The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-07-29
THE SUMNER GIRL ON A LINER.

with her eyes glued upon the shores q
Ireland, as IL the exhibit was especial,
prepared for her. should not wonde
il. paradoxically, it brings the shores o
America nearer to her, and makes her
bit homesick. This first glimpse OF Ian,
is apt to affect one that way il one ia
never crossed before. Our musical
polished New York theatrical manager
who has earned the reputation OF bein,
the diplomat Of the steamer, is remark
ing: WHAT place Faetnet Light would
be to advertise on" The 1nternationa
Rubber.neck Society is singing its col
lege songs, with its usual group arount
it. and the swell set has finally awaken
ed to the fact of it's mistaken judgment
and is trying to make amends-too late
Amends generally come too late in swell
sets. But here we are! AZ we near the
end OF the trip each OF US is sifted anG
shaken into our true positions-the
same on sea as on land. II should say
this to Leonie-well, can see her eyes
flash and hear her ask what does gir
like me know about true positions. But
one can't go through social season or
two in New York without knowing a
thing or two. New York is great edu.
Gator. And it is foregone conclusion,
if both of US did not know something
about things in general, we would not
have been allowed to take this trip with.
out chaperon. Now there's the swell
settle girl with her chaperon. OF
course. it was the Rubber Society
that dubbed them the swell set. That
girl might have been the belle Of the
steamer. Between her airs and the indis.
cretions of herself and her chsperon,-
particularly her chaperon-they are both
ignored b. the women, and to-day only
two men-and those two Englishmen-
have the courage to promenade the
decks with them.
am calling Leonie "Leonie" in this
letter, because it is so far removed from
her real name. Leonie is not French,
she is Southern. Tom said l must
humo, her. He said the only way to
get pleasure out of a trip was to humor
your travelling companion. So l am
humoring her. don't think Tom told
her to humor me. AZ | said before. she
is Southern. She does not appear to
notice that l am humoring her. Per-
haps she is thinking am Yankee and
am indebted to her lot for that sword
General Grant did not accept from Gen
eral Lee at Appomattox 80 long ago.
Anyhow, shs seems to take things for
granted. Among the rest she took the
lower berth in our stateroom and left
me the upper one. As perform mir
acles twice day in getting down and
up, the only concession she makes is.
she could not do it at all. She monopo.
Lies the whole OF the little mirror in
dressing, and softens my reckless ap.
pearance as we sally forth by saying: III
only l could dress and arrange my
toilette as easily as you dol" Not one
acquaintance have made. from the
stateroom steward to the handsomest
man on board, that she has not immedi-
ately appropriated him. There was
finally but one thing left to me. 1t was
a little book entitled 'Colloquial French
| thought it would save me a lot OF
trouble in refreshing myself on idioms.
Leonie has been refreshing herself all
winter with real study. got the book
out from the depths OF my trunk-came
LID hunhlX ON dack took NV sfeamar