The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-24

Is said, to put an end TO the malicious
attacks which are made from tirae
to time upon his wife, and in this he
would seem to have the very general
sympathy of the public Whatever may
be said of Mrs. Martins former career,
she has certainly shown herself to be a
good aud faithful wife. and as such both
she and her sister are entitled to good
treatment at the hands of the press and
society in general That her theories
at present may not be entirely in ac-
cord with those of general society is
true, but that she is entitled to enter
questioned. What surprises me is that
she chooses to make herself target for
the shafts of calumny in her devotion
to cause, when she might be leading q
life of perfect couposure in England
with most happy and luxurious sur
roundings. This running for president
is mere bit of child's play, somewhat
expensive as method of advertising
and not likely to produce any fixed re-
suits At the same time Mrs Martin
has never surrendered her citizenship,
and so long as she violates no law, So
cial or statutory, | am in favor of Civ
ing her respectful attention and the
chivalric treatment which is the due OF
every woman
A DRAMATIC PHENOMENON.
Just before DR.. Parkhurst sailed for
Europe last week several earnest eff
forts were made to get him to go and
see play called "Elysium," which has
been widely, and l may also say broad
4 H., al
est spectacle seen here recently The
persons who wanted DR.. Parkhurst
to sample "Elysium's" alleged naughti-
ness were not actuated, as / happen
to know. by any high moral i'm
pulses, but were, rather, in search
of that peculiar thing known as news
paper sensation" The good doctor es-
capped the pitfall of the ungodly and
did not go to the show. Now one of
the most curious phases of metropolitan
life is exhibited by this same "Elysium,"
and the wonderful reputation it has got
| about town as being almost all it
oughtn't to be. There's really nothing
as risque in either dialogue or costumes
as has from time to time been seen on
! the opera bouffe stage here and else
where. The piece has from the first
| been denounced as improper, and is
generally recl1oned improper, mot be-
cause it is, but just because people said
and still say it is. The plot is from the
French and it declares that certain
| Uncle Barbassou on his death leaves to
--arisian nephew the entire harem of
his Oriental uncle. The nephew falls
in love with a virtuous odalisque and
the scene shifts from Paris and its
gay life to the hafem and it's
women in trousers. The costumes
are not different from those often
seen here, the lines are innocent
enough and the illusions only as bad as
the bad choose to make them The
whole spectacle on the boards Of
Palmer's or Days theater would not be
regarded as worse than silly. People
who remember the artistic accomplish
ments of the troupe of genuine Nautch
girls whom Mr.. Daily imported seven or
eight years ago and displayed on his
own stage, say there is nothing in the
"Elysium" quite equal to the DAILY
Nautch dance. Omene, the woman
whose danse de ventre was considered
too suggestive even for Roster & Balls,
has been solemnly warned away from
the boards at Herrmann's, although she
has q contract calling for her appear
ance in ''Elysium-' The people in the
cast have nothing specially dubious
about them, unless Pearl Eyting's ap-
pearance in the ''Clemenceau Case is
treasured up against her. The whole
thing seems to be bad case OF crying
wolf" when there isn't even a niger
in the woodpile- But no city as big as
New York can endure not to be consid-
cred wicked" even if it isn't wicked a
bit
An OFFICE BOY BECOMES BOSS.
Yetwhat marvelously useful heritage
energy and ambition are. even if they
are not accompanied by money! In the
stories that have been written about in
fiuential New Workers who began life !
as errand boys | do not think that Sam |
my Rorke's name has been mentioned. |
He was Office boy at SO week in the |
Offices of the Copey Island jockey club !
not so very many years ago. He is now /
secretary of that club and OF the Essex l
Watch Case Company, a big Newark cor |
poration, d popular man about town, /
with plenty Of money and friends, !
and an assured position in the New
York world Of men and things His /
right name is Samuel Edward Rorle.
He is just past so, is slender blonde Of
medium size, neat appearance anS
pleasant manners, IS near an approach
20 Maecenas as the lyric bard of to-
day is likely TO find Lyric poetry to
dav, By the way, needn't be married
20 immortal tunes." but il must be set
70 music to have any commercial value
This is the age Of combination Of music
and rhyme sells Rorke owns the Tar
and Tartar and frankly admits that
co1sic opera has certain sort OF fasci-
nation for him Mr.. James Rowe, the
new starter a. the races hereahouts, is 9
friend and partner OF Rorke IN ssE1e Of
his enterprises. Rorize and Askin had
q difference about usoney-al Co
partners IN comic dc-not long ago.
But they also patched IL up. ss most Of
them do Rorsze IS man worth keep
ing ones ere on Hell cut q bigger
before he makes a smaller figure In the
world TozS a CoczERrH