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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-26
Health is EcOnony.

A we'll man can do as much work
as two men who are under the
weather, )" and do it better. A box
of Rlpans Tabules in the office will
save clerk-hire.
Ripans Tabuies: Sold by druggists, o.
by mail II the price 60
sent to The Ripans Chemical COMPANY.
No. 10 Spruce st.. New York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-26
REMEMBER WELL AND BEAR IN
MIND

". TORREY. Agent.
Santa Fe Union Depot.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-26
White Goods

1850 yards Persian Armour cloth,
late purchase, beautiful designs, made
TO sell at ac will go in this sale for Qc
900 yards Remnants Of plain and fan
cy SatineS that sold for zoe,
zoo Remnants OF Wash Goods In Or
CANDIES, Swiss, Lawns. Batiste and
what-nOt, goods that sold for 10 and 20c En
closing at, per yard ..... =. w
Best American Fast Black satnes O3.
are now being sacrificed for ........ C4C
300 yards French Pelangues in mill
lengths worth l21zc per yard, selling A3n
now Tor ....... .--...-.... NV
100 yards Wash Dress Goods in
French Piisses, Cordova Jaconets Flo
reth Dimities and French Organizes
this seasons manufacture, goods that
sold regularly at Is and zoe per yard, o.
all in lot at price ............. OV
new purchase OF French Daisies
IN dark and light coored grounds that
made 20 sell for 15c, going in fan
this sale for only
$50 yards imported French Organizes
Persian and Dresden designs. fine and a.
sheer that were bought to SCH for 35c We
will be closed out for ...................
300 yards Vivette Batiste. wash fab 03o
ric made to sell for Ice. closing at ..... V4v
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
The Man
On the Street
Who Knew His Rights

The world over there is well-recognized
rule that gives pedestrians the right of
way, but in San Francisco only a few Of
those who drive horses respect it. There
are some people who occasionally stand
upon their rights and assert them. That
was the case on Market street, opposite
Mason, on Friday last. An elderly, we'll
dressed man, whose white hair gave him a
patriarchal mien. was crossing the street,
when youth, behind bay horse hitched
to delivery wagon, drove along at break
neck speed.
The old gentleman saw him and stood
as ftm as statue. The youngster saw
him, too, and by hard tugging reined up
within foot of the old gentleman. "Whv
in st. Paul don't you get out of the way ?"
yelled the driver. The party addressed
neither moved nor answered.. Behind this
team came another and then others, and
cars, until there was procession extend
ing down to Powell street-a regular
blockade. The driver epeated his question
and the old gentleman, waving his hand
as he stepped aside. said: Young man,
only wanted to teach you lesson drive
on, but not too fast"
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Musical
Bicycles May
Now Cheer
Tired Wheelmen

OF all the recent inventions pertaining
to bicycles there is one that is simply
charming. 1t is an arrangement whereby
the same power which drives the bicycle
also sets in motion music box which is
attached to the machine.
The music box is attached to the front
forks and the operation is carried on by
means of cord passing over small pull
ley in the box and around one of larger
size fastened to the spokes. 1t is said that
the wheel is in great demand for serenad-
ing and running about town on pleasant
evenings. Since the inventor has inserted
the DAISY BelI' cylinder he says he has
had an increased demand for tandems.
The inventor, by the way, is ]. W.
Banks, who lives in Iowa. He says that
his idea is the greatest of the century, be-
cause it widens the field of bicycling to
degree that is almost alarming He points
out that with the music box arrangement
the racing man will be able to make
greater speed, because the music will en-
thuse him,
For the road rider there could be moth
ing better, according to the way in which
Mr.. Banks looks at it. If the spirits or
the muscles of the scorcher should flag
when on the homeward journey all he
would have to do would be to hook up the
arrangement and bave music that would
be inspiring and make him feel like new
man.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
A Happy
Fireside Lost
by the
City's Lust for Gold

