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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-08

lar. American boys and girls possess
the advantage of being able to master
the same before the fair duchess learns
the dance herself. She has been greatly
occupied with the festivities attending
the queens jubilee. and as the Con-
suelo" started on this side il is already
being danced at the various resorts. 1t
Is full OF spirit and grace and can be
readily acquired by those who perfectly
understand the waltz. A lady and
gentleman take up their position just
as for waltzing and waltz slowly once
and a half around and pose gracefully
as il ready for the galop. Together
they take two steps TO the right. start
ing off with the right foot Stopping on
the beat OF the music. they pose for
about two seconds. Then the dreamy.
waltz movement begins again. this time
reversing in the waltz After posing the
galop steps are taken TO the left, and so
on. This is one of the simplest and yet
one OF the prettiest dances introduced
in years. A number OF young girls are
practicing IL to give at a flower fete.
They will wear white frocks with gar
lands of roses. and after each posing.
when the merry mazes of the waltz be-
gin. they will scatter few narguerites
each time.
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Bnb DzSCOMTSeS on
Female Schools
OF Journalism.

death who was sentenced to stay
where he is for 20 years, who will be an
old man when he comes out, for prison
life doesn't keep men young, but this
one woman, writing her merry stories.
is working and saving that she may
have money enough when her brother
comes out into the world for them TO
go to a new place and among new peo-
pie where his past can never be thrown
up TO him and where together their last
days may be spent in peace and con-
tentment.
My hardest hour?" said a small
woman whose work on newspaper and
magazine is known far and wide. I'll
tell you about it. My husband was dy-
ing. He was % years old, and l was 10,
and We were strangers in a strange
land. Because we were so poor l had
been doing some odd sketches here and
there for the newspapers, for gentle
folk don't beg; they work. There, be-
side the bedside of my husband. eX-
pecting every hour would be his last,
messenger came from an office down
town with a request that / would write
them funny article of about thou
sand words at oncei ! looked at my
husband, and then, God help me, 1
looked at my purse, and | concluded /
had to write that article. So while the
boy waited held my dying loves hand
with my left one and wrote with my
right and wrote funny article. 1 was
about an hour and a half doing it, and
when l think of it now 1 see those two
dark brown eyes looking at me in an
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guests. and the guests room is always
occupied. Your invitation TO the Bun
galow specifies the length of your visit
have been able to decipher the poet's
handwriting. for Mrs. Wilcox out
Greeley's Horace Greeley in the gentle
art of illegible penmanship.
Nevertheless she gives you hearty
welcome and is most hospitable. even If
you have to ask her TO read her own
invitation 10 you in order that you may
know how long you are expected 70 re-
main. And the day you leave another
guest arrives. Thus Mrs. Wilcox books"
her company weeks ahead. like the man.
guestroom and of the dining cottage are
covered with the photographs of visit
ors. very interesting collection. as IL
includes great number OF celebrities
in art and literature.
Mrs. Wilcox has learned what most
hostesses in small country houses never
the art OF entertaining a
guest by allowing the guest 10 entertain
himself A good piano. the newest
books aud magazines. a rowboat. a
launch. an icebox and fishing
tackle are at your disposal. Use them
and 60 and come as you choose
Being romantic place. the Bunga-
low is . choice spot for lovers Nor are
they denied such choice. AS Mrs VIII
cox likes to surround herself with pref
" girls, men come IN their wake. Cupid
IS kept busy. and once or twice IN /!
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Mrs. Ella U/HeeAey
U/zZc0v and Her
Summer Home.

I season one of the pretty girls surren-
ders. Then follows one of the most ro-
mantle phases of Bungalow life-a
honeymoon Mr.. and Mrs. Wilcox move
out and lend the place to the happy
ones just as it stands for a fortnight
1t is certainly place for doves. for bill
ing and cooling. This very season the
Bungalow was opened by a certain brid-
al pair who passed a unanimous vote
that no better place could be found in
which to feel that the first moon of
married life is all period of honey and
no gall.
