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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1898)
THE COURIER. my business, i hope I shall never hare to go through such a moment again. The best I could say was that I would write the truth and only the truth, and that I would flatly contra dict the countless lies that had been told of her. She didn't freeze; she just got a little whiter and looked dazed and said faintly: "O, I didn't understand. 1 thought you were a friend of mother's." I could only say, "I'm a friend of .your's, my dear, and if you'll trust me I'll try to prove it." She looked at me for a few moments and said simply: "I'll have totrusc you, there is no one else. Father may come in a few days, and it may be weeks. You see nobody wants inc very'much and there doesn't exactly seem to be any place in the world for me." Never mind what 1 did then. I must have assured her for she began again. It was the saddest little story 1 ever heard, and the most hopeless. It came out bit by bit, incident by in cident, as a child tells things. I sim ply could not stop her. She vas fever ish and her eyes were red with crying, feel towards each other it doesn't happen often, I believe, that people really care for so long. But. you see it leaves me no place. I seem quite crowded out. I am not necessary to mother and he is. My own father doesn't know me very well and I am a great burden to him. They don't teach one how to do things at the con vent, I can't do anything but sing a little. I don't know what will happen next. Nothing very good, I'm afraid.' 1 suggested the two gentlemen to whom she was said to be engaged. Hut that's the part of the story that will never be told by me. 1 didn't see much encouragement in it for the present so I suggested the stage. The word seemed to produce an actual nausea of the soul in her. She threw out her hands with a gesture of un speakable disgust, "I'd rather scrub floors for a living! Why that's an awful life!'' Poor little girl! her initi ation into stage life had not been a pleasant one and she seemed to have no faith in anything or anybody who had ever been on the other side of the footlights, and for a moment I was glad she hadn't, I didn't want to see 's? t C g ji $ $ g $ 6 : She had only been out of the con- that fragile little face blurred by that cruellest of all lives that gradually wears the fine lines from the fairest faces, It recalled that unpleasant and masterly book of Henry James' about "What Maisie Knew" to think what things those big, sad eyes had already seen, and the girl is only seventeen; just the age when she ought to be finding out how gay life is and thatali women are good and all men kind, and that sorrow is a thimr onlv written vent a year. There she took vocal lessons from a sister Agatha and sang in the choir. She spoke wistfully of it, that safe-sheltered existence with its routine and calm monotony, among those quiet, serene sisters, so fa from the tempestuous emotions that blast and kill, and "that unrest' which men miscall delight" And from that she was transplanted at sixteen to the comic opera stage under the tender 4 4 4 4 9 4 4 4 4 " "-- Hi - Ir- l, ii, ir. j 1, r- ,ee.e4 . rr A COMBINATION T VORrr- INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE. i i i ; The North Western Monthly. Sl.SOi THE UOURIER $1.00 1 The Club Woman $1.00 i Total $3.50i All three for S 05 1 The North Western Monthly is the only educational magazine in America that offers scholarly courses of. stuuy ior ciuds, or circles, or private students, otters courses of study in Literature, Americans History, European History, Municipal Government and Child Stuly. The Courier criticism and State club news. The Club Woman club news of the whole country, 1 Thus: Courses of study; Nebraska club news; na-1 tional club news; all for b2.2o. Address, 4 IT 4 ft ft f t THE NORTHWESTERN MONTHLY, or THE COURIER,' Lincoln, Nebr. 'i U Stj - 9 9 it l Ktf for a delight that is not theirs. And thisiKior little girl seems destined to her share for one of the most notable and lasting infatuations in tho annals or the stage. Tt was only three years ago that Marion Manola, from the prolonged use of narcotic drugs and - - "1 - -, t -, ,, .. MUSICAL MENTION the was care of Marion Manola and Jack Ma- about in books. O the pity of it! But son! Truly the Lord can makedc- at any rate it is a very good and a very barrassment, went temporarily insane, lightful stories when he chooses, and sweet little girl who has come back to 'er creditors had her arrested and as Heine says, "How immeasurably he Pittsburg. There are some nature's tofc her costumes for debt. She got exceeds us in his humor and colossal that the dark side of life can only sad- up out of a sick bed to go to the court cen never corrupt. But I am in- room. She wasacquitted, but hereof see," said the child, "1 had clincd to think with the landlady that tage at Winthrop was taken to satisfy Tho fourth annual concert of university Uleo and Banjo clubs given at the Oliver on Friday evoning. Although for the benefit of tho Y. W. C. A. tho audience consisted largely of col- financial em- ,eKe people, and tho scarlet and cream decorations were used. Tho students formed a moat enthusiastic audiencoand applauded every number, and even gave a recall after an encore. That tho affair was more of a Eocial than of a musical uod was absent-minded when lie gave a girl like this one to Marion Manola nature wbb shown from tho merry talk the claim. The strain and worn of over tho house, which formed an acco Ti the court room were too much for paniraent to tho daehing airB and abated the little woman who had helped the 0D'J' Ior overwhel-ning applause. All tho It is not a pleasant thing to go out world smile for so long. Her malady songs dear to tho students heart were with a little girl's tears still wet on developed where her talent had on S!ven and were received with audible your handkerchief to write a sensa- the stage. Her illness first manifested oppressions of delight. tional story about her. In a book the itself by her forgetting her lines and The banjo club played a number of wit." "You only known my mother in my vacation before. She is