He was about As. His clothes looked s
though they had not seen clothesbrush
for years. He was cross-eyed and red.
haired; but he had evidently some
one who could excuse his personal ap-
pearance, for tender matrimonial light
beamed from his gray orbs as he rushed
into the outer room at the Mayors office.
Gimme marriage license"
fright upstairs, sir-Larkin-street wing;
they will fix you all right" said Mr. VIII
lians with as much suavity as though he
had been addressing bank president. -.
In about twenty minutes he returned,
still determined to marry, but little less
sanguine of being able 10 do so.
II have been told" he said; with fine
assumption of dignity, "that this is free
country, and yet that man upstairs says
that me and my fancee cannot get mar
ried until put up 81. Now, 1 haven't got
2 cents, much less 50, and l want to know
whether l am to be prevented from enjoy.
ing connubial bliss and the comforts of a
happy fireside.
~ guess that's it," said Mr.. Williams.
"Well, them" said the man, 'this great
and good city government should supply
me with the necessary funds"
mary 81 said Mr.. Williams, and by.
the time he had finished lecturing the
man of little cash the latter had concluded
that marriage without funds might after
all be failure.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
How the AthIete
Learns to Become
A Good Walker

Ny subject this week will be on heel
cerned there is no more invigoratjng exer-
else than to go out on the track and put
IN mile or two as a pedestrian.
fairness" in heeI-and-toe walking con.
sists of two principles and few MINOR
considerations. Unless these are carefully
observed the athlete will lead wretched
existence.
First and most important one foot must
always be on the ground. This can be Illus
trated by taxing pair of scissors and
opening them halfway, or until about an
inch and half separates the points.
Plant both points on a table and then
sway the scissors back and forth. raising
trst one point and then the other, always
keeping one point on the table. In fair
walking one foot must always be kept on
the Sround-that is, before the toe of the
foot in the rear is lifted the heel of the
one In front must be on the track.
There must not be an instant when
both feet are in the air like runners,
however instantaneous it may be. Such
a trick Is known as lifting" and is prac-
ticed by some unprincipled men with
certain amount OF success until they carry
it too far. when they are promptly dis
qualified by the Judge. This feature of
unfair walking is the easiest for an honest
walker to detect in himself-not that it is
easy to do so, for l have known many
walker with the best of intentions to be
deceived; but mean that of all the char
acteristics of unfair walking this one can
be watched with some measure of success
by ones self.
The next point in unfair walking is
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
How Women Do
Walk and How
They Should Walk

have spoken in this series OF articles OF
the pleasure and benefit to be derived from
walking. By this do not mean the thing
we know as pedestrianism, although that
is good, meaningful word and once sig
nified what have here called walking.
AS general thing this is a form of ex-
ercise to which Americans and in partic-
ular CaIifornians, are not much given. On
this coast the cable and the electric car
have succeeded so closely upon the heels OF
the vanishing horse that San Francicans
may almost be said never to have known
the necessity for walking.
Then, too, we have permitted the hills
of our City, which ought to invite and in
cite us to scale their heights on foot, to
repel us and drive US instead. to being
dragged up on an endless rope. Walking
up hill is, in reality, useful and should
be a pleasant form of exercise. 1t de-
velops, at one and the same time, muscles,
lung power, a graceful carriage and light
step. This always presuming that one
walks rightly. As a matter of fact, how
ever, few of us do walk rightly. Women
are especially unskillful in this f(rm of ex-
ercise. This is due in part to hlmpering
skirts, impossible shoes and a barricade
about the muscles of waist and hips, but
a good deal is also due to ignorance.
In an article on West Point THE CALL
published a Sunday or two ago appear
two picturesque OF 1.-The Cadet" another
Of "The Candidate" illustrates,
capitalIy, how to stand and how not to-
Tell the average man or woman to stand
up straight and he or she will throw the
weight upon the heels, hollow in the
back, thrust forward the abdomen, crane
the neck and remain thus poised until, in
pity, you do something to break the un-
pleasant spell in which your request
seems to involve the victim. If women
really desire to walk, and not to roll or
waddle or squirm, as so many of them do,
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
Should Women Work for :"
LESS Money Than Men

