The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01
-HYSINGER g ROSENTHAL,-
lSMI| HUMBOLDT, KANSAS.
animals, is the popular Plaisance es

animals, is the popular Plaisance es-
cort among Kansas visitors. He has
been doing the Plaisance three or four
nights week for several months, and
is hail-fellow, well-met with every
Fiji, and Turk and Algerian on the
Midway. Ifyou want to be introduce
ed into the best Plaisance society, go
with Mr.. Dyche. He has also tasted
everything in the foreign cafes and
knows what is liable to result fatally
and what isn't. 1t is a favOrite
amusement with the famous taxider-
mist to lure the unsuspecting Kansan
into the Fiji Islander show, where a
University student takes tickets and
the names of Mr.. Dyche's friends for
publication in the home papers. The
Kansas girls are not worrying about
that however. In the first place,
they didn't go-if they did it was all
right-and if it wasn't they'll never
do it again. The Kansas professor
approves of the Fills because they are
"anatomically correct" He finds a
great deal of statuary about the
grounds which does not come up to
the Fijis in this respect.
Down at the Kansas building they
tell cruel story on POpulist from
Miami county, who visited Chicago.
The first time that he entered the
grounds, he happened onto the Es-
quimaux village. There is asign "25c
admission" there, so he wandered
back in the direction from which he
came. The next sign which met his
eye was "exit." AS there was no fee
required and as he had never seen an
exit show, he walked through.
whats this?" he asked of the guard.
"This is Stony Island Avenue"
"Well, amt it part of the Fair?"
"No. That's the Fair in there"
Then the Populist muttered some
thing about the plutocratic Republic
can party robbing the down-trOdden
farmer. paid his fifty cents again and
went in.
But while 1 am convinced that a
visit to the Columbian show may be a
recreation instead of a penance, yet as
a place for knitting up the raveled
sleeve of care, and performing such
other repairs on ones nervous system
as the wear and tear of life i'm Law
renee, Kansas, may have made neces-
sary, Chicago is not in it with Bristol
village, Vermont. Bristol has the
Green Mountains in her back yard and
a sparkling mountain stream in her
front. The summer boarder has not
broken in, and no summer hotel mars
the scenery, or corrupts the SIMPLE
ity of these quaint old-fashioned New
England customs. The occasional
stray summer boarders are given the
parlor and the "parlor bedroom
evidently long uninhabited till their
coming, stiff and ugly, but timmac-
ulately clean. There is the horse-hair
parlor set, in which no comfortable
hollows have been worm; the family
portraits in oblong gilt frames, the
marble center table, and separate
white table for the family Bible; a
corner "whatnot" with photographs
and jim-cracks,-James-cracks, Mr..
Howells would call them, in his dig
nified atmosphere. The sitting room
on the other hand. where the family
really lives, is bright and CHEEKY,
with easy chairs and flowers and
books. The sweet placid little land
lady would doubtless not be happy,
however, without the consciousness of
possessing parlor with upholstered
chairs and family portraits. The
comforts of this well-regulated New
England household, including feath-
er bed five feet high, baked beans,
brown bread, maple syrup, apple pie
and cheese, are ours for a price for
which one gets washing and a few
sundries at Chicago.
My New England enthusiasm,
though is limited to her women and
her mountains. The men-with GER
tain slight exceptious-are hardly up
to the Kansas standard. am begin
ming to think that the New England
old maid is a woman of Judgment.
One doesn't expect men, however.
at summer resort. And the vaunt-
ed attraction here, the Green Noun
tains, are certainly not disappointing.
They are nice, inviting, comfortable
little mountains,-not "done up in
brown wrapping paper" like the Col
orado Rockies. Their sides are cover
ed with pine and hemlock and spruce,
maple and hardhack. Their damp
corners are lovely with ferns and
moses. Their SUMMER places are
tangle of wild raspberry and clema-
tbs. Their occasional bare lodges give
views of the hazy AdIrondscks to the