The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-02

rise high enough to drown her prayers "
But Mrs Nation is going TO lay aside
| the Ratchet for time, and do a few
staunts with the scales Of justice. What
do you think Of this scheme she has OF
] running the town of Medicine LEDGER
I'm the first place. and as usual,
doubt it. If it is true, then it reminds
me Of the woman who fell out Of hel
back window the other day, and was
mad because the neighbors sent for an
| ambulance. She said she guessed she
had q right to fall out OF her own back
window into her own back yard She
had a doctor OF her own, too, and if she
wanted one she'd send for him. Mrs Ma
ton belongs in Medicine Lodge. If the
town has fallen out of its own back win
dow and wants to be doctored by its own
Mrs. Nation why-it will be its own fun
eral. Of course" with a smile
did you ever take a hand in municipal
government in Kansas?"
Never. Although the inventive genius
Of the newspaper correspondence once
made me mayor Of Wichita in the tele-
graph news. 1 never got any way near
the Office and never wanted to-"
rs the new woman very plentiful in
Kansas?"
What is the new woman?"
''Well, what is she?''
Largely a fiction, I think. Women are
what they are today because the change
in industrial conditions has changed
them. They don't have to sit at home
and bake and spin and sew, and the con-
sequence is they are all at work trying
feverishly TO develop their individuality
to make of themselves stronger person
alities. People say there will De a reac-
ton. Well. you know the chicken never
goes back into the shell once it is hatch
ed. The butterfly never crawls back in
to the chrysalis. While the conditions
in the lives of women are changing there
will be chaos, but it will work out some
how"
What do you think of New York
women?"
Il like them very much. Western wo-
men are very narrow but also very broad
They are broad when it comes to conven-
TONS narrow when it has TO Go wan
principles. Eastern women are the op-
posite. Then too. the eastern women
swallow great deal Of nonsense without
reasoning about It I met a well known
New York woman the other day and,
without any attempt to conceal her
amazement, she exclaimed:
Why, Mrs. Lessel you are really Just
like the rest of US, aren't your
In an evil moment I allowed myself to
be slightly facetious and said; oh, am
merely following the advice to do In
Rome as the Romans do. If you had
met me in Kansas you would have found
me wearing a blanket, and living in q te-
pee She took me literally! 1 could see
it in her eye.
'I like the New York women, but the
worst crime I have heard of since came
here was committed BY a woman. and a
woman who is at the top in the social
ladder, too. I cannot speak calmly of
young. enormously rich wife who would
go TO Europe on & pleasure trip. leaving
behind her little two months old babe
That is the most horrible thing I've heard
of here. She left thee nurses with it, but
if there had been 300 it wouldn't have
been any better. Think of a woman who
would leave her little baby and go across
the ocean in search Of pleasure"
But that woman came from Califor-
MIA"
''Yes, but she has had New York
training. in Fifth avenue, where the dog
is supplanting the child as a domestic
feature. The man who took a census
of the children there and found only If
teen in one mile of the most artistocratic
portion of the avenue ought to have car
ried his Investigations a little further
and taken a census Of the dogs in the
same district
What do you suppose Mrs. Nation
would think about that state of affairs?'
'I don't know. Any true woman ought
to be shocked by it, but Mrs. Nation is a
queer type of a = well, don't know that
would call here a woman anyway. She's
Just a queer type of a human being"
Those famous lite pills, DeWitt's Little
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make them regular. Gus Saur, 524 E
Douglas; Geo. Van Werden, Us n. Main.