| "He" represents the universe, and 'what
1 said to him, and what he said to me
that made me nearly die laughing is
what the world turns on.
| And ''He"i Such dear, curly little he.
with bangs and a weak mouth.
! Better the athletic girl, with her neyers
ending talk of sports; better the girl fIll
of the real ana imaginary wrongs of her
sex, than the girl with her mind full of
that baby-faced nothing.
Boys do not talk often or long about
"she." If "she" is mentioned with free {;
dom 'she" has forfeited respect. 1t is no
compliment to have ones name. used.
familiarly among the boys. Girls love to
talk over the boys they like best, but boys
shrink from speaking of a very nice girl.
Their talk may not be wise or witty, never
| theless the subjects have wider range.
While so much is being said and done to
save our boys there is a crying need TO
save our girls; the girls sheltered in happy
homes, as well as the girls who must earn:
their daily food.
1t helps, it strengthens, it ennoDles q
girl to know she must learn something
well enough to earn her own living by it.: :.
and the lesson is not complete until she
pendence she measures the men of her ac-
quaintance, and feels no need to marry
the first one who offers for fear she may
never have another chance. She can af-
ford to wait till the real prince comes
along and then, so long as women are
women, she will lay down her. task and
follow anywhere
More than half of the failures in mar.
1 - Incra ONr f-@ - Il
ence, or from hasty marriage to escape
the restraints of home or. the toll that. is.
lrksome. After year the OLD home life
seems all freedom, the old toll all rest.
Instead OF crying that marriage is going .
out OF fnshion better be more careful and
make it possible for divorce to go out of
fashion.
Glris are aping more and more the
dress and pursuits of boys, and boys are
growing more and more like girls in looks.
One night as l sat in theater / could
look across and catch the profile of score
OF college boys in one row, just the side of
the face and head. At first thought they
were girls and was struck with the pretty
effect without hats. Wayy hair parted in
the middle falling low over the white
brow, pink cheeks and refined features.
Ihey have perfect right to do it and the .
result is very pretty, only do. not be so
nard on the sisters who are trying to per-
petuate the more rugged type. :.
In the German class of the U. @. 1 used
70 watch Mr.. A. lovely hair. 1t fell on
each side in such soft waves. grudged
MIN that hair when I was spending pre-
clous time trying to keep my own straight
locks IN curl. But one day it rained. 1t
ralned soft, warm rain and the windows
were left open.
Mr.. A. was deep in Schiller and forgot
70 move from his place by the window.
Inc damp air hoated in and touched those
envled waves. They began to straighten.
Ihey Strengthened clear out and hung in
little tags. wonder why2
OLIVE HEYDEN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
PENELOPE PowELsoN.

bending the knee. No one can walk
If you observe closely you will see that
the knee does not need to be bent much.
Even men with long legs can get along
with very little bend.
You have seen two men walking along
in hurry, trying to catch train, per-
haps. One man will be faster than the
other, and you will notice that the slower
man, after waking as fast as he can for a
dozen steps, will suddenly break into a
series of skips half way between run and
walk. He keeps this up for only half
dozen steps, when he settles back In a
walk, only to repeat the operation twenty
yards further on.
Now that man is lifting" and he does
not know it, possibly. The strain upon
his hips to keep his knees stiff and swing
his legs back and forth has been more
than he could bear, and, what must not
be forgotten, he found himself falling
behind. He found that bending his
knees trifie and jumping from his toes,
instead of taking long, stiff-knee stride,
was easier and assisted the locomotlon.
The stride should be taken by the power
of the muscles of the hip ana the calf of
the leg-not by the use of the muscle run
ming from the groin to the knee. When
the latter is used look out for the j judge of
walking, for if he understands his business
he will warn or disqualify you.
When person falls into the habit of
lifting" he is in bad way, not only be-
cause he is liable to incur the displeasure
of the judge of walking, but because half
the time he will be uncon scious OF the fact.
This, to say nothing of other causes, is
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

