The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-21

BANANAS QUIET
seem to be all clothing houses. Outside,
along the fronts for two or three blocks,
hang rows of coats and trousers in such
continuous lines that the lower stories Of
buildings seem lined with them.
All day long men employed by the store
keepers pace up and down in front of
these shops, their business being to but
tonhole their passing fellow men and hang
to them like leeches.
The proprietoIs of these stores are chiefly
Russian or Polish and German Jews.
Names such as Goldstein, Navesky, Patof-
sky and Slofsky are over the doors. Look
also at the men themselves. Short and
thickset most of them are, and, when not
in their shirt sleeves, clothed in long skirt
ed black coats, which reach to their knees;
their sallow, wrinkled faces, lighted by
ghoulish black eyes, half hidden by bushy
eyebrows; their noses hugo, and the low
or parts of heir faces concealed 10y growth
Of greasy black hair.
The Grocery Shops.
The clothing house district passed, the
grocery region begins. Long punches of
garlic festoon the windows. The window
shelves are filed with an array of decay
ing lemons, yellowish cabbages and boxes
of macaron: The whole store looks as
if the goods had been shot into it from an
immense cannon and everything staid
where it happened to strike.
Jews and Italians.
One reason for the great number of
groceries and meat markets is that Jews
and Italians each have their own stores.
The Jews religion compels them to buy
their food of storekeepers of their own ma
tionality; otherwise they might uncon-
ciously eat unclean food. For instance
there are many animals of whose flesh it
is considered unlawful to eat, and all flesh
is TO them unlawful unless of a beast kill
ed according to certain Jewish laws. Then
at certain seasons they must eat unleaven-
ed bread, which their bakeries at such
times furnish. AS to Italians, they will
not patronize Jews, partly because of their
hatred of the race, partly because the Jews
will not patroniZe them.
On every hand there are enormous guam
titles of fish in baskets. barrows and carts
On warm days the vendors need not call
their wares. The odor proclainls all that
need be known about them. The streets
are so narrow that drays, carts and bar
rows often get into a hopeless tangle.
Sometimes a box of blueberries rolls off
Vinchensio Resiegario's cart, or two or
three green apples fall from chunky Leo
narto Polio's barrow. But no sooner is the
tangle Strengthened out than there is an
instant rush of children, who eat up the
fragments in u tr;Ss.
Bit Of Diplomacy.
On curbstone, with their feet in the
gutter. sit two little black haired girls in
rufiled dresses which once were pink One
is eating an apple. The other watches it
with desiring eyes. At last she speaks.
Her voice is solemn. Jennie May Brown -
she says, there's worm in that apple. -
a pause. If you eat it, you be all sick;
you be all dead; you be all buried up; you
go up to heaven" Here Jennie much
impressed, throws the apple away, and in
a few moments the successful preacher
has, unseen by her companion, seized it
and hidden it in her bosom.
On very warm days one must be careful
not 10 step on children sleeping on the
sidewalk, sometimes lying directly in ones
path. No wonder they are tired. Every
night they are up in the streets playing
till 10 or IL O'Clock, whilo their mothers
sit on the curbstones, with their feet in the
gutter, and their fathers lounge about the
doorsteps smoking.
Having seen hundreds-nay, thousands
of strong young foreigners sitting about
in this way, one wonders that they do not
break away from their cherries surround
inCs and find a place where they can do
something, be- something. Have these PEG
pie no ambitions, and. If they have what
are they: II you wish this question an
swered. watch for few summer evenings
from the windows % the North Bennett
Street Industrial school Some night you
hear the usual street sounds increase and
unite in "a roar; the street suddenly flares
with isInbeaux and red lights; a procession
Is advancing, young men in front throw
ing Up rockets. then a long lire Of men
with white hands across their breasts: next
in order, carriages and barges filed with
people The glare Of tie red lights iiiu-
inmates the old, time stained houses the
rockets light swarthy faces. and showers q
sparks fall among the shouting boys, the
band plays lively airs. and the triumplial
procession passes up the street Who are
these happy no-tals' ask you. The Portu-
guese or Italian people returning from
picnic. Tonight all i music. light. Joy,
for them: tomorrow they will subside ina
sodden. 10, less. half starved oreatures-
makers of pants, psddlers, ragpickeVs-
toiling early and late To what ends Thst
they may save money for another picnic
- when they ara old, and their last picnic
has taken their lest cent. and th,.y can earn
10 more, they nJss1r sssiy with their sCus
and daughters, who tolerate them. for
they, too. wish - 70 - Ficnlcs. and the
old folks are useful tolook after Tie bshies-
The Italians are shs most quarrelsonls
CT foreigners. the Portuguese the eloanest
and most immoral. and tine jews rhe dirsi-
est.
Ii seems strange that the. Jews lock -