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My Dear Eleanor: Doubtless you
have noticed many funeral processions,
have observed the solemn stately move
ment of the vehicles, and tbe subdued,
mournful air of every one, including the
hired drivers but have you ever taken
particular notice of the return of the
same procession? Where is the solem
nity now? Even the horses fleck their
tails gaily, hold up their heads smartly,
and trot along; as if to say "Well, for
goodness sake, we've had a doleful
enough time, let's brace up if possible."
I am cot the first person who ever no
ticed this peculiarity, it impressed an
obscure poet by the name of Riley, to
such ap extent that he wrote a poem
about it "When the Hearse Comes
Back. Its just an illustration of the
fact that humanity is not built for gloom.
When a man or woman arrives at a point
where he or she likes to breakfast, lunch
and dine on large chunks of despair,
you can make up your minds that the
daily papers in the town where they live
will, sooner or later, have material for
startling slug heads. It may be poison,
it may be cold lead, or in an extreme
case, too much Missouri water, but it
will surely come.
This idea suggested itself to me from
observing the effect the forty days' ab
stinence from the flesh potB of Egypt
seemB to have, on people. Ash Wednes
day began it the procession of fugitives
from the world, the flesh and the devil,
started out rather morunfully. Jewels,
. laces and frivolities of all sorts disap
peared, prayer books replaced them, and
the society girl who posed for doing the
proper thing, resolutely declined the
theatre, eschewed theatre parties and
scarcely approved even a dry bite at the
club, though occasionally to oblige a
friend, she took it, in fact one evening I
was lunching there. I am not a church
woman, and a very gay party entered. I
caught this during the conversation:
"Say, Jess, what became of that St.
Louis man of yours?' "Oh!" Jess non
chalantly replied. "He played an act
from the Marble Heart on me, borrowed
a ring with five stones in it, and failed
to come back. This is apropos of
nothing, in this mosaic work of mine. 1
am liable to drop in every now and then
a gem like that.
The girl, who for six weeks hadn't a
rag to her back, and never expected to
have anything, appeared last Sunday. I
do not know whether the Associated
Charities provided her tailor made go n
and the wondorf ul creation of tangled
rainbow gleams which crowned her
graceful head, but it was all there, and
the girl herself a new creation of smiles
and clothes, and why not the proces
sion was coming back.
Trinity Cathedral as usual was beau
tifully decorated, and the music of the
high order we expect from Mrs. Cot
ton's leadership. She sang "The Lord
is Risen," with an echo effect, from the
s'jrpliced choir boys which was lovely.
The town seemed a vast garden of
white flowers; Easter lilies nodded at
you between the parted lace curtains of
every window, and waves of perfume
floated out from every opened door;
women with smiling faces passed you,
occasionally ore with a light in her eyes
you know came from something deeper
than worldly good or store.
It was rather an abrupt plunge for so
cietyfrom Frankinseace and myrrh
from the confessional and prie-Dieu to
Loie Puller Monday night. My lady,
with her hands still warm from the'de
votional clasp of prayer, daintily ap
plauded the evolutions of Loie.
The highest priced of us here are not
exactly inlaid with gold, and there
seemed to be precious little sense in our
putting up a dollar and a half a seat to
see an indifferent variety performance,
tedeemed only by Miss Fuller's startling
effects, which were wonderful, tho due
chiefly, it seemed to me, to the skill of
the Electrician, lu you knov I am not
a critic. Everybody w.ho is anybody
and everybody who is trying to be some
body, and a lot of somebodys who are
really nobodjs was there, and one and
all felt rather taken in.
Thursday Mrs. Cummings gives a
luncheon for the Buds which naturally
excludes a full blown flower like myself
its a little trying on the rose no longer
young and not exactly old; she can't
make up her mind whether to draw the
leaves together and mako a dash for
youth for another brief space, or just
drop into the Dot pourri jar and have
done with it. How would ou like to be
only a fragrant memory, Eleanor?
Our absentees are returning to their
native sand l.ills. Miss Linda Curtis,
well known socially, came home this
week from an eastern trip, also Miss
Nellie Wakely, who has for two months
been visiting her brother's family in.
Chicago. Mrs. Lewis Heed arrived
home Monday, after ten months spent
in Germany with her children. The
Mynheer eeems to hare agreed with her;
she looks awfully well and says they all
made great progress in the language.
I've no doubt she will enjoy my run
ning in occasionally and Baying: "Wie
befinden sie sich, and zweie bier," Do
you know I can carry on quite an ani
mated German conversation? Which
"being translated runs like this "Have
you a green book? No, I have a brown
book. Is Bella's book also brown? No(
Bella's book is blue.'
