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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1896)
fWl 1s w "ii in i .'! L . a. EJOIII mi aof ! I I I J lllll'Hl rniTHT- rilFTT"! " THBCOUMSK. s & sr - theyspent in Washington Ruth whhx and William wore dreMM. The habits of the family were unaltered by the change of residence. They had family worship in the morning and in the even ing, Mrs. Bryan road to her father and mother, from half past seven to eight, as she has done since she was ten years old. Mr. Baird has a Scotchman's love of controversial theology, and the greater proportion of the books bin daughter reads to him are religious works. She pays that she has learnt patience and receptiveness or docility from this enforced reading of an author who does not interest her. "I have learned to listen to the most wearisome exposition with patience, and have rarely failed to receive my reward," she said. No one who knows Mrs. Bryan has failed to note her serenity in the midst of confusion and excitement the se renity of a hospital nurse or of a sister of charity, whose calmness reaches deeper than the surface. Since she was a young lady Mrs. Bryan haB had the care of her mother, whose invalid ism was of a peculiarly tryi-g kind. She seemed well, yet she said she was not. She did not wish to see any one but the family in the house, and she scarcely ever left it. The sight of gaiety was an affront to her. Mrs. Bryan accepted the conditions of such a life with cheer fulness and enjoyed her family and books all the more to make up for the loss of what her social nature would have enjoyed. It is to her father that Mrs. Bryan owes her devotion to study, her Scotch directness and simplicity and a wit, Irish in qualitv, that flashes in her re plies quick as light, ana as harmless. The union of Scotch shrewdness, and honest if sometimes brusque expression, with Irish tact and comprehension of a situation, fits Mrs. Bryan for any sta tion which Providence and the Ameri can people may ask her to occupy. It is Mrs. Bryan's habit to lay out the work of the house into seasons and to subdivide ft into weeks ami days. She adheres to her plans with a persistence that is one of her most marked charac teristics. The machinery is so nicely adjusted that when she goes away or anyone is taken sick the house seems to run itself. In the spring the winter garments are repaired and ready for the first cold day? of fall. In the summer she and a seamstress make the chil dren's winter clothes. Mrs. Bryan says the secret of leisure is "to keep a season ahead of the seasons." which is the fem inine of Mr. Baird'e "Push your busi ness or your business will push you.' In 1893, when Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were travelling in the south, in North , Carolina, Mr. Bryan delivered an ad dress at the commencement exercises of the state industrial school. In the even ing Mis. Bryan spoke to the girls of the graduating class. She said that all who truly loved books would continue to read after their academic life was past. She showed them how to use the few mo ments a day, which even the busiest would have to herself, to the best ad vantage. Mrs. Bryan never deals in vague terms nor above the heads of her audience. When she had finished the girls ciowded around her, and the gov ernor of North Carolina said while he shook hands with her, "This is the first time that North Caro lina has ever heard anything like this." That a southerner should be pleased by a woman's public address is a tribute to Mrs. Bryan's gentleness and grace as well as to her intelligence. Of course ' she could not economise time by filling every moment if she were not very strong. Most women's plans are interrupted by weariness and illness. Mrs. Bryan's childhood was pawed in the open air, riding horseback-, skating and other varieties of muscular activity. She recovered from the terri ble trip fromLincoln to New York with an elasticity that surprised the doctor and awakened his patient's jealousy. These two people have started out to conquer their kingdom. They will not do it this time under the banner they flourish bravely and constantly, but their ex periences wilt make interesting gossip for the winter evenings that approach. YEAR What Next? The recent political convention at Chicago sometimes called a democratic gathering and frequently since its hap pening, under campaign excitement, re ferred to as nondescript afforded at least one clear cut proof of the frenzy for vaudeville entertainment that afflicts the mass. It will be remembered that a woman dressed according to the populistic idea of the Goddess of Liberty although there is in recollection no newspaper description of this personator that wculd associate her with the beautifully curved and statuesque personage who' for many years has lived in the eye of the public as typical of freedom's handmaiden and a man habited