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ELEANOR'S LETTER
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Dear S Mystery is delightful. Y 1 1
have told me bo man times, in
those bursts of candor which your
friends all deprecate, that I am one of
the most uninteresting girls you ever
knew. You iterated and reiterated this
pleasant statement so often that I had
commenced to believe that what you
said was true. But, lo! after many
yearn, I suddenly rind myself a very in
tereMing person. Of course you will
cay that it is not my person that is in
teresting, but rather the mystery with
which I am surrounded. That may be
my dear, but I am responsible for the
mystery, and I must say my self-esteem
is given unction daily by the many evi
dences of the interest I have aroused. 1
will cot say that "Eleanor" is univer
sally complimented. I would be sorry
if this were the cute. Anybody can in
duce praise. The veriest dullard that
ever dragged his uninteresting person
ality over the intellectual feet of society
can succeed in making people praise
him. The dolt is dear if he is only,
docile. But it isn't everybody that can
excite interest, start people talking and
provoke real comment. Jt isn't every
body that can call forth the measure of
reprobation that 1 have on one ortwo oc
casions seen heaped on poor "Eleanor."
This thine is more luu than a seven day
picnic with potato salad and fried chick
ea three times a day. You should
have heard some of the kind remarks my
friends have made about "Eleanor."
Once or twice I have almost given the
secret away. I am getting used to hear
ing myself discufted, however, and I
can smile aad tear the poor girl to pieces
with perfect setf-posetsBira.
8everal tiaaea I have bees iB a group
of weaaes at a reception wbea""EIaBor"
r 1 1 under discussion, and it was no end
of fun. If they had only known that
"Eleanor" was hearing every word that
was said! By the way, I have been
greatly flattered by the fact that women
who aie twice as tall, intellectually, as I
have been accused of being "Eleanor."
Society whs going so fast when Lent
began that it could not make a sudden
stop.But'it is stationary now.This week
has had seven Sundays in it, each one
longer than the day before. A recent
number of Truth has a picture on the
cover, of a girl weeping for Lent has be
gun. She is just home from a party
her last, for forty days and the empti
ness of the coming 960 hours weighs
upon her spirits. I have pinned the
picture up in my room. I feel just rs
she looks. I see a few callers in the
evening and gather a few items quite
innocently.
I hear that Mrs. D. E. Thompson ex
pects a young lady from Cairo, Ills., to
visit her soon This is especially good
news because while Mrs. Thompson is a
hostess, she must stay in Lincoln.
Her friends have bad frequent
occasion to miss her this winter. The
young guest, my informant told me,
has charming manners and is a pretty
girl too.
There was very little of the merry
world of Lincoln at the Lansing on
Wednesday night. Some strangers who
were in the city for the day thought
they would go to the theatre for the
sake of the show and to seo the swagger
set, but they were disappointed not to
see the latter. Sometimes when the
shabby and soiled costumes of the
people on the stage seem disrespectful
to the audience, I remember what a
hard time players have had for several
years tinsel is high and tin is out of
reach. They are brave to come here at
all. Both stage and stalls need new
costumes. Until they can get them it is
a case of pot and kettle.
Fraternity members are the only ones
that are havingparties nowadays. Every
Friday and Saturday nights there are
parties in one or more of the chapter
houses. Lingering in the university
corridors I hear the girls surmising if
their mothers will let them go to these
parties. Don't you think the lace and
silk collars they are wearing now are
pretty? They change a worn costume
into something new and strange. They
are in so many colors and shapes that
though all the girls wear them they do
not seem common.
Miss Norttarup, the daughter of Presi
dent Northrup, of Minnesita university,
who is visiting Mrs. MacLean, is a Kap
pa Alpha Theta. Sho is being feasted
and embraced by all the Greek ladies.
We fraternity girls ought to make a
study of the Nethersole kiss, in order to
express the devotion we really feel for
each other. We kiss when we meet but
Nethersole can teach us to express the
delight and mystery we really feel. The
Alumni of Kappa Alpha Theta will
give a reception to all the fraternities
at the home of Miss Bertie Clark, 1945
F street.
Mr. and Mrs. Lansing had one of the
belles of Hastings, Miss Agnes Alex
ander, in their box on Weduecda night.
A few of us tried the other evening
to say the Lord's prayer through. Not
one of us said it correctly. You try
it.
Bay Welch is in Denver. He is said
to be fond of all of us. I wonder it he
is? Anyway we miss him. Young men
are getting scarcer every day. They do.
not grow up as fast ae they grow old.
Mr. and Mrs. White and Fred and Mr.
and Mrs. Lew Marshall are soon goin g
to move into Lillie Muir's house on M
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been stop
ping with the Buckstaffs for the
winter. They move out of a gay neigh
borhood into a gay neighborhood. Did
you ever hear L street from Seventeenth
to Nineteenth called Newspaper Row?
Mr. Clough.of Gmaha, iscomingback
to Lincoln, which will be glad to see
him.
The Captain expectB Mrs. Guilfoyle
to return soon. She has been detained
in Crawford by the illess of little Christ
ine who is now much better.
Dr. and Mrs. Ladd left on Thursday
for Whitehall, III., on account of the ill
ness of Dr. Ladd's father.
The English club will give a reception
to Mr. aud Mrs. Bates od Saturday at
the house of Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Hitch
cock, 511 North Sixteenth street.
Last Sunday I attended the music
services at the Universalist church and
found myself both pushed and in the
push. Maud Oakley sang, and they had
to turn people away. You know, Miss
Oakley's voice is lifted up in song fre
quently in Lincoln and Omaha now.
In last week's letter I referred to
Bobby Joyce, and in one place the
wretched printer made it read "Mrs.
Joyce." I beg Mr. Joyces pardon. He
is most distinctly masculine, and would
naturally resent any imputation of fem
ininity. Bobby led the germ an at Mi6s -Lau's,
and they say he is quite the equal
of Lie.ut. Townley, or Captain Guilfoyle
or Mr. Avery, of Sioux City, or Frank
Zehrung, or any of the rest of them. He
has grace and unfailing good nature.
Leading a german is worse than leading
an army. Ihe man who can do it suc
cessfully has many elements of great
ness. You will find a photograph with this
letter that's one thing I didn't dare
let go in the printea letter. Don't jou
think it is good of him? It's his very
latest. Be sure to return it, for he had
only one taken.
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