The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-21
HAD NO LUCK AT ALL.
Even Ethers Most Clever Ruses Had


Way of Missing Fire.
swell, Ethel DEAR" said her friend
show are you getting along with tina,
awfully handsome college friend who
is visiting your brother?"
''Not at all," was the frank reply;
ssIve let him see that Will is desper-
arely in love with me, though don't
care fig for him. I've made his favor
ite salad twice, and quoted from his
class-day oration, but it's no use"
s'Oh, well, perhaps he's enga yedr'
ooh, no, he isn't or he would have
shown me her photograph and offered
in a patronizing way to be my friend!
As it is he scarcely seems to see me-"
'And that is a great deal worse than
being engaged"
Indeed it is. Why, if he was en-
gagged we could exchange condolences,
and could lament, with a glance at
him, that had no heart to give Will
Then on parting we could have per-
fectly lovely scene of eternal fare
we'll"
$50 you could. Minnie says she
misses Tom awfu1ly since he was mar
ried. You see, he was awfully hand.
some, but hadn't penny; still, as he
was engaged, he was perfectly safe and
she could try all her new tricks on
him.
''Of course. And even if he was in
earnest and became troublesome she
could say that she would never, never
accept second love, Or else they must
part and not break the other girls
heart"
every true. And how furious the
other girl would bel"
Wouldn't she? But, oh, Milly, I
haven't told you the perfectly awful
thing that happened the other even
ing."
''Of course you haven't. you mean,
close thing-but do tell me now"
'Oh, it is nearly too awful to tell ~
"No, tell me-I haven't a bit of curl
osity, as You know, but know what
relief it is to tell somebody when a
thing is really too bad to speak about"
$50 it is. Now, when Stella's lovely
he was twining it around his finger she
said she hadn't moments peace until
she came over to tell me about it.
"Yes, indeed. And when Matte
found that Nelson was engaged to both
Fife and herself she said she'd have
died if she hadn't telegraphed me all
about it at once"
81 know. Well, if I really must, 1
will tell YOU"
Eyes, indeed, l."
'sWell, you know he and my brother
were off on yachting trip for several
days"
81 know. My brother was one of
the party and he said that your
brothers friend was the only man he
ever knew who could quote poetry
when he was seasick."
eyes. Well they got home in the
dusk of the evening. l was alone, for
VIII had become offended two hours
earlier than usual and gone home, and
u
'Yes, yes; don't keep me in suspense"
SWELL, had on my lovely white en-
pire gown, which falls in such long,
classic lines, and, you know, 1 have
been studying Delsarte long time and
have learned to take the most fetching
attitudes"
Eyes, but
''Well, when heard them coming an
idea suddenly occurred to me and l de-
termined to make one last effort to
awaken his interest. You know it is
awfully easy to mistake people in the
dusk of the evening"
''Ies. yes, l."
''Well. just reached out into the
hall and flung my arms around one of
them and kissed him"
''Oh, but you hadn't"
''No: I had kissed my own brother,
after all. l was always unlucky," she
concluded with sigh.-Chicago Sum
day Post.
Growing Contests.
A new amusement has been inaugur-
ated in Belgium which permits the
peasants to have some sport. It is
sort of competition in cock Growing.
The game is conducted in this way:
In a garden are placed rows of cages,
each containing cock. Before each
cage, about a yard away, stands the
marker who notes the cocoricos of his
rooster. The competition lasts for an
hour, and it is the cock that has crowed
the oftenest that takes the prize. At
the last competition a rooster crowed
l34 times. Formerly cock fights were
the fashion, but the organizers of them
were so severely punished that the new
has replaced the old and is
quite as much e Ia node.-N. Y. Herald
-"How has Mrs. Hightide made her.
self so popular with the ladies?" ''Just
by an unwomanly trick" "What is
that?' "Why, she never takes more
than five minutes to say good-by."-In.
ter Ocean.