The courier., 1901-04-27
THB COURIER.


make you feel,-repent and sorrow9
How else could he inspire you to draw
your sword in defiance to do battle for
your faith? Mr.. Gareissen sings in Lin.
coin at the Matinee Musicale club
rooms on next Monday night