The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-10
associate very little with the stricken

associate very little with the stricken
! subjects over whom he has control
Physicians and nurses are employed
| who attend to the wants of the stricken
people and they report to the super
Dltendent-
''One eht imagine that this settle
ment would be gloomy place. filed
with beings who were in abject
misery, the abode of suffering, with no
sunshine OF any bright side to life
This is a mistake The lepers seem to
be happy Many Of them spend their
leisure time in gambling. They own
horses, and nearly everybody is an ex-
pert rider. They have picnics, gala
| days and all manner of celebra tions.
The casual visitor would say they were
happy, easy-going race, who had as
much enjoyment as the average of
human beings-perhaps more than the
average.
The visits of the committee from the
legislature are made the occasion of
great festivities The day is looked
forward to from the time it is first an
nounced, and when the visiting states
men come they are received with pro-
cession which, for picturesque beauty
is unsurpassed. The houses are deco
rated Every one is at his best, and
the visitors are met at the steamship
landing and escorted to the superin-
tendents house
The procession is one of the most pc
cuiiar which could be gotten up any
where. Men, women and children, all
on horseback, make i. up, and their
costumes are striking and unique. The
women ride astride, and they have a
style OF dress which is not down in nnv
of the fashion plates. They wind about
their bodies and legs long streamers of
the most brightly colored fabrics
These form not only their dress, but
the saddle, and are of all colors of the
stout Kanaka women decorated in this
way flying at a canter up the road,
while behind each the ends of these
red, white and blue strearlers trail out
over the horses tails TO length Of six
or eight feet They look like a group
OF circus riders in unusually bright
costumes In the distance .hey seem to
be well, and it is only on y near view
that traces of the disease may be dis
covered Even when their disease has
reached an advanced stage they join in
these parades, escorting the visiting
mem bers Of the legislature
'-On these occasions they hare an op-
r1ortunitv to state any grievance thev
may have. and they avail themselves Of
the opportunity. They are born speech
makers. and they haranyue the com
rnittee, sometimes with force and elo-
oueace. They are, in fact. well treated.
bat they nplain OF everything. They
want new superintendent. they sav,
wko viii De more Sind and u-pathc:ic
They want relief from work in the
fields. They want more bread and nea.
in their weekly allowance from the gov
ernment They want better houses and
they want more horses In short. they
take occasion 70 present general list
OF grievances The lawmakers listen
patiently and they appear 70 tie salts
fed
Their Bum hers are NJ. Increasing
very rapidly. and there seems 70 DC no
especial reason to- the new csses 7Thich
from time 10 tire appear ~. y.
Times
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There i q prospective r:valry be-
tween the chiguon and the Queen Ade-
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