The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-18
You can't down the Kansas woman.

She is irrepressible.
SqGeich her upon one question, and she
hobs up serenely upon another.
Not long ago she was raiding the joints
Now she is waging war on the bill
boards. Those poor old bill boards. Why
the small boy demolishes the pictures
almost as fast as they paste them up Just
leave the matter to him. He is about d:
good an annihilator of everything in sight
as one could wish. OF all the magnificent
ballet we have had here this winter, nc
"Reminiscences remains upon the bill boards,
except perhaps, few lonesome Black
Crooks in the south part of town, and two
or three OF the Fanny Hill combination
still dancing on North Main.
Perhaps few old bald heads might be
willing to assist in tearing these down,
which $50 far as one can learn, consisted
principally of living skeletons.
These pious ladies have been too Jealous
in suppressing evil.
They have done an irreparable Injury by
directing any attention TO these odioUs
show bills. Formerly, | walked chastity
along, my feet pressing closely the straight
and narrow path, my modest eyes cast
downward.
mind has deserted me, find myself flaunt-
ing about, nervous!y alert in this matter of
show biiis-show bills haunt me sleeping
Or awake.
don't seem to be sat myself"
Yesterday walked up TO Il dilapidated
show hill and began talking 10 1t aloud.
Yes, right ohere in the street.
How dare you have yourself pasted up
there where L can see your" / SAID gssticu-
lating wildly. Don't you know you are
GeGloraliZing me? OF course | can see
that you are horribly out of drawing, and
that limb q suppose the ladies will allow
me to say limb you have been holding in
the air for six months at stretch, is fully
SIX inches longer than the one that is
glued TO the back of the horse; but you
are demcralziug me just the same. Your
graceful poiSe produces in my heart II
strong inclination to 20 and do likewise;
and the first thing you know / shall be
running away with circus"
In my fury, L grasped piece of the
loose hanging paper and pulled off half
her foot whereupon she no longer stood on
the horses back and beguiled my way
ward fancy circusward. Just then "A
policeman came along and eyed me suS-
piciously. | moved away.
II this undue advertisement of the bill
boards has an effect like this upon me,
mild. gentle, serene me; shudder To think
OF its effect upon the hilarious younger
generation.
Small boys, whose attention to the print
ed ballet girl generally hegiDs aud ends
with daublng her ia the right eye with a
wad of gum, so that she performs her
gyrations in a half-bliGd condition will
now stand about her In silent, admirinc
groups: because, small boys are ouly con
densed conglomeraJions of contradiction
and opposition.
For them, everything prohibited gains a
twofoid interest. They crave cigarettes
because they are prohibited to boys under
10 years
So long as nothing was said about the
bill boards, the ballet girl might dance on
one toe a month In her picture) or AS
much longer as she pleased; but the small
boy HE'D him away to his game OF
sbinney.
Now that a great ballyhoo has been
raised and their immortality enlarged upon,
he straightway leaves his innocent little
game to see what all the noise is about
Then it dawns upon him that show bills
are tall of intense interest-the interest of
prohibition.
All we'll That is the Kansas woman's
hobby, prohibition.
She Is always prohibiting something.
IL 1t isn't whiskey, it is show bills, and
If it isn't show bills, why, jns5 walt lit
tie while, II will be something else. You
can't always tell what 1t will he but YOU
csn count on its being something new and
startling
She is full of surprises, this Kansas wo.
man. surprises and contradictions and in
conSistences; but | shall always think she
ought To be at home taking care of the
children. NANCY YANKS