The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-17
TALKS THROUGH HER BONNET,

! To the Editor OF the Eagle.
| After seeing SO many Wichita people at
| the fair today thought how nice it would
be if outsiders could say of us, every NOR
| tai in that mans town has visited the fair. +"
And as there are one or two people who
haven't been, | thought l would make
| few suggestions for their benefit. If you
are millionaire you may, with impunity,
| rent a martin box, dine off elixir of eXiler
alton, and your eccentricty, Will be
lauded, but if you are poor as Calamity,
| by all means briug one halt dozen nurses,
| stop at any hotel SO they charge So per day.
In this way you can awe your creditors
(who might have been foolish enough to
| come themselves had you stayed at home
and paid your debts) into silence, and they
will just shake their sides with laughter
when they hear what a jolly time you are
having Aud looking at it in still another
light, you incur all risk, while they re-
main al home-no wear and tear upon
their nerves. How do you know when
you leave Wichita with five or six coaches
loaded with passengers that you are not
going to be held up at Topeka, or any
lonely spot, by a kid with an empty
gun and robbed OF all your valua-
bles. OF course there may he
IOiS OF DfabS Officers ABOARD Win
braces of loaded revolvers, but supposing
the door was shut. 'wixt them and the
yellow back production. There you are,
helpless! They can only gaze through the
glass and see the little robber amusing
himself with your discontinue. Watch
your watch as 1t slips into his pocket
your hair loom as your heirloom follow
suit, and that's what | call the irony of
fate which might have turned on the
hinges OF glass door. IT'S you who are
running the risk, while your creditors
TRANQUILITY sleep at home. They should
not only cancel the debt bus pay you in
terest. But, ten chances TO one, they
would refuse. some pecpls are SO unrea-
sonable they never know what is tor their
own good. But il you don'5 ike either of
these ideas, there IL class of men who
represent the widow and orphan at the
fair and their name Is legion Were |
addressing an audlence. | could just say.
81 allude TO the gentleman with the fly on
the lobe of his left ear" aud it Is sale 10
say that at least one-fourth the audience
would uDconsciously dap the lobe of lis
left ear. OF coure, you never would hear
OF these things. for the noble men who,
through tie sensible death OF some hard
working father or husband, IS en-
abled TO represent the widow or
orphan never dreams it worth
while To mention suca trf1.ng service
Only lndJ on nap ctiSt4 ~ near LDs DlOLutT
bewaiiing the facs That her child would he
penniless, through. what she termed, the
treacher OF guar1lanl Mothers, when
Will you learn how many Young men are
ruined by having fortunes LETT them? IL
your guardian Is wjliiag to take upon
himself-asslgaeI by only a few lawyers
this burden, which Is conceded To be by
history, sacred, s0d pvoiaae, by philoso-
Pliers. ancient and modern, the root OF ali
evil If he has t.steT.D ned to weed tn :
root from out the pathway OF your beloved
child leaving him tree ts she mountain
air, to saw wood and along with other
aged. b2refooted boys sand Il chance o.
being president o. tie United States, why
VIII YOU stand IN the caild's llsat? Rather
20 down on your knees 20 his bsusiActor.
turn yoar pension over TO him, give him
your husbands soldier clothes, donate him
tie money that you have eEstwhiie
suuanCered upon the laIser's grave.
Decoration Day, Goup his Laundry. Crochet
his ueckties. THIS so1id SNOW proper
appreciation OF his services
Well. have spent ali my time artieulaf-
ing tlro' my last spriag Couaer, which
being crownieSs, Is ii much easier thug 10
do than fer man TO orate thro' his baL,
but Will send this .eEser FOR mind" tie
EAGLE noted the fact some time ago that
is scrap BASKET WAS IA TeceIp. OF l69 letters
from people who wished 10 air fheir
knowledge If the fair. ana As odd numbers
ara uulucky. niue viii AXE 40.
BETH.