The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-03


Chicago one must wash his hands every
little while. and then they are glazed in
a moment when he touches a stair rail
or window blind. 1t is very painful,
indeed, to a neat man like me.
do not as a general thing camplain.
Neatness with me is pleasing recre-
alton. 1t is not my life work. | have
slept in third rate hotel with person
who moved in a social circle far be-
meath me, a person whom / had never
met before, and who was also drunk, and
who robbed the hotel while was at
breakfast, and who, as | was going to
say, was a great coarse man, but l for
got about it; and yet when | paid my
bill and the clerk-who most always
went arlned-asked me if everything
had been satisfactory, told him that it
had almost seemed like home to me.
Yet sometimes | murmur. Maybe it
is because | want TO attract attention,
like a critic. Sometimes do speak up
because it is necessary almost, and so
state right here in print, knowing that
am answerable at the bar of Eternal
Judgment, that there is hotel in Ark
ansas where new hall carpet IN the
main hall and burnt rag in the recep-
ton room are almost as vital to the pros
perity of the house as a jar Of muriatic
acid in the caster to help in cutting the
steak
Please do not regard me as hypercrit-
ical, for if am that it is purely because
do not understand the meaning of the
word as l should, but there is in Arkan-
sas hotel where the man who can eat
a whole meal and not do it under the
influence of stimulants, can go through
more suffering than any man | ever
came across.
Yesterday evening man came to my
dressing room just a little behind pro-
fessional card which was lightly covered
with rich black loan. Sinking in the
card for some distance, 1 found the name
of an actor who belonged to the ''Singed
Cat Opera company" which bursted
here two weeks ago with dull press re-
port which you may have heard.
l had stepped out of my dressing room
a moment in order to have room to take
oct my watch and see what time it was,
and had just returned when he entered
on the hot trail of his card. He said
that he wanted to see the show, their
company having bust here some time
ago, and would pass one of the profess
sion. Certainly, said l, with a sort of
assumed air OF Alvin Joslin affTience
and pie for breakfast which can put
on upon occasion.
He had a faraway look and some Of
the grease paint Of a former engage
ment interfered with his hearing. He
wore Rameses scarf with wonderful
imitation of boiled egg on it, and his col
lar proved to me that however his health
might be otherwise his pores had been
open all the time and active.
He wore a frock coat with a short
waist, and his cuffs acted as though they
were pinned inside the sleeves of same.
Somehow felt that if he had thought
lessly removed his coat l could have
seen only Prince Teck scarf and the
play of his pectoral muscles.
Possibly | did him an injustice, Pos
sibly he had shirt. If not. never saw
a laughter man without one. He said:
1--WE done rotten business here. When
we started out we had good paper and
played to S. r. o. in South Archey, but
the leading man got sort of multy on his
plates* with rheumatism, and before a
week we was stopping at a one PUNK
houseT; the O9eneto got her skates on
and tried to play opposite a jag that was
out of sight, and SO she queered the