The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-15
SKIM MILK AND CREAM.
Things Are Not Always What They Seem
Mrs. Howe's Escap7d
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| "Marier'
II say. Marien'
Marie did MT answer and the silence
| that fell over that Wichita home WAS o
/! that texture IL which a knife could have
been heard 10 easily pass its way over th'
/ boar frost crystals that held inviting ways
| TO all that were in peace with the world.
The next sweet whisper that came Gid
| ing, running. sailing. swiftly intent
across the waste of the wide, wide worit
| said: 'Oh mamma! Did you hear ths
terrible news about Mrs. Hover
The speaker was fair young lady, one
of the first of ;he city, and in her hands
she held Chicago newspaper. and in
voice tending toward the tragic, she said
| "Oh mamms, / have a letter from Bet
| tie and just see what she says"
| Here she showed the paper and dis
J patch in it was as follows:
| WINoNA, Mimi, Dec. S-About year
! ago Mrs. Howe gave number OF kir-
messes in different parts of this state, and
! during soiourn of six months estabiis he
/ quite a reputation, although it WAS not an
enviable one Her kirmesses We're gener-
| ally great successes, but the woman would
always succeed in getting deeply in debt
| in every town. While hereyall her personal
property was attached aud the affair WAS
the talk of the town for months, rs she
had associated with her In the klrmess
only the upper ten. Now comes report
from the east, and IL is apparently au-
thentic, that Mrs. Howe Is a man. This
fact was disclosed few days ago, when
upon being arrested she was searched. AT
the time she wigs here her manly qualities
were often remarked upon, as she swore
dreadfrlly, smoked tobacco and drank
whiskey.
This struck the mother rather hard and
she subsidized into another room but COM
ing forth directly she said: my daughter
say nothing more"
But somebody else said more and the
story is afioat. 1t is this:
Esrly in September 1888, while the cam
paign was on, while the boom" still held
its own and times were good, a
IMAM and wife hit Wichita and
at once began to make themselves solid
with the best people. They stopped at the
best hotel, registered as "Mr. and Mrs.
Howe" aud after their first nights repose
called on the ministers of the city. They
had scheme, an entertainment; some
thing they could give that would make
money for any association or organization
that would take hold of it. 1t was a
"Kirmess."
The dear people grabbed at it aud after
about four weeks hard work the produc-
ton was brought forth.
1t was success and the best people OF
the city took part in it.
The reading or the above dispatch
"struck terror to the soul, as IL were, OF
the young lady, and this article will have
similar effect, no doubt, TO more OF
them.
While here a young man named DICK
Collier came under the wrath OF
'Mrs. Howe, and on coming into a
newspaper office where he was employed,
To chastise him, she was talked out OF 1t.
Proceeding to the sidewalk on Market
street she spent her wrath on hack
driver who suffered from number OF
strokes from good sized horse whip that
she carried was used.
This spirit was not displayed, however,
in front of the scenes, but all she could
say to make tins young ladies, taking part
in the play, feel kindly toward her was
used.
Word comes from Elgin, Lincoln, Bloom
ingtou and other towns in Illinois; Min ne
apois, Winona, Duluth and number OF
cities in Minnesota where 'Mr. and Mrs.
Howe have appeared that they have not
only imposed on the young ladies bat
have worked the business men for all they
could and have proven themselves a
precious pair of beats.