The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28

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| the distinction Of train"
From the Emporis Republican.
Wichita is TO have eley.institute.
Now that is something like it.
A young girl who is engaged TO doctor,
recently took sick and sent for another
physician. She cited her modesty as a
| reason.
| All the old maids are feeling happier
| this week. One of their number, who had
| been long looked upon as hopeless case.
was married
/ From the Lawrence Journal.
| A national real estate congress is In ses-
sion at Nashville, and so far as heard from
no Wichita man WAS in it. The time was
! when an affair of that kind could not have
been success unless held in the arms of
the Peerless Princess.
From the Lawrence Journal
railroad engineer who lives at Wichi-
ia has just received notice that brother
in Detroit is dead and has left him so, 900.
The Journal does not vouch for this story.
1t may be that the Wichita special dis
patch fakir has got loose again.
From the Parsons sun.
1t always pays to advertise In the news
papers. A Wichita man put an advertise
ment in the EAGLES lost column few
days ago and the next morning the dog
had returned with two companions.
Joe Allen says that the piecs of poetry
"a Prisoner for Life" which convict re-
Gently palmed off as his own. was very
popular during his boyhood and was gen
orally supposed to be written by school
teacher who was sentenced for life for
beating scholar &c death.
From the Kansas City Journal: A
Wichita editor, who is taking the Kelley
cure, declares that he is cured. This in
spires the envious editor of the Arkansas
| Traveller to say that he will lose his job,
for no sober man has sufficient immagina-
ton to run Wichita paper.
From the Lawrence Journal
In speaking of the poetry ofthe west the
Wichita EAGLE says, that some day the
right man will strike the Tyre" It will
not be until we are clear of the calamity
howlers, however. We are all busy now
trying to strike the right liar.
From the Kansas City Star
1t ia reported in Wichita that the pope
has abolished Lent, and there is great ex-
element in fashionable" circles. In
Wichita the women live for Lent. They
yearn for the time when they may go to
church five times every day with prayer
book conspicuously in hand.
From the Abilene Reflector.
The Wichita fakir has brought out his
old story Of the man being eaten by wild
dogs We are pleased to note that the
yarn is Just as good as when it was tele-
L. ar1d r-na hnf
that, if anything it has even grown more
blood-curdling with age. 1t is now time
for the child-in-a-well dispatch.
From the Topeka Lance.
The EAGLE says there is a young man in
Wichita who is still writing letters to
girl in an opera troupe that passed through
there two years ago, and that she answers
them. That young man Is decidedly tame
beside the young men we have who have
followed them from town to town, IN sew
eral instances been engaged TO them, and
always lavishing more money than they
have upon them.
Sending Letter to Paris" is one of the
kissing games sometimes played at parties
about town. In this game a girl stands
up and selects young man, who stands
behind the girl, putting his hands on her
shoulders. The young man then selects
girl, and the girl selects another young
man, and so on until all those present ara
standing in line, convict fashion. Then
the letter is started by the first girl, who
leans backward and kisses the young man
behind her over her shoulder, and the
young man kissing the girl behind him IN
the same fashion, until the letter Is sent
to Paris, which is the last ''postotfice" IN
the line Sometimes the letter Is return
ed, which simply means more kissing.
There is always funny man at a Kissing
party, who always gets more kisses than
the game allows, and he is always popular
with the girls kissing parties are gener-
ally held at the homes of church members,
who will not allow their children 10 dance
From the Kansas City Journal,
There are two great liars in Kansas who
send things to the telegraph editor. One
is the "Wichita liar" and the other is the
''Hiawatha liar" The first is tbs more
artistic and spreads over more territory;
the second is the more persistent. The
Wichita man is the fellow who is respOn-
sible for the famous child in drive we'll
fiction and its variations, the hogs eating
up the child incident, the Kansas cave
myths and various kindred pieces OF news
lore. The Hiawatha Auanias does a great
deal of his lying by mail He gets up
stories about Kansas girls and makes
them do all sorts of impossible things. He
set a daughter of Congressman Baker to
blowing and put another Kansas girl to
running a harvester He tells stories
about birds and writes up mobs of women
who tear down the show bills, in his fer
tile imagination. The Wichita man signs
the name Jones" to his freaks of fancy
but his real name is -; the Brown
county short story writer makes no at
tempt to conceal his identity and signs up
Herbert.
There are several more kissing games
that are played at parties. CLAP in and
clap OUT is very popular in some neigh
bordoods. In this game all the girls go
out into a room apart from the young
men A doorkeeper gets the names Of the
girls the young men want 70 see. The
doorkeeper then calls the girls into the
room, and each sits down beside the young
man whom she thinks chose her. IL she
does not sit down by the young man who
chose her, the young man kisses her, and
then claps his hands until she goes out
into the other room, when she is chosen
By some other young man. II the girl sits
down beside the young man who chose
her. however, be kisses her twice and she
is allowed 70 remain After all the girls
are chosen, and get their right places, the
boys 20 ont into the other room, and the
girls do the choosing and kissing. The