The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-06-29
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LINCOLN LETTER.
Lincoln. Nebr.,
June rs, 1901.

Wednesday and no letter from you.
A young lady Of elegant leisure, like
yourself, is not going to crowd herself
to compose letters 10 q friend who 10
not 10 her class anyway and can not get
up an answer at to be printed on the
same page with hers. Especially. in this
warm weather q literary diIettante
shrinks from getting too near the fires
Of genius which sometimes scorches me,
Penelope. when ! open your hot stuff.
II you were young lady. Penelope. who
had to earn your own living, you would
compose for it; not music. but stories.
It's you that has the quick wrist and
that knows how to turn the sentence
into q great joke. But. dearest, il you
depended on your pen it would be long
time before you could afford strawber-
ries with your porridge. suppose you
do nothing more laborious these days
than sip sorbets and soda ice-cresm
drinks. II you only had house and
husband to look after you would learn
what care and anxiety are.
Jack hiss been playing golf lately. l
do not play because l am 90 thin and he
says the work will make me thinner.
1t has just occurred to me that Jack lie
unusually positive that golf will hurt
me. / wonder who there is, out there,
that Jack is % interested in.
The last June wedding between q
sterling young business man and one OF
Lincoln's fairest daughters has been
celebrated and there are 30 many ster-
ling young men and 90 many triple
plated. 90 many fairest daughters wear
ing wells and standing under floral bells,
so many officiating clergymen", and all
that, the last fortnight; that the human
mind tires of the monotony Of repetition.
1t will be year or two. probably, before
the eastern style, or absence OF it,
reaches Lincoln; but most Of the mil.
lionaire heiresses who have married this
June have ordered the ceremony with
absolute simplicity. There have seldom
been more than thirty present. Those
we're intimate friends and close relatives
of the groom and bride. The thousand
and one intimate friends of q rich girl
were not invited. And the bride with
drew before the wedding to the country
home OF the family and when the hour
struck, walked (Think of it. Lincoln
brideeg. walked through the village
streets to the plain little church. where
the pastor in the same coat or gown he
breaches in, married them. The bridal
parties were not smothered with flow
ers, and the little churches were only
fragrant with garden and field flowers.
The oppressive ceremony which still
characterizes the weddings Of the west
10 doomed.
After q while in Lincoln the bride will
pace into the church followed by little
procession Of relatives and friends. She
will not collect Q trousseau of such vari-
ETY. and number that long before her
things are worn out they will be out Of
date. 1t is no compliment 20 the groom's
sbility to take care Of his wife for the
father Of the bride to buy her dresses
and lingerie enough to last her Q dec
ade. Besides. it is very bad for young
husband to lead him to think that you
do not need even dress year. More
over the ordinary father can not afford
to spend years income on his daugh.
ter's trousseau. especially il he have
other daughters.
Do you not think yourself that there
lie too much fuse and feathers, too many
little girls holding q Gala lily upon