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contract aside.
A gleam of light shines through the
darkness. Mr. Charles Bancroft Dil
lingham, now with Mies Nethersole,
may be selected as Mr. Mansfield's man
ager. If be Bhould accept the position
and. he has already signified his wil
lingness to do bo the great American
actor will be Been in a new light a scries
of lights caat upon him from many dif
ferent directions, the illumination be
ing under Mr. Dillingham's personal su
pervision. Chicago Tribune.
The Tavary Opera company played to
a more slender amlienco in Omaha than
in Lincoln but it was just as wildly en
thusiastic over the Carmen of Mme.
Dorre. All this young woman needs is
a large enough audience to be famous
She has ability and the press notices
Bhow that she plays as well when her au
dience is small as when it is larger. She
has the conscience of greatness a con
science that never allows its servant to
act unworthily. Her method is bb ar
tistic and thoroughgoing as Richard
Mansfield's.
Mme. Dorre, Richard Mansfield Mayo
and Clement have been the only en
tirely satisfactory artists here this sea
son. Their acting is a revelation of the
world that Lincoln sees but seldom.
Mi68 Penelope of Omaha 6poke in a
recent letter of Mr. Ephraim V. Dixon
of Council Bluffs who was going to New
York to see his sister. Mis Thos. Sloane,
married to Mr. James L. Barclay. The
wedding took place this week. Town
Topics says that Mrs. Sloane is wealthy
in her own right and Mr. Barclay is also
rich. By the terms of her husb'and's
will she has to give up most of the money
he left her. There is a story in circula
tion to the effect that a man who was
to come into possession of 8100,000 if
Mrs. Sloane remarried will relinquish his
claim to that amount in her favor. Even
without this little allowance she would
not be poor. She is a handsome and
tall brunette and will make a tine look
ing bride. Only her immediate rela
tives among whom are her brothers,
Messrs. Wm. P. and Ephraim W.Dixon,
and her si3ter Mrs.. Louis Lee Stanton,
and Mr. Barclay's relatives will be pres
ent at the ceremony.
There is no truth in the reported en
gagement of Mr. Harry Payne Whitney
and Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt.
Octave Thanet has a story, unusually
good, even for her, in the April Harpers.
"The Missionary Sheriff' is the story of
a man whose duty as an officer had com
pelled him to shoot several desperadoes
and who had at the same time quite un
assuming manners and a gentle voice.
A confidence man, more weak than
wicked was pi't into his charge by the
court. Paisley, the prisoner, dropped
his mother's picture on the floor and it
was handed to the sheriff. The sheriff
examined the photograph, an ordinary
cabinet card. "The portrait was that or
a woman pictured with the relentless
frankness of a rural photographer's
camera. Every Bad line in the plain,
elderly face, every wrinkle in the ill-fitting
silk gown, showed with a brutal
distinctness, and somehow made the pic
ture more pathetic. The woman's hair
was gray and thin; her eyes, which were
dark, looked straight forward and seemed
to meet the sheriffs gaze. They had
no especial beauty of form; but they, as
well as the mouth, had an expression of
wistful kindliness that fixed the sheriffs
eyes on them for a full minute. He
sighed as he dropped his hand. Then
he observed that there was writing on
the reverse side of the carte, and lifted
it again to read. In a neat cramped
hand was written:
"To Eddy, from Mother, Feb. 12, 1S89. The
Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord maku
His face to shine upon thee, and be graeious
unto thee: the Lord lift up His countenance
uppn thee, and give thee peace."
Thereupon the sheriff decides tore
form the prisoner and he does. His
method has no namby pambyism about
it. The source of his influence is tne
strength and tenderness of his own
character. Paisley dies regenerated and
the old mother in comforted.
Octave Thanet is a western woman,
that is, she lives in Iowa. When the
geography of the country recovers from
the influence of that landing of the Pil
grims on Plymouth Rock. Iowa, Illinois
Nebraska and adjacent states will take
their own namo of middle states, and
the Rocky mountains will have some
thing to say about what is west and
what is not. Well, as I wns saying, Oct
tave Thanet resides in Iowa, which is
neither west nor east nor north nor south.
The people who live there are difficult to
portray. The smart set have the free
dom of the west. The kind that sheriffs
and policemen are made of manifest no
interesting border tendencies to be
served up to Bustonians and Englishmen
as venison and buffalo steaks are. They
are men and women, no better, cleverer
or wilder than wo are. Octavo Thanet
has presented Iowans truthfully and
without commonplaceness. I know of
no "db in the same Held except James
Whitcomb Riley and the author of "The
Circuit Rider" and neither has covered
the ground as well as Miss Thanet.
Mark Twain's "Reminiscences of Joan
of Arc'' is finished in this number.
Black's story of "Briseis" and Mrs. Bur
ton Harrison's serial gets on very slowly.
Black is another of the billion promis
ing young men who never fulfilled their
early promise.
It seems to be impossible for even the
most perfect lady to resist wearing her
Spring hat, whatever the size, to the
theatre. To be sure the necks behind
her writhe like anacondas trying to see
the stage, and writhe in vain. But then
they can see her hat Herpolsheimer's
best and one can't have everything un
til Heaven is attained.
Eleanor suggested last week that sha
make out a list of the largest hatB in the
audience at every performance. The
wearers might object to the publicity
altho' it is doubtful if the list itself
would excite more unfavorable comment
than the self-satisfied big-hat nuisances
cause while they are inflicting them
selves on an audience. It would be in
consistent for the list to reproach Elea
nor or the publishers of The Courier
with imposing on other people's rights
A person who will wear a large hat to
the theatre, and keep it on, has no rights
any one is bound to respect. It is only
because the big hat is such a common
felony that it is tolerated.
This would be a pleasant place if most
of the people in it let his neighbor's,
view and air alone. But they don't
Half the men make all the women and
the rest of the men uncomfortable by
spitting tobaceo juice everywhere on
the sidewalks, on the steps of the post
office the most wrenching place 1 know
in the street cars and in the opera
houses. A few women deprive other
women and men of a sight of a stage
they have paid to look at.
Bad odors and sickoning sights make
town life a misery. It is impossible al
ways to look up, the feet stumble and
there is danger of falling into what we
look up to forget.
Mrs. Peattie in the Omaha-Herald
says on this subject:
What might be said with most justice
and temperance is, that the men actual
ly do not realize how offensive their
habit of spitting is. No man in his right
sense would desire to make himself so
offensive to bis kind as to be held in
loathing; nor would any man be com
fortable if he knew that any .act of his
actually sickened to nausea some deli
cate women. Yet such is the case. Wo
men are' more fastidious than men, as a
rule. Not only have they a greater pas
sion for daintiness, but they have more
delicate stomachs, a greater abhorrance
of disagreeable sights, not to mention
the fact that their garments need to be
protected more carefully than those of
men, to keep them fresh and clean.
Fancy then, the disgust of a woman,
who, upon returning to her home, and
removing her dainty costume, finds it
sickening with tobacco juice of heaven
knows whom! The thought is so dis
agreeable that she may well be excused
for anger, or for a feeling that she can
never don that costume again.
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