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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1898)
- 3tJf- V A - 'THE COURIER. 3 ,-' " aided exertions. A full discussion of this question is invited by the news papers. If both sides, are heard from there will surely ber much dissent from the projected amendment of the section reducing the number of coun-cilmen. LADY MODISH AT THE HORSE SHOW. Princtton, N. J Nov. 29. Dear Courier and People a msa named Thompson wants to go to the senate from Nebraska, and the thought of the possible success of his aspiration brings scalding tears to my eyes. There was a time when only honest mea repreeented their districts io the government of these United States. There was a time when men were chosen to serve the people only after they had provea their integrity. In those joyful dsys it was demanded that a maa should first show righteousness in life aaaprt- I doa't know when I have enjoyed aa afternoon at the Horse Show aa mack as I did that of yesterday. All the peo ple one knows was there, and all the per pie one does not know stayed away; I hear that pk Ie88t' gret H,8i"t3r of th"' Jt course, society, even wnn its mugs cannot fill a big place like the Gardes, so the absence of the rank and file left plenty of room for one to move about in caaafortably, and without becoming part of a seething mob of people that one is not keen about touching elbows with. The Horse Show was originally made, so to speak, by the Few the Select Few. It wsa afterwards unmade from a social standpoint, by the Many the Mutable Many. It look d oa Monday frr iff coiallj If Erelya only kaew hew Oelriebs were wearing chinchilla teqaei black gawM reduead the else of her with bunches of violets aad gardealee aose aha would sever affect any other oa the stde, made exactly alike. Mies color. Shaw, who is engaged to young George Mrs, Arthar Kemp is another girl who Myers, wore a similar eae.aad I saw will never be aa chic aa her mother; bat half a dosea women hatted is the sasae thea there is oaly one Mrs. Fred Neil son, and "Baby Belle'' has plenty of charm of her own, so she can afford to be surpassed by a generous rival like her mother. Oa Monday, Mrs. Kemp wore a white cloth Eton jacket brocaded maaner. As for sable hats, they were oa every side. Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes had one of the few good spangled gowns that I saw, aBd with it she wore aa all black hat. Mrs. Stokes affect black aad t suits closely all over ia black; a plain black her admirably, but I cannot admire the ,.- w Z , m LLk for "though the Select Few had come to vate citizen bufore he could seek ror .... ... honors in public office. Nowlreedthat the conclusion it was time for them to this man Thompson has been promised the highest honor the representatives of the people can give, and I feel that if there w any troth in the report the peo ple of Lincoln have been disgraced. What, I wonder, can be the good of Lincoln's vaunted morality if the people are to gratify blindly the cupidity of the greatest charlatan in the state. Of what account is the watchword of decency, that has been for years the eafe guard of the city, if this man Thompson's avar icious nature is to be pampered? Who was the only man except the pawnbrokers and the chattel mortgage sharks who prospered in the years of Lincoln's adversity? Who was the man who saved Mayor Giaham from nominal impeachment? Who was the man, who, holding the assume control again. Of course, this is only the first twenty four hours point of view, and by the end of the week the Mutable Many may be out in force, and the Clothes Walk will have as many freaks aa ever, crawl ing round and round. In the mean time we had one day to ourselves, aad it was charming. How cross the Mutable Many will be when they discover what they missed, for there is nothing they love so much as the Select Few. I have rarely seen so many of the smart set at a public place at one time before, and as a rule, they were exceed ingly well turned out. The flashy, dasby atmosphere of other years was so little in evidence that one could easily ignore its existence, Some one asked me whom I thought cloth skirt; a roaad black hat encircled with black ostrich feathers about her throat Mrs. Willie Jay and one or two others wore similar feather boas, but I cannot think them smart. One of the best gowned women at the show, ia my opinion, was Mrs. George Gould. bluet blue, you know made very simply. It hsd a little gaimpe of white lace, was buttoned over