The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-26


giving the company the moral support
Of the paper, and SO at last the time
came and quite good audience. PEG
pie had faith in me, for they knew l
would fine them severely if they cid not
trust me. So they came even from as far
away as Red Buttes, Tie Siding, Owl
Creek and Independence Mountain.
Mr. Marks was evidently suffering
from alcoholism, and his bald head was
made for the following morning; there
fore it did not TT him at night. I al
ways hate the stage bald head anyhow.
Possibly it is envy on my part, but the
average bald head Of the one night
stand won't do. 1t Is little worse than
the stage whisker The thrifty whisEer
not only grows on the chin, but fades
away along the throat and clings low
ingly to Adams apple, but the stage
whisker does not Go that. 1t leaves the
under jaw exposed to the night air, and
the bleak windpipe looks like a poor
boy at a frolic \ stage beard looming
up over the bare waste of windpipe and
the tremulous Adams apple of young
canvas covered Hamlet fatigues me a
great deal and drives me into the open
air
1T Is so with the stage badness, which
is apt to wrinkle across the front
breadths or drift around to leeward l
do not know what part Of the cow Is
used in making the foundation Of the
stage bald head, but judge that it Is
the first stomach.
I'm this instance Mr.. Marks was
quite full, partly, suppose, TO benumb
the pain which he must have naturally
felt at being compelled 10 witness his
own acting night after night So his
stage bald head got over one eye and
gave him the appearance of a man who
has taken a brief siesta under pile
driver. 1t gave him the low, retreating
forehead of the muskellunge, and as he
stood there in the full glare of the foot
lights, a miserable ham enveloped in
tripe, / said TO him soto vOce, You
ought 70 be ashamed of yourself.
Scarcely had the words escaped my
lips when a frozen cucumber disarranged
his front teeth, which were artificial.
Removing them in a maudlin way, he
wiped off the cucumber seeds with his
pocket handkerchief and resumed them;
also his lines. He mad the GOODNESS and
poise Of a trapped clam and the jag of
a petit juryman.
Little Eva, who was supposed to
have just entered upon LIES young
morn, really had with her long waist
ed son with whiskers, who took care of
the bloodhounds daytimes and on the
stage took other light parts. He got his
board and associated mostly with the
bloodhounds, rather holding himself
aloof from the rest of the company.
He was a tall, meaty boy, who wore
his mothers name, as his father had
forgotten to register before he went
away.
Little Eva therefore, had 10 make
up a good deal, and her voice needed
pairing down. She was a slight thing
and wore her hair down her back, but
her 'deathbed had been so id drafty
at Denver, so she said, that it had
stiffened her knees SOS that she was
dead sore on the town.
"She told me this the next day in
order to excuse her rather stiff death
the evening before. Little Eva unfor
tunately had TO die rather late in the
play and did not receive the indorse-
ment which she might have received
had she done it sooner. By the time
that her second lung was gone, and
Uncle Tom had almost ripened for the
tomb also, the people of Laramie had
about decided that if Little Eva could
only die of some contagious disease
which would also wipe out the entire
company it would be good thing for
the people Of the coast.
"Sociable Titus, one Of our leading
draymen, house movers and first night
ers, in going ont between the acts had
acquired other groceries aside from car