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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1899)
f THE COURIER. Sramri VHW SOWS GO. 1028-1020 O St. Xvinooln, Kefci PARASOL SALE. EMBROIDERY SALE Ik H m if m fist m m Lincoln people are to have a treat. Tt comes in the way of a sample line of parasols, the largest line ever displayed in Lincoln at one time. In this lot may be found all styles of handles, coverings and all conceivable novelties that are in the market this season. You can never have a better line to choose from and certainly if you were to wait till the end of time you could not buy cheaper than at the price we offer them. There are no two parasols alike and every one of them may be bought at one-half the wumir.cioooam regular price. You can get a $1.50 parasol for 75c $2.00 parasol for $1.00 $3.00 parasal for $1.50 $5.00 parasol for $2.50 $7.50 parasol fo $3.75 $10.90 $5.00 15 very woman who ever expects to use embroid eries should buy them next week during our mammoth cmb r o i d e r y sale, which will eclipse anything ot the kind that ever happened in this city. The goods are here to prove this statement and just a glance at the display will prove to the most skeptical that for a genuine cut price money saving opportunity this surpasses all that have passed before. The finest of nainsook and Swiss embroideries com prise this lot which sell for 10c, 20c, 30c, 50c, 75c, M and $1.00 a yard at every store, but may be bought here during this sale at 5c, 10c 15c, 25c and 35c eJfO) M itf y MBWMB V MMBHH SS HWiHBtf V MMMmMM V MBMBMV V MMMHHMMrf S Mrf SS HBHWMH V HMMMf NX HMMPWMM MWMBH V MMIV IN THE SCHOOL ROOM. Martha Pierce. A girl of seventeen was heard to re mark, "I lifted to do and Bay some very foolish things when 1 was about fifteen." Serene consciousness of having at length arrived at yeare of discretion! But ob servation inclines one to the beliet that this frame of mind is not confined to the aged and experienced alone. The eight-year-old who can be induced to let you into his secrets Ib fond ot pre facing his remarks with a stock phraee. "When I was little," he says with a superior air, "I thought, " and strange thoughts and wonderful, are to be gleaned from his store, sometimes when he chooses to be reminiscent. When a certain cIbbb was reading "We are Seven" nit long ago, it wandered iuto a discussion cf heaven as a pleas ant refreshment after the fatigue inci dent upon inducing Samuel to read "I met a little cottage gitl," instead ot his own improvement upon Wordsworth. Not being so simple minded, Samuel insists! upon meeting a little college girl who "was eight yeara.o!d, she said." The class growing interested and re flective, the teacher reprehensibly per mitted this sort of thing. "When I was little, I used to think if I'd keep a goin' up a hill more and more slantin and kept a goin' straight on, after a. while I get above the clouds and there'd be heaven." "When I was little, I used to think God let a little board down from heaven, with ropes at the four corners, and four angels drawed you up to heaven," "I UBed to think when I was little, that an angel came down and brought you a pair of wings." "I used to think you wont up on them long ladders that loan against the eun sometimes.1' Some effort was required to got the little dreamers back to earth, and spell ing, aB many childish wonderings were suggested to the active littlo brainB. Miss I. what is thundor? Whore is the end of the rainbow? What makes the sky blue? Where it; heaven? And other small and eaBy questions caused the teacher to introduce the first rule for syllabication forthwith. There is occasional discouragement waiting round the corner for the pains taking teacher who labors to assist the young mind to foim its c inceptions, .It sometimes pounceB upon her in thiB wise. "There are two poles, the hot and the cold." "There are six confidences." It is presumed that ho meant con tinents. "The difference between field corn and pop corn is, field corn won't pop be cause the grains ain't sharp pointed. They got to be sharp printed to pop." A boy told ot a remarkably interest ing "piece" he had at home. "Is it poetry?" said the teacher. "No ma'am. It's just readin'." ho said seriously. A wee boy who started to the kinder garten not long since, lost his way in the big balls and wandered up to the second floor, where he was pr.'sontly gathered in by the principal. "Where do you want to go?" she said kindly. "Whoso little boy are you?" "I'm huntin' the place to learn," he said stoutly. Arbor Day being a special program day, and offering somewhat large space for the play of individuality brought forth the fact that genius is not entirely crushed to the earth by our machine like system ot public education aB some people insist upon this unkind charac terization of our American schools. The toacher of one school asked her class to write a short composition ap propriate to the day, leaving to the class the choice of subject. One little girl ot cloven rose to tho occasion thus: Tho Cherry Tree. The day being Arbor Day I will try to composo a little verse such as this: Ob, little cherry treo Oh how I love thee. I like your ways You bloesom on bright spring days. Soon there will be littlo blossoms on you Then thecherrys will pop through. Then a littlo girl will come And help herself to some. Any person who has ever tried to write verse appropriate to an occasion will approciito thiB littlo outburst of poetic feeling at its true value. Tho D. of M. having perfected its or ganization recently . hold a meeting. Tho average age of the members was, perhaps, eight years. A solemn bush (pi I over the assembly as the president took the chair with a groat Bcraping and jerking. When the little girl secretary modestly took her place beside him, the naughty boy snig gored, but was promptly suppressed by the president's gavel and bis stony stare "The meeting will please come to or der, after which the secretary will call the roll," said the president. The "secretary" having done so in a faint voice, with an accompaniment of very red cheeks, thd opening song was sung vociferously. Tho toacher having retreated into tho background, and hav ing no present right to insist upon "a soft tone," they hammored it out royal ly. After this the business meeting open ed with a flourish. "Mr. President, I make a motion that Ed Jones is making all kinds of funny motions in the mootin'." "Mr. President, I second the motion." "You have heard the motion," said the president gravely. "All of you that think Ed Jones shad stop makin' faces and act right, say aye." A jubilant aye, completed the sup. pression of Ed Joobb. After some argument and consider able excitement on the part of the mem bors, and an impartial distribution of reproofs by the president, the officers for the ensuing week were elected and a few resolutions of momentous impor tance passed; usually however, only after a stout tusslo and a division. In thtir unmixed joy in the process of cal ing for a division, they quite ignored their convictions and geneiously voted against their own motions in order to make passible that delightful fun of standing up and being counted. "Now, I b'lieve," said the president mournfully, "that there's a lot of you boys 'at vote no, just for the fun of hav ing a division and that ain't no right way to do." Everything being finally settled how ever, and good nature prevailing, the president-elect rose up in his place. "Mr. President," he said, "I thank you very much for electing me presi dent for tho next time, and I'll try to do the bost I can." Tbe presiding officer was not to be outdone in politeness. He bowed elaborately in the direction ot tho president-elect and said with tbe utmost gravity, "You are entirely wel . come, Mister Tomeon." After thiB the meeting adjournod. There was a strong negative vote, but the president firmly ruled. 'Tin ayes have got it!" and we dispersed.