The freedom allowed her guests leaves
the poet free to write her prescribed
number of words each day. for it is
understood that she is never 10 be in
terrupted between breakfast and sup
per. This unwritten law is observed
by neighbors as we'll as by guests. Her
nearest neighbors are those who rent
from her the four cottages which COM
prise Bungalow Court. Mrs. Wilcox
attends personally to renting these cot
tages, giving preference always 10 the
most congenial. Her remaining neigh
bors consist of the occupants of the cot
tages. so or more in number. which
low. the whole comprising the village
of Short Beach. Secluded during the
day. at nightfall Mrs Wilcox becomes
the leading spirit. the Bungalow be-
comes Liberty hall, and its piazza be-
comes the playground for all Short
Beach.
Once year the poet gives a Bunga-
low hop. the event of the Short Beach
Nial har Of
tations are issued, and dancing men
and pretty women go from New York,
Hartford and New Haven and are
cottages.
There has yet TO come a morning too
cold for Ella Wheeler Wilcox TO step
out of bed into the sound. and she is
the best swimmer thereabout. men in
Guided.
Fifteen minutes later she comes forth
rosy and ready for breakfast. If her
face were full of poetry only. it would
be beautiful, but ii bears the signs of
character, shows will power and capa-
bilities of emotion. Therefore it is
face more interesting than beautiful
Her personality is almost tangible. You
can feel that she is in the room. I'm
consciously you turn toward her. That
is magnetism. At home she always
wears the art gowns for which she is
that make ease and grace
possible, such as the Greek women wore
before corsets were thought of.
While waiting she plays with one of
her Angora cats. Cats are to Mrs. Will
cox what horses or dogs are to many
men. To her cats she is. in fact, some
what of a slave. When they are sick,
she waits upon them night and day
When they are well. she devOtes herself
to keeping them from sickness. Next |
to turkeys. Angora cats are the most |
fragile of pets.
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Downright. 1871

In the Very Heart of Nature.
am out in the woods where there is
no end of bright people. | am enjoying
myself by looking on and listening. 1t
does people like you and me, who are
only average, q lot of good once in
awhile TO get among people who are
decidedly above the average and who
permit you TO enjoy their wit and wis
dom without appearing to cOndescend.
When women, or men either, for that
matter, condescend to make you appre-
ciate them, you can make up your mind
that whatever wit or wisdom they have
is decidedly on the surface. But the
real people, the people who have hearts
and brains, are worth getting in touch
with. Being with them is like getting
for all of US.
a couple of nights ago I sat watch
ing the sun set and listening to four
women. They We're all writers, and
what they said may convince the lady
who is a failure in dressmaking and
housekeeping that all is not gold that
glitters in the way of journalism. They
were going over experiences. Each of
them was telling about the hardest
work she had ever had to do. One of
them, a bright western woman, said:
Two years ago my husband lost his
position. He is, as you know, very
delicate man. and the railroad COM
pany that invited him to send in his
resignation knew when they did this
that his chance for getting another sit
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-08
Bathing Shoes.

Bathing shoes are quite oet - dsse.
excepting where there are rocky hesrh
-. and even then the Stockings that
have insoleE are preferre9 70 THE shoeS
There never Fas anything ugiisr than
the bathing sfoe. and it s. quite as vel
that fashion hss pToelsfn1e5 y cut q
Gais- Big hats and benuoss have been
sent 70 keep company Nlth the Shoes.
and now q ~ a f4s 20 q ia swimming
with TIE heal uncovered aud The hsir
eisbpr@isiy arranged. II mus; bs al
nssfi~d hat a woman igoks nuuch pre-
tsef Sifs 81 uncovered hair. boz a. re-
chances are tasf she EiH Ees her had
aud Fs.i Esier occaslonally dos ln3sr~
the nsiT. Macy worn@n eth prefer %
va ne Oh SIX esgs covered Esfh =
1f1Eht elk handkerchief tea on "a tur-
ban fashion There - Of reeara rsa.e
ihsn ore esss - false hangs tesnx SEX
ID into The front o, f1@se turhsaa 20
Rat ne WearsT faereef E-sghs IooE well
sven Ehsn a@r fTonf hslg uaz set. but
ihss f2Shlon hzs too many Ess<z % rec-
Euror-G o.
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OF when am cold and still and un-

not when I am cold and still and un.
hearing.
But l can't complain. The newspaper
man has been good to me, and make
him my best courtesy and thank him
from all my heart as he is all this wide
world over, from Texas to Maine. from
San Francisco to New York, whether
he is editor or reporter, printers devil
or proofreader. He has been good to
me, and / like him. But who doesn't
like the people who like them?
