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31 - . -s? t " "?" -- "', w- 1 n THB COUKIBK. - ? C -. Vr i -s "-i, -. -- : I- I- fcr- iK . HHKHIWIWIH fK MISS PENELOPE, OMAHA t! V v- si j y My Dear Eleanor: Mighty Sampson ever Med. False Delilah Uvea for ever. Me lulls us with the street sons; of treachery. We listen, we believe, we "seek to slumbrous rest, fondling; the ear delusion that we are good or great r fair, or. whatever in our Inmost soul we most crave to be. Sampson awoke shorn of his glorious locks and strength. .We awake with every lace like ruffle erf assumption ripped off our plain calico back ground, which we have .been straggling to disguise. Tour ef fort at sympathy for ray low estate and crushed condition impress me as "a trifle insincere. An old French cynic said: "There is something in the mis fortune of our friends not wholly disa greeable to us." Tour real active feel ing seems to be one of thankfulness, that bo one has evinced a disposition to attach your scalp to his girdle. Of course I am sorry Clementina doesn't 'Hke my style (Eleanor, never refer to my pen gymnastics as work) and I mean to change It. Hereafter my re port will run something after this fash ion, "On Tuesday a most delightful luncheon was gven by the charronlg Mrs. A- B. C. to her fascnating guest, the lovely Miss X. T. Z., at her exquis ite soae c The table was msgwinceaMy decor ated with a table cloth and bo bon dishes the" That's enough of course. It was enough before I began, but this is what you pays your money fetvso don't complain. Thlsls not .stridy Speaking, society news. 'but I gave "you warning long agotbat I considered It very 'wearing to eaoflne one's sett exclusively to so ciety aad Its gyrations. I -had always a mania for wandering through for bidden Held. The sign "No trespass ing" aad "No admittance" always culled me with an Insane, desire to trespass and enter. Certainly there are a few functions (with apologies to the Excelsior). The number of lunch eon ought to boom Hood's Sarsapa rWa. You likely do not see the con nection, but If you had been at Miss Jessie MHlard's lunch for the Misses Black, the necessity for an appetite would have appealed to you. Mrs. Dal las Beche gives a luncheon this week, aad Mrs. Guy C. Burton has issued one hundred and twenty-five invitations to a luncheon at the Millard Friday In honor of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles K. Barton, and I have Issued an invitation to luncheon to myself to go "to BatdunTs and have some straw berry short cake. Cards are out from Mrs. Henry W. Yates and the Misses Tates for a reception from 5 until 7, May M, to meet Miss Kountz and prac tically to say good-bye to Miss Kountx. as she is to be married in the sweetest f aH months the month of roses June. .(General and Mrs. Mandersofci left Tuesday for New York. General Maaderaon is to deliver the dedicatory address at the tomb of Grant, oa Memorial day. Even my frivolity, for the nonce, is checked "Now lies he here." and the greatest do him rever ence! This reminds me. Eleanor, that that idea of yours about doing without sugar la .your coffee and sending the savings to the foreign missions is ab surd. Tou know the sugar bounty is declared constitutional, therefore, you better "Stand Up for Nebraska" than save for the heathen. Miss Blanche McKenna leaves this week for Leavenworth, Kans. My in formant dd not say what day I re fer you far further Information to the society edemas of the Bee. Mrs." Peattle Is in Chicago for a week's visit Speaking of Mrs. Peattle again remind me that the Women's club held its annual meeting for the election of officers on Monday. Mrj. Ella Pe attle was made president for the com ing year. Among the four hundred or more present, there "was only one lone- Xe looking - individual. Through e arrangement. "ot understood by themaJorlty of the club, where news gatherers as a rule are barred, a World-Herald reporter was conducted early in the game to the platform, and after a time, when retreat, graceful or otherwise was Impossible, he be came aware from the hundreds of curious, inquiring eyes bent on him, and one or two perfectly lady-like re marks made to him. that he was looked upon as a large, unsightly blot, in this garden of roses. There are moments and this was one of them. Mrs. Z. T. Lmdsey and Mrs. Heller have gone as the club's representatives to Loule rUle, Ky.. to the national convention .of woman's clubs. Tou no doubt have "heard the World-Herald laughing the last week but laughing hardly does the performance justice. It has con torted and doubted up in a paroxysm of glee. It has made a discovery of course K doesn't often do that, and a IK tie. mild glee might be excused. We thought it was rather funny ourselves -at Jlrst, aadhtfChed