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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1896)
THE COURIER. female outcast. I know that thoa aeem. ing eccentricities are tbereeult of certain fixed ruItB. When she learns that abe ia about to bo turned out of doors she immediately sells everything except a few diamond rings, and purchases along closk and hood, preferably black or gray. Tbcn ebo lots her back hair down. Sho is ready now to face the world, and grabbing a Email child in one hand and clutching the folds of her cloak in tho other, she goes out into the night. If it is winter, and I have ob served from the parquet, that she usu ally selects one of the coldest and storm iest nights in the winter, she rinds some spot convenient to a lamppost, where snow is falling like well, like so much paper. Then pressing the child to her, exi-osing one hand on which there are from one to three flashing diamonds, she mutters, "My God, we are s tarving What shall we do?" On ra-e occasions a summer night is selected. Then she goes down to the riverside and says, "Oh, my God.'' I have searched long and eagerly for female outcasts of this iype on the streets of New York, and I have never found one. Several tiires I have thought I was about to be success ful, when I would discover that what I mistook for a spotlessly clean cloak ,waa only a dirty black shawl, and in atead of a blood curdling, despairing, "Oh, my God," I would hear, "Say, mister, give me a nickle, will yer?' which shows that it is much safer to depend upon the drama than on individ ual research. Then I have learned that by 6onie occult process people are taught to ejac ulate, "My God," at opportune moments It seems that people who never uttered a word of praj er or blasphemy, or even indulged in wild exclamation, alwayB say, as if by inttinct. "Oh, my God!" when a valuable article is lost, when a long lo6t brother is found, hen any thing really exciting happens. In my feeble way I have looked for people ad dicted to the tragic "Oh, my God" habit, but I have not found them. So far as my observation has extended when anything starthngly unusual happene, people either say nothing or content themselves with "the devil!"' or "Jerusalem!" which showB that individ ual research is nothing. For real life go to the drama. . Now it has happened that most of the first-class scoundrels I have known have been blondes. But my experience is o! no value, for I know from the drama that villians are almost invaria bly dark. The villians I have known were, so far as appearance went, mighty pleasant fellows. You wanted to treat them kindly, invite them to the clubs and introduce tbem to your family and loan them money if you had any. But they couldn't have been real villians, for the drami has taught me that villians look like dressed-up barbers who have been miking a night of it men whom you think you would instinctively avoid if you had any money about your per son. All of which shows that for the real thing you have got to go to the drama. In my own experience I have left val uable documents, private correspond ence, etc on a table, and all aorta of people, including enemies and villians, have come and gone, leaving my prop erty untouched. I am afraid all of my experiences are unu6ual. 1 know from the dramas that the minute a person drops a letter, busch of keys or any valuaDle article, on the table nd leaves the room, some one enters immediately, goes at once to the table, and commits petit larceny. The drama is the thing. 1 have learned from the drama that searly every body writes shorthand something I never would have learned kBTwhere else. They must write short hand, for it is a common thing to write a four page letter in two eecends. I have learned that letters thrown in an open grate, no matter how fierce the fire never burn; that bankers always have gray hair; that maids and men servants always discuss their musters' affaire in the front parlors; that the hero who appears in a snow storm to rescue the outcast, always wears a blick cloak.high top boots, and carries a riding whip; that every family contains at least one spinster with short dresses, ringlets and a razor back nose. For life, as it is really lived, there is nothing like the realistic drama. W. MORTON SMITH. POLTIGAL MR To politics I am a slave; I obey its every command. To it I am4 wedded; It leads me, whether right or wrong;. It controls my every faculty. With its unyielding grip It carries me each day further and further from my path of duty. My efforts to sever its companionship are futile It possesses me; it enthuses or disheart ens me; My very being depends upon it; Yet, after all, miserable and discontented am I with it. Several candidates for city office have wisely suggested to the republican city central committee that all aspirants be restrained from securing more than 250 names to their petitions, so that no one who may later on be a candidate can be shut out by reason of his inab lity to obtain the requisite t umber of signers, because his friends might have placed their signatures to the tallysheet of s.iue candidate who did not require half the names he asked for. 'I his sugges tion ws advanced in last week's Courier and even had it not been made the cen tral committee would have discovered the inadequacy of this proposition were net candidates restricted to the neces sary number of petitioners. Five hun dred and fifty, names should be the ex treme limit. The central committee will probably hold another meeting soon, at which time they should unanimously adopt all amendments proposed at its last sitting. 1 his is the judgment of nearly ali true republicans. 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