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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
