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Have You Paid Your Subscription to . . . sor ieoo? All subscriptions are delinquent after July 1st. One Dollar is the Cash discount price. Delinquent sub- W'a'' WOMEN'S LOW SHOES Black and Tan, $1.5.0. Best for the Money Shown in Lincoln. PIRKINS & SHELDON CO. IMiF r nis There hpa been unusual enterprise among the young people this week, owing, possibly to the enthusiasm with which the atmosphere i& charged when the small boy is predominant, circus fortnight. Picnic parties, lawn parties and birthday festivals, flourish until even the clubs catch the contagion, and for the moment one wonders whether the low water mark of deadness has not bean passed. Among noteworthy events of last week which occurred while The Courier was in press, was the dinner given by Mrs. L. C. Richards on Friday evening to a company of twelve, in honor of Miss Clark. Those present were: Mee dames R A. Holyoke, C. H. Gere, C. E. Beesey, O. B. Green, W. J. Lamb, and J. S. Dales. Misses Gere and Dales There was also on Friday evening a tally-ho excursion to Ensign's farm, which was one of the merriest of the young people's gatherings this fortnight. The picnic supper, the dance and the rollicking ride homewere enjoyed by the following: Misses Blanche Friedsam of Beatrice, Blanche JJargreavee, Laura Houtz, Margaret Whedon, Vine Gra ham, Louise Tukey of Omaha, Clara Hammond, Emma Outcalt. and Mabel Hayes. Messrs. Burt Wbedon,- Earl McCreery, Edgar Morrill, Hugb Edmis ton, George Bartlett, Jack Sumner, Elam Seacrest and-Gharlea Abbott. A number of charming birthday par ties have been enjoyed by the very young people during the week. On Friday, July the tenty-Beventh, Mrs. L. E. WetUing invited the following lads and lassies to celebrate the seventh birthday of Master. Eugene Wettling: Misses Helen Hammond, Amanda Rocke, Esther Lawler and Helen Lawler Masters Glen Wirt, Albert Reed, Jack Manning, John Lawler and Edward Rogers. On the same day Miss Camille Prewitt commemorated her sixth an niversary by a picnic party at F street park, where the guests were: Misses Lill'an Zimmer, Helena Zimmer, Helen Hoon, Bessie McMurray, Leila Prewitt and Master Alva Piewitt. Another picnic party in honor of a birthday was enjoyed in .scarcely less frolicsome style by young people of s somewhat more demure age, also on Friday of last week. M'sb May Hathaway was the honored maiden whom the following young peo ple escorted to Peck's Grove to cele brate her seventeenth birthday: Misses Tyler and Morton of South Dakota, Mabel Wickwire of St. Louis, Mary Mulner, Rose Speier, Lunette Keith of Chicago, Ethel Donley, Edith Lapp, Hattie Stevenson, Anita Hyde, Maud Sigourney and Emma Tyler. An original idea for a girl's lawn party was evolved in the entertainment- given V Misses Olivia BkfylfleTand Geneva Bullock to a company of high school maids on Thursday at Miss Bullock's North Sixteenth street home. Num bered slips were distributed, and the party scattered to hunt for the corre sponding number on a ticket hidden in arbor, shrubbery, or even up in the old evergreen trees in the yard. The ticket admitted to a sceance in "Old Maid's Retreat," a bower fitted up in reorder of the porch, where, one by one, the girls 'entered, met the pretty and witty "did maid," with her cat and her curls, listened to a spinster warning, and were regaled with a cup of tea. Other refreshments, partaken of with lees solemnity, followed. Sixteen girls were present, viz: Misses Josie Vif quain, Mary Benedict, Louise Allen, Marian Bell, Fannie Bentley, Lida and Clella Williams, Kelley, Nellie Miller, Sylvia Beattie, Emily Bowers, Vesta Hubbard, Emma Melick and Florence Loomis. Miss Jeffries presided as "old maid," and presented souvenirs of tiny gilt-edged mittens inscribed with ap propriate verse. Other suggestions for entertainments are found in new "guessing contests,' always diverting to young people "or those not so young. There have been smelling tests, tast ing tournaments, and indeed all manner of puzzles offered to sight and sense, but & feeling contest has not often been tried. Have a small table piled with little parcels of all shapes, securely tied with ribbon. The parcels are numbered, and so are the cards with pencil at tached, furnished each contestant Small flat-irons, rolling-pine, dolls, etc., easily found in toy shops, increase the variety afforded by such ordinary ar ticles as clothes pins and paper knives. There should be no duplicates, of course, but an appropriate prize. A guessing game that interests men is found in fill ing out with names the initials of rail roads. A very ordinary time table con , fains.more of theser hierogliphics than most of us can put a meaning to. Still another contest that entertains all wheelmen, is arranged by devising ques tions, to be answered by the mimes of well known bicycles. This is a surpris ingly easy device to prepare, for one Boon discovers that ancient history and modern, in fact, most places of earth, heaven and even hades have been called into requisition to furnish a vocabulary for the American's favorite speed-maker.- Miss Anna Fossler, formerly assistant in the department of science, of the University of Nebraska, and niece of Professor Laurence Foseler, left on Saturday, July the twenty-eighth, for Berkeley, University of California, where she has a position as cataloguer and librarian. The place ae secured through the influence of Miss Jones, former librarian of the University of Nebraska, the instructor whose first library class enrolled Miss Foseler some years ago. The study of library meth-s ods then begun has been continued by Miss Fossler in New York where she has worked for the past two years, cat aloguing libraries in the smaller towns throughunt the state. Returning to Lincoln at the beginning of summer by way of Montreal, she attended the meeting of the International Library Association, and now has left to begin work across the continent. Mr. and Mrs. William Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burr, Mrs. L. C. Burr and Miss Burr, and Mr. Frank Zehrung' are guests of Mr. and Mrs. John W. MacDonald at their summer home in the Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey. A party of young people met at the home of Miss Mignon Trickey, 1547 L street, on Friday evening and after a merry progress to the band concert re turned for refreshments and a dance. Those participating were: Misses Jean ette Palmer, Cleone Moora, Elizabeth Dovey, -Joyce Broady,' Zelia Cornell, Daisy Meredith, Hazel Benton, Wilma r