The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-18
MISS CITIZEN PROTESTS.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
We who cannot go 10 the worlds fair
are fast becoming reconci!ed to the fact.
Indeed, we would be entirely SO if we
thought tie going would make Us as
wearisome as it has some people Bat
then, you know, each one feels that II is
only by the most strenuous exertlon that
he car become disagreeable.
Having read vivid descriptions OF the
Dream City" in the newspapers and mag
azines, we al! know much OF its magnitude
and beauty aad realize that even words
fifty spoken" cannot fully describe 1t;
hence when we meet in public gatherings
those who have scarcely succeeded IN shak-
ing the Chicago dust from their feet or
finished picking its cinders out OF their
eyes and they begin to tell, IN one breath,
OF all they saw we heave sign ana look
about for some means OF escape.
Two commencement exercises have been
ruined for me by one of these eX-travelers.
She smotnered the thought and sutfocated
us with adjectives; she broke OFT in the
middle OF one deception to begin on all
other, finishing all her sentences with
dashes or exclamation marks. Only as
each graduate came forward upon the
stage with his bow and opening sentence,
did this neighbor OF mine pause, and not
even Shaw's orchestra could drown her
melodiouS chatter. And me? L hummed,
30, had | the wings OF dove,
and wished our ears, like eyes, could open
ana shut Then too. she forgot that to
belittle our own because we have seen
greater is treason in Kansas.
''Oh, men may come, and men may 90,
But she talks on forever"
We did want to go to the fair. We
turned our pocketbook inside out, think
ing how it resembled last years bird
nest - for its eagles, too, have
flown During the drought we had
thought of getting in as part of the en-
hibit-labeled Something green from
kansas'-but the rains have wlthered
that hope, or. rather, drowned it. Like
wise, one by one, our balloou-like air cas-
ties have collapsed or scared out of sight
until we are reduced to the hope that some
''old country" ancestor, OF whom We never
heard, will die before October and leave US
enough to pay for our meals on the fare
grounds. But the returned girl reconciles
Is. Under her influence we become un-
selfish enough to assert that it is too bad
the old country ancestor should die d pre-
mature death.
And when our irnaginations get a-going
they conJdre up some strange things: we
wonder II BrownSequard will not soon
perfect MS EIlXlf Oh Lie, ana by taxing
1t, we may not i've 10 see the i've hun
dredth anniversary; and if we cannot earn
money enough to go by that time.
Perhaps Wichita may secure the worlds
fair for l9y3-if only the business men
would begin to work 1t up. This is only
suggestion. however.
Then we think dreadful things. Sup
pose Columbus had possessed Methuse-
labs faculty for holding on TO good
thing, what bore be would be today go.
ing about and telling how he did 1t! As 1t
is, he seems TO have mad as great pen
chant for being photographed as Euaile
herself. But h'sh! she Is not yet out or
the house and ma says we must not make
fun of IA guest. Uncle Sam must feel like
All old bachelor with An eXtravagent ward
on his hands. and WILL no doubt. give a
sigh of relief when her barque floats over
the horizon, exclaiming, blessings on
the man who invented time TO GOT
Oh We newspaper men, please tell us
how many Dukes and lnfantas we must
yet fete?
Oh dear what was | talking about?
Will be discussing the war pretty soon.
The girl who went TO the fair, has heard
me say quite enough; we are partly even
now; so / will stop with another com
fortiug idea for the girl who doesn't go.
You and | cannot now be suspected OF
having stolen the thirty pieces OF Queen
Margheritha's lace, and perhaps, II we
observe closely. we may find several
other things for which 10 be thankful "ere
the leaves begin to fade" Miss CITIZEN.