The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-09-14
THB COURIER

Po'iCo uoce uoe JUSTLY.
This is pretty heavy for light frothy |
letter to the Dollie OF Omaha, but since
the assassination OF the President the |
ineffectuslness Of the police has been a
universal subject Of conversation.
Some people are talking about street
fair. After you have seen one or two, !
street fairs are not particularly anus
ing. and many OF the merchants think
that the expense Of booths and the dis
turbance OF ordinary business routine
amount to more than the returns. The
noise in the street during the continu-
ance OF street fair is deafening and
the quality of the sounds lie more than
usually distracting. Hurdy gurdies, the
squeaks of countless toys and the stri-
dent voices Of fakirs advertising their
wares, bells, whistles. brass bands:
everything that man has invented to
make noise is rung or blown, all at
once in fair time Then all the ruffians
in tbs place and few who are attract
ed by license throw confetti and rubber
balls at pedestrians who are trying to
attend to their own business. A car
nival in Latin countries is an instItu-
ton. The attempt to introduce it in
America has not succeeded. The layer
of vulgarity here is so deep that when
the restraints that insure privacy and
freedom to the citizen who likes isola.
ton are removed, that citizen is at once
the victim OF loafers and the objection
able class of practical iokers whose
amusement is lying. 1 hope that the
sober merchants of Lincoln who have
succeeded by main force Of energy and
ability will conclude that the street
fair is anarchy and does not pay. l do
not like the noise and vulgarity OF car
nivals. and no spectacle, however bril-
liant, can reconcile me to the confusion
and familiarity Of carrivals.
heard Chancellor Andrews lecture
this morning to the teachers in the high
school auditorium. He is a pleasant
speaker, with an inexhaustible vocabu-
larry, he is without pedantry and his
pleasant, frank manner establishes
cordial entente between the people he
is speaking to and himself. fhe Chan
csllor was speaking about geogr Apply
aud the best way to teach it. 1t is
necessary, he said. to teach beginners
in geography with globe, otherwise
very young pupils only learn intellec-
tually that the world is round, they
never feel its roundness. Then he told
the five hundred young women listening
to him that they could all make their
own globes. And then he explained
how to do it. He said to get several
boards a foot long and have them
smoothly planed, then select one for
the axle Of the sphere and keep on nail
ing short pieces Of timber to the nue.
leus until the rough shape OF a sphere
was attained. Then to lathe it into
perfect sphere. He added that they
would find it very easy.
You know Penelope, how easy it is
for women to pound nails! The Chan
cellor said long wire nails were best and
my vivid imagination pictured those
five hundred women at work on their
globes and the globes themselves, after
they were finished. Probably the Chan
cellor knows how to pound a nail but
be has never seen a woman pound
nail or he would not have fancied that
he was giving them an easy recipe for
globes. In the Chsnceilor's address
there are effects of obstacles conquered
and victories Won, an indomitableness
that ia the result of difficulties over