday. He said
that the practical education of young
people of both sexes was a subject which
he thought ought to be looked into
Last winter he boarded at the same
house with bright young school mis-
tress whose intelligence was out of all |
proportion to her extreme youth, for she !
had read and claimed that she could ex-
plain, with the use of blocks, one of Mr. |
earlier poems.
Noticing that the young man of whom |
| have spoken was wearing at the time |
pair Of trousers around the heels of |
which slight Iambrequin seemed to be
forming she suggested, as they became |
better acquainted. that as she had been
taught very thoroughly in all branches
of needlework she would be most happy
to repair the trousers ut any time when
his business Was such that he would no,
actually need them
1t is needless to say that with beat
ing heart ne one night reached them
through the sparsely opened door of mis-
apartments and left them in her hands
to deal with as she might see fit. l hes
itate to go on with this account, but
now that / have begun it | must not
turn back. When he received the pan
hes he found that they had been most
mended where they needed
it most, but while the trousers appar-
entity had not suffered in any way, he
found when he came TO examine them
that the repairs in the foyer had been
made at the expense of the seating ca
oacitv.
That is why he says he thinks that the
practical education of women, he fears,
S not always in practical hands.