Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-03
VANITY FAIR.

New workers. are ceaS.ng TO look
upon the automobile as a toy and be-
ginning to realize its practical value.
During the summer of 1897, when
Lieut.. Eames and "Dick" Peters took
some automobiles to Newport, several
cottagers bought expensive ones for
use as playthings, and for a time the
costly fad took precedence over all
others. 1t was not until this fall,
however, that the owners of smart
traps could be persuaded to give up
their horses in the city and use
humming, buzzing electric cab. One
OF the first persons to set a new fash
ion in this regard Is Mrs. John Jacob
Aston. Mrs. Astor seldom uses her
horses after dark. She has made spe-
cial arrangements with an electric
cab concern whereby handsome au
tomobile and a reliable driver are at
her disposal every evening. Mrs.
Schermerhorn has followed her ex-
ample, and in all probability many
other persons will do so. Society has
not yet taken to riding in horseless
carriages in the daytime, but the report
that hundred or more of these cabs
are to be on the streets presently
shows that the matter is growing be-
yond the proportions of fad.
A lover of the curious has just pub
lished collection of names Of inns
and taverns in Great Britain, which
contains many quaint and curious IT,
ties. Here are a few of the gems of
the collection: The Cow and Snuff
fers," the Beetle and Wedge" the
Grown and Two Chairmen," the Ass
in Bandbox," the Case Is Altered"
the World Turned Upside Down." the
Cardinals Hat" the ''Valiant Troop
err" the Complete Angler" the First
In and Last Out" the "Old, Quiet
Woman" the Man Loaded with Mis-
chief" In Brussels there is a public
house, opposite a cemetery, with the
title Better Here Than Opposite"
while another, on the way to the same
cemetery of Ixelles, has for sign, Bet
ter Here Than Farther On" "The Case
Is Altered" is curious, but not so very
uncommon. The worthy host at Brad
well, where this name hangs over the
tavern, explains the phrase after this
manner: He declares that before his
inn came on the scene the neighbor-
hood was very badly served, but, of
course, afterward the case was al
tered.
oddly enough" says an American
in Honolulu, "it is the half-caste and
the native women married to white
men who fear most profoundly the eff
fects Of annexation. They are afraid
that the color line, never before drawn
in Hawaiian society, will speedily be
marked with no uncertain symbol.
When a dusky court was the apex of
society, and men, now leaders in re-
publican simplicity, disputed for prec-
edence, there could be no question of
color. If there had been, the white
would have been Disseminated
against. Later the intermarriages
were sufficient protection. Only last
night in Honolulu's SWEETEST restaur-
ant | saw the former postmaster-gen-
eral Of Hawaii and his wife and daugh-
tiers sitting at the next table to three
Chinese, apparently prosperous, but
obviously not high class. There were
kanakas, American soldiers, pretty
girls with light-colored skins and
traces of Chinese origin about the
eyes and Kanaka flatness of the
nose). Philippians and Europeans scat
tered at the tables. doubt if such a
mixture dwells in such social equality
anywhere else on EARTH