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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
DEFENDING woMAN's WAISTS

Common Sense" writes TO the New
York Sun: Mrs. Stanton, in this morn
ing's paper, makes the oft-repeated ard
always senseless comparison Of the venus
OF Milo with the fashions Of the present
Day. Senseiess, because any one ought 10
be able TO see that a Greek goddess and
an everyday woman cannot be judged
IN the same way and by the same rules;
that would seem quite plain. Yet these
wetl-meanirg persons do not perceive thai
Venus, dressed in the horrible costume
suggested by Mrs. Stanton would be Venus
10 longer, but fraght She cannot be
made into commonplace woman In ugly
clothes.
The fashions Of the present day need not
hurt any one but fool: they are often
pretty and graceful. and suited to the
surroundings and the people who wear
them.
fear a statue of young woman with
twenty-seven inch waist and short skirt.
supporting an aged father with one hand
find a place in tie Louvre.
I would like Mrs. Stanton to tell m e
why the Hottentot and the South Sea Is
lander have not better brains than the
Englisbman. the Frenchman. or the
American Surely they ought TO have, II
her memory is correct. for their mothers
wear no corsets and have no waists, eth
er below their false ribs or anywhere
else. What great intellects heir sons
ought to have.
As Washington's mother wore corsets,
besides Shakespeare's and a few others
one might mention, / do not thing the
heads of the next generation have much
10 fear from the much-abused garments.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Zip Wyatt doesn't care much for motto
riety. He dislikes 10 be interviewed.
Two men were fined so apiece at Paw
nee the other day for cutting government
timber.
Peter Mabley has asked the Okiohoma
City court 10 uncouple him from Anna
Mabley.
Sam Murphy of Oklahoma City will adj
dress the old soldiers at Ponca City Sep
TENDER 3
A small cyclone. sexteen miles south
west OF Guthrie Tuesday afternoon. dam
aged several orchards
Peter Hoffner. living north OF Guthrie.
has a well that yields one bucket of salt
to three buckets of water.
The Guthrie Leader prints a picture OF
Henrik Isben, and calls II 'Isersberg OF
Enid" The drinks are plainly on Henrik.
The boys in Oklahoma viii be glad 70
learn that the McConn brothers are max
ing a success OF their new paper at Ar
kansas City.
The Perry Enterprise speaks or q cfti-
zen being so tanned that he could easily
draw an annuity as an Usage Indian on
his complexion.
Melons are so plentiful in Oklahoma
that merchants leave them in front OF
their stores at night without fear OF hav-
ing them stolen
widemeyer says that the heavy rains
are drowning the chinch bugs Perhaps
the squash bug will make his last viii
and testament too.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
HOME RULE.

Senator ingalls, is credited with say
ing that the great issue which the
American people would next grasp and
settle is that OF municipal government.
Home rule must be conceded 10 NUM-
CAPABILITIES, the right for each com
munity to regulate lis domestic rule.
its police and its commercial interests.
81 long as there is no oversteppins OF
Federal state authority. is being gen
orally demanded, there is no question.
The Maryland Republicans adopted
a civil-Service plank which * fully az
explicit and far-reaching a. the III
nois plan. IL pledges the party 10 The
enactment OF such legislation as shall
permit the people OF the several c0un-
ties and municipalities OF the state II
decide for themselves by popular vote
whether appointments 10 the palise.
fire and all other departments o. pub
lie service shall lee in accordance with
the principles Of the merit system. -
This Is Il clear recognition both Of the
business arguments against the spells
system, and OF the fac; that a non
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
WHEN, MY DEAR

When the coming woman grows old, my
dear,
And her bloomers are bagged at the
knee
While her four-in-hand tie hangs under
her ear.
What an awful sigh; she VIII be to see.
When the coming woman grows old
When the coming woman gets fat. my
dear.
And her Triibys are out OF sight.
The tails of her cutaway coat. fear.
Will never consent TO unite. not quite.
When the coming woman gets fat,
When the coming woman gets laid. my
dear.
As she will II she wears a hat.
She shall have the front row when the
ballet appear.
To ogle some Tommy. or Mat, or Pat.
When the coming woman gets bald.
While the coming woman is vernS. my
dear,
Bless her heart she may wear all things
They look well. any time of year.
Knickerbockers or coat, or rings or
wings.
While the coming woman is young!
Judge
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
AMERICA PAYS THE FIDDLER.

