The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-21
The Nobility of Kansas.

The Nobility of Kansas.
WIN A White of Emporia who is on to the ms and
outs Of youth thus discourses on the royal family Of
Kansas
IN this land Of the free and home Of the brave ever,
boy and every girl opportunity to be q
prince princess This chance or oppor
tunity puts the singer goad ambition and as ii
generally happens that young between the ages
OF Il and 80 and striving attain
the In country succeed either by
accommodating wealth acquiring fame or displaying cour
accommodating wealth acquiring fame or displaying cour
virtue capacity for desirable thing are
absence of le royalty by sociey-even
as princes
zone radical differences between young men
and is in the way they go about securing
their jobs prince princess Every boy knows mighty
well that he work; he must give
the world something it viii give nothing;
to labor and to wait to grimy clothes
slack lot cheap screws in unnportant cerkshps
to smile through wood. girl on
the other hand, least girl this
try who has ambition princess begins making
for her before she gets She
gins acting the part She honest work Her mother
often aids abets her The brag that
girl bousewor-cheay because that is the manner
of prncesses When got the lines princess
all committed to she sits while and waits
prince fixes up parlor as kind Of
throne room and the girl sits ready gobble UP the first
prince that passes.
often princes scarce-that is full blown princes in
the royal purple But the girl is cut out for princess
she is good partner a working concern
up with the that she mustn't
mother drudged that anything approaching labor
low
so when the princes don't show up girl compro-
misses on good honest boy trying to
eight ten per then family begins:
the family shall jump right and make royalty look like
thirty cents. whether family shall live six
eight Per and the royalty slide for few
years again this is fought In
Emporia every town-the princess trying
the nobility the brevet prince trying to his
bills In the end the prince to throws up ambition
heart settles down to the humdrum
delivery wagon and the princess compromises by
gosspirg about nobility bringing up a daughter
who won't have to be the drudge that her mother is
And 50 runs the world away.
And yet for all that boys and girls do rise.
They are rising every day There prominent
in today who a poor young thirty
years ago. and there is not prominent today
the the bitter bread Of poverty
These princes and prncesses their heritage
They worked it. and only that but they have
for the part-been worthy their estate. They
have lived as all their poverty all
their hardshps their sefdenials they main
tanned their dignity sef-respectng people.
'That the point If the girl the kitchen
lives life of sculon viii die it. If the boy at
the cinder pit ambition pit keeps
pftmind he VIII live plt-fe. II the
girl the keeps counter for everyone
play with keeps counterhead full of nonsense
hour if she keeps counter-manners. smart and
SIMPLY she VIII always be clerk matter what money
may If the boy the street keeps ways
and street talk his heart VIII live
and die a gamin though worth million dollars at
the end
ct is because the Gazette hopes to these boys and
girls Emporia grow that it talks thus plainly. For
Heavens sake young people, boys well girls keep
cIean-n deed, above all in thought Don't
make yourself Join the gentle aristocracy that
kind vulgar helpful everybodys
door mat Girls every boy handle them like sack
four If they in the world going the day
when they 10 pass the place where the
oafers congregate. for fear oafer viii remember
things Boys who have given bonds to in
he'll every they their old IN after life
The world plain matter Of fact place It's judgments
are inexorable You can't them you be
princess begin live nobly; begin love your work
begin good with the arstocracy Of good
clean wholesome thoughts your heart Don't go
devil with the rabble Of sloth and lust
and greed that riot earth princes
and Processes Of the royal blood"