The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-24
FILTRATION At wELL1NeTos.
The Ministerial Association Met to Devise
Means For Its Suppression.

A gentleman who came up from Well
ington yesterday informed an EAGLE re-
porter that big mass meeting under the
auspices OF the Ministerial association had
been held there the previous night which
was causing a good deal of talk among the
people of that city. The meeting was not
for the purpose OF making war on King
Alcohol. as is usually the
case, but for the remarkable pur
pose Of devising some means
and ways of stopping filtration in the city
between boys and girls. Now this may
stem odd and funny bus the gentleman
vouches for its truth for be WIS at the
meeting himself Rev. Mr. Botkin former
ly of this city was one Of the speakers and
he gave a graphic account OF trip he
made through the city one night Il was
while a patent medicine Snowman was
there and he actually saw a girl wave her
handkerchief three times at some young
fellows
just think OF young lady in this era Of
Christian grace and moral refinement
waving delicate handkerchief three times
at young men. Did anybody ever hear OF
Wichita girl doing thats and, still,
Wichita is put down AS a very wicked
city. What would the fathers Of this great
government have done had they thought
that in q hundred years after their patri-
otto effort in behalf of freedom, that
young lady would SO badly abuse that
freedom by waving handkerchief
three times at young men. They
would have spared themselves the
trouble, no doubt, of fighting
the battles Of independence. People talk
Anarchists waving rags and throwing
bombs into policemen, and all that sort of
thing, aud yet they have utterly failed in
all this time to condemn such an outrage
as waving white handkerchief at young
men Of delicate nerves such as the Well
ington boys are. Rev. MIR. Penick spoke
and deplored the fact that he had no con-
versions in his church for SIX months, all
of which he attributed to the practice Of
filtration by the young people of the city.
Another minister said that ne had heard
that some OF the young ladies of the city
were seen waving their handkerchlefs at
runners or drummers near the Arlington
hotel while another said that he had heard
one of his parishioners say that she saw a
society young lady waving her handker-
chief at a brakeman while the train was
passing the depot. 1t would seem utterly
impossible to the ordinary Wichita mind
that such things could be done at Well
ington or anywhere else but the gentle
man who talked TO the reporter said he
heard the ministers say SO with his
own ears and that he knows them
to be very reputable men. Rev. Denman
said he had to keep his children at home
altogether on account of the flirting ten
denotes of the young people whom they
would be naturally compelled to associate
with. Another minister saw good deal
more than this. He saw young lady and
gentleman walking on the street one night
so close together that it seemed to him
one of them had an arm around the waist
Q. the other. The meeting. the gentleman
stated, was an exciting one and ended in
a committee being appointed, of which
Hon. Jacob Stotler was chairman, to
visit the council and prevail upon
them to pass such laws as will stamp out
of Wellington He also submitted plan
to the reporter about the best method of
doing away with this outrageous and hor
rifying handkerchief waving which is IN
substance that an ordinance should be
passed by the city council making it a
felony for any merchant in Wellington to
sell handkerchief to young lady with
out written permit from her parent,
guardian or spiritual adviser.