The Bird O' Freedom - Saturday, June 22, 1895

WAY OF THE WORLD.
Political Pepper and Social Salt.
(BY THE HEN EDITOR.)

Thus the irrepressible American on Oscar Vile:—"The impression made by Poet Wilde on those with whom he came in contact on the occasion of his visit to San Francisco was not very favorable. His liberal use of perfumery was merely a palliation of his studied neglect of his bath-tub. He evidently never washed himself-in the full sense of the term. His fat hands, garnished with quaint rings, displayed a constitutional aversion to good, honest soap and water, and his finger-nails were a sight well calculated to make a boom real estate agent thoughtful." This is an American lie. As a matter of fact, though Oscar Wilde may have been a leper morally, he was physically clean.