The dog that comes up and licks your
hand gets a pat of approval from you.
The blossom of a baby that puts up
its cherry red lips to be kissed gets a
blessing from you.
The girl who loves you and SYM
pathizes with you and tells you of your
virtues gets your love and your appre-
citation and your sympathy.
The comrade who is always ready to
go with you. the friend who sends you
the book that you will enjoy or the
neighbor who remembers the dainty
that you like to eat-these are the peo-
pie we enjoy.
What an ungrateful lot of donkeys
we would be if we didn't care for the
people who care for US, And that's the
reason why 1 want the newspaper man
to like me. because there's nobody who
likes him more than does
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Six miles east Of Yale university, on
great rock on the Connecticut shore
where the Long Island sound washes
almost up to the doorstep, is the most
unique house imaginable. 1t is called
the Bungalow and is the summer home
of the passion poet. Ella Wheeler Will
cox.
Outside it looks like an ordinary sea-
shore cottage. Inside il might be a
furnished barn, no wall paper, no lath
or plaster, no calcimine, no ceiling, just
the rafters, beams and weatherboards,
naked and emitting the fragrance of
pine-one big living room and two bed
rooms; that is ALL
Those who know Mrs. Wilcox only
through her poems cannot. of course
know her as the sweet and modest do
mestic woman she really is. She is de-
voted to her home, is especially proud
of the Bungalow, and to her her huS-
band is the only man in the world. He
Is her idol. and. what is more practical.
he is at once the inspirer and severest
critic of every line she writes. If Mrs.
Wilcox had been blessed with children.
she would have been an ideal mother,
but her only child died in infancy.
Though her husband is a successful
business man. he is also a scholar and
man who knows how to enjoy his
hours of leisure. He has Travelled in
many countries, especially in the east.
He has lived in India: hence the Bun
galow. Hence, also, the Bungalow is a
sort of museum. He has stocked ii with
trophies and treasures of his travels
with flags and bunting from many coun-
tries, with screens and wonderful lam
terms from Japan and China, with mat
tings from Korea, with curtains and
drapery from Turkey and Arabia. with
rugs from Persia, with curious weapons
from Siberia, with mugs from England
and Holland. with bric-a-brac made by
half the worlds nations. and the piazza
he has filled with 8olian harps from
Germany, hammocks from Mexico and
wicker chairs from India.
OF the Bungalows two bedrooms one
is for host and hostess and the other for
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ate TO summer evenings, and accord
! ingly IL is finer and more sheer than
any other kind
The new corset which IL worn with
this very sheer lingerie is short and
prettily curved
Daintiest OF all Is the new petticoat
OF white taffeta silk with a deep
founce Of delicate black lace and tiny
punches OF fresh vioiets attached here
and there. This may be worn with a
gown OF any color.
The cyclist is dividing the honors
with the summer girl in point OF dress
In fact. the modiste has much more
difficult task in cOnceiving something
new for the cyclist than for the fluffy
creation who charms by the seashore
and elsewhere. \ pretty bicycle cos
tune is of black and white shepherds
plain cloth. very light and fine. the
skirt trimmed with five broad bands ~
black braid. which commences Just be-
low the hips and finishes at the rear
at the knees. The braid plays an i'm
portant part. too. in the ad0rnment ~
the holero bodice. being arranged In
military fashion in front with barrel
buttons. while IL does duty IN narrower
form as bordering. The costume IL
completed by a full killed vest of white
silk softly ruffied az the neck
and held in at the waist by band and
bow OF black satin. while the sleeves are
by quantity shaped cuffs
with braid and softeued by a
OF silk
The new skirt waist of Transparent
VIII be quite az much worn as
ever despite the craze for rcd violet
and blue. Although not 80 good a ma
'erial for washing az lawn Il. organdia
retains It's stinening vel and when
can be pressed 20 look Ike
new.
Although efforts have been made on
he part Of those interested In the sale
q fabrics for skirts IN silk ard In dress
Foods departments. separate skirts con-
inue 10 find favor with the buying pub
&c
The collar has run NJ 20 high that
here - no longer a possibility and can
.carcely be a pretenae 81 a fastening az
he back The bow 80 long worn be-
lind has disappeared. and little BY lit
le the front begins 10 be marked
black yelling has the blouse and
ackets all In cords running up ana
o1n an inch apart The sleeves are
~ plain The accordion plated skirt
as a sewage - striped yellow anf
rhi'e. other black gowns have the
louise open down the front over /.
