The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-08

embraced jury can't repreSS a sob. The
foreman has to answer before the august
| Court
| Guilty" whispers 1.-THE Child
| Then everybody cries
! very just verdict, apparently. jose
| phine Dodge Daskam doesn't like chill
dSen-she who has gone into the heart
Of every mother and father in this great
land of ours. bubbiing over with boys
and girls and few babies.
! 1t Is reported that she is not TO have
! the two little ones Of her husband-selden
Bacon. lawyer. clubman and Yale gradu-
ate-iive with her. Instead. his boy and
his ArI-eisht and fen-will stay out In
Minneapolis with their grandmother, who
never wrote anything about children in
her life unless il Was an order to tht
druggist for castor oil or paregorie.
Only day or so ago this clever move
list married Mr.. Bacon. old enough to be
her father. The grave w.dower had lost
| a wife and her legacy to him had been
| two typical American youngsters.
Josephine Dodge Daskam could have
woven these selfsame youngsters into
wondrous Pigments of words-no goody-
creatures OF flesh and blood
Everybody in Stamford. Conn. where
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskaal-bes par
don, Mrs. Bacon-has lived all her life,
knows from beginning perhaps the clev-
crest and the best paid writer OF stories
of juveniles in all this big country. teem-
She likes dogs and dolls. though
Miss Daskam s-there 1t is again-Mrs.
decentralization of dolls is supposed to
be one of the best in the world. There
Is even talk in Stamford that she has
Great Dane which held the next place
in her affections to Mr.. Bacon.
Anyway, there's the doll
This is no ordinary doll. II used to be
the novelists best friend. 1t had its es-
pecial carriage. Folks in Stamford even
say that to favored few the doll was
regularly introduced. Library people who
are jealous of the success of Josephine
Dodge Daskham declare without reserve
that much of her clever depictions OF
children were gained from these dolls
What of 1t?
There are no better children in the
world-ask the erities-than those of Jose
phine Dodge Daskam. bride now.
Her boys have pug noses and dirty
faces They generally wind up each story
by getting well spanked. The girls are
not little Evas. They haven't the faces
of angels and what they don't know about
politeness would pretty nearly kill Lord
Chesterfield, were that urbane gentleman
alive. But they're the kind of boy and
girl that make glad the everyday Ameri-
can home.
Have you ever seen this boy around
your back yard. this boy who some day
may turn out a president or a senator,
or perhaps jus. q grave bishop:
II might net have occurred 20 you 20
find the Head Captain terrible to look
upon had you seen him first without hts
uniform. There seems 10 be something
essentially pacific in the effect of a broad
turnover Bingham collar. a blue neck
ribbon and q wide straw hat; and you
might be pardoned for thinking him a
rather mild person. But could you have
encountered him in black cambria mask
with pinked edges. a broad sash of tur-
key red wound tightly about his waist
and that wide collar turned up above
his ears-the tie conspicuous for its abb
sence-you might have sung another tune.
His appearance was at such q time moth
ing short of menacing.
There is more than one father and moth
er IN these big United States who would
give all they had In the world to see
that boy raising trouble for the neigh
bors instead Of lying out in the little
churchyard among the daisies.
The boy led those youngsters In ~
Study of Ptrscy''-he wss Head Cap
tain and they were Lieutenant and VI
car-out TO do moss terrible deeds. All
three had trouble al home after sup
per.
The Vicar was tiny girl. who es-
saved skirrnishing cut with the boys
perhaps you've seen that kind Of girl
around your own house. Anyway. she
wcre big mans collar. Read here:
So the Vicar. f. a Wild attempt at
masculinity. had privately borrowed
high linen collar OF her uncle The
shirts in her uncie's drawer had printed
In them. Wear q seventeen-aud-a
half collar with this shirt" 50 you VII
not Be surprised 20 learn that the Wear
occasionally fell into the collar. 50 10
speak. and found herself most enectuaiIy
muxzled.
This is where Miss Dssksn-you may
call her Mrs Bacon. IL you viii. though
10 works OF Mrs Seidea Bacon have yet
appeared-dips down into Ssonford iif@-
Such shirts are not sold here IL New
York Mr.. Bacon has his made by a
Broadway haberdssher. and the collar
and the cuffs are attached. 50 he doesn't
have to Re told what size % collar TO
buy
Yet even do the truly great live IN
stamford where such shirts may De hzS
across the street from the grocery store
Of II. Sawyer Daskarr- II there hadn't
been shzt grocery store. Josephine Dodge
Dsskan cocld neTer have gone 20 Snfsh
College. The grocer Is her father
But what man or woman cz-es sta1d
before the world and say 20 an men that
these deashosi chsadrsa svsT iesrnea III