The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-27
MOTHER GRUMPY TALKS.

A woman writes TO this Office 70 say that
| it Is not in good taste TO wear hustle
with short skirts on the stage.
| Topeka Lance; Wichita has an ANA
teur minstrel company that advertises
eight skirt dancers" The orchestra
chairs are going to be pretty mad when il
developes that, instead Of local female
| beauties, the management will ring in
! eight lubberly young men 10 do the Car
mencita act.
| A. girl started down town the first of
| this week and her dress WAS so narrow
| that the first mud-puddle she came 10. she
couldn't step q cross and had to so back
| home.
! Atchison Patriot: Wichita amatuers
presented "The Pirates of Penzsnce" last
night. Tillie Ewing. Topeka young lady
sang the soprano. What's the matter
with the Wichita girls'
There is always rumpus in an amateur
show. But it is usually between the fem
| mime sex Men as rule, do not attack
| women.
| Topeka Journal: Wichita is TO have a
prize fight for 500 side. Wichita pro-
poses to be wicked just as far as The money
goes
| An old veteran actor said yesterday that
| there was only one fault with the young
| ladies' chorus in the Pirates" and that
was the way some OF the girls daubed their
/ faces with rouge He says il you will
study first class actresses makeups you
will see that they rarely put paint on their
cheeks. but on their temples and about
the eyes.
Kansas City Journal: The State Wheel
mems association will hold its annual
| tournament in Wichita July and two
days thereafter. 1t is expected that several
hundred delegates will be in attendance.
| Topeka is the great bicycle town OF Kan
sas Wichita Is a close second. however,
with Lawrence and Atchison bringing up
the rear There was a time in Atchison,
not over q year ago. when a man who ap-
peared on the streets with a bicycle was
taken before the probate judge and exam
| ined upon his mental condition 1t Is so
muddy in Lawrence that bicycles can only
run about six weeks in tbs year.
One OF the policemen in the Pirates"
says he has told each girl in the chorus
| that she looked the prettiest
Topeka Lance, The Wichita papers arc
about the only ones in the state that now
publish list Of wedding presents
| A Wichita married man is running the
risk of getting himself talked about by
haunting one of the public schools at noon
hours to talk to the grown up girls
Topeka Lance: IN Wichita, the ladies
have . practice of standing up in the
! theater and facing the audience while they
| deliberately and with artistic niceness, re-
move their wraps. That is, the pretty
ladies with stylish coats do.
Deacon Jones: 1t is great event in =
| girls life when she first begins TO wear
her hair in bunch instead OF down her
back. Her hair goes up a. the same time
the hem OF her dress is let down, and II she
hasn't enough hair on her own head 70
make a good sized wad, she borrows some
| of her mothers or sisters.
Peabody Graphic: The Wichita EAGLE
Is kicking because emigrsuts camp over
night on the principal streets OF that town.
Emigrapts, rs every one knows, always
select nice quiet place 10 camp where
forage for animals is plenty.
A Wichita girl is wheeling her baby
around in bsby-carriage that her mother
bought when she was born.
Lawrence Journal: A man down at
Wichita tried To catch . boy yesterday in
order TO sacrifice him. But this should
not be looked upon with great deal OF
horror, considering the fact that the DEM
ocrats are preparing 10 sacrifice hundreds
OF the worst men in the party this year
The husband OF prominent Wichita
female suffragist says that be first spoiled
her by being kind enough TO turn down
the children's beds at night; two years
later he was doing the kitchen work, and
in four years she came down town to pay
the taxes and dictated the way he should
vote.
Preston Plaindealer: On the death OF .
Wichita man the widow remarked to the
family physician: Poor Johni He will
| never get 20 know who got the nomina-
tion at Chicago"
ia number Of Wichita girls who bend
backward when they walk knew what the
| girls who walk straight say about them,
they would quit.