European touring is an American
fad. TO go to Europe has become a
craze, absolutely and intense. The
rich having setsthe step keep it up, and
| the middling to well-to-dO are strain
| ing point tc get into the procession.
And it's costing money, nobody knows
| how much, but a great deal Of money.
The principal European capitals are
annually raking in uncOunted millions
Of American money, half of which
proves pure prifitS. For all that.
America realizes for these millions it
might as well throw away. 1t is es-
timated by the ocean steamship COM
panies that 10000 to 100000 first-clasS
passengers go from this side of the
Atlantic every year, besides many
thousands in the Steerage. How much
the trip over and back costs each pas
senger cannot be accurately determin-
ed. Some make the outing for as lit
tie as 500; others sum up their ac-
counts to 5000, while the luXuriously
inclined often spend $4,000 during a
years outing. A moderate average has
been placed at $1,000 a year. From
this it will be seen that in the course
Of 1895 S1OO,OOO,OOO has been carried
out Of this country and left on the
other side-among the shops. art gal
lerieS, hotels, railway companies and
theatres OF Europe. "The most i'm
portant feature Of this matter at pres
ent," says Matthew Marshall, in the
New Yorw Sun, sis that we are ap-
preaching the season when this for
eign drain upon our home resources is
just beginning to become most severe.
The majority Of outgoing passengers
take their departure in May and June,
and return in the latter part of August
or the beginning of September. Dur
ing the earlier part of this trip they
spend money mostly for hotel bills
and for railway fares. but short time
before their return they begin those
purchases of clothing and other for
eign-made articles which cause so
much evaporation TO home tradesmen
and artisans. The consequence is that
they draw in August and September
twice as much as they did in the pre-
ceding months. and the money has to
be provided, If not by shipments Of
other products, then by gold"
The American SnOb fad is costly
one in many ways. Undoubtedly,
as Mr.. Marshall declares. IF the hun
dredS of millions of dollars annually
paid to foreign steamship owners, hotel
keepers. r0alroad companies and
manufacturers were spent here we
should not have TO export gold. and we
should greatly benefit domestic trade"
America is not only doing most of the
worlds dancing, but footing the fid- |
dler'S bills
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
FIGURING IT OUT.

Some expressions Of sympathv are
heard for Morrill, He may be entitled
10 such an expression OF good will.
George Martin. OF tAe Kansas City
Gazette. a deacon Of good standing in
the Presbyterian church. who gives the
whole prohibition figure for conscience
sake. and The calviniStic creed of IN
ture rewards and puniShments. includ-
ing the picanannie cancellation. in full
has been want To declare that no man
could be elected governor of Kansas
without being a liar and hypocrit.
Ii is now only too evident thar Nor
riil disappointed TWO elements in all
the larger cities which supported him.
David overmeyer. who ran against
him as the nominee Of the Democratic.
party. was down in Buffalo. New York.
the other day. when and where he was
interviewed on the Kansas situation.
Mt. oyermeyer stated in that inter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
GREEK JUDGES sENTE nee.

a curious judgment was pronounced the
other day by a judge in court OF law a:
NoI;sso, in the Island Of Scio. An action
for damages was brought by two persons
against the local railway company for
losses sustained by a collision. II ap-
peared that a man had lost an arm and a
young woman had lost her husband. The
judge-a Green-assessed the damages
thus: He gave 500 pastries TO the man
for the loss of his arm and 200 TO the
woman for the loss of her husband. AT
this there were loud murmurs. whereupon
the judge gave his reasons in these terms:
MY dear people. my verdict must re-
main, for you will see il Is a just one
Poor Nikola has lost his arm and moth
ing on earth can restore that priceless
limb. But you, turning 10 the woman.
you are still young and pretty. You have
row money; you Will easily find another
husband. who possibly may be as good
perhaps better-than your dead lord. That
is my verdict, my people. and so IL must
go forth" So saying. the Judge LEFT the
hall The people oheered him and con-
graduated themselves on having such a
judge.-London Daily News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
ghe ac1ieha Daily Eagle Eriday zHorme august 23

