The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Summer Vacation in Wichita" brought
forth frequent peals OF appreciatlve
laughter and sympathetic notes OF ap-
plause. Among other things, Miss Null
vey said: "On7y those who have spent
their vaca tfon in Wichita, fully realize
the largeness Of my subject, and the inn
possibility OF doing it Justice in the
short time allowed me. Three minutes
IN which to tell of the beautiful city
with it's 1inftless resources Three min
utes in which to tell all that / did in
three months. I'll take the city first.
Wichita Is bounded on the north by
Valley Center, on the south by Derby,
on the west by its own ambitions only.
1t is situated in the midst Of a rolling
prairie and on the banks OF the classic
Arkansas, whose pebbiy shores remind
one of the pictured rocks Of Lake SD
perior, and whose 999 charmingly wood
ed islands are only less beautiful than
the thousand beautiful islands Of the
st. Lawrence
Wichita has been aptay called the
Peerless Princess of the Plains, also
short time the "Beerless Princess OF the
Plains" Webster says that peerless
means without peer, and peers we all
know are lords. Not having any of
these Wichita got her name Peerless
Princess, but the dictionary fails TO
tell how she received the other name,
'.Beer1ess Princess" nor indeed have I
been able to learn from any other
source.
with sixty-seven miles of street
railway, Wichita has almost four miles
Of paving, making driving summer
pasttime to be enjoyed only by those
who spend their vacation in Wichita
and who have q vehicle in which to
ride. The four miles OF paved streets
are clean, smooth and hard, and one
does not need to ride on the other sixty.
three miles unless enc wishes.
''The summer diversions OF the people
OF Wichita are worthy Of mention. They
seem to be fond Of gathering In groups
Of from two to twenty more or less
congenial spirits and with well-alled
baskets, driving out Of town to some
sandy, seques6ered nook where, after
a. time, they spread the contents Of
their baskets and eat voraciously, hav-
iLg induced an almost Unsuitable appe-
tite by the violent exercise of trying to
knock out the gnats and mosquitoes in
ten rounds, without the aid Of boxing
gloves. This seems 10 be one of the
favor.its forms Of dissipation INDUCED
IN DIV UnOSe tpeOplct WIZ SpcnQ Lie Sultl-
mer vacation in Wichita. My advice
TO any one who doubts the statements
herein contained is 10 spend next sum-
mer's vacation in Wichita and let me
go away"
Miss Laura B1incoe's paper on Down
In Ole Virginny," was replete with witt
ty, bright remarks. Her paper is given
in full as follows:
I've been visitin' bout a week.
Downfw in Virginny, Chickahominy
Creek,
I've got the hives and a new straw hat,
And I've been back home where my
beau lives eti'
when / stepped from the train at
Gordonsville, there was no mistaking
the soil upon which / stood. Before
me were six walters filled high with
fried chicken, biscuit and apple pies,
supported by six varieties of mems
straw hats, which in their turn were
upheld by six old Virginia mammies.
Train may come and trains may go, bu.
they stand there forever, crying: Dis
way gen'mens, hot coffee and fried
chicken / waited here an hour, which
TO me seemed eternity, as was so near
home. When I asked the third time
if the Ashland train was late an old
colored man who swept around the
platforms and stood around generally
for curiosity, said: No TAFT, and il
twan't twouldn't come long no sooner
cause you is gwine on 1t It did final
ly come.
an view where the old home Is,
Where an anxious mother waited there,
Peering as the time grew late,
Down the old path to the gate.
T salr1 ~, ato1a 1n.,IyA
In the pinks and hollyhocks
And leaped up the path once more,
Where she waited at the door.
Truly they were waiting with anx-
ious hearts, for was only a few hours
ahead Of the st. Louis tornado. The
first words / heard were from my baby
sister, who cried out: There you are!
We were so scared because we tho't you
had been blown away in the torpedo
81 am sure that it would not be COM
pfimentary to this studious, up-to-date
assembly to indulge IN the history, or
TO describe the geography of the set
element around Jamestowwn, and I
am also sure that all of you are inter-
ested in Normals, so l will tell you a
few things ] heard in a country Normal
Down in ole Virginny.
"a fair. slender young lady had
charge of the history class. Give some
accounts of Unco1n's early life Up
rose a buxom applicant for a teachers
certificate. Her face fairly shone with
the joy of the knowledge she possessed
He was a steady. Industrious young
man, and he used TO help his pa split
rails
Poor Lincoln! Breathes there a soul
with old or young head,
Who never in story this fact hath said?
81 believe that TO many a man who
does not even know his own age, some
how the spirit has revealed Abraham
Ianccln's rail and George Washington's
Ratchet
In the next class, the question OF
Kindergarten Work was discussed.
Our former friend, ever TO the front,
said that they had no kindergarten work
IN their neighborhood and that they
We're too busy to bother with them little
things.
20. forlorn childhood that has never
played with a woody sheep and does
not know that goats feed on old rags
and therefore are her-bivorous animals, |
and that has never had a cotton plant |
IN its hand. does not know that the rag
grew on a bush, and the bush on the |
kIOulu dIl1 Tie IdeS
And who had TO learn plain letter r. |
and did not know that Il stood for bird. |
A bird on tw1g, the twis on a limb. |
and the limb on a tree and the green |
grass growing all around.
THE third lecture was on Psycholo- |
and How to Obtain It |
praiseworThy ambition IN this |
line. / rushed for front seat and fiatter |
myself that I was a living example OF 1
attention. AT the close OF that hour. |
the rosy red bushes Of expectation had /