possibly be even. Heel and sole soon
wear trihe on the outside-''run over. "
we call it-and the knee, thigh and hip
are thus thrown out of line. When this
occurs the strained muscles cannot bring
the foot directly forward, but swing it out
ward at every stride, bringing it down in
the fat, inelastic tread which distin-
guishes most of us women.
In majority of cases, too, the muscles
of the waist are prevented from acting
freely by the restraining corset, which
accentuates the hips as they roll and rise
in the attempt at locomotion.
This picture is not in the least over.
drawn. What 1 have described may be
noted in any block of any street of our
City. And it Is folly to assert that the
corset does not restrain the action of waist
muscles. There are two strong, thick
muscles running one each side of the
spine, the Office of which is explained by
their name, the erector spin8.
These muscles should maintain the
spine upright, but in the back of the
woman who has worn corsets for any
length of time they are seen to be wasted
and weakened about the waist, not neces-
sarily because the corset Is tight, but be-
cause it has afforded an artificial support,
and,the muscles, not being called upon to
do their full share of work, grow weak in
idleness, as does every unused organ or
muscle. They play a prominent part in
locomotion as do also the abdominal mus
cles, which are similarly hampered and
weakened, and as consequence their
failure to act produces weak, dragging
gait as well as shuff1ing and inelegant one.
As though our constant defects of loco
motion were not enough we have, just at
present, number of affectations of gait
that serve to accentuate and increase
them. When you see young man in
wide trousers, cutaway coat, high collar
and pot-hat rushing along the street at the
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

The pictures of childlife in The SUNDAY
trations of a wrong.
1t is not from among the children raised
in the midst of great wealth, with no care
or thought for the morrow, that will come
our statesmen, teachers, inventors. sages.
1t is rare indeed that a man or q woman
from the very rich class really does any
thing. They have power, the power that
comes from wealth, ard from it may gain
civil and social honors, but they lack the
incentive to bring forth the best that is in
them, that comes from the necessity of
self-advance ment. The very wealth, with
its burdens and obligations of caste,
dwarfs and narrows them.
Fathers toll and mothers deny them
selves that money may be left to children
to sap their intelligence and ambitions
and turn them into elegant idlers.
The surest and most honorable inheri-
tance is the ability to use hands and head
TO some purpose and the expectation and
the will to do something.
The dainty darlings on the one hill will
never do as much nor in truth amount to
as much as the ragged urchins on the
other hill. But both extremes are wrong,
the result of deep-seated mistake some
where in the social system. Extremes are
always unnatural.
1t is not from either of these types we
must look for our citizens of tomorrow.
but in the strata which lie between.
1t is the sturdy middle class that counts: !:
the class that is being drawn more and
more to one extreme or the other, to
riches or poverty. The land which has
most of its people in that middle class of
comfortable working families is in no
danger of revolutions.
Every person on earth is worth enough
to supply his bodily wants and q rest in
his age, and no pereon is worth more than
he can or will use or hoard to leave be-
hind.
No person with strength has right to
an idle life, ana if all were workers, instead
OF crowding one another we would all be
abba to enjoy the whole fruits of our labor.
l wish l need not see so much Tn ron
denim in the growing girl of TODAY. Not
that my condemnation is anything: It is
the facts that are something.
On the streets late at night when those
whose labor will allow them are fore etting
the cares OF the day and in sleep finoing
new strength for the morrow girls and
boys are lettering. Not girls who must he
out, but the happy ones with homes and
comforts. They are out for fun. in gronnr
and couples, at the corners and the gate.
until near the midnight hour. Doing no
harm, perhaps. just now, with tnelr wbis-
pering and giggling, but growing away
from their womanly dignity and sweet
ness. In that evening converse is not one
word OF common-sense; indeed, "Jimmie
and Mag will say weightier things.
Mothers do not realize how little thew
really know of what goes on behind that
smooth white forehead that seems inno-
cence itself. Did you ever listen to the
talk-one cannot call it conversation-of a
group OF schoolgirls? 1t is not edifyine.
It's not encouraging. He" is most of it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

