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BgwHi 'I!?! f 7 .-ix M if -m-&fi && ti '- .' jSjM! ru V S jr . . ?-" X. -" f TH COUMXIL tr'T'STS!l-V'g.'"?yi t-THfcjnTf jwg.1- - .jBj-jjgj 1i.'96S-ft!S!35?'iSS3 - & I Is vc ELEANOR'S LETTER My dear S This thing of having to write a letter regularly regardless of circumstances, isu't the easiest thing In the world. This week there has been rat her. more going on than last week,and it is easier on that account. Your sug gestions as to how I might improve the letters are very good, I think, and when I get time I will try to act on them. I wonder if you remember May North? She visited in Lincoln a number of times, and I am sure you must have met her. The last time she was here was, I believe, a couple of years ago, when she spent some weeks as the guest of the Misses Cowdrey. Jack often speaks f her, and of her recitations. I think he was a bit smitten. Once 1 heard her recite something about the lament of a -nan of the world over his old dress suit he was on the eve of his wedding Lay, and the dress suit, covered with wine stains, that had clothed him in the gay days of bachelorhood, was to be discarded forever for the new one in which he would seek his bride. The sight of the stained garments brought up fond recollections, and caused strange musings. It was a taking story and Miss North did it so well that I was are she would make a good actress. She had been on the stage, with Elsie Oe Wolfe, before I met her, and after wards she joined another company. I think she had 4 flitting matrimonial ex perience. I speak of ber now because I see by an Omaha paper that she is back in Nebraska, living in Omaha with her family her father :s United States collector or something. The paper peaks highly of her as an actress and intimates that she will be much in de mand at local entertainments. I sup pose we will see her occasionally in Lin coln. People are talking about the propriety of the authorities of the state university allowing the students to give hops in the armory. The ministers started it. I don't know whether the students want to hop in the armory, but the serious ness with which the idea is discussed is funny. The Journal takes sides with the ministers, and that is funny, too. Will Jones, the managing editor, always tilted hu superior nose at any Buch frivolity as dancing when he was at tending the university and acting as walking delegate for the barbarians. Bat Mr- Gere is a great man with his feet. They, the feet, slide over a waxed floor like butter on a hot skillet. It's queer that he should object to dancing. This is a dancing town and if the stu dents make up their minds that they want to do the two-step in the armory it is not unlikely that they will two step in the armory. I heard the other day that the question is to be acted on at the next meeting of the regents. Will Robinson is out now, and ho doesn't seem to mind walking on one foot. In the young married people's set the principal topic of conversation or thought is, Who will find himself in the sanitarium next? George Woods and Mr. Bobinsor have had their turn, and I am told John Dorgan goes around with a rabbit's foot and a bottle of Pond's Extract, in each pocket. John is good at avoiding things. You know hie reputation for avoiding burglars and footpads. Last week I said Mr. Clouch was com ing back to Lincoln to live. This, I learn, was n error. He is in the city temporarily and will remain two or three weeks. Mr. dough is a great ad mirer ef the scenery between Omaha aa Lincoln. He has been making, fre quent trips, usually once a week, all viator. Last fall Henrietta HoUowbosh went te Boston to study music at the New w i England Conservatory of music I think the piano and pipe organ. The other day I met her on the street, much to my surprise. She came back to Lincoln on account of the sickness that is preva lent in Boston and also,I understand, on account of some trouble she has with her throat. She is a very clever and spirited girl, and a good musician. I may add that she is popular with the 'smart sat" of young people. Miss Sherwood, Mrs. Lambertson'e sister, who has been visitiog here sev eral weeks, has gone to Omaha, where she will be the guest of Mrs. Offut. Mr. and Mrs. Offut lately visited at the Lambertson'e. Miss Sherwood will again visit Lincoln before returning to Connecticut. Maud Oaklev sang with the Lorelei quartet, of which she is a member, Mon day in Omaha at the meeting of the Women's club. A number of Lincoln people were there. The leap year party last night was very successful. In the grand march I noticed these people: Misses Messrs Bertie Clark Will Johnson Grace Oakley M. Baldwin Mae Burr P. White M. Oakley Howell Moore Mallalieu Tukey White Anderson Ray Welch Griffith Will Clark Marshall Clough Nance Joyce jt- Slaughter H. Harley Kisser McCIeod Hollowbush Guy Hurlbut Brooks Earry Evans I wonder if it is as hard for the men to get all the girls to parties as it was for us? Mae Burr and Grace Oakley managed the party. If it had not been for their tact and thougbtfulness it would have been a failure. General ship is necceesary when it .comes to getting up a party and those girls earned their stripes on Thursday night and by the campaign that preceded it. In the first place they made out a list of what they supposed to be congenial people, at any rate they were congenial the last time they saw them together, then they went around to see the femi nine half of the list and here is where the light skirmishing began and a num ber declared themselves "hors du com bat" and went to the rear, and Thurs day night saw them not. A list has to be shifted: B, instead of going with C, has to put up with A. A is a good fel low and a good card player, but at a dance he is more of a necessity than a luxury. A has taken ell of us to parties and theatres and he must be taken to this party irrespective of his accomp lishments. So B takes him. (You un derstand, do you not S, that A stands for a number of young men)? Leap year is a social clearing house. The girls get a chance to return tne indifference and "Oh! I'll-take-you-if-l-have-to" which