DIOR. as red ~ mauve. aith jzbos
evers down sscn side faced RIth the
anne color and a standing collar Jared
nth the color.
Yelling gowns are made wi;h re
<irts IN plsi;E and the blouse dropping
lightly over the belt al the way round.
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be made with an extra amount of sugar
and seasoning. for the process of freez-
ing takes out part of the sweetness and
flavor.
IL is said that a loaf Of stale bread
may be made to taste like newly baked
bread If it is dipped in cold water for a
minute or two and then put into a pan
and rebaked for three-quarters of an
hour.
a loaf of cake that has got stale and
dry may be freshened so as TO seem
newly baked cake by putting it in a tin
covering the tin with another pan and
leaving the whole in a warm oven
about 20 minutes.
All things considered. solution of OK
gall and warm. soft water in the pro-
portion OF pint OF the former To gall
Ions OF the latter IS the best cleansing
and freshening agent for carpets. II
spots are obstinate, use white soap also
Wooden moldirg boards are no longer
used in the up 10 date kitchen. Marble
or plate glass. with a rolling pin OF the
same hard substance, has taken the
place of wood. The new boards require
proper condition
When you suspect what you are cook
ing has been scorched because you have
neglected il for just one moment too
long. lift the vessel holding the food
from the fire and stand IL in a pan OF
water for few minutes. In almost sv-
cry case the scorched taste will entire
~ disappear.
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| lnQuiring way. I see that messenger
| waiting with an expression that was
half curiosity, half sympathy, on his
| face, and / see myself, with tears roll
ing down my cheeks. working out the
| funny article. Weeks after that, when
| was all draped in mourning and the
man / loved slept that quiet sleep which
knows no present Weakening, l net the
editor Of that paper, and he said to me,
That article of yours was funny
enough to kill And I said: Was it?
Well, ii nearly did. But to this day he
doesn't know under what circum-
stances it was written or that the S25
that | got for it went TO help to pay
for resting place for the one that 1
loved
Then we all sat quiet in the dim twi-
light and thought how, though the dark
hours come. there are always morning
after night and sunshine after rain. The
woman who thinks in an idle, frivolous
way that she can write when she can't
do anything else is not the woman, my
friend, who is going to make a success
with her pen. The woman who wants
to succeed with her pen must enter the
working school of journalism and learn
much. She must learn that what suits
one editor doesn't suit another, she
must learn that TO succeed she must feel
the pulse OF her audience and she must
also learn that. though it is the woman
illness of her work that makes ii vaIu-
able. womanliness and weakness are not
synonymous. When an editor wants an
article from a woman. he prefers it
should bear the stamp of her sex. be-
cause then he's sure that both men and
women Will like it Once in awhile even
the woman writer likes TO tell some
thing Of her personal experience. and
here's a bit of my weakness coming in.
The school OF journalism is one where
women, the right kind of women. get
10 know how good men are. In all
work there are bad men and bad wom-
en-. hut from personal experience l
would like to say that l think there are
more kind men, more sympathetic men,
more generous men and more good men
among the newspaper fraternity than in
any other profession. They see so much
OF real life that they can sympathize
with real sorrow and are not fooled
by sham. They see so much of weak /
ness that they can think of the tempta-
ton as well as the sin and be ready to 4
forgive. and with il all they see so I
much of joy that they have a ready 4
laugh for the lest and sincere good 1
wishes for whoever is starting out to 4
enjoy himself. Prejudiced? l AMIN
favor of the newspaper man. Personal /
ly l ask only one favor of him. and
that's a sort OF twin favor-first. that /
while l am alive he won't find much
fault with me. because / like him so
thoroughly. and, second, that when I
am dead he will refrain from writing an
obituary about me. If he viii only say
the sood things about me while / am
alive. 1 shall he satisfied 1 want the
sweetness from the alabaster box while
| am here and can appreciate it and |
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M
Home, Sweet Home.

If tin vessels and saucepans are &C.
casionally rubbed over with paraffin oil.
they will retain their brightness longer.
y little cream rubbed into black kid
gloves will prevent the dye from COM
ing off. 1t also gives them a nice gloss.