there are few facts that they must bear
in mind.
First and foremost is the fact that the
foot, and not the heel, should carry the
weight of the body. Second, that the
head, and not the abdomen, should be the
first division of the human anatomy to
impress itself upon the beholder's atuen-
ton. Yet, usually, the latter division
comes first through door. l am aware
that this statement is unpleasant, but the
living reality is far more so, and worse, in
that while the statement is almost inev-
liable in verify, the reality may easily be
obviated. Stand upon the balls of the
feet, with the spine we'll erect and the chin
drawn in so that the eyes look straight
ahead upon steady level You will
find that the lower part of the torso
Immediately withdraws into retiracv.
You will find, moreover, upon practicing
the position, decided relief to strained
muscles and ligaments, long overworked
by wrong standing. You will be able to
stand longer and with less fatigue if YOU
stand thus.
Now, walking should maintain the
erect, straightforward position, but in
ninety-nine cases out of hundred it does
not. To illustrate from the lower animals
most men and women walk like cows.
when they should walk like horses Study
these two creatures and you will see what
l mean. The horse brings his hind foot
forward on a direct line with the front
foot on the same side, but the cow brings
her hind foot around rather than forward,
in little outward swing which makes her
method of locomotion slow and lum bering
beside that of the quick, trinity stepping
horse. Watch, now, almost any man who
has had none of the military training that
is doing so much for our young men, and
you will note that he, too, brings forward
each foot in a slightly outward variation
from a straight line.
Faulty footwear is the principal cause
of this ugly, shutting gait, which is even
commoner among women than with men.
The toothpick. shoe, known abroad as ''the
American shoe" and among US as s'the
Piccadilly," has other faults than deform-
ing the feet. It throws the weight too
much upon the heels, for the cramped
toes and oall of the foot cannot sustain it.
Then, owing TO the position the body
assumes in standing, the tread cannot
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rate of ten knots an hour, his knees sin king
at every stride, swinging his cane far In
advance of him at each step, planting 1t
firmly upon the sidewalk and then hauling
himself up to it. as it were, do not make
the mistake of thinking he is practicing
for a cake walk. He is only doing the
Harvard dip, which seems to be having
revival out here.
Like unto it, in elegance, is what some
one has dubbed the bicycle walk of the
utterly correct young woman. This, too,
comes to us from the cultured East, but
some of our girls have got it very pat.
The bicycle walker carries a closed para
sol in both hands, grasping it exactly as
one grasps the handles of bicycle. The
head is held well forward, the body
slightly bent and the eyes regard futurity
with fixed and stony stare. The sight
is beautiful one, and not to be forgotten.
Then there is the young woman who
wears a sailor hat and stiff collar, puts her
umbrella under her arm and swaggers;
the girl ewho carries her shoulders high
and strides along with elbows at right
angles to her body, and the girl who walks
with her shoulders, rotating first one then
the other side of her body as though they
are two separate entities that she is tow
ing along by the main force of her un-
aided will.
A little more will force would not be
bad thing for most of US in walking. In
fact, the two qualities most desirable in
locomotion might be said to be directness
and self-control.
These, for promoting a graceful carriage,
are worth all the technical rules for walking
that can be laid down.
To have the body so trained and clad
that it is usabe instrument for the work
demanded of it; to hold it erect, step
squarely and truly upon the foot; TO bring
the chin we'll in, so that the glance ahead
is level, and to carry each foot forward in
a straight line, with a free forward move
ment of the thigh and supple bend of
the ankle, are the essentials to good walk.
No woman wearing a long skirt and de-
string to appear graceful should walk
rapidly. The three things cannot be done
at once. Fortunately time seems COM
ing when we need not attempt them. The
short bicycle skirt has taught women the
comfort of freedom in country and hill |
walking. In the East a great many |
women have adopted them for rainy-day |
costumes, and it is quite likely that an
other rainy season on this coast may see
our women better equipped for it than
they have ever been before.