partisan public service is an essential
part of home rule. When the people of
any given locality are free to decide
the question for themselves, the dicta-
tors at the state capital or at Washing
ton will be told to keep their hands of.
The result Of the test vote at Chicago
indicates how surely local sentiment
many be appealed TO as against the
bosses. The spoils system has thriven
On the indifference of local voters TO
local issues, compared with national
questions, and now that local issues
municipal home rule, an honest and
permanent public service-are coming
TO the front as never before in this
country, the bosses will DE sent to the
rear as never before
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
WYNAxcMu23

West OF Orlando Mr. and Mrs Ef
Bourse. bride and groom. we're instantly
killed BY stroke of lightning which
wrecked the house.
rs long as that divorce law remains in
force Oklahoma is pretty sure 10 be en-
tertair1ng eastern ma rets right along
without knowing IL
Deputy Sheriff Ownes has returned to
Oklahoma from his chase Of the Chris
ton brothers. He thinks they will bo
eventually captured.
dramatic company has been ORGANIC
ed at Perry in rivalry OF the famous Enid
Dramatic company. which was last heard
from in the Glass mountains.
There are grave fears In the mind OF az
least one Guthrie man who wrote 10 tfe
Leader that Vincent IS going TO blow up
the merchants there with dynamite. Tut.
Tut!
Two Quaupaw Indians are now in tbs
Guthrie jail for selling whisky TO the Os-
age Indians. Is there deep laid plot on
by which the ouaupaws hope TO under
mine the OsageS IN health and seize their
annuities?
Early this month a boy was found
drowned near Shawnee. IL is now thought
that the boy is the one who disappeared
from ST. Louis who. II Is thought, was
put out OF the way IN order that his KID
napers might get his inheritance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23

| view that Morrill, was elected with the
manifest understanding upon the part
| of the liberal element Of the Republi-
can party that the prohibitory law in
pursuance of its omission from the
platform would not be made an object
of special interest during his admins
tration; that Morrill, wished to keep
faith with these people, but that the
extremists got ON TO his trail and by
| threatening all manner of dire things,
| brought him over TO the other side,
whereby the Republican party was
| first-class in the state.
The foregoing is the gist of Mr..
Overmeyer'S observation. The indica-
tons in the state are a warrant for
their correctness. The Republican
party in convention eXpunged the old
prohibitory plank, and in the canvass
which followed promised loudly and
continuously that Morrill, would give
Kansas a business administration,
pure and simple, whereby the good
name Of the state was to be restored,
immigration revived, etc. There is
little doubt now that Morrill, set out
with that idea in his head. His notab-
lie and oft quoted declaration, which
he went out of his way TO make, that
no law could be successfully enforced
against a majority sentiment, clearly
indicated that he proposed that each
community should regulate 1.-The tar
iff' according to the wishes of the ma
jority sentiment Of such community.
The suddenness of his after conversion
rivals that of Pauls. With little or
no notice he commenced to eat his own
words and to repudiate his own DELHI
crate action by removing his own
police commissioners. Some think he
went down before the Fourth of July
celebration, gotten up by ]. b. McAffee
and other Topekaites. But Major Nor
rill knew all these men before and
just what they would probably do. He
must have known that the temporary
president Of the convention came very
near losing his right to preach because
Of the action of his own conference.
There was not a prominent man of
that convention who is recognized as
political factor of any Importance. So
there must have been some other NOV
ing cause. The chances are that Major
Morrill, never intended to stand by the
campaign pledges made for him, but
that back &C all that, was his own
pledge to the Third Party Prohibit
tionists, and the extremists of his own
party, that if the Prohibition plank
for the sake Of the votes it would save
to him and the party, he would see to
it that it was strictly enforced all the
same.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
HOW PREACHERS PEELED HIM,
From the Kansas City Gazette.

