The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, October 13, 1894, Page 9, Image 9
THE COUKJER U e r; IN OMAHA. The Art Loan exhibition opened on Wednesday on the upper floor, of the library building. It is tho best one that has over been held here and reflects a good deal of credit upon Omaha. NOTES OF VANITY FAIR. Bowling parties that were so popular last winter have been ro sutned. Mr. Pierre Garneau was host at a very delightful one on Tuesday evening. The Ladies' Musicalegave their tirst recital of tho season on Tues day. The Ethiopian Songsters, in othor words tho young women min strels, are proceeding in a way that insures success. There will be over fifty in the chorus, which is being trained by Mrs. Cotton. Mrs.. McConnell, who so ably managed a performance of the same kind in Council Bluffs is Btage manager. Mrs. Robert-W. Patrick has returned from a short trip to Boston and New York. On Sunday General Brooke left for Harrisburg, Pa. Assistant Secretary of War, Joseph B. Doe spent Sunday here. He is on a tour of inspection. While here Fort Omaha and Cook wero visited. Dr. Henry McEldery spent Tuesday here enroute to his new station at Fort Robinson. His twonty days leave has been spent in and around his old home, Baltimore. Mrs. Everett of Council Bluffs gave a small reception on Monday at which a number of Omaha people were bidden. Mr. and Mrs. Yates and Miss Jentie Yates went east on Satur day. Miss Nash and Miss Mary Nash expect to go to Chicago and De troit the early part of the week. Miss Adeline Nash will return to her school in New York at the same time. Miss Dewey is at homo from Washington, New York and Sara toga. Mr. R. S. Berlin spent a few days of this week at St. Paul. Mrs. Barker, wife of Colonel Barker, has arrived from Troy, New York: Col. and Mrs. Barker are at the Paxton for the present. Miss Burke, of Salt Lake City, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John McShane for a few days enroute east. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Meiklo will be at home every Tuesday evening from now on. The study classes of the Woman's club that have been held in the Y. M. C. A. rooms will shortly have rooms of their own on tho fourth floor of the Boston store block. They will open them next wook with a tea when Miss Anthony is expected to be present. Mr. Herman Kountze went to Texas on Monday. Mr. Burt took a party on his private car to Sioux City for the races on Thursday. Colonel Bache left for the east this week. Major Charles Humphrey has gone in tho private car of Assistant Secretary of War Doe on his inspection tour to Fort Leavenworth, Riley. St. Louis and Chicago. Miss Kountze has returned from the east. Ladies half wool vests and pants not 81.00 but 75 cents each at Herpolsheimer & Co. this is a fine thread wool. The best advertiser is the satisfied customer. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we will sell 7c dark points short lengths for 3 cents; 10c heavy otis shirting for 6 cents; 8c linen towels for 4 cents; 25c ladies ribbed pants for 15 cents; $1.50 child's cloak for 99 cents; $1.75 ladies wrapper for 31.25. Herpolsheimer fc Co. A GREAT CARNATION is tho title of a little book just issued by Appleton. It is written in tho vein of Oscar Wilde and Whistler and reeks with cynicism and opigram. Somu of the sayings are clever. "Lord Raggio," ono of tho central characters of tho boak says: "If wo chooso carefully, wo become deliberative at once; and nothing is so fatal to personality as dolibor-. ation. When I am good it is my m oJ to ba good; when I am what is called wicked it is my mood to be ovil. I never know what I shall bo at a particular moment. Sometimes I like to Bit at home after dinner and read 'The Dream of Garontius.' I love lontils and cold water sometimes;at other times I must drink absinthe, and hang the eight hour's with scarlet embroidery. I must have music and the sins that march to music. There are moments when I desire squalor, sinister, mean surroundings, dreariness and misery. Tho great un washed mood is upon mo. Then I go out from luxury. The mood has its West End and its Whitechapel. The thoughts sit in'tho'park, but sometimes they go slumming. They ontor narrow courts and rookeries. They rest in unimaginable dens seeking contrast, and they liko the rufliins whom they moot there, and they hate the notion of polite men keeping order. Tho mind governs the body. I never know how I shall spend an evening till the evening has como. I wait for my mood." "Lord Reggie" and his friend Esme Amarinth are primo movers in Vanity Fair; albeit the sentiments they breathe would have made Thackeray with all his alleged cynicism turn pale. Am.irinth discusses marriage with Reggie: "Marriage might cause you to do vel Dp, and then I should lose you. Mirriago is a sort of forcing house. It brings straiga sins to fruit, and some times strango renunciations. The renunciations of marriage are like white lilliea bloodles3, impurely pure, as anaemic as the soul of a virgin, as cold as tho face of a corpse. I should bo afraid for you to marry Reggie! Sa few paople have sufficient strength to re sist the preposterous claims of orthodoxy. They promise and vow three things is it three things you promise and vow in matrimony, R9ggie? and they keep their promiss. Nothiug 13 so fatal to a personality as the keeping of promts?, unless it ba telling the truth. To lie finely is an art, to tell the truth is to a"ct according to Nature, and Nature is the first of tha Pailistinas. Nothing on earth is so absolutely middle cla?3 a3 Niture. Sha always reminds me of Cle ment Scott's article in the Dzily Teleyraph. No! Reggie, do not marry unle33 you have tha strength to bu a bid husband." R3ggie replies: "I have no intention of baing a goal one." "And his blue oye3 loakad strangely poatiu uaJor the frosty gleam of the electric light, ail h'13 strange pile yjll.v htir shaaa lika an aureole round the head of soma molern saint," "I have na intention of be ing a good one. It is oaly peple without batn3 who make good husbands. Virtue is generally merely a form of deficiency just as vice is an assertion of intellect. Shalloy shaad that paatry was in his soul mare by his treatment of Hirriot than by his writing of 'Adonais; ana if Byron had never broken his wire's heart, he would have been forgotten even saaner thin ha has bean. No, Esme, I shall not make a good husband." "Lady Lacke would make a good wife." "Yes, it is written in her face. That is the worst of virtues. They show. One cannot conceal them." "Yes. when I was a boy at sahoal I ramambar so well I had a vir tue. I was fond of going to church. I can't tell why. I think it was the ruusic, or the ptinte J windows, or tho precentor, He had a face like the face of savea devils; sa exquisitely chiseled. He looked as it he were always saaking re3t and finding none. "He was really a clergyman of some importance, the only ono I over mat. I was fond of going to church an! I was in agony lost some strange expression should cana into my face and tell my hor -rible secret. I dreidal ab ova all lest my m ithar should evor gat to know it. It would have mrla har so hippy." In tho sama conversation Amarinth stys: "I balieva that money is gradually becoming extinctdike the Dodo, or 'Dodo.' It is vanish- -ing ofTthe face of the earth. Soa wa shall have paapla writing to the papers to say that ra)iey his beaa saaa at Rlchmoni or the man who always announcas the pram iture ad vant of the cuckoo to his neighborhood will conmunic.tte the fiat thit 03. a spring day ha heard two capitalists singing in a wool naar Eshar. Oaa hears now