Let all young housekeepers bear in
mind that rule. order and system in all
things are Indispensable in the man.
agement of a well regulated household.
A cooking teacher says that the whites
of eggs can be beaten most quickly if
pinch Of cream of tartar in the proper
ton of an eighth of a teaspOonful to
each egg be first added.
Carpets and rugs can be as thor
oughly beaten spread on the grass as
hung over line and with much less
danger of injury. In either case they
should be beaten on the wrong side first
Custards. creams or any dishes that
are to be frozen or hardened require to
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uation was very doubtful. As he en-
tered the door one evening he greeted
me with this news. / consoled him as
we'll as / could, made him feel that
things We're not as bad as they looked
and was trying TO keep from CRYING
when we heard the postmans whistle.
To create diversion / asked my hus-
band 10 get the evening mail from the
letter box
The first letter l opened told me that
my services were no longer required on
paper which had paid me the largest
part of my income. Understand. they
didn't object TO my work. 1t was only
that during the summer months they
had concluded to close UP that depart
ment. For a minute l thought / should
faint, but | didn't. / laughed, tore up
that letter made some light remark
and never limited at its contents. The
next letter had been INSTRUCTED, and
II had been chasing me all round the
city. 1t was request from an editor
that / would write him a detective
story. He said he knew ! could do it,
and he must have 1t within week.
That was all right. but / happened to
glance at the date. and | saw the week
was up the next day. The situation was
not a cheerful one-husband without
position and $50 a week right out Of my
pocket for ! didn't know how long
never knew how / wrote that story,
and ] don't think anybody ever real
lied why / made the villain an editor.
j worked all night over il. and when
the morning came l sent il down to the
people who had asked for it,
The days were pretty gloomy after
that. but the detective story caught on.
those people employed me regularly.
and the other newspaper re-engaged me
in the fall. What's that somebody said?
You would not have gone to them?
oh. yes. you would when il meant $40
week and you had an invalid hus-
band. tell You none of us knows what
we viii do until the time comes But |
shall never forget the long. long night
that | sat writing that story. l couldn't
think of the story itself. | could only
think Of my trouble. and. though / am
the first 10 laugh about superstition
L give You my word that / shall al
ways believe that that story was writ
ten for me by some angel: that il was
simply my hand that held the pen and
hers that told il what to say
The tall. fair woman said: My writ |
ihS oaNs are al sad ones. Yet people J
tell me and ! am happy in knowing that 4
the children all over the country laugh {
al my merry verses and are delighted
with the fairy tales ! write for them.
My brain VIII spin out fairy tales with
happy BINDINGS. funny rhymes that are
lauShably foolish. and yet il is only
when l am among those who love me
That / ever laugh. You all know what
i do the work for"
And we all do. We know that away
on IN a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES think OF it,
is Nouns man who in foolish. silly
quarreI about bad woman struck
MS friend and struck him almost unto
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OF cooking. Mrs. Larus5 is president
Of this successful club. which VIII no;
be year cid until November.
American ladies have only the faint
est idea q the number % prezenia-
tons and handsome souvenirs which
have been prepared az this tine in Eng
land Numerous ladies azd gentlemen
have been subscribing for handsome
mayoTess chain which has Just been
presented 20 Mrs. Marillier. Ire may
Dress % Scarborough. in commemors-
ten % Queen FictOria's long reign. The
central ornament bears the borough
arms enc.Tcled by bTiIlisntE. bordered
5y oak and laurel leaves N gold. Tae
chain - - carat gold and ~ inches loaK
Each link has a ross % YORK enriched
by enamel There sTs H3e6alil0ns o.
each shoulder. where THE chain fzs:sn.
By iittie pins set Eiih Jewels. the To
d aiiions bearing the dates 1877 and 1851
and the moEozraD ". 4 l.
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leather. This eIezt Ia between the in
step ard the bail 3ust far enough from
the latter 70 be Of 10 faco1veaie1cs
when waking and yet near enough %
aid IN the tread when usoEnted on the
wheel Mrs RiE@hSrf says fEzf EIth
that device si1e can steer with hzr feet.
AM II gives nsr ess> u poise
4 hall rnile bicycle race Tor younz
women wzs TIE most Interesting eV@..
At recen; English wheeling meet ard
Il said 70 have been the S-zf szce q the
kind ever he'd n tia; country. SIX