they have been getting for three years. I wish it came of tener. It is good for us to understand also some of the diffi culties the men have in getting up part ies and disposing of the ineligibles. As I said before, in spite of many difficult ies it was a sparkling success at last. The girls were on their mettle and the men were subdued by the pathetic un certainties of their position. It was happiness enough to look at them. It ia so cross to sit dances through if the world knows you can dance if you want to. At a leap year party it is more fun not to dance than to dance. When you get back 1 will tell you something very Funny that happened at the party. A good many are talking about it now, so many that it is sure to get into general circulation before tang aayjray. An innovation at the leap year party that proved to be.decidedly popular was aa arrangement of screens in the par lors that gave complete privacy to little SPRING . , . ?APES " -,.. A good thins in connection -"' with' Capes this season'is the fact that choice, sty I ih garments are being sold at popular prices. Just now 0 - m y&PY a remarkably com-r ' plete stock. MILLER & PAINE. M II III. I MM . IMI I I 1 . - : - ' ... AT ' "- ' MRS. DEMOREST'S On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to make room for new goods. Hair goods and toilet preparations. At Herpolsheimer's. hagbnow STRING QUARTBT We accept engagements for con certs, receptions, weddings, church entertainments, etc For rates apply to AUGUST HAGENOW University School of Music. Cor. 11th & R. tete-a-tete interviews. There were not enough of these screens to go around. It was no end of fun watching the scramble for them. It. seemed to me most of the people cared more for the screening than they did for the danc ing. I am sure the screens could many a tale unfold it they could only speak. I witnessed a good many funny things, that of course I could not write about. Two or three times when a girl had a screen partner that she cared more for than her next dancing partner, she would keep the young man hidden from view, and somewhere, out in the great ball-room, a man and a girl would find themselves without partners. On the whole the screen idna was great. I wonder if the idea will be followed Dancing parties would suddenly become vastly more popular if it should be. I think I alluded to the party as sparkling. Of course it was.. It was a success. Still I noticed that most of the people were rather quiet. Perhaps the Lenten conscience touched the Episcopalians, many of whom were there. Jfmay be that the men were exhausted from worrying as to whether, they would get to the party, and the girls were tired trying to take care of all the men. The list given above is not complete. Frank C Zehrung was there, but he was blase. You remember the words of the song, "The dude who didn't dance." Mae Moore was 'there as a spectator. The doctor will not allow her to dance for a long time I don't re member just how long. But Joe Mal lalieu consented to cheer a few of us up by dancing with us. Mr. Clough car ried a bunch of American beauties four feet long that Marie Marshall gave him. Hardly any of the young married people were there. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall came late. I told you last week that they have moved into Lillie Muir's house. Mae Burr was master of cere monies. Frank Cook has gone to Hillsdale, Mich. A conspicuous leap year party ab sentee was Olive Latta. She went to Plattsmouth from Omaha to attend a wedding. Miss lukey came down from Omaha to attend the party as the guest of Mae Burr. Miss Anderson intends returning home shortly. I hear. She was oue of the belles at the leap year party. - I wieh you would write me a letter that I can publish in The Courier. A few may be interested in both sides of this correspondence, and I often think when reading your letters they are much more worth publishing than my silly scrawls. You know mamma does not know that I am "Eleanor." No one does ex cept myself and the editors of The Courier. I suppose it is just as well for me that they do not. One of the fraternity girls at the uni versity sent in this notice of "Frat" fes tivities: Alpha Theta Chi a local "frat" gave a party at the Lansing Fii day. March 13,18. Phi Delta Theta banqueted at the Lincoln hotel last Saturday night, this being their anniversary of the founding of the "frat." The Delta Gammas sent carnations, the Phi Delta Theta flower. I will tell you about the Theta reception at Miss Clark's next week. Another girl who was prominently ab sent from the party was Hallie Hooper. So far as I know she is about the only person in the city who is observing Lent t Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rodgers, gave a small card party last night. There were only four tables just large enough to be-very pleasant. Last week, Friday, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wilson gave a small whist party duplicate you know, where you move from table to table and play the same hands your predecessors played it is like life and the history of members of the came family. Afterwards the guests had a chafing-dish supper. '. - Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. 'Robin son, Mrs. Campbell and Maude Oakley went to Omaha to witness a play by an amateur dramatic club made up of Omaha's brightest and best. You haven't sent back that photo graph of Jack's yet. I have use for it and I hope you will send it right l way. He has noticed its absence. Good bye, Yours lovingly, , . . , .ELEANOR Lincoln, Neb., Friday, March 20. Cheaper than growing, 3 can6 choice peas, 25c at The Alliance store, 1008 P street. Hon. Harry Broome, one of the bright est members of the Omaha bar, was in the city several days this week attend ing business before the supreme court. A guarantee means what it says when you buy your flour at Tho Alliance store, 1008 P st. We have ten different kinds of fiour ranging in price from 50 cents per sack up tall. Call and see us. before placing your orders. . . c v Ti 3 : :1 .-i "-; -I - X '-4 ,- -v -4 "if 1 -"? m ySfW - ., l v- Zrt-tS - 'r - vW jnCtu ' -. ,- i .- -.v4-jfcr-