The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-09-25
encouraged by the prospect.


Mrs. +. M. Hail, assisted by Mr.. and
Mre. L. c. Richards and Mss Wild will
give q reception at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Hall to the w. and Y. W. c. A.
All members of the association and their
friends ae invited, especially gentle
meo.
Mr.. n. s. Hsrwood leaves today for
New York from whence in week or 80
he will sail for Europe to meet his
daughter. They will travel about in
the old country for a few months re-
turning to Lincoln about the middle Of
the winter.
TIE membership committee o. the
matinee musicale will hear applicants
for active membership at Mrs. r. A.
Holyokes. Al South Fourteenth street,
Wedneed day morning. St ptember ., at
10 o'clock.
The death Of Mr.. Martin H. Brush,
who. for twenty two years has made his
home with the family Of DIR. Latta, re-
moves a very familiar, though quiet
figure from the streets He was familiar
to the eyes. though known to but few OF
the reside nts of this city. His only rela-
tive in this city is nephew. Mr.. j. l..
Woodward. He has relatives in New
York and the funeral arrange ments
y III not be made until they are heard
from.
Mr. d. Muir spent Saturday and
Sunday in Denver.
Mrs. John Dorgan is visiting her sister
in Denver.
I felt quite sure that even the after
sess n at Bar HarbOr would not pass
without some characteristic and unique
perfOI nance on the part OF Mr.. or
Mr.. Frederick Gerhard. Mr.. and Mrs
Gebhard, individually and collectively.
have, at stated intervals since their mar
riage. managed to produce some sort Of
a sensa ion, aud another manifestation
from either one or the other was due in
August. There were rumOrs at Bar
Harbor, as far back as July. that the
Gebhards would repeat the midnight
clambake with attendant excitsments
Of the summer OF 1896, but the antici-
pated feast did not materiallze. 1t re-
manned for Mrs. Lawrence Green. form
erly Miss Bank OF Albany. to give Mrs.
Gerhard the opportunity to produces a
sensation and thus live up to her record.
Mrs. Green sent out invitations for a
costume "hen" dinner on a recent even
ing, and these invitations were eagerly
responded to. The hostess herself was
arrayed, as was also her friend. Mrs.
Murray Bohlen, as Geieha girl. Mrs.
Thompson, formerly Miss Beach, Of
Washington. personated Little Lord
FauntlerOy.' and Miss Jean Mclean was
"a little girl in blue" attired in flock
pinafore and curle. The tall and beau
tiful Miss Eleanor Sedley, made a most
effective "Gismonda,' in gown OF white
silk, with crown OF lilies on her flowing
hair. All these ladies, with others. ar
rived little early. and were chatting
and discussing costumes, when suddenly
Mrs. Frederick Gebhard was announced.
The Baltimore beauty glided into the
room. 1t was fully q minute before the
women assembled recovered themselves,
and could, through their expressions OF
az ,nishment and peals of laughter. ex-
anime the details OF Mrs. Gebhard's get
up. am violating no secrets when l
ftate that the most prominent feature
of Mrs. Gebhards costume was-or were
"a pair OF Mr.. Gehhard's trousers.
which were belted around the waist by
q pink silk scarf The left trouser-!eZ
was rolled above the knee, there fast
ened with pink silk ribbon, end the
leg below the knee was encased in pink
silk tights. A bodice OF pink silk. cut
very low. completed the costume proper
which was accumulated by a lar-,
feather duster, whose hands was fast
ened at the back of the head by a broad
pink elk ribbon, tied in froat 10 a huge
bow above the forehead. Mrs. Geb.
har is black hair was divided into two
pleats, which were brought over her
shnnlciers and looned under her chin