different when she is playing and with Mr. Mason. I didn't know what it would be like when I went with them." Mason, it seems, had always born a grudge against the child because of her mother's affection for her, and had reporter would go in to the managing looking hopelessly at Mason for her catcny airs in good time and with great hated her because she recalled a Dart editor and say with pallid lios, "There cue. In a little while she forgot the BP't- It was a source of amusement to of Manola's past in which he had no is " story!" and get cashiered. But "Mikado" altogether. She gave up B-e each player bring his own chair at share. What love the child got from " the rocky old world that is, things ber home and money, but she never facn appsarance, then carefully replace her mother she got by stealth, and I don't happen that way. A man had Rave up Jack Mason; she forgot the il at tho rear of the stage before leaving, imagine it was not very much she ever been hired to take my place at the parts she had been singing for twelve """"Kb. certain of a recall, got. When they went South business editorial desk, and the men were wait- years, but she never forgot him. It was Three soloists assisted in giving variety was bad, Mason grew more dissipated n? 'or my copy. With the grim con- very pitiful to hear her plead in her to tne program: Miss Marion Treat, than ever and his temper did not im- solation that I could never feel meaner illness, "Don't let them take the dress witn ber sweet soprano voice; Miss Clara prove. Finally, the night before the I wrote the story and I did the best I I wore my first night, Jack!" in time Calmer of Omaha, and Mr.Wehn, who company disbanded, Mason quarrelled could for her which was bad enough she rallied again-for him. The certainly plays the cornet with musical so violently with his wife about the and tried to forget that I had stum- strength of that infatuation held even ability. Miss Palmer's selection was a girl that she fell ill and Adelaide had bled upon a cliild's confidence and be- then. Since then disaster has followed trillie soaibre for the audience, and her trayed it. disaster, always finding them together encore, which should have been bright and caring only for that. Even her for contrast, was keyed in tho same Well, we "scooped" New York, which daughter reverences the sincerity or minor strain, but her contralto voice is is the end and aim of every paper in iiiu provinces, anu tue eastern papers to sing her part. The girl was really as ill as her mother and fainted in the last act of the piece. That night, the child made her decision. She .iad just money enough to reach New it. Alone, Marion Manola miirht have 01 an agreeable quality and shows both had a brilliant career. Jack Mason P-wer and feeling. York, and next day, while Mason was copied the yarn and the old newspaper spoke truly enough three years ago MrB- " ". M. Raymona accompanied drunk and her she ran away. "You see mother's life was hard enough anyway, and as long as I was mother in liy.terics, men or the town came around and shook hands, and I made the counting room fork out greenbacks enough to keep that little girl in flowers and there I seemed to come between her Huylers for many a long day. But if and the only thing she really cares anyone has got a bad conscience to for. He was cruel to her on my ac- trade, mine is in the market at a low count and I couldn't stand it. I figure. I wouldn't figure in another couldn't stand, either, to see him slaughter of the innocent to "scoop" wreck all her life along with him. No the earth, company will ever get along under his managment. Mother could get good All great infatuations have had engagements away from him, but she their victims, from the days of Lance won't leave him. I had a sort of hope lot and Elaine. They are primarily when I ran away that if she saw it selfish and they damn the innocent must be me or him, if she saw she with the guilty Often enough their The program without tho onnnrM .J -ww.J aa as iuiiuws: -.n ., fr;n,l N,r,.l 1. I....1 IUB tOJOIStS. .ttiv.li uiiiuiu iiuill IIKIIIU lVIIiailMJU that lie had had no luck since he met r.....ln ...! l. IS ..1. UT ,- TT-? T. 1-. .'i.wiui.i, aim iiu replied: ioirt say univereuy oong Vnon that, it's she, poor girl; who has never ATnCnrewV; ."'.".Shattuck had a lucky day since she met me." y ': x; V Johnson 01 i i ... , Banjo Club She had given up everything under Contralto Solo. Recitative and Aria heaven for him and now she has given "My Heartis Weary".GoringThomas up her child. Miss Clara Palmer. Jack Mason's people are still living ylf, v-y-p'Y' ', Mohring up on Beacon street in Boston; among Banjo Club. " Arm6troD the wealthiest, most cultured and ex- Duet, Guitar and Mandolin, "Under elusive people. His mother shudders the Double Eagle .' Wagner at his name. Marion Manola's daugh- tj virv!.? U'Dg' A" R' ChaPman- ter is here alone, erateful for tlipsvm- rv.,f ai -Pu'"."",",v:".-Uore patliy of a stranger. If people could pay for their follies themselves, life must give one of us up, she might break away from him. But she never will. A woman ought to give a great deal for her husband I suppose, but I don't think she ought to give every thingthe things that matter more than life, J mean. At any rate I can't help respecting the way they shadow falls across a life into which the sunlight shouid lie just coming. It is the old inexorable law the justice of which we cannot understand. would not be so bitterly hard. PlTTSBUUO, Pa. With a piece of st-icg and a little Cornet bolo, Theme and Variations :;" RollinEon Mr. Earl Wen n. Soprano Solo, "A Song of Thanks giving". ....... Frances Allitsen ,. Miss Marion A. Treat. Handicap March Rceev The Po9t Horn, with cornet obh'ga'to " .Pfiueger Grand passions are the most expensive sand and grease some Hindoo convicts Belle oV the Season. Bratton things in life: so costly that two lives recently sawed thiough an iron bar two . Banjo Club! Ann. .. . l . - fTlArkottFiTa II-,1.1? -v cannot pay for one, there must always be others who pay in blood and tears inches in diameter escaped from jail. in five hours and vieopairas wecldine Day. from wizzard of the Nile" Gig and BaDJo Clubs