too. but we sup posed we wCfM be allowed to stop seme time. aftuas thing of the World HeraM ereaMB t afresh every day In lead KsMfi,- then catching Its th aad saimgln chorus. "Every- laurh." m wsrse thaa being a hired mourner at a funeral. What's It about? Dear me, I forgot, haven't you heard, that they discovered some thirty or-' forty lines of Rosey's seventeen mile speech was a bodily adoption from the speech of one Aldrege. a Texas gentleman. Funny? Oh! of course, but I wish some gentleman who could be easily spared would be good enough to die, so that we could consistently quit laughing. Just for a rest. Really the sice of the laugh is all out of pro portion to the meagre dimensions of the joke. No! I am not "Stuck on Rosey." either, but he really has a "Don't know when he's licked" quality in his character, which, in its way. is superb. But who can shut out fate? The prejudice of centuries forbids our loving Mm. Rosey reminds me of two boys I once knew, and an episode 1 witnessed. A curled darling of patri cian parentage appeared one day on the velvet lawn of his father's home with a beautiful large slice of sugared gingerbread. A boy upon the curb, a child of the people, saw the curled dar ling, and coveted the cake. Upon mak ing known his wishes he was curtly denied. A scrap promptly ensued, dur ing which the gingerbread was reduced to a condition adapted only to the wants of the ants of the hill, or birds of the air. "Ah. Ha!" taunted the patrician pride, "Tou didn't get the cake." "Pooh! Who cares?" replied the child of the people. "Neither did you." But excuse me, it is time to laugh. If I forget my cue in this comic opera company of the W. H. I am liable to lose my "job." The Squash Town Bugle and the Podunk Clarion are fit to die In despair; the World-Herald turned an X ray on them and found their laugh was hollow and refused to reproduce it 'in their columns of the gayety Herald. Chorus. "Everybody laugh." I understand "The Shrub" is to be played in Lincoln Saturday night as a curtain raiser for "The Bells." That's a pretty glace scheme. We don't allow them to play it here any more, because the mayor says we are liable to die laughing. Tou never know when I am in earnest! Well; I suppose not. I only am. for truly, in earnest when I am asleep, which I very nearly am just at present but the play "Rosberry Shrub" Is funny very and "The Bells" nothing to sneer at. Make Jack take you. I cannot come down, much as I would like to. Unity club, which has deservedly quite a local reputa tion, presents two plays Friday even ing, "His Toast," and "Per Telephone," assisted by the Misses Lowe, who, by the way, are lovely musicians, with mandolins, guitars and harp. WII helmina Lowe sweeping the strings of a golden harp, justifies one for having visions of the the time. "When the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." Don't worry over Jack's pretended approval of me. He doesn't mean it. and I am true to the Impossible ideals of my youth, which Jack does not em body. What can we depend on? Noth ing! Not even the weather. I began to write to you Sunday, reduced to indecision by the heat and a dimity gown. I finish on Tuesday. I am about to mail my effort Wednesday, and am shivering and thinking longingly of my jersey flannels which are safely stowed away in the too pronounced embrace of moth balls. It seems as If the weather, at least, might be sincere. More anon, yours. PENELOPE. Omaha, May 58. 1896. THB JUNE RACES "We are going to try an experiment at the June races of the Lincoln Park association." said C. T. Boggs. secre tary, to The Courier yesterday. "We are going to have one 9900 pacing race for three-year-olds. In which we will award the premiums by heats. There has been considerable dlscusston of this plan among racing men, and we have decided to try it in one race. "A great feature of the June races will be the 2:09 pace. There will be ten or more starters, with records rang ing from 2:08)4 to 2:10 Here are some of the horses entered: Aft rite. 2:08; Ella T.. 2:09: Direction, 2:08; Badge, 2:08; Judge Hurt. 2:09. "There will also be a 2:15 pace. We have a large number of entries for this race. "In the 202 trot there are thus far sixteen entries. Including the Nebraska horse, Pat L., 2:11; .The Corporal. 2:12; McVera, 2:12; Pactolus. 2:12." All of these races are for (1,000 each. There will be fifteen to twenty races. The mept will open June 16 and close June 19. NOTICE. Water consumers will take due no tice that the penalty for non-payment of water rent win take effect on Mon day. Jane 1. Saturday, May 30, is" a legal holiday aad 'the office will be closed. Hence time to avoid the pen alty will expire Friday next. L. J. BTEB, Water Commissioner. 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