Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-18
SOCIETY STRIkLS A GAIT
For the First Time It Shows igns Of a
Decided Awakening
UNUSUAL NUMBER OF PRETTY WEDDINGS
Balls, Pnrticg, Dinners, Lnnchcons'
Tens, Receptions. NuSicnicS nnd
the Coming and Going OF People
Make tp IIusy week.

At last the social world may fairly be
said to be revolving on its axis with rea-
sonable speed and regularity. as all properly
constituted worlds should do. The pace has
been a brisk one during the past week. and
II 1t shall keep up, the season viii not lack
tho variety which in society. as liz all else
is the spice Of life In spite Of the loud
and oft-rcponted cry OF hard times. people
will go on entertaining and being enter
taincd, marrying aud engaging themselves
thereunto as II Major Mckinley we're al
ready elected and the tide OF prosperity at
the top OF its How. Perhaps they do not
make so much noise about .l, nor spend 50
much money in the accomplishment Of their
plans in lad times as IN good, bat genuine
hospitality IL not a question OF finance, and
Is found In tho cottage OF the laborer as
well as in the noblomans palace.
Speaking of the nobly horn. even in 50
remote connection, recalls the appalling
rumors that have been Aging about of late
concerning the Barons won Sack and Won
Lcvitz1W who graced the ceremonies OF
the Al,-Sdr-Bcn ball last month. They
turned up in Omaha early in September
bearing credentials apparently valid, which
introduced them as German military Of
ficers Of noble birth who on wager or IN
pursuance of some of the mad pranks with
which young German gentlemen are wont
to while away the tedious hours OF their
butterfly existence had undertaken to put
a girdlc round the earth within given limit
of time on foot and without other financial
aid than that afforded by the communities
through which they might journey. In
word they were trampS-and this by their
own artlcss confession; but it was generally
bclieyed-such is the credulity Of common
mankind in its dealings with the higher
ordors-that they were German tramps,
fact which entitled them to certain distine-
tions denied to Dusty Rhodes and Weary
Waggles and the rest OF the American tribe,
and that they were nobemen, circum-
stance which Of course gave them the pass
key to everything in sight
They were invited about given to drink
OF Omahas beer and Calfornias Rhine
wine and most Hospitality entreated In gen
erar Some nattered acquairtances had
fitted them out with evening clothes. and
they appeared at the state ball the oh
served Of all observers the glass Of fashion
and the mould OF form. And now the iair
girls who danced with them and whose
waists were enclrcled by their high born
arms are agitated by a report, which. to be
be sure lacks confirmation but which Is
in its nature disduietng and ill-calcuated
to foster the romantic dreams which are
bred by intimate association with the no
bility. II Is said that the references of
the most illustrous barons have been
looked into with the dreadful result that
they have been discovered to be nothing
less than two mschievous and impecunious
young men of German ancestry and Amer
lean birth. who have hit upon this in
geniolrs scheme for getting away from their
home In New York and travelling over the
country with all the advantages of a made
to-ordcr social position. 1t may turn out
that they are really nobemen after all The
girls who danced with them are hoping so
And local fashion paper has come across
the two heroes in Denver, where they were
repeating their pretty performance at the
Festival OF Mountain and Plain
After all, what does it matter. II the fell
lows danced well and otherwise behaved
themselves?