THE COURIER
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Seacrest moved
this week into their new home, 1634 A
street.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. O'Neal of Uni
versity Place left yesterday for the
eastern cities and Canada to be absent
two months.
Mrs. P. M. Hall, president of the wo
man's club, will be at home informally
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, to
members of the executive board and
members of committees.
The First Baptist kenslngton was
pleasantly entertained Tuesday by Mrs.
C. B. Gurney at Normal. Thirty-five
ladles enjoyed a social afternoon, and
dainty refreshments were served by the
hostess.
A lawn sociable was given Thursday
evening by the young people of the
First Congregational church at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Horton.
The rain interfered somewhat with the
illuminations which were to have been
very brilliant.
The marriage of Miss Mabel Rich
ards, daughter of Mrs. I. C. Richards,
and Mr. Lowe Arnott RIcketts, son of
Mr. A. C. RIcketts, will be celebrated
Tuesday, August fifth, at five o'clock in
the afternoon, at Mrs. Richards' resi
dence. The wedding will be a very
quiet one.
A few musical people were privileged,
one afternoon this week, to hear Mr.
Charles Steckelberg, the young violinist
who recently won the diamond medal in
Chicago, play. Mr. Steckelberg has a
fine technique and plays with remark
able taste and fervor. It is evident
that he is in love with his art and that
he has decided talent, although he
modestly says that anyone could have
accomplished as much, who had worked
as hard as he. He has had the advant
age of having been reared in a musical
atmosphere as his father, Mr. Henry
Steckelberg,. is a fine musician, who
was, years ago, first 'cello player in the
Philharmonic orchestra in New York
City, and was also a member of GU
more's band when it made one of its
triumphal European tours.
The Nebraska Epworth Assembly
The sixth annual of this remarkably
successful Assembly will open at Lin
coln park on Aug. 6 and close on Aug.
14. The program is one of great ex
cellence and will fully maintain the
reputation of former years. A beauti
ful prospectus may be had by address
ing President L. O. Jones. 136 North
13th street.
and Bis Jlir machine
Rural visitors from Panama, Roke
by or "Waverly get a surprise now and
then when they visit Lincoln barber
shops. For at the conclusion of the
shave the tonsorial expert reaches for
a rubber tube, presses a mystical
spring and out rushes all sorts of un
adulterated wind.
The storm center of an artificial cy
clone travels around over the features
of the victim and now and then sends
cold shivers down his spinal column.
What is all this for? The question
is natural and proper. It comes from
the lips of the customer as soon as the
gale is over.
About this time the features of the
barber are stoical and calm. With ex
treme cautiousness he explains that
when the countenance of a customer is
damp it should be dried before the
man leaves the chair. Usually" the way
this was done was by rubbing with a
towel. It took considerable work to
make this satisfactory. Besides the
rubbing sometimes irritates an unusu
ally sensitive face now and then.
But Yankee genius has done away
with all of this. It has been observed
that a southern gale in August can
make dry tatters of green cornstalks.
Other shrivelling effects of air in mo
tion have also been observed. So genius
got the idea of drying the complexion
PRIZE.S FOR PHOTOS
The Courier has Inaugurated a prize photo contest for amateur cam
era devotees. The management will pay a weekly prize of H for the
best and most unique view of any outdoor scene in Lincoln or its su
burbs. Views of persons alone are generally undesirable, but outdoor views
Including persons. If the camera manipulator fares to take them, will
be as acceptable as the bare scene alone. Faces in all cases should be
distinct.
Contestants must be amateurs in the meaning that those whose
livelihood is directly derived from photography will not be permitted to
compete.
Views must be left with the business office of the Evening News,
addressed to "Editor Courier," contestants being careful to write full
names and addresses on the back of each print.
The contest will close each week on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
to permit the prize winning photo being reproduced In the Courier of
the following Saturday. Photos may be entered any day during the
week but those submitted later in the week that Monduy ut 3 p. m.
must go over for the competition the week following.
The weekly prize winner will be announced in the Evening News of
Friday each week and the prize paid on Saturday at the business office.
Ninth and P streets.
The Courier solicits photograph. for the first contest, which begins
next week.
The Courier reserves the -right to use such photos for publication as
are deemed worthy but which fall to win any of the weekly prizes,
proper credit being given to the photographer In all cases.
Competitors will fav6r the paper by submitting plain prints Instead
of those mounted on card board. A consistent effort will be made to re
turn all photos to the owners.
of the public at the end of the barter
ing process by a small tornado of com
pressed air.
Genius in different parts of the coun
try got the idea simultaneously. Two
or three different patterns of com-
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According to Washington gossip the announcement of an important
engagement may shortly be expected. Miss Mathilde Townsend, a
Woshington belle, and M. Constantine Brun, the Danish minister, are
the central figures In the romance. Miss Townsend Is a girl of simple
and unaffected tastes although she will Inherit a fortune of JSO.00O a year.
M. Brun is of very good family and stands high in favor at the Danish
court. There is quite an unusual romance attaching to this Ioe affair, M.
Brun, who Is forty years of age having been desperately In love, twenty
years ago with Miss Townsend's mother, when the latter was Miss Mary
Scott.
pressed air apparatus are on the mar
ket. One. consists of a tank where the
air is stored and compressed by water
pressure. This kind works with little
or no attention.
Another brand of the apparatus has
a pump annexed and the atmosphere
Is put under pressure by the muscular
energy of the porter.
Four of the outfits have been placed
In Lincoln. The cost vnrles between
$50 and $75.
Ludicrous Incidents happened time
after time until the customers got used
to the innovation. A favorite trick of
the barber was to suddenly aim the
stream of air at the opening between
the collar band and the tlesh of the
man In the chair. The air poured down
his body In gusts and the frightened
one would make a Jump to get out of
the chair. Of course this was never
tried on people who would get "sore."
Once In n while there is an extreme
ly nervous man who doesn't want com
pressed air. After one trial he will say
so. Then the barber sighs regretfully
and falls back upon the old process
of face drying.
"It was a quiet wedding, I pre
sume?" "Oh, yes: the groom acted as If he
had been hypnotized."
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I am glad to see a man
Always look the best he can.
Ever wearing on his face a smile
serene:
And I'm always proud of those
Who are fond of decent clothes.
Taking pains to keep their Sunday
linen clean.
This old earth has ample use
For the fellow who looks spruce.
While the slouchy man is ever
shunned and feared.
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