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Dear S My dear, is there suck aa Ja- for once 1 am sorry I am not invited.
Btitutioa as Lent where you are? Ac- Really, I am getting alarmed. I see
cordis; to the calendar this is the time visions of a day when nearly all of the
for Lest, but society and the calendar rarties that will be given will be for
have fallen out and Lent has made an men. Now, you will Bay I am incon
inglorious retreat before the triumphant sistent, complaining of too much gayety
march of the chating dieb, the great and then finding fault because thero is
army of kings, queene, jacks and aces, danger that I will be shut out of a
the gay minions of Terpsichore, the few things that are going on. My dear
cackle of the kensington and the clamor S , you know very well that the people
of the afternoon reception. If it is a who complain of the exactions of society
sin to revel in fent the devil muBt be
shaking his thin eidss with glee these
degenerate days that may sound a
little wicked, but you know the little
maa with the pitchfork down below is
an important factor in fin de Steele con
versation. I am really worn out, and
my eyes have a stayed-up-all-night ap- will give one of these masculine
oearance that is shocking. I am forced tainments. Tftere are to
are the very people who would die with
out eociety. Tbis winter has been pro
lific of dinner parties "for men only,"
and the idea seemB to be catching. I
like to go out to dinner myself, and I
like to have a good partner a man.
Tonight, Friday, Mr. and Mrs. Ogden
enter-
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to use powder. No girl can go through around the table,
what I have gone through since Christ- Mies Mount went home this week.
mas and retain the natural bloom, of She lives in Omaha, as I told you. She
youth undimmed. It wouldn't be so spent three weeks as the guest of Miss
bad if there were not so many little in- Slaughter, and I am sure Bhe had a
formal -just happen in' affairs. These pretty gay time, as the two have a long
fill in between the parties, and keep one string of friends between them. Miss
constantly on the go.
Are they playing cards in Lincoln
again? Oh, no. They are just playing
cards. In the afternoons they play
cards. In the evenings they play cards.
"They," and that means "we" are play
ing cardVall the time now. It's almost
a bad as it was four or five years ago,
only it's whist now instead of high five.
McClure, of Mt. Pleasant, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. W. F. Kelley, ex
pects to leave for home in a day or two.
The D. E. Thompsons have returned
from Mexico, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Hall are back from Florida.
Only a few Lincoln people have had
the pleasure of being entertained at the
Patricks' in Omaha. Mr. and Mrs.
Rnaan neonta am sunk bo low in diasina. Lambertson aud Miss Sherwood had
tioo that they are playing hearts, that pleasure last Sunday.
Fancy! Imagine blaie men like Frankie There have been several large recep
Z. and Dr. Spahr and our corps of uni- tions this season. The first one Mrs.
versity professors, to say nothing of state W.M.Leonard gave, the second was
engineers and political big guns sitting given a week or two ago by Mrs. G. M.
docilely down and getting enthusiastic Lambertson, and then came Mrs.
over hearts! Guy flurlbut's most de- Kelley's. Mrs. McMurtry received
moializing dissipation has spread. Some the same crush on Wednesday.
of the men say that heart is a good The place where each of these ladies
gambling game. keep their gods is so large that it is not
Maybe after the "visiting girls" have 1uite correct io " their receptions
vanished things will quiet down a little, crushes. I had all the room I wanted
I hope so. Last Saturday Mrs. Tom and " had everybody else. Fancy a re
Benton gave an afternoon card party- ception only moderately attended-each
you know the Bentons are living in ,adv with the exact hygienic number of
their own house now. It was a rather cub5c feet ot air about her and no neces
large party and we played German whist eity for screaming into the ear of her
confusing but interesting. Bobby neighbor! Could anything be more
Joyce and thirty or more ladies were stupid and bovine? Well! it was not
there. And the same evening Mae Burr Ut way at Mrs. McMunry's. The
had a good sized card party for her guests quickly drifted into groups which
friends. Pretty much all the crowd of PeD and shut automatically to acquaint
young people was there a few married a0"58- De should go to a reception only
ones. You know how Will Kelley beame after at least a year's course in elocu
with satisfaction when he wins a prize lion and study iu long distance speak
at cards? Well, he got a prize this inS- A new beginner has no chance at
time, and be beamed. It was a lovely all. Nobody, unless a man gets in, ever
party, and I had an awfully good time notices the babel, because everybody is
because well, you can imagine. He "ng, noDouy j miens, rrequeniiy,
though, when 1 am telling Jack in the
evening about what Olive or Grace or
Rose told me "at the reception' and he
looks "swarty," the way men do when
the superiority of the masculine is
brought by a contrast into their minds
I begin to wonder how it is that I have
heard so much. I know I talked as
fast as I could all the time and then I
did not get through with half I bad to
say. AH the eame, things occur to me
afterwards that other people have said.
It is like an orchestra and I am playing
first fiddle, but when I think of it I
know the other parts too. Men have
not the sense. In a busy world it is a
valuable one. Men take twice the time
that the duet style of conversation con
can be real nice when he tries.
Tonight, Friday, Mr. and Mrs. George
H. Clatk will give a card party at the
Lincoln hotel. I don't know whether it
will be large. The Clarke used to en
tertain & good deal, an you remember,
before they gave up housekeeping and
commenced living at a hotel. Quite a
number of small card parties have been
given during the week.
Mow foolish some'' people are! They
go to a partyand drink freely of the
punch you know you can call any
thing punch, and then the next day
thy tell silly yarns about other people
'having been made dizzy. There has
been so much of this talk that some
people outside have come to believe that gumes. 1 have wandered somewhat
in some instances the punch has made from Mrs. McMurtry s reception, but I
made the guests at a party unduly en- wanted you to know that it was not en
thusiastic. Now. I am not defending tirely different from the many "How do
the punch you know 1 never drink it; you do's" we have attended together
but these stories are, to my certain
knor ledge, ridiculous.
This afternoon the Claries, Miss Clark
and her sister Bertie, will give a Ken
sington. I really like Kensingtons, and
since our petals first uncurled; not that
that was so very long ago either.
Mrs. McMtirtry stood in the drawing
room near "Tote's" portrait. Except
for this she stood, quite by herself.
Commencing Monday morning
March 9 th we will offer at special
sale our entire stock ot lace cur
tains. Prices will toe lower than
ever before under any circum
stances made on this class of
goods reductions will average
at least 40 per cent. Every pair
of curtains in our store, from
the cheapest to the toest, will toe
offered There wil 1 toe so Jie rare
toargains and every one who has
any idea of touying curtains will
find it profitable io attend this
sale
MILLBR & PAINE.
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