Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-08
YELLS, BELLS AND WAGNER
Combination Fraught with Grave Peril to
Ones Nerves.
LIfE'S HOT PACE IN CHICAGO
Foot Ball, SleiShinE and German
Opera All in One Dny-GIimpses
of the Chicago Girl and Chi
caEO Art-Omahu Colony.
uFE'S HOT PACE IN CHlCAt

| CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-(Speclal Correspondence
| of The Bee)-One does not need to live Ions
| in Chicago in order to live a great deal
| Fancy a Thanksgiving in which you spent
| the forenoon at the University of Chicago
| against Michigan university foot ball game
| the afternoon in sleigh riding on the boule
| wards, and the evening at Wagnerian opera
| in the Auditorium.
| ANY one of the three furnishes enough noise
| and excitement to last an ordinary lifetime
| but all three in the same day leave you feel
| ing Just about as Tannhauser looks when, as
| the libretto has 1t, with fearful crash Venus
| and her mountain her nymphs and her bac-
| chantes disappear instantly, and he finds him
| self standing in lonely valley in the noun
| tains. Add to all this a Thanksgiving din
| ner, and it is not to be wondered at IL your
| dreams are a strange tumble Of college yels
| and Wagner music, of Herr Alvary wearing
sleigh bells and prancing around in maroon
| sweater, and Frau Klafsky blowing tin
| horn.
| OF course the foot ball game is ancient
| history and there is no use now in telling
how many yards of maroon ribbon you wore,
| and how Chicago lost, even though Henry T..
| Clarke of Omaha did play on her side:
One sees some very funny things In such
places, even though the touchdowns are all
| being made behind the wrong goal Think
| of a Michigan mamma weighing about $50
pounds executing war dance and waving
what looked like an umbrella made of yellow
chrysanth emums, tied with a few dozen yards
of blue sash ribbon and yelling in that ear
splitting fashion peculiar to the woman OF day
before yesterday.
Your woman of today has cultivated her
yell. 1t is part of a modern education
She pitches her voice low and 1t comes from
her lungs, not her throat. 1t was pleasure
to hear DR.. Myra Reynolds yell, not only be-
cause she was yelling on the right side. but
also because she is not satisfied with being
merely one OF the most successful professors
OF the u. of c., but has been ambitious
enough to learn how to help out on the go
it. Chca," enthusiastically and musically at
the same time.
Then there was the white-haired gentleman
with STOPPING shoulders, who stood in a
"last leaf attitude and did not move around
much because he seemed feeble, and the
ground was very slippery. He gave little,
hollow, consumptiye cough every now and
then that made you wonder how he dared
come out on such day. Many of the col
leges had rallying places in different parts
of the grounds, and called in old students by
means of yells. Suddenly, even as we looked
at him, the old gentleman heard something
amid this babel that made another man OF
him. He flung up his head, threw back his
shoulders, and the same lungs from which
had issued the little, hollow cough gave vent
to series of vocal eccentrcitles that II
heard anywhere but at ball game would
stand on end Then he went dashlng of.
scattering the crowd before him like a young
center rush with the ball under his arm. His
family ought to bottle a few gallons OF that
yell and keep 1t to wake him up with.
IL you are afflicted with nerves you had
better not go sleigh riding on the boule-
wards, especially on a day when the college
element has possession OF the town. or
course. II is rather interesting 10 observe how
wildly hilarious you can be with a violent
death constantly staring you In the face, for II
Is not good form to take your pleasure seri-
ously In Chicago. Then, too, II is comforting
to remember that the gray-coated boulevard
police are always on hand to send for the
ambulances and see all debris promptly re-
moved.
THE CHICAGO GIRL.
As for the Wagner opera, It is glorious. but
II was a little difficult on that particular
evening to separate yourself from such q
very clamorous and aggressive present and go
back to the twilight OF the gods. You DO