Omaha daily bee., 1892-09-25

The summer girl Is coming home.
:, All Drowned and plump and rosy,
Prepared TO make the winter seem
u Extremely nice and cosy
She's bathed and danced, and walked, and
smiled,
Ana rend a book and nlrted
I'LL To the young met she has left
u The whole world seems deserted.
The Hush OF health is in her cheeks,
With fun her eyes are danciug;
Tho Hush OF conquest In her heart
Makes life seem most entrancing.
hh soon shell be the winter girl,
And we shall bow before her,
For she was made to be adorcd.
And therefore-we adore her.
They are coming back to town. Tho trains
are crowded with them and the union station
these departing September days looks like
perfect Kaleidoscope of color Sometimes
they looB rested, sometimes they don't The
children appear as If they had the best time
in the world, they are brown OF face, clear
OF eyes and merry of heart, but, alas the
prodigal sons and daughters outnumber the
Children. They make you believe they had
good time, but did they They look iaded,
many OF them, even care worn and instead OF
turning out song their summer vacation has
proven to be n sermon. However 1t won't
De long before they are back in the harness
oil the heavy swells and then they may ex-
pect to again enjoy life. Do you know life
with some of our society leaders is likened
unto glass of absinthe. 1t only exhilarates
Tor the time being and when the lights of the
fashionable ball room are put out and the
world opens Tor the devotee of social forms
and customs, a profound ennui seizes the fol-
lowers Of Dame Fashion, and like the fairy
with the green eyes" 1t leaves Hood OF
barren reg rets behind.
But the streets are becoming more ami
mated, familiar faces again appear at the
CLUBS, In the shops, so that the attractive
quarter Of the city wears much OF its normal
aspect. There are still good many alb
sentees-men off hunting and fishing Diana
like girls tramping in the mountains and
lingering by the seaside and crowds in the
country.
There has been considerable gaiety during
the past weeH and the social grind may be
sale TO have fairly begun, but In few more
weeks, when the October weddings come
along, matters will be more interesting.
The other day, in talking to we'll known
school ma'am who had spent the summer on
the continent about the delights of foreign
travel, she said one OF the pleasantest expe-
riences OF her vacation was the visit she
made at Marie Bashkirsteff's tomp at Passy
in the suburbs OF Paris. The conspicuous
position of the tomb Immediately ad AGENT
TO the entrance gate and its uncommon
characteristics at once arrest the attention,
even should the sightseer happen to be un-
acquainted with the life story of the talented
Russian girl whom 1t commentaries.
The monument is composed of white stone
ana is more massive than decorative in
effect. 1t Is surmounted with n dome, the
architecture being Byzantine, like many of
Russias magnificent churches. Indeed, the
Dimensions are rather those OF a small
church than of modern sepulcher this un-
usual size reminding the traveller of ancient
Rome's receptacles for cinerary urns. The
nature of tho inscriptions also torciby re-
call memories of the old world epitaphs to
be seen in the Galleria Lapideria of the
vatican.
The door is glass and you look into
sepulchral chamber, if sepulchral chamber it
can be termed where nothing funereal or
gloomy meets the gaze, but where. on the
contrary, cheerful and even homelike look
pervades the chamber, which is brightly
lighted by three stained glass windows at
each side. The contents are eloquent reml-
nisccnces of the ilfated young genius. Her
portrait is the subject of the TWO middle
stained glass windows; and her bust, por-
traying adelicately-featured glrlish face, oc
cupies central position at the end furthest
from the door Russian pictures of saints
are placed upon table beneath the bust,
the figures being represented in the well
known style which evades the command OF
the Greek church respecting images, that Is,
the faces and hands are realistically painted,
and the draperies rendered in wrought
metal work. Candelabra, palms and wreaths
are also grouped around the bust. white
dove, the emblem of purity, is attached to
one OF the memorial offerings. Some articles
OF modern furniture, however, seem the OBJ
jects most vividly associated with Marie
Bashkirsteff. There pieces of art pot
terry and draperies Ia which she once de-
lighted; there are a paint-Stained, much
worn carpet and some equally worn foot
stools, cushions and chairs Among the lat
ter Prie-Dieu chair bears the initials
IN. B.n