Oh the Foolishness of Preachers
The editor of the Wichita Eagle in the
present prohibitory racket in that town
hnds all the preachers a straddie of his
neck. and he is compelled TO make a state
ment of his interest in the church, and of
the help he and his paper have always
been 10 the preacher in the early develop
ment of Kansas. Murdoch belongs 10 a
Methodist family, and he says he attend
ed tn first session of the kansas-Nebras-
ka conference, and he has contributed Of
his labor and earnings TO the erection of
more than a dozen Methodist churches
in Kansas. There seems to no reasonable
discussion of the temperance question, es-
pecially prohibition, possible. Many of
the preachers of Kansas have been most
intollerant concerning this matter. Muir
dock is not prohibitionist. We do not
know that he a total abstainer. for that
he has p!ety and zeal sufficient TO be
rip snorting class leader, while We DO
know that he has never brought scandal
in any sense upon his family or communI-
~, but this seems not sufficient He must
be a prohibitionist. When the Scripture
speaks OF the foolishness OF preaching
the foolishness of preachers is not meant.
The editor OF the Gazette. after spending
few years in fighting saloons in the
courts for violating the old license law,
ion that prohibition was humbug. How
the preachers did peel Us,
We were directly responsible for the
most successful church organization OF
any denomination IN Kansas We biuffed
out two Presbyterian preachers who
wanted 20 organize and when the third.
the Rev Alexander Sterrett- came along.
We told HIM II was 60 That cougrsga-
ton has been all It's days and is today. a
dandy. prosperous. successful. harmon
ious, and listen. always seI-supporttng.
never drew dollar from a home board
The preachers denounced US in their ger
mons. and the political bloats ruled Is out
OF the Republican party In the early
days 70 preacher OK any denomination
came 10 town without camping with Us
We bowed in ali we had on churches
But judgment led up against prohibition,
and all was no 20. To illustrate the fool
lshneSs OF preachers. presiding elder
who gave Us the worst rsZzle-dzzzje was
TIE first man 20 s.Zu a petition asking The
probate fudge 20 author-ze druggist -
sell wh.Skey under the Murray Law
Look al the fooEshzess Of preachers to
day. Several clerical OUTFITS within The
past month have endorsed by resolution
the Efforts OF the state administrations 70
enforce prohibition The effort lasted jus,
a week in Atkinson. and then AZ was
quiet Nc effort has ben made y Lesve1-
worth. and the people boast TIA; there
never xil b. Behold how swsstly we are
getting along in Kansas CITY. k2rsasN
No effort was made until the acnninistrs-
co1 was SIX months Old, and noae would
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
PURLOINED PLUMAGE

IN the face Of the absolutely sturendous
number OF pictures which represent Queen
Victoria or any and every domestic occa-
sion with her crown or. IL rs rather cur
ious 70 learn hat she has not. as a matter
Of fact, worn II more than twenty times
during her whole reign.
Sir Maurice DUFF Gordon, Bart whvs
mother translated Rsnke INTO cnglish.
and whose grandmother. Mrs. Sarah Aus
tin. was ore OF the first trans!ators Of
;sandard German works. was fined for
being drunk and disorcerly In a London
restaurant lately.
The first private carriage lighted oy
electricity was that OF the lord mayor Of
London twelve years ago The German
emperor, the prince Of wales AMI some
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
THE MECHANICAL DOCTOR.

