Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-07
THE FLEETING SHOW.

Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
 Written for the JOURNAL AND CouRIxR.1
 HER RIGGIN'
 The "streamer" fad is an extravaganza pure and simple. Nothing but the choic- est of ribbon will do for streamers and it is to be found in the most tempting de- signs and shades. Exquisite mother of pearl moires, pale tinted Roman stripes, brocaded patterns of roses, daisies, and all the known and unknown posies of field and garden lend charm to the milliner's counter and bewilder the chooser with their beauty. Prices are According" and the rule by which to guide the slash of Lengthy thy streamers as thy purse can buy.
 They wave and simmer and futter and undulate; they snap in the breeze; they fly out from under umbrellas to ruin themselves in the rain; they shut them selves in doors to give dislocating jerk to the wearer's neck; they startle sedate and respectable horses to the verge of frantic stampede, and they are even, like trailing skirts, trodden under foot of men. More over they have way of wrapping them selves about the necks of those who pass embarrassing effect. With tall upright bows, like masts and sails, raking the air, and yards upon yards of expensive l ribbon following in the wake, how can l one help being reminded, as a streamer girl goes by, of the old sailors quaint phrase descriptive of an overdressed | young lady: "There goes a full -rigged brig. an her riggin' s wuth more than her hull!"
 ARBoR DAY.
 Arbor Day, we are told, is "the child of Nebraska" This child, though develop l ing slowly, has now reached sturdy manhood, as it is twenty years since the Nebraskans, having awakened to the fact that the destruction of their forests, through greed of gain, was decidedly detrimental to their interests, planted trees by the tens of thousands, as a pro. tective and sanitary measure.
 Ten years later the first meeting of the American Forestry Congress was held in Cincinnati; the public schools were closed for two days, and with much ceremony, the school children tlanted groups ot l tlo0H so "hASh VSAo SANoA. tAesIASS3 coSAA ess t'President's Grove" ''Author's Grove, ' | and the like.
 Since 1882 Nebraska's child has been le- gally adopted by most of our states and there is day fixed by law or appointed by a Governor, when the planting of trees be. comes sort of birthday ceremonial. Next year, If we date it's birth in 1872, Arbol Day attains it's majority, and this ami versary, it would seem, deserves special I uuyhn Quaker poet: "The wealth, beauty, fertil. ity, and healthfulness of our country large ly depend upon the conservation of our forests and the planting of trees." Not alone for their beauty their grateful shade, or their fruit, should the trees be cherished, but because they are needed to purify the air, to fertilizt the soil with their fallen leaves, to shelter crops and buildings from high winds, te lessen the force of floods. temper summer'f heat and winters cold, and restore tht springs that have ceased to flow.
 We citizens of the far-famed City oi Films show but little enthusiasm on ArboI Day. We have so long been richly blessed i with magnificent trees that we accept them as our birthright and are hardly more ap preciative of them than of those common gifts to men, the free air and sunlight In sultry summer days we think witt gratitude of Hillhouse and Austin, who laie
 ssTheir infant roots In earth, and tenderly | Cherished their delicate sprays"
 or of those who in later years have mad, our city glorlous with stately elms ani naples, but many of us lack an all-the year.round appreciation of their beaut, and value. We are awakened sometimei by the enthusiastic admiration of visitor to the knowledge that our trees are mar velously fine, and thereafter we do plume ourselves nightly upon the possession O them, but what some of us need to devel op this proper pride is 8 years exile t some arid and treeless plain. A New Ha vener, whether native to the soil, or trans planted, who never stcounts his mercies in this respect, is an ingrate. a sordid sou upon whom his superiors, the tree of tn ] field, the forests, and tho streets, lool devn with seosnfnl pity, dropping shst