The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-01
ALTHOUGH a DUDE,
"a Mans a Man for A That" Sometimes
a. Is InId Eere1Eifh.

"a Mans Man for A That" Sometimes,
Is Told Herewith.
"You won't catch me making fun OF
dudes any more, remarked the man
with the chrysanthemum in his button
hole, just after one of that apparent ilk
had got off the front platform of the
car with much show of affectation, and
the motorman had winked TO the rest
who were enjoying the salubrity OF
ride into the teeth of a cool breeze one
day last fall The Journal man turned
to the gentleman who had spoken thus
oracularly with the query, "Why?'
Well he replied, Il had an expert
ence with one of them that changed my
opinion Of the genus nightly / used
TO think, till one day last week, that
they were to be classed with all other
fools, and that the man whose few
thoughts ran to clothes and the condi-
ton of the weather in London as affect
ing his trouser bottoms sort OF led the
procession for inanity Ny conversion
! happened thus:
Il was riding down Washington
street with one of them as a companion
and the motorman as the other |
thought ii was rather strange that the
dude should put himself to the effort of
keeping his feet on the front platform
when l rather pride myself on my sea
legs, and you know an electric car IS
fully equal to cranky yacht for de-
veloping ones balance
HE seemed to manage himself pretty
well, and l soon stopped thinking about
him
1--WE bore down on the West street
crossing at good pace, and just as we
reached II we saw woman dash right
into our path. Another car cut off her
advance, and she seemed to be scared
so much that she could not move. The
motorman turned both cranks as quick
as thought, but it was no use. The
car had no fender, and / closed my
eyes expecting to feel the shock as we
struck, and to feel the car jolt as it
plowed over her, but no such thing
happened
Il opened my eyes, and, if you'll be-
heve it, that dude had seen the only
possible way to save her life, and had
acted upon it. He had sprung forward,
kneeling on the platform. had thrown
his arms about the woman and lifted
her from the track. The strain must
have been something fearful, in his po-
sition. but he plucl1ily held on till the
car stopped. Then he arose. led the
woman to the sidewalk, with an apollo
gy for his familiarity, and got on the
car again. He brushed the dust from
his knees with his silk handkerchief, as
if saving women from the electric car
was a common occurrence with him,
and got off at Milk street.
~ took occasion to congratulate him
on his nerve, and ne blushed like a girl
as he replied that he had done nothing
but what any man could do. He GER
tainly did more than / could. boston
Journal
MRS. MoNARCHEsI, wife of the New
York publisher has invented and re-
ceived the patent papers for a new grid
iron which is considered a great I'm
provement on the old one.
\THE officers of the German army are
to have a new cloak, the novelty of
which lies in the fact that by an in
genious device the cloak may be ma le
thick or thin. 1t is adapted for winter
or summer use.
NEW marine light which will soon
be in place near Havre will be the most
powerful in the world. 1t will be
visible at sea distance of from twenty
two to fifty-two miles, according to the
condition of the weather.
CAPT. REWARD, who for many years
has been studying aerial navigation,
has raised his own hopes by construct
ing petroleum engine weighing fifty
Kilograms per horse power. instead of
two hundred kilos per horse power, as