The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-04
Let us "rather bear the Ills we have
Th,v fiy 20 thoSa Wa xyot not off,

Let us rather bear the Ills we have
Than fly to those We wot not of"
Just now, the tide seems to have SCI
toward the visiting girl: our own girls art
not in it.
The visiting girls swarm upon us
snatch our choicest matrimonial plums
and leave our own sweet buds to blush
unseen.
The glamour of the unknown, the dim
farawayness of mystic splendor envelope
the visiting girl.
Her origin, her antecedents, her finan-
cial prospects, all have that exquisite hazl'
ness that belongs to the perspective OF u
landscape.
Those who have studied perspective,
find that the vanishing point, SO fair and
misty. where the earth and sky meet, Is
nothing more nor less than thin air.
Far be it from me to wish that one of
our boys might SO dud the perspective OF
some visiting girl, but nothing short OF
such an experience will teach them the
value of our own charming girls.
1t is a beautiful thing to watch young
girl, a bud, blossom under our eyes until
some fine c8y she stands before us, radiant,
fair, glorious rose; but our young men
seem TO prefer that their roses are present
ed to them full blown.
The roses that have blushed and blossom
ed before their eyes are, as l said before,
not Ia it.
Perhaps it is the unusualness, the new
ness Of them that acts like charm; for
there is no doubt Of the fact that some
thing about them does act like charm.
Being raised with a girl, going to school
with her, carrying her books for her. robs
her of that indefuable something which
constitutes the halo OF the visiting girl;
hut this home girl has her advantages.
You know all cher uncles and her cousins
and her aunts." She can't spring IL regi-
ment of hungry relations on yo1 unbe-
knOwnst.
You know exactly how many of her
maiden aunts and feebe-miDded cousins
will spend the winter by your fireside
You also have ample time to ferrit out
the character of your mother-ih-law;
though often you think you knew her
when you don't
Still, faulty as she may be and generally
is, she Is preferable to the mother of a vis-
iting girl. who is pretty certain to stay all
winter since she is Obliged to come SO far
TO see her dear daughter"
L knew Of one of these eastern mothers
in-lGw who made visit of snch length
that the son-in-law willingly aud cheer
fully went down into his pocket and pro-
duced therefrom the necessary funds
wherewith to purchase her ticket back
east.
This would, of course be unnecessary
where our mother.in- law lived in the same
town.
These are only few of the advantages
of marrying home girls. / could write a
book on the subject if / had the time.
There are hundreds of good reasons why
we should patronize home products. We
should use Kansas salt; we should use
produced In Kansas. but the Kansas whis.
kies, which are manufactured from part
Missouri whiskies and the other parts
cayenne pepper combined with an un-
known ingredient that has q paint taste
and Whit of kerosene.
We should draw the line at this last
home product if we value our lives; but
the girls are different
There is no first and sufficient reason
why they should be left without an op-
portunty to tell their love so that they are
obliged TO ''let concealment. like worm
in the bud, feed on thine damask cheeks"
Why should our girls go begging'
We have the loveliest assortment OF
girls in the world.
We have beautiful dizzy blonde girls;
we have dark rich looking Gf not ricb)
brunetres: we have tall and graceful girls,
and girls petite and charming
We have gray-eyed girls, blue-eyed girls,
and girls with wicked black eyes
We have fiaxen-haired girls, golden
brown-baired girls, girls with soda-washed
hair, girls with per oxyde of hydrogen
washed hair. anu lot of beautiful red
headed girls.
We have common sense girls, with
waists and broad fiat feet; and we haye
girls with no sense at all.
We have giddy little school girls; and
girls who have been ''out" long, long
lime. longer than some OF US can remem-
her.
We have girls who, from fresh buds have
bloomed into roses, and from roses are
now, alas! close on TO the last stages Of
the scar and yellow leaf; therefore it is ia
their behalf that have written this letter.
Girls, ] have done what / could. No
thanks please. j have only done il in the
interest OF humanity. NANCY YANKS