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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1898)
VOL.13. N0.2G. r-51tPMJfcil- Entered in TnE postoffice at Lincoln as SECOND CLASS MATTER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY nT THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS. Editor Subscription Kates In Advance. Per annum "9.2 Six months J5 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 Tiik Courier will not be responsi hie for voluntary communications un accompanied by return postage. Communications, to receive atten tion, must be signed by the full name of the writer, not merely as a guaran tee of good faith, but for publication if advisable. g OBSERVATIONS. 8 The letters from the boys at camp have not given a roseate view of army life. But it has its compensation in the excitement and chance of adven ture. According to the reports much bad management must exist in the commissary department. This may be due to inefficiency or dishonesty, probably both. We have little sym pathy or patience with a woman who can not provide enough provisions to last over Sunday, when the stores arc closed, yet such women live. In the larger "family of the army a careful and exact calculation is required to prevent what is said to have occurred at San Francisco a shortage of pro visions. The Lincoln boys were ESTABLISHED H v"""-! " sifcr3P Bj . Vsr-LiEBk 1 H LINCOLN. NEBR., trained to too much luxury to take kindly at once to hard tack. Perhaps by their return they will have learned that it is not always necessary to de man the tenderloin part of the beef steak It is a pity that the government does not, own a few more brass bands like the glorious Marine that has been at Omaha. Nothing could be more in spiring or arouse a greater feeling of patriotism than the national airs swelling forth in perfect unison from those wonderful instruments. Of course the surroundings at the expo sition add to the enchantment. "Frozen music' is a term often ap plied to architecture by famous writers who knew nothing of its ap propriate application to the ethereal beauty of the modern "white city." but when the Marine band peals forth those wonderful strains of welcome in the dusk of the evening, the gleaming colonades and buildings no longer seem frozen, but melt into the warmth of the joyoftheeiivelopinglianiioni.es. Anyone doubting the beauty and value of the Trans Mississippi ex hibits should sjiend a day in the gov ernment building. An astonishing variety of interesting articles are collected there. The models of the war vessels are complete to the small est detail and are of inestimable edu cational value to western children who have never seen a ship. The il lustrations of modern war methods also attract a great deal of attention. The recoiling guns are patiently ex plained by an ollicer until even the unmcchanical mind of the average woman can understand how they go otL She still retains a feeling of the uncertainty of guns resembling her opinion of the unloaded revolver, which, she knows from its name, will kill. The most charming part of this exhibit is that devoted to the fish. The entrance through a beautiful grotto leads to a long, cool corridor lined with glass cases, through which the irridescent finny tribe dart back and forth unceasingly. Here, too. the delight of the children is un bounded. The older generation can live on the memory of earlier exposi tions when novelty and enthusiasm accompanied their travels, but the growing youth of today bring with them a fresh, unclouded appreciation. The death of Anton Seidl last spring and the vacancy left in the New York Philharmonic society, has had far reaching effects in the world of musi cal conductors. Walter Damrosch desired the appointment and resigned IN 133G SATURDAY JUNE '1T, 1893. from the New York Symphony orches tra, but the coveted prize fell to the lot or Emil Pauer of Itoston. That necessitated the recall of Gerick from Germany, whither he retired years ago from Boston. Why he went no one knew, any more than they now know why he is willing to return to his old position. In the meantime Frank Damrosch is IcmiKirarily ron ducting the New York Oratorio so x-iety. whidi means (say the journals) that his brother Walter will later ac cept that for the winter. Walter Damrosch is one of those young men who are hampered by the greatness of their fathers. Leopold Damrosch died at the height of his musical career and in the fullest development of hi intellectual power. His man tle fell upon a sou who has done mar vellously well, but that extreme cul ture and delicacy of discernment and of feeling,attained through the ex perience of sorrow and joy, could not be expected from the younger man. Not so say the critics. lo ll was said last winter that shirt waist's would not be worn this season by those who know what is chic. Nevertheless the shirt waist is every where and everybody of consequence and of no consequence wears them. They are probably iermanent. It is no longer possible to nrrange a sum mer campaign without giving the shirt waist the first place. A pretty girl looks prettier and an ugly one is given an air of distinction and neat ness by a well-fitting, nicely laundered shirt waist. There have been certain revolutions in men's attire, but since eighteen hundred and something men have worn trousers, a coat, waistcoat and a shirt, 'these four articles have been long and they are still subject to fashionable variations in regard to length and trimmings but under all changes the four articles preserve their distinct diameter. The shirt waist responds to the exigencies of the climate and of all situations more perfectly than any other garment ever worn by women. In bicycling, tmvelling.camping.in case of a sudden change of weather the jacket, which is apart of the shirt waist costume, can transform a hot day dress into a suitable protection from inclement weather. The philosopher of clothes sees the i nfluence the sh i rt w aists have had and will have upon the diameter and habits of women. With shirt waists and a shirt women can travel as unencumbered as a man. In a shirt waist her arms are free. It is the day of tight sleeves again but the shirt waist sleeves laugh at the law and remain of comfortable and con PRICE FIVE CENTS. formable width. It has done more for emancipation than the bicycle or co-educatioual schools or chilis or any other concrete thing If the inventor could lie identified the expressions of gratitude from a sex long in chains would overwhelm him, for of course it was a man. J The addresses on Woman's club day at the exposition grounds were disap pointing. The speakers were women of national reputation who should have a message to deliver, yet, with one exception, they all failed to put anything of themselves into their words. Individuality is the only tiling today that renders or interest any kind or work. We can read books by celebrated thinkers, if we wish in sinuation, and we can always get more or that at first hand. When we listen to a speaker.it is usually not Tor the subject presented, but foi his or her views upon it. And it does not always require genius to transform a plain topic with thediarm or a per sonal, sympathetic touch. Ily "per sonal" is not meant an egotistical re cital or one's own achievements, but that indefinable something or living interest, that iiermeates what would otherwise be a recital or dead facts. There is something decidedly wrong about the ordinary speech or paper given by women, and that something is their own lack of interest in their subjects. The thing should be dear to ourselves and a part or our deepest, inmost thought, that we would suc cessfully present to others. Men usually speak upon politics, or where self-inerest is involved, and individu ality then lurks unconsciously in every word. If unpleasant, that is better than stupidity. Women have not yet learned to magnify themselves, but ir they will give to their words a little or their own tenderness and sympathy, a meeting like that on Saturday can no longer be called "disappointing The systematic collection ror the exposition or the relics and reminis cences or the early days or Nebraska will provide much furniture histori cal use in a get at-able form. No one of the various books published Tor this purpose is or greater interest than the little booklet on the Omaha In dians edited and largely written In Fannie Reed Giffen. Mrs Giffeii ha" the assistance or Susette La Flesche Tibbies, formerly known as Bright Eyes, who is a daughter of Iron Eye. the famous chief of the tribe. Mrs. Tibbies not only relates much of her childhood experiences, but lias drawn the illustrations which, according to the preface, are believed to be the
