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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1901)
THE COURIER. Y2 1 I Ml ; 'Ijitebreast XJY THE? GfcBVEbAND NUT $4.()0 COAIy Office IOO Ho. lltli. Telephone 8G4i J MISCELLANY. BY FLORA nULLOCk". Fr The Courier. "'It was a loog way,' naid Little Lord Fauotltroy. 'But Dearest, my mother, was with me acd I wasn't lonely. Of cdurae you are never lonely if your notber is with you.' " When I read this r passage Abe other day and smiled audibly, a trick that one acquires when reading to little folks who can nofaee, the Boy squirmed in his seat, threw up bis bead half combat ively, and blurted out, "You bet that's just right. It's the truth." The Boy is just between being little and being big. When he goes home for vacation no one expects to see him again until the new term is well on its way. This tradition dates from the time when he came, a very lonely little blind boy, to be one of the babies of the House, and the bigger boyB nicknamed him "Feel .Bad." Even yet the chil dren say, "Oh, he won',t be -back for three weeks," and they are generally right. Xow, tardiness is a cardinal sin, in the estimation of any right-minded school-ma'am, and penalties and pen ances should make grievous the way of the offender. Vet I fear that the next time the Boy straggles in long after the way, and read a good story book to no, trith, the children. There may come to you again a glimpse of chat fair king dom of happioees and self-forgetfulness which you fancy you have left among the put-away things of childhood. The Queen was something of an "old fogy" that, in my bumble feminine estimation, constitutes one of .her claims to glory. They tell us that she persisted in wearing an old shawl of the fashion of her younger days. From her pictures he who glances mav know that the ancient lady's bonnets were heir looms of the past. There was no mod ern freakishness about them, and they would have looked well on any good English grandmother who goes a-marketing. Imagine gorgeous Elizabeth ever covering her proud red head thus, though she had lived to be an hundred. One could almost be sure that Vic toria tried to make her grandchildren wear "stogies," and would bear none of "buttoned" shoes; that the looked with horror upon bicycles, and could not be coaxd to talk into a telephone; that she ate with her knife and drank tea from her saucer. The biographers have not informed us, as yet, in regard to these minor details. Some day we shall know more about her little ways of. life, and .then wemay. honor her as an ''old fogy" one of those pillars of goodness who prop the world with old-fashioned ways, -while we younger generations are experimenting with new things. g :m MMiHW r A "i The Coon-cat. The rearing of coon-cats is a coming industry. Coon-cat are worth today from five dollars to one hundred dollars apiece, and the supply does not begin to meet the demand. Exceptional speci mens have -been .known to fetch two hundred or even three hundred dollars. At the present time all of them come from Maine, simply for the reason that' the breed is peculiar as yet to that state Their popularity ia such that the busi ness of breeding them has been rapidly growing during the last few years in that part of the country, and one ship per, not very far from Bar Harbor, ex beginningof a term. I shall smile-per- Prted ia 1809 no 'ewer than three hatM not jmHihlranH q.It h;m ;f h thousand of the animals. Strange to say, there are comparative ly few people south or west of New Eng land who know what a coon-cat is. If you ask that question-down in Maine," had a nice visit with his mother. Sometime, after you have come to take life rather calmly, to read bookB critically and without much appetite, so however, the citizens will seem surprised that you think not a book in the wide at 'our ignorance, and will explain to world will tempt you to lie awake after yu ia H condescending way, that the your appointed bed time, juut pick up a creature in question is half raccoon the tory like "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and descendant of "a ctobb between a coon read it to the children. Read for only and a common cat." Coon-cats have a brief hour each day; do net let them been recognized as a distinct breed in know what is com:ng, bribe the house- Maine for so long that the memory of hold, if need be, not to tell them: and tde olaest inhabitant runs not back to always arrange to itop just before same important climax. The breathless in terest and absorbing fascination you can arouse in the little folks will per-. haps puzzle you. Holding- such power in yoor hands will make you feel like a fairy god-mother, only you must share the glory witn the story-writer. r!ut why should you be surprised? Do you not remember the nights when you U moled into bed by the last eputteriogs of your lamp.arote with blood-shot eyes very late in the morning, and were soundly rated by the pater familias and mayhap by your conscience? What matter if, the. book were only an Augusta Jane Evans Wilnnn nnnr1 n, an V. TJ Roe romance. The blessed nWof ac- Tlif tually losing yourself in something, for X ,,,L their beginning. You will find several of them in almost any village in that part of the world. Saturday Evening Post. Harry Von Tilzer has composed a beautiful 6ong Excelsior, for Bale by. Shapico, Bernstein &, Von Tilzer, 53 Dearborn St, Chicago. "Charlie never swears." "Why, doesn't he ever foozle?" T -pice. -Town crxiQ getting -the clock and the parental ad monitions, thinking not of the past nor of tbe'future, harassed by no burdens' what a blessedness it was! , Turn from your Darwin -and your Spencer, your Guizot and your Fiske, fascinating as they all are in a grown-up WIN ICE III) tf & And Dairv 60. v Manufacturers of the finest qual ity of plain and fancy Ice Cream Ices, Frozen Puddings, Frappe and Sherbets. Prompt delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. 188 8a I2lh8t. PHONE 205 BOUT FRIDAY, JANUARY 18th, we ex pect to open several hundred pieces of foreign and domestic cotton dress goods I from which we invite those who wish the choic- f est patterns of the season to make selections. Large assortments of fine embroideries will he shown at the same time. MlbbBR&PAINI IIIMIIMIIMMMMlillllHMIIIHIMIHMIIIIHmilllMHmi 1 till IMIIMIIMIIIIM 'MHIII IMMMMIlfr RIVETT, HAIR-DRESSING SHAMPOOING Manicuring", Chic Ornaments for the Coiffure, Switches, Chevelures cleaned. 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