in accordance with the popular idea of Uncle Samuel, modi fied by rural Long Island tailoring, ap peared jointly and were received with enjoyable acclaim by many in the audi ence while they were offensively depre cated by others entitled to seats. This "turn" had no evident effect for the nominations made, and it is difficult to make it illustrate any particular plank in the platform adopted. But that it was a bit of testi-nony to the prevailing tendency for amusement is beyond gainsaying. If it had been in trinsically meritorious, however, we should before this have sejn the "team" on one of the New York roof gardens. Vaudeville managers go further than Chicago to-wit. all over Europe in search of novelties; and if this exhibi tion had popsessed a novel value, its makers would have been offered big money to repeat it in opposition to the political show. Perhaps the Chicago convention eiup tion of vaudeville was not, after all, the most notable evidence of the popular grasp of this form of amusement. Here in New York, with a dozen placs in doors and on roofs devoted to it regu larly this summer, the intending excur sionist by water is seduced by its de vices. One of the big steamboats that run down the bay nightly to Sandy Hook and back offers as a special in ducement a vaudeville show on deck, and the boat is said to be so rrowded that little room is left for the perform ers. This would seem to cap the climax, and the coming season of colder weather might be expected to greatly contract the scope of variety entertainment, and possibly to confine it to its former dem onstrations with its regular theatres. But such is evidently not the case. The Mirror. THE8HN T?ie first of American Newspapers CHARLES A. DANA, Editor. The American Constitution, the American Idea, the American Spirit These first, last, and all the time, for ever. Daily, by mail, - - - 96 a year Daily and Sunday, by mail - 98 a year 1lae Sunday Sun. is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in tle World. Price 5c. a copy. By mail, $2 a year AddrM,THESrjN, New York Time Reduce. Great Koch Inland Rout Runs their PfciUipg' Pullman Kxcups1R Cars to Under new manaf ement MERCHANTS' HOTEL OMAHA, NEBR. PAXTOH. HULETT DAYXWFOBT, Proprietor. paehd attention to state trad. imMmI a milsl travelers. Farnasa street ilsslisi aan pass the door to and from all oartaaCsk Empress Josephine toilet preparation face bleach, face tonic, hair tonic, etct at Kleinkauf & Grimes', 117 North lis POINTS OF CONTRAST. The morning and evening" paper read by purchaser alone, ia part, because hastily, forgottea ia the rush of business, or thrown away soon as glanced at. THE WEEKLY PAPER, read throughout in he seclusion of the home after business hours, in the leisure of the reader, at the club by family and friends. THAT IS WHY THE COURIER U1 P7 you an advertising medius. tt-" - on their fast trains. Examine time cards and see that we are nearly TWO HOURS quicker than any other route Chicago to Los Angeles. The Phillips excursions are popular He has carried over 125,000 patrons in the past fifteen years, and a com fort a ole trip at cheap rate is guaranteed, and he fast time now made puts the Philips-Rock Island Excursions at the top Post yourself for a California trip be. ore deciding, and write me for explici information. Address, JOHN SEBASTIAN, YOUNG PEOPLES CHRISTIAN UN ION CONVENTION AT OMAHA. The Burlington will sell round trip tickets at 81.65, good going August 15, 17, 10 and-22; retuming until August 26. For tickets and further informa tion apply at B. & M. dept or city office, corner Tenth and O streets. G. W. Bonnell. C. P. & T. Agt. Aug. 22. Mrs. SIdell is the favorite modiste, 1232 O street. Sep 12 - m HALF PARE EXCURSION TO HOT SPRINGS. S. D. If you want to travel cheap, note the following round trip excursions at half rates this summer via the North Western line: June 12 and July 3 to Hot Springs, S. D. June 14 and 15 and July 5 and 6 to Denver, Colo. June 15, 16. 23 and 24 to San Fran cisco. July 4, 5, 6. to Chicago. July 4 and 5 to Buffalo. N. E. A. July 2. 3, 4. 5. to "Washington, D. C. July 14. 15, 16, to Milwaukee, Wis. Get Information and tickets at city ticket office. 117 South Tenth street, Lincoln, Neb. t t Every purchaser of SI worth of goods will receive a cou pon worth 10 cts, to apply on future purchase. 5c cou pon with 50c RlGGS PltABMACr 12 & O AIM EXCHANGE MIIOWI Ml LINCOLN, NEB. I M.RVYkOXI), President. S. H. BURNHAM. Cashier. A.J. SAWYER Vicee President D. G. WING Aitnt Castiter CAPITAL, $250,000 SURPLUS $2? 000 Directors I. M. Raymond. S. H. Bnrnbant C.O.Dawes. A. J. Sawyar. Lewis Gregory XZSnell.GMLambertson. D O Winx, SW Barnaul. CHEAP RATES TO ST PAUL AND RETTJRV. The North-Western is now selling at reduced round trip rates, tickets to St. Paul, Minneapolis and numerous re sorts In Minnesota. This Is the Short Line. 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