El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-26


A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine. a loaf of bread-and thou
Beside me singing In the wilderness
lOh, wilderness were Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam.
New York city requires more than
SO, 600, 900 roses d year for it's delight
so they say-but just how many more
is not told.
From Paris comes a hint of really
new style-to wit, q tailor-mRde frock,
a short coat and skirt of taffeta, in q
worn with blouses and fluffy fronts as
sny coat and skirt costume is.
Americas Mrs. Richard Green whose
father. Presbyterian clergyman,
came down here in the pioneer days to
preach the gospel especially to the
Door Indian, Incidentally to all who
would listen. He seems also to have
gathered to himself wide acres, for his
daughter is said to have inherited from
him no less than 2, 600 square miles OF
Texas.
A friend of the Rev. DR.. P. S. Hen
son, the popular Chicago preacher. not
long go found the pastor in one of the
large department stores. He wDs lean
ing against q supporting pillar in q
brown study. "Why, Berson, what in
the world are you standing there for?"
asked the friend. "Oh," said the par
son, a. q twinkle came into his eye,
sjust putting into prs ctice that versein
the bible: All the days OF my sp-
pointed time will wait till my change
come. ''-Argonaut.
In the 6owery land of Japan per
sonal'' advertisement is not the home
ly, unpoetical expression that it is
with us busy westerners. Witness
which lie probably Japanese for the
daily HERALD:
Hosuijoshi seeks husband. l am beau
tiful woman, with cloud-like hair, fiowery
face wil9 ha e walsS a nroperty to Walk
through life hahd-in-hand, gazing at flow
In sae who is
handsome and Of good taste, will join with
buried in the same grave.
A London paper reports that Emma
Nevada, the American singer-at one
time q great fsvorite with Spanish
opera:goers-wasg given q round OF hiss
es when she appeared in Seville for the
first time since the war. The insult to
her nationality was deliberate and
planned. Every seat in the house was
bought up but the audience did not
appear until the second act when Ne.
vada was called to the stage and Missed
until the roof rang with the noise OF
Spain o lislike for her country Madame
Nevada was of course bitterly hurt.
The queen regent endeavored to
mend matters, as soon as she heard OF
the affair, by sending for Nevada to
come to Madrid and there presenting
her with beautiful bracelet of
tinn cannot be considered as at all per-
sonal to the singer-she simply was
the victim of an unfortunate outburst
of feeling!
The story of Loie Fuller's triumph
with her dances reads like the plucky
tales one hears OF some self made men.
She began her days on the stage dig
cling away at the smallest parts but bit
by, bit going up to the more important
roles among the secondary characters.
She was always good tempered despite
her eccentricities and despite the
seedlings she got and 80 won her way
finally to being allowed to introduce
little dance of her own invention which
she called ethe "Serpentine." She
could not. dance and there was some Gu
riosity to see what she would do. The
first serpentine sdance, given without
any elaborate lights and without the
lavishuess If costume of today, was
neverthelest charming in an entirely
new way and it took we'll
with New York audiences. The dan
Ger encouraged by little success elab-
GRATED her ideas until New York was
completely won and descriptions of her