The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-28
RISES TO EXPLAIN
NANCY YANKS SPEAKS IN REGARD
TO HER IDENTITY.
ScornfulIy Refutes the Charge That
She is Given to Writing Poe
try-Past Week Furnished
Many Social Events of
All Descriptions.

II seems that several writers have COM
plained of being accused OF writing the
Nancy Yanks letters.
Allow me to state that Nancy has few
complaints to enter on her own account.
In the first place, she has been accused
of being a poetess. Think of that! poet
ess! Could anything be worse?
II wouldn't be so bad if they accused bei
of being one or two poetesses who write
lines containing u few thoughts. but they
accuse her of being a poetess who writes
lame verse, the very lamest KIND or verse,
something always the matter with the
feet
They are always either too long or too
short. too many of them or not enough.
This is terrible. Very soon they will be
saving she is the writer of those beautiful
verses commencing:
''The gentle heifer softly whinnies to her
mate"
This is all bad enough; but when they
accuse her of being kentuckian then 1t
is, that the Impulse comes upon her TO,
either draw forth a 32-calibre Smith and
Wesson siX-shooter from her r'ght mp
pocket and shoot; or take bottle of Old
Crow from the left pocket and imbibe
something therefrom which shall ASSIST
her in bearing up under the accusation.
Nancy prides herself on the fact that
the talks like white people. She fancles
she pronounces an "r," once in a while,
md occasionally sounds an ing"
Have you ever listened 10 the converse.
ton of a Kentucky lady, when she first
comes west? IL is something like this:
''Deah mel | nevah saw anythn like
the wav these po' women bav' ter woke
put heah.
"Why. it's en'uf to kill 'em. We wo-
men at home nevah hav' ter woke. All we
hav' ter do is ter JUS sit an hoP our
hans"
When they talk like this, you may know
what they had to do at home. They had
to maui rails.
There are good many rails in Ken
tucky, and the men are either too busy
shooting or too lazy TO work; 50 that
have heard that most of this work, which
isn't hard after you get used to it, falls on
the women. By-the-way, did you ever
hear of n Kentuckian who didn't come
from the Blue Grass region?
What crowd there must be in
that little patch of country OF forty
or fifty square miles, and the
rest of the State a barren waste nm
peopled.
Between you and me, all that noun
famous country Is peopled and by the
greenest people Oh earth; green as their
own mountains. People who can neither
read, write nor talk intelligently. Horny
handed sons OF the soil, ana women old
and worn out before their time with work
and trouble Women with a look of
watching and waiting in their eyes,
watching and waiting for their husbands
10 be brought home on shutter, shot
through the heart
This look is not confined to the
common class. The grand danes
have it, if there are grand danes since the
''wah, " for the next greatest achievement
to shooting a man in Kentucky is to get
shot yourself in an affair of ''honnah."
All these frightful accusations Nancy
will bear in meekness and with as much
resignation as she can summon to her aid,
but the moment she hears the faintest in
situation that she is Mary Ellen Lease in
disguise, then will she bid farewell to nom,
Ge-plumes and literary work in disgust
and'return to her old and time-honored oc-
cupation of dish washing.
NANCY YANKS.