Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-16
COMPLETE
Bridal Sets
A SPECIALITY.

daughter experiences as much pleasure
i'll wearing her new bouneto made
five years before as does her city cousin
who'catches the fashion" in its christ
ening robes.
All sensible people are inclined more
or less to ridicule the theory of the
faith cure" yet we practice it contin
ually in our daily actions, and in moth
Ing more than in this question Of style.
The cut OF a mans coat or the shape of u
wOman's bonnet matters little so long us
the wearer is satisfed-self convinced
that it is from competent hands and be-
yond question the correct thing. The
true In wardness of the whole matter is
very aptly expressed in tho comic song
commencing:
''If l knew it came from Paris,
Lovely Paris, darling Paris,
] would BUY it, said Miss Harris,
''If / knew it came from Paris"
In the more. elevated fields of culture
and education, the Significance Of u
name is 70 less apparent. Do we want
minister, we want man who has at
tracted attention, a man who is likely
to make himself heard outside the folds
of his immediate flock. Do we want u
the university from which he or she
graduated. There may be dozen men
and women within n stones throw of
our own dwelling who are possessed OF
more natural intellect, more thorough
and scholarly attainments; yet because
they chance to be self-taught or have
gained their knowledge within less
celebrated walls, their superiority is
not acknowledged and their claims are
set aside for the less competent but
more pretentious stranger.
In no profession are the harmless de-
ceptions of nomenclature more preva-
lent and necessary than i'll the practice
of medicine. The physician who calls
diseases by plain English names, and
writes his prescriptions so that they can
be understood by any one except his
apothecarv, is estimated by the vulgar
mind as an ignorant pretonder-''he
knows no more than they do and
will get no more bills for telling
them what the already know. The sue
cessful practitioner is careful to impress
his patient with his own infaiibility and
omnlscience. He (the patient) is ill
unto death with a malignant, uncall-
able malady--a bad cold, perhaps, or u
arrangement of the liver. The patient
dies-it was Providence; gets well-it
was skill. In either case, DR.. So-and-so
is wonderfully clever man and aston
lSnlnBly well up III HIS pFOlcSSiOi'
The world of art has heretofore Of
fered one of the richest fields for the
unscrupulous and speculative lmitator.
and thousands of modern cheap daubs
have been palmed of on the ignorant
rich, at fabulous prices, as the works of
''The Old Masters" If Raphael, Mich
cal Angelo, Leonard de Vinci and the
other great spirits who hourished after
them, could return to earth, enter tho
sumptuous homes of our American no
bility and behold the creations accred-
tied them, their sensations would be
divided between pride and aftonish-
ment-pride at the sacredness with
which they were held and the
priceless estimate set upon them;
astonishment, both at the amount
OF work which they wore
claimed to have executed, and which
could not, under any circumstances,
have been crowded into the space Of an
ordinary lifetime, and at the WILDLY
different character Of the styles and
subjects, proving them to be the con-
ceptions OF different minds and the
representatives of different schools.
In the literary field nothing can be
ACCOMPLISHED without name. A man
may be as gifted as Byron and as versa
tile AS Shakespeare, but unless he Is
known and has created sensation in
! the world Of letters, has productions