The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-07

som out like 1uil
blown roses: and issue embossed invita-
tafions to semi-annual openings, whiIn
are arduously sought after by the s"eus'
thar is they are swells the next hoinihS
about the head.
In any other state you would call tneu1
open saloons; but in Kansas, Wen,
reckon we shall have TO call them Jolhls.
IL may be a shocking thing to say
in a town where prohibition runs rio'
10 such an extent that some Oh i!s
vofaries won't keep vanilla IN their
bouses. because the basis of most eX-
tracts is alcohol: but my sympathtes are
enlisted for those joint keepers.
How can they make real scientinc
cocktail or first class. bang-np Tom and
Jerry with a lot of women weeping anu
wailing around !? Men hate TO see women
weep, though they keep right along aoins (
a thousand things 10 make them weep so
Of course they get ratified aud spoil the
mint juleps and the egg nogs and the
brandy cocktails all of which seems a
pity; that IS, it seems pity TO me. though
suppose ten weeping women reJolcea III
every good drink that was spoiled.
A ster all II is the fault Of the mothers
that their sons drink. The world is grow
ing wiser nowadays and girls are little
more particular about the men they
marry: but when these sixteen women who
raided the joints were young, they would
have married dime museum skeleton
rather than live to be old maids.
Take the case OF one woman L happen to
know:
She was about thirty, Gust the age OF
The members of the Sweet Sixteen CLUB
and thirty is a trife old for girl, that is,
il was then; it isn't now, OF course.
She had kept her sister in short dresses
until it was positively disgraceful; because
there were no dress reformers then.
She didn't want this young sister. who,
by the way, was twenty-eight, TO come
out" until she herself was married. and
she was beginning to despair.
Then there came along young man VINO
offered himself in one of his lucid inter-
walls, and she promptly accepted him. keep
ing him well in sight until the knot was
Tied.
They told her ne drank "a little"-it is
always a little before marriage-Dut she
shook her head coyly and talked about
wild oats. "All young men must have
their fling" she said. She would sober
him up after they were married.
This is strange thing to me,
the absolute confidence of woman in
her power to sober a man up after mar
riage. / have seen men, who never drank
drop before they were married. take to
the bottle after that event, and never let
20 until they had shuffied of this mortal
coil.
But she was young thing, and she had
perhaps never observed this phenomenon,
so they were married, aud the charming
wild oats, so admired by young girls, de-
veloped into something wilder; and she
began to study Delsarte, in order to be-
come expert in lodging missiles.
II don't matter SO much about her, for
she would rather have had her head split
open occasionally with Ratchet than re-
main an old maid, but she gave her son
drunken father.
That was the worst of it.
1t is not the sons fault that. instead of
walking down Douglas avenue with a
clear eye and steady gait, he sneaks around
the alley and enters joint through the
back door. He Inherited that. His father
probably did the same thing thousand
times before he was born
1t isn't the fault of the Joint keeper.
Every merchant caters to old customers,
and, if he has made brandy cocktails for
the grandfather and the father, it is per-
fecily natural that he should endeavor to
make extra fine brandy cocktails for the
son.
1t is the fault of the woman who should
have been strong enough to live and die
alone and unmarried rather than marry q
man who drinks NANCY YANKS.