on one side with crystal buttons, plain tight sleeves, plain tight skirt with a long row of buttoaa down the back. Her hat was angle at-which she wears ber hat tipped over her nose. One of the smartest lookisg women that passed the box was Mrs, Grsavtlle Kane. She certainly improves with age. I have never seen her look better. Her She wore a cloth gown of blue gown was very goodblack aad white aad with her fresh skin snd glorious hair, it is hard to realize there is a debu tante, Mies Kane, on thic Winters social horizon. Mrs. Cooper Hewitt wore a black cloth gown studded with steel last very becoming; it wsa a toque of bluet season's model, but very good lookisg. velvet spotted clesely with white silk Over it she wore a long putty colored dots; two stiff feathers of the same color coat a loose baggy rffair, that is very were fastened towards the front with a brass ornament. Mrs. Gould has grown very slight, and is as good looking as she was years sgo whea she made a reputation for beauty. The whole Gould family oc cupied seats. So did the Frescott practical and very smart for evening wear. These coats have scored among the successes of the season, One women told me she thought they were night gowny in cut, and they are; but they are still smart. Mrs. Lee Taller wore a black spaagled Lawrences and sny quanitty of the nic- gown, too, but it was not as smart aa est people. Indeed one saw as msny it not more, peoplo lhat one knew in the seats than in the boxes. Mrs. Henry Hloane and Miss Blight were together in a box. Mrs. Sloane had on a claret colored velvet gown and a velvet toque. It seems to me that Mrs Stokea's. Spangles today must be beyond reproach in their execution or they are utterly impossible. I noticed a lot of women with trans parent sleeves and the rest of their gowns lined throughout This is a fatal mistake and nothing gives worse lines. . -- M.Manr in hu nllllf.fipa , . . ij :u . ; the smartest looking woman there, and caused men to he employed with a view f t1 .: nnuf!.riir.lnn uowoiou piutuptij. uir. x ikwih Lawrence." It is impossible for Kate to making the service unsatisfactory that he might be gainer thereby? This man Thompson has been run ning a bluff on Lincoln until Lincoln is almost irrevocably in the toils. You Baw the city press attack the water com. m'weioner and the mayor last spring. Don't you know that the man behind the scenes who pulled the string that wiggled the legs of the water commis ioner snd the mayor was this man Lawrence to look anything but patrician and her gowns are always perfect. I love them because they look like her, and seem really to belong to her; that worn-by-the-courtsey-of-my-dreesmaker look that stamps the women who wear model gowns is conspicuous by its ab sence in the case of Kate Lawrence. Mrs. Ollie Belmont as an example of antithesis wore a pretty colored cloth ft'ra. Stoane invariably wears a velvet one elects to wear ones sleeves a jour gown and velvet toque. Mrs. Blight ia there must be a jour effect about the evidently out of mourning for her neck. This is abeolutely important, mother, who died a year sgo. Both she Tn mo of a guimpe effect one gets and her sister, Mr. William Page d makes a j'our with the sleeves the Thompson, were gowned in black velvet .better. and looked very smart-only I never Mrs. Walter Maud, who looked chsrm- look at them that I do not wonder how "8 otherwise, ruined her black toilette m A rA Ann't vnn know that the citTireea was actually afraid to gwn on Monday, and I counted a dozen pitch into him? Don't you think it about time for Lin coin to call bis bluff? L. H. Robbips. TEMPTED. He came few browed and sullen from his place No mark of high resolve upon his face; He fkeag his yellow gold upon the floor Aad cried, with menace m his blatant roan "Give me the honor I would rule thestatel" Aad dumb hi fear the tempted senate sate. If gold were God, thea such a thing were right, Btft mark you-gold will sometimes curse and blight; Htafcstaaeaate prostitute Badf For thai man's sweaty, evil smeffing pelf, Its cursed infamy will swelling rise, A monument of ruin to the skies. Beware! be warned before k is too last! Nerscfl the priceless honor of the state, Nor like a fell assassin in the swat Strifcerfeaih to that which ave you power and atigfeu e o and seura this bribe ' -JT red hot from belli Be men not slaves that greed can buy or sell! WOUam Reed Dtsaroy. RT or more like it during the afternoon and evening, and every woman's face wore an appealing, questioning, doubtful ex pression, that said plainly: "Do you think my gown is just like Mrs. Bel mont's, and Mrs. 