DR.. Cure-AH is not new figure in
the medical world, but his appearance
in London as a penny-in-the-slOt ma
chine has attracted a great deal Of at
tention and created no little amuse-
ment. The new doctor is literally a
being intended thereby on regular
practioners-and is described as being
about half the size of the American
cigar store Indian. He might, per-
haps, more properly be designated as
DIR. Slot, for from head 10 foot he is
covered with slots, into which patients
may drop their pennies and receive.
from the corresponding openings be-
meath, the prescriptions appropriate to
their cases. DR.. Slot does mot cure
you while you wait. and, therefore,
issues prescriptions and not medicines.
The prescriptions, however, are said
to be generally good, containing the
standard remedies for common all
ments. Nearly all the ordinary ills to
which flesh is heir seems to within the
range of DIR. Slots practice. At the
top Of his forehead is a slCt for Head
ache and Suggestively near it is an
other labeled Hair RestOrer." He is
bald-headed himself, but what of that?
Is he not as much entitled to faith as
the hairless tonsorial artist. who has
failed to renew his own locks with the
infallible oil that he offers his custom
ers: AS you proceed to look DR.. Slot
over you will find he offers to cure you
of earache, toothache. stye on the eye,
catarrh, chapped lips, lOckjaw, ner-
vOuSness, sore throat, hoarseness,
bOilS, brOnchitist, rheumatism, indigeS-
ton, liver complaint, kidney disease,
stOmachache, paralysis, drOpsy, govt
and a variety of other troubles, includ-
ing bunions and ingrowing nails. He
even claims TO minister to a mind
diseased, to one of the worst and most
common forms of mental trouble
known 70 modern life, for he has a slot
marked big head" This is a disease
which has heretofore baffied medical
treatment and which has been known
to yield only to the club Of experience
or repeat shower baths of ridicule
Many cases have been regarded as alb
sOlutely incurable, and if DR.. Slot has
a sure remedy for big head he will
be entitled to be considered 4 benefac-
tor Of mankind.
1t is quite possible that all the medi-
cal schools will protest against DR..
Slot as a humbug and a quack, but
they arn't likely to disturb his eQua-
nimity. He has no regard for medical
ethics and is calmly Indifferent to pro-
fessional criticism. He is already
popular in the poorer parts Of London,
and no doubt he and his prescriptions
will soon be sin our midst" This is
the age of the autOmation. The time
may not be far off when everything
will be done by pressing a button, or
dropping a penny i'll the slot. Every
other trade and profession is feeling
the effect Of the new regime Of mech |
anicS. The mechanical doctor is the |
latest competitor with flesh and blood |
Possibly he may do no more harm than |
some Of his human rivals. At any |
rate, he can't carve.
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others now have them. but they are BY no

others now have them. but they are by no
means common.
Probably the largest number OF men
ever employed in the building OF a single
ship are now at work upon the British
battlesh:p, Magnificent, in the Chatham
dock yard There are 1000 mechanics on
the pay roll.
Jules S,ncn's real family name IS Suisse
which. in France. IS equivalent for con-
cierge- When his frs; book came out We
tor Cousin advised him TO drop Il. as no
man could hope for fame with such d
name.
The Oldest member of the present par
lament. and probably the Oldest legisla-
tor in the world. is Right Hon. Charles
Pelham He was born Jan. 5. lSle, and IS
therefore over ss-years of age.
Paris has given UP the idea of instruct
ing its school children in military drill
The municipal council has disoaadec the
battalion and ordered the guns and equip
ments sold at auction
1t costs 500. 600 year 10 keep up the
Bots de Boulogne. but from $4,000 20 So
600 is derived from the park itself ard
from the race course. restaurants and
private houses IN 1t
Cholera Is raging in Russian Podolia
and the people refuse absolutely TO have
the patients moved TO the hospitals.
Troops are called 20 restore order.
According 10 local chronicles Mrs. Char
lotte Stull OF Middletown. Conn. celebrat-
ed her eightieth birthday recently BY
walking eight miles in two hours
Superior. Wis. has a policeman who
stands s feet inches In his stocking feet
and weighs 335 pounds
Caesar Borgia has a library Of works
relating mostly to art.
Napolean's favorite dainty was blood
nd
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23
WOMEN PREFER LOW CHAIRS

Den Of the things that no man ever
will or can understand is that women in
variably choose the lowest chairs, they
can find, usually selecting for solid COM
fort one that is about six inches from
the floor. Schopenhauer's contemptuous
allusion to them as the short-legged SEX
generally occurs to him as the final solu-
ton of the problem, even though he be
too polite outwardly TO hint at such a
thing That is by no means the real
reason, according 10 bright little artist.
Women. she says. seems 10 know intuiti-
vely when they are looking their best.
and they know that that rarely happens
when they are sitting on chair sufii-
GENTLY high TO make the feet dangle stiff
ly downward barely reaching the floor.
In all the celebrated pictures OF sitting
feminine figures the line from the waste
to the knee is elognated as far as possible.
and it is 10 secure this graceful. easy
length of line. as well as for comfort, that
women instinctively turn to he low chair
or stool. Detroit News.