The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-19
rHB EVOLUTION OF sYnpHoSlEs.
Story of a piece Of an ola washbawL

Some time since q Wichita woman
whose fad is co!or-harmcnies, accidentiy
stumbled onto an old piece of washbowl
tinted in egg-blne and bordered with
gSite-gold, the most exquisiIely egg-blue
tint that ever came from IA firing furnace
She had no use for the washbowl outside
OF its artistic effect of coloring 10 her aes-
thetlc sense. hut she bought it, and after
| lengthy correspondence with "A New
Jersey queensware firm succeeded in
matching 1t with pitcher and slop jar.
The set arrived too ICo-Joo for anything,
especially SO for the particular washstInd
OF the room TO which the delicate set mad
been assigned and so the stand had TO go
into the hands of painter of tint discrim-
lna'lng powers. The frame or the mirror
above, and behind with It's draperies next
followed the text of the ceramic gem and
stand, and soon after the paper
ana border Of the room and
the curtains, drapings aud hangings. even
to tie counteTpaues and tides, the lounge
and chairs. every one and all were trans
formed by a touch of delicate egg-blue and
OF gold and white, with finaii .Sl carpet TO
match To perfection. MontH were de-
voted TO this gem of "A chamber Room. The
last thing TO be Frightened, aud lighterrd
ana soitened TO porcelain white, and
delicate gold shaded into exquisite egg
blue were The doors, castings and bases of
color are all well enough but imagine the
pertusbatious of the everyday, common
place rUstler of husband who was COM
PEELED TO share that bed and take his
chances Of proving bull in a china shop.
Heaven IS delightful place, but not for
safaP- Sunday morning last this bou-
dolr was never so dainty pretty in its SUBJ
dued harInouies. of tints aud touches as
when the old brute got lap for his morning
additions aud dropped the inspiration Of
it all on to the floor. A flash of
the blue of Naples bay ana Italy's
sky, with s. touch OF Vesuvius' forked
fame in TIE looming distance flashed
across his distracted brain and then care
fully gathering the shattered remnants
of that once marvellous bowl into "a news
paper he softly stole down stairs and of to
town without his breakfast He had no
appetite left, and every worldly ambition
was non est. The ne plus ultra OF exist
ence had been reached and all he could do
was to send a messenger bov back to that
home with "a note that business had uu
expectedly called him out of town. Whether
he will ever return or not depends on the
possibility OF his finding a match for that
bowl. or tie absence of his name from the
record of divorce proceedings as found IN
the EAGLE for the next week or so.
Its the little foxes that spoil
the vines" How great mat
ter a little fire kindleth;" "a little
heaven leaveneth the whole ba'ch;" Man
wants but little, nor wants that little
long," a little more than little Is too
much;" \ little one becomes thousand;"
Little things are great" but there is no
liJtleness that equals the one which our
wretched wight feels, if we except the one
which he will feel when he next faces that
woman. The pitcher went once too often
to the fountain" ''or ever the silver cord
be loosed or the golden bowl be broken"
AS for both her and him there
Can never be another egg-blue bowl,
"a least of reason or flow of SOUL"