's, and Mrs. 's?" The-more I observe clothes and the wo men that wear them, the more I am convinced that what a woman wears is the surest key to the puzzle of a wo man's nature. Imagine Mrs. Lawrence a the Show, of an afternoon, in an almost white cloth gown, elaborately embroidered, and a white tulle hat with a big chou of pink velvet on her head! Yet Mrs. Fred Benedict was so attired, and it quite suited her; indeed, she looked unusually well, and inci dentally, her nature was faithfully re flected. Mrs Lawrence wore a snuff color it might have been whipcord made very plainly and severely with an irreproach able cut. Her hat was a turban of pheasant's breasts, worn well over the face. Mrs. Warren Whitney, Mrs. Louie Rutherford and Evelyn Burden came in together. Mrs. Warren wore a little. they live with those tiny waists. And their best friends rwear they do not lace. Miss Fair looked very well. Her gown was black cloth with a short jacket, and her hat was a bright red turban. The ebort coat was universally worn by the best dressed women, and it looks aa thoueh mv nrediction about the lone or three-quarters coat would be fulfilled, abut. Mi9B Sedley.who deserves her by this radical mistake. Apropos of spangled gowns, it will probably be news to many, women that their vogue is of American creation, and they are another instance of Paris copying from New York. A word about the younger set. Their bad gowning was quite unpardonable, and made one wonder whatever their parents or guardians were thinking except perhaps a limited few. Mrs. Duncan Elliott was at the show both afternoon and evening. I did not care for the gown she wore in the even ing it was a black and white striped affair, very fussy and dowdy but the reputation tor Being a Deue and a beauty, wore in the evening a gown spangled with silver and covered with an elaborate design of black lace. She walked about a good deal, and the bad taste of thp gown ratbei than her good brown gown of cloth with white embroi- lookB mada her OTer conspicuous for a ifered reran that she wore in the after- young gin. noon suits her particularly well, and I thought I had never seen her look better. She, too, has grown thin, and her figure has gone back to its girlish slightncas. Tn the evening I dined with a lot of people and so was late getting to the of being seen in all tnree rings. lathis Miss Adele Fitzgerald's frown black net with a serpentine design doaa ia silver epangles that would have been a little too much forBarnum's circa unless it was designed with the object Maud You write to each other every day! Why, what can you find to write dinky cape of velvet and silk about her about? shoulders and looked anything but Marie Oh, I just answer the things Bmart: She used to be such good style, he says in his letters. Maud But what can he find to write about ? Marie He just answers the things I eay in mine. too. Evelyn Burden grows more like her mother every year, only she will nsver be so good looking. She had on a pur plish blue cloth gown that I did not care show. Nobody smart walks about in the evening, so we went directly to our box and I saw comparatively few women that I knew. (Of course men do not count in a fashion letter.) The Clothes Walk was much more crowded than in the evening and the proportion of freaks had increased a trifle, but the Select Few were still in the ascendant. J t is too droll and also a bit pathetic to see the dressmakers and milliners one deals with standing about, gaping at the women and making mental notes. I really think they take the Horse Show more seriously than anybody else, and it amounts to so little when all is said and done. Mrs. Harry Whitney was very elabor ately gowned in blue velvet covered with embroidery. Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Herman case it would have fulfilled its destiny. And then there were oh! a lot of others; but there is a printing press waiting for these words of wisdom, so I'll epare them, though neither they nor their relation deserve it. A gaudily dressed women is a blot on the vision. A gaudily dressed girl is is beyond words. Town Topics. Attendant Shall I put a ticket "Do Not Touch" on this picture? Gallery Superintendent What pic ture is it? Attendant Portrait of a millionaire. Jollydog Our American heiresses appear to have the same trouble as oar candidates for office. Polly wog What's that ? Jollydog They find it very hard to get a square count.