The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-30
rcopvright. 1893. by I. A. Mallon.I


in their ragged but great glory, no
body dreams of putting them in a jar
DIT a glass or fancy vase. Oh dear no.
They must shine from a punch bowl
Their stems must be cut so that they
1T in a careless, artistic way, for while
the leaves are often taken from the
flowers yet quite as often their foliage
is framed all about them. The bowls
most favored are those wonderful, deep,
round ones of indiaware-the quaint
blue ones with the lovely ladies from
Japan walking up ladders on their
heads or coming down in a sideways
fashion-fne cut glass bowls or, best Of
all. great big silver punch bowls. These
glitter and seem TO reflect almost like
a mirror the white or yellow beauties
that are the flowers Of the season.
There is something dignified about
chrysanthemums, not TO wear, but to
put about a room or to use to decorate
q table. They have an odd way of
standing up, as if they wished each
visitor to realize that each one of them
had a special dignity Of her own, and
she wanted you not only to realize II,
hut to feast upon it. The chrysanthe-
mum. to nav way Of thinking, is a
healthy looking flower. Even when it
IS a bit droopy, it simply droops its
metals. permitting them to blow away,
though they never curl up or manage
to get an unpleasant odor, not they,
They simply disappear into that ia
nous innocuous desuetude, which is the
one phrase that viii carry one man
down through posterity.
A girl I know has just come back
from Sweden, and as she is a victim of
hay fever she thinks of going to live
there. The reason why? Because there
the doctor never sends home a bill.
But when you are cured you write out
what you think the bill ought to be and
forward the ducats to him. If you have
made a wonderful hit in wheat if you
have been made viceroy of India, If the
president Of all these United States has
concluded that you are the proper per-
son 10 be ambassador TO England, if
any good luck has come to you. then
Ncu write on a visiting card 1880 or
So. / cannot imagine higher than
$4,000. But If you have had a hard
time OF it that year. If there have been
a good many mouths TO feed and they
are tired of oatmeal, or if your oldest
boy is beginning 10 see the charm of
n dress suit and white kid gloves when
b. visits the young woman who is max
ing fool Of him, why, then after
long Illness you send a modest card
with your name written on it, and I'M
cerneath il YOU put 80 cents or IS cents
or whatever seems suited TO you, not
- the doctors good reputation. not to
the doctors ability but perfectly
adapted to that thin little pocketbook,
which looks as if it had been to the cir
cas- and had been trod upon in mo-
ment OF airy persiflage by the largest
elephant
a thin pocketbook leads to despera-
ton. ii 1 wanted to make a woman a
saint IL I wanted her to care for the
poor make the sick happy and well,
give to those who are hungry and make
The little children all as happy as happy
could be, Ia make that woman rich.
ami then Ia teach her how TO spend her
money. DO you ever think that the
rich people are after all, extremely
kIui2 The average wealthy girl gets
hundreds Of letters a day. most Of them
from frauds and the one true request
among them must be treated like the
fakes or else we viii have an anarchist
t. government, which means lack OF
reDese entirely.
When I say repose, I mean II in
variable sense. Some people consider
sleep repose. there are others who
drown themselves in q good book and
consider that repose, while there are
still others Who trot around from here
10 there and really haven't the remot-
est idea of what repose is. Repose, as
IL used 90 be known, was dignity, and
good dignity. There are only a few
specimens Of IL 10 be found now. II
Is as rare as real old Sevres china and
requires the same amount of care.
An elderly lady-she speaks OF her
self as elderly. although she is so years
old-complains OF the folly with which
the girls Of today talk. Why. she
said when I was young, il was con-
siderod vulgar To be purse proud, and
the people who belonged TO the real
KniCkerbocker circles. especially those
who were very wealthy. were taught
as soon as they could understand any
thing that ii was extremely vulgar n
make any display u their belongings or
70 talk about their possessions. Then.
too. the old 'noblesse obI=e' were
taught very early that because they
We're what they were they must be era
cious. tender hearted and loving to ev-
cry one they met. but today the girls
talk about the value OF being rich. the
advantage OF having rich friends. what
can be got cut Of Jack So-snd-so and
how much can be obtained from Ms
Black Diamond. To me il is horrisyirg
[ could not tell you just what j think il
s. but the women who sell their i'm
mortal souls - poor wretCh-s - are not
my worse than those who see life IN It's
hard and Inercensry way and make X
effort 70 find anything that Is sweet
desirable. gentle or kindly in their be
navior CT in their thoughts"