Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-13

having to eat peas with an oyster fork.
However, am not quite so solicitous Of
the improvement of my guests as to
initiate one of our American money
queens, who was dining one of our
American war heroes.
1.-THE general, who was none other
than William T. Sherman, it is said, in
the distraction of red-lipped bright
eyed, kissable partner, forgot himself,
and mechanically jabbed a dinner fork
into large juicy oyster. The hostess
saw the blunder, and, full of hospitable
intent, but not grounded in the tenets
of society, electrified the company by
the high-pitched exclamation: oh,
general, use your little fork for oysters
1t is needless to say that the general
took the hint, while he was now far
roster than the pretty girl he had been
SO gallantly entertaining"
When that little country girl first
came TO Washington with her husband
and ate strawberries with a spoon in
stead of little silver jabber, she could
not have been a grand dame of society.
Having been well bred in country vii
1age she could not of course have acted
with such iInpropriety as the woman
mentioned by the space rate corre-
spondent. Her own story is the inter-
esting tale of one who has grown up
into the social customs of great city
and learned much of the ways of So
ciety.
Her story concerning the American
money-queen, who was SO reckless as to
embarrass Gen. Sherman by her foolish
eNclamatio is an illustration of what
may occur in city society. The wife of
the American millionaire was giving
costly entertainment. Gen. Sherman
and others of prominence attended the
entertainment out of respect for the
husband and his standing in the fnan-
cial world. The woman was herself eX-
ceedingly iIl-bred, lacking culture, but
trying to be agreeable and entertain
ing. She lacked that gentleness and
consideration which can only come of
long experience and careful training
as well as from good heartedness and
gentleness of disposition.
Out OF respect to his position, the
newspaper writer's of this country re-
Trained from giving descriptions of the
wife of a certain president of the United
States not many years ago. She was
good woman. and as knd-hearted AS
any woman upon the face of the earth.
She loved her husband and was devoted
to her family. She was, however, what
society calls an exceedingly common
w oman, having never been bred to the
gentle ways of cultured society. The
mistakes which she made in her con-
versations with ladies high in social
rank were both numerous and 1udicrous.
They were repeated back and forth
among the society men and women of
the day, and of course newspaper men
and newspaper women heard the
stories, but it is creditable to the news
paper staff of this city that nothing
was printed concerning the malaprop
conversations of the first lady in the
! land.
But while newspaper writers mis-
represent ladies by telling incredible
stories concerning them, if they would
tell true stories concerning the men
who are called great, they would render
good service to the people of the land.
The majority of our senators are snobs.
/ While they are in the house of represen-
tatives, or filling some position of prom
| inence in their own states, they are
compelled to be of the people, for the
people, and subordinate to the people.
When elected to the United States
senate for term of six years, it turns
many head. When the popular idol
of his state comes to Washington.
enters the senate, finds lackeys by the
score bowling and scraping to him, he is
inclined to imagine that he is prince
of some realm. better and purer than his