The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-06
MISS PENELOPE, OMAHA

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ny Dear Eleanor
Now June has kissed goodbye her
Ana enters royalty her own brief sway:
She broiders sunbeams into sove-ht
hours
And weaves herself a winding sheet
rhere. my dear, I knew II would be
4 shock to you, when you FOUND OUT
I am 4 poet - well ~ ltnguist, out
I have concluded Il b no use to Keep
nv light under q barrel 1t 10 naole
10 burn up the barrel. and no one
Vuuld be prepared for the illumina-
don which 10 sure to follow. Glance
over the above again and tell me u
Won do not think It bears the hall
mark OF genius. I do. but In case you
don't agree with me. you needn't men,
ton Il.
Sumner has came! But the
weather h keeping awfully dark about
it. It q really Q touching sight 20 re
IN. tSermometer hopping around with
tn oyercoat ON. We may get chance
to cut Ice yet. Even the June bugs
9ait q q little rheumaticky. 1t doesn't
oeem to be quite up to the skirt oance
az forme: seasons. You may have hao
the experience, when In your darkened
chamber you sought the nrSt. sweet
sleep Of night. and found It not be
cause Of this creature's reetstence-
sis-sas-xis. 1t may never light. put
n mi0ht a wen. one goes through the
aeony OF anticipation. every sixty
minutes In IN hour.
You should have seen the dreams
Of gowns, albeit not OF the stun
dreams are made of, and the loves OF
honnets. which were gathered about
20. Barton's luncheon table At the
WInard Friday. Eighty-six women IN
their best "bibs and fuckers. Some
IN silks, and some IN lawns and some
n velvet rovns. Everybody had . de-
HRhtful time. Men are becoming quite
obsolete at social festivities. Women
drees for each others despair. and are
beGinning to CoQuette with one anoth-
81 ana freuuentiy conceive overWheam-
ine admirations, one for the other.
While men are relegated to clubs ana
hotel Hobbies. / am old fashioned
enough to not quite approve. 1 think
4 must have been lovely wnen ney
rnpper. and put everything on the
ta6ie ct once, stewed chicken and
dumplings, preserves. pound cake ana
fYagrant coRee in big cups, tin cups.
anything to suggest size. ana ricn
cream. / have . great contempt Tor
thaae egg-Ghell trifles We call after
dinner cofRee0. Then In the sweet hrst
Starlight, everybody would eet In the
great shrub sweet gocden. where hum
roses. gilly flowers. phiox
and blue gentians huddled together
IN splendid inartistic confusion. You
needn't be alarmed. have no Idea
az entering on q crusade against ex-
ioting conditions, but doesn't 1t sound
list Q bit aIluring. contracted With our
cycaonic tendencies?
The reception at Mrs. Yates for Miss
Kountse was lovely. The rooms were
fairly dripping with color from the
Quantities Of roses. grown on the spa
cioD grounds At Hillside.
rere were lots Of happy booking
Girls, ana dlicious refreshments. Cook
ing ~ Hillside does not seem to be a
Aomely accomplishment Of hife's me-
ceasity. but rises to the dignity Of q
flne art Ehe Misses Yates them
selves are artists. fact Of which
think they have reason to be proud
Mr. and Mrs. 8. NJ Bennett. who
have returned from Utica. N. T., en-
tertained quietly at dinner Tuesday
evening Mr.. and Mr.. Barton, Nr. and
Mr.. Yost and Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman.
A delicious dinner was daintily served.
Mrs. Harry Mccormick, with her
little SON, Scott. leave Thursday to
Join Mr.. Mccormick on their ranch
10 have than 90. for they intend max
ing fbeir AoOe IN the future on the
ranch Mrs. Mccormick fs one Of the