The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-16
DIR M'KAY TALKS.
Offers Some Suggestions abouf the Temporal
Needs IL the People.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
While the people Of Wichita are be
ing aroused to sense of their spiritual
needs will il be ont of place to conSid-
er for a moment their temporalneeds al
so, and possibly we may draw les
son from the Book which will give 10
this community a temporal blessing
while enjoying a spiritual revival. The
story of the poor widow who was pre-
pairing the last bottle of oil that she
and her sons might make peace with
their creditors and lie down and die
is a familiar one to all. The question
of the good man of God, What have We
in the house" is a pertinent one Tor
Wichita to ask at this time when
many seem willing to lie down and
die without the Formally OF settling
with their creditors. You will all re-
member how the prophet directed the
poor woman to take her bottle of oil
and send out and bring in all the
empty vessels available and after nil
ing them sell to those who had not
and pay her creditors and live on what
she had left. Now il seems to one af-
ter a weeks careful study OF the climate
and other advantages of Wichita as
a health resort that she has at least
one bottle Of oil yet left untouched
and also plenty of empty vessels. Go
bring in the empty vessels when VIII
hold a small or large family. Go TO
the cold or damp regions of New Eng
land. Canada, and the central staes
tell the thousand of people there suf-
fering from threatened consumption,
neuralgia, rheumatism, and many otn-
er ills dependent upon unfayoraDle ell
matte conditions. that you have a Gil
mate which will restore them to health
Invite them to come and fill their yes
sells (after you have rented or sold them
one) and you live off the proceeds,
(of the goods you sell them. As 4
community you have for years been
trying to induce people 10 come 10
Kansas and TO Wichita to raise
wheat, corn, oats and what not, when
they could raise just as good wheat
where they We're, but you have not told
them that you have twice as much sun
shine as they have; that your atmos-
phere is third dryer than theirs; that
thew can ride, drive or walk every day
in the winter: that could furnish them
a very comfortable house and land
enough to raise a living off for from
s. to SO or $50 month, with all the
advantages of a good city at their
very doors. These are facts that
would interest them, for il is some
thing they cannot enjoy at home. In
TWO years Of constant travel among
health resorts | have not seen place
where, together with good climate,
pure water and all city advantages,
there were 50 many really fine build
ines. so readily available for SANTA
rian purposes as there are in Wichita.
Your people simply do not know that
they have a little oil in the house
which If properly utilized will pay their
creditors. fill their city with the best
class Of people. and support them in the
future. Why not make Wichita the
.'sanitarium city of the land? Any
one l. interested IN knowing how it
can be done. l shall be glad to give
them the benefit OF any ideas 1 may
have on the subject.
a T. M'KAY, NJ. D.,
Editor American Climates and Resorts.