Misa Mary Noah is home from North
Berkeley, California, and Rumor says
she is soon to go east for her trousseau,
as she is to be married in June to Mr.
Crofoot.one of ourmost promisingyoung
lawyers not but what they all promise.
Yamagatta has arrived! I did not
realize it until now but all my life I
have been waiting for, expecting, this
moment.this supreme crisis at one time
I feared Yamagatla might not come,
may I never again taste such bitter de
spairbut he is here! General Ccp
pinger, his Aide, and an hundred soldiers
brave, have escorted him with martial
music to the Millard hotel. J hope Mr.
Market will not make a mistake and give
him chop sticks for his oat meal. Tbe
Japanese understand as much about
spoons as about guns, which the Chinese
will assuro you is a good deal.
Mrs. Gen. Brook, formerly of Omaha,
now of Minneapolis, is in town the guest
of Mrs. William Redick. A number of
quiet little things have been given her,
as she has many friends here.
Speaking of them makes me think of
a funny story. Shortly before they were
ordered away from here. Gen. Brook
went one morning to the butcher shop
to look after his particular cut of beef.
A sitrple circumstance,but simple things
have decided Water loos. That same
morning Mrs. Chas. Djel Bent her son
Luke, a mature youth of seven summers
to the same shop for live cents worth of
salt pork. Luke obediently set out, and
shortly returned. "Did you bring the
pork, Luke?" asked his mother. "No,"
the young man replied, "but I ordered
two chickens, a beefstek and a dozen
chops. "Why, what do you mean. I
wanted pork at once." "Well, General
'Brook was in the shop; you don't sup
pose I could ask for rive cents worth of
"salt pork do you?" Out of the mouths
of babes and sucklings we get our finest
criticisms. This end of tbe century
abounds in gems, which fall in unex
pected places and bring forth strange
fruit.
Eleanor, did you ever have a feeling
that, Hke'Anserica.-ycHi wen about to be
discovered? Its not a nice feeling its
the sort tbe villain in the play must
have when the immaculate heroine
points her index ringer to the exit up
per Right Hand -and eajs: "Go, you
have deceived me. 1 will see your face
nomoit!' Probably she supi wiih him
after the opera is over, but that is none
of our bubiness. Speaking of dramatics,
I hear Frank Lea Short ib to present
The Bells' here May 7. Eleanor, if
you have not heard Irving do not waste
your mouoy. Frank Lea is "joust so
good, und scheaper."
But to return to our mutton. If we
are found outlet us buy us an island,
start a paper, subscribe for it ourselves,
write for it, read it and advertise in it
ourselves, and let the rest of the world
go to Venezuela it it li'te.
I am so anxious to see you; come up
over Sunday. Did I ever tell you'what
a well known politician once told me?
He had been absent from home several
days, and on his return his little daugh
ter greeted him enthusiastically saying:
"Ob, Pana, I'm glad you've come, the
Donkey s have been so lonesome."
Come whenever you can, to jour
lonely Pkxelope.
Omaha Wednesday, April 8, 1896.
Stuart Robson.
Iu a recent interview when asked if he
came from a theatrical family, Stuart
Robson said:
"Far from it. My parents were rigid
Methodists at a period when even loco
foco matches were preached against as
an invention of the devil. When I was
about twelve years old my family moved
to Baltimore. There I saw John Owens
and immediately became stage struck.
Often John Sleeper Clarke and I fol
lowed Owens from one end of Baltimore
Btreet to tbe other, as if he were some
superior being from another world. Ed
win Booth, Clarke, John Wilkes Booth,
W. Talbot, Somerfield Barry and I
chummed together a good deal at that
time. Among our diversions was the
erection of an amateur theatre in the
cellar of a shoemaker on Calvery street.
The admission was about three cents.
One of the play s that I recall was AI
lessandro Masseroni, the King of the
Bloody Thieves. Every actor was per
mitted to say what he pleased, provided
it helped along the situation. My great
hit consisted in chopping off the head of
Edwin Booth, as it lay upon a block.
MRS.PYLE'S RESTAURANT.
Mrs. Pyle, having purchased the
Model restaurant in the Salisbury
block. Twelfth and M streets, hereto
fore conducted by Mr. Scott, is giving
her undivided attention to the work of
making this the most popular restau
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desirable class of customers, and the
patronage is steadily increasing.ri Tt
easy of access from the business ponots
cf the city ana the appointments and
service are all that could be desired.
Table board by the week, 33; ti( ket good
for 21 meals, $.'150.
Fine line of toilet soaps at Kleinkauf
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The very best of everything in the
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ssad by purchaser alone, in part,
because hastily, forgotten in ths
rush of business, or thrown away
aa soon as glanced at.
THE WEEKLY PAPER, read
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In Omaha.
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