The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-26

ing his part off the stage as we'll as OF
IL. And ! give a sigh and wish that
next summers sunshine may look dowr
OF the little Soubrette and find her a.
merry as ever. and on the heavy villair
with the clearest of consciences.
Apropos of girls. I am reminded tina,
we are to be atrociously Greek again thi:
yearsand wear those low, short wasted
bodices for evening. say "atrociously'
Greek because the right girl with the
right figure never seems to get one OF
these artistic gowns. Instead. frumpy
looking women, who are so thin tina!
they are painful to look at. or women
fat to beefiness. choose them. and the
resul. is something peri disgusting.
Funny, isn't it, that these old fools new
er seem TO realize that while we keep
| the babies-the real new babies-ai
| bundled up, the same rule ought TO ap-
ply to them. But second childhood and
seminudity seem to be the combine
fancied.
A lady who is over 60. whose skin is
like parchment, whose bones seem to
crack as she walks, but who because
of her great wealth is invited every
| where, persists in wearing the lowest
| Of low bodices and natural flowers in
her hair, She is one Of the women who
didn't understand how to grow old
gracefully With years have come an
accumulation of folly. and this poor old
wretch-for, with all her wealth, she de-
serves pity-makes herself a laughing
stock. is a deaths head at a feast, and
yet the people who know her best and
care FOR her most do not dare to hint to
her that she is dressing over 60 years
| too young.
1 don't read Greek, but I have seen
no end of pictures Of Grecian ladies,
and though the costumes were as ar
tistic as the Anthony Comstock OF that
| day would permit. still in not single
one of them can / find a woman who
looks over 80 years old. Now, what did
they do with their old women? Evil
IDENTIFY they did not permit them to dress
in Greek fashion and sit on benches in
artistic attitudes. What pity some Of
those people who are always digging
antiquities Up can't get hold of real
Greek, a Greek of the time of long ago,
put life into him and induce him to
tell how the elderly Grecian lady
dressed!
This sounds disrespectful to ole age,
but it isn't meant to be SO. There is
! nothing so beautiful to me as the woTn-
an who respects herself and who, being
a great grandmother. doesn't display
large portion of the upper part OF
her body to a soothing multitude. For
the women VINO insist upon doing this
it can only be said that. having no re-
spect for themselves. they cannot get
ii from other people. The fat woman
looks like food exposition, and the
thin one looks like an umbrella frame.
If you have any doubt as to the truth
of what I am saying, compare one of
these improperly dressed old women
with an elderly Quakeress, or even
think of her and then think of the dig
nified woman of many years who wears
rich but handsome clothes suited TO her
years and her position in life. Until
| the elderly lady dresses properly she
need expect no consideration, but I do
wish that she would think over how
she might look If she would.
Do you ever wish? Do you remember
that Swedenborg said, Man. beware OF
that which thou wishest with intensity.
for it will surely come unto thee?" I
was at a wishing well this summer. and,
remembering this, / got frightened and
concluded not to wish anything very
much for myself, but to do a lot of
wishing for other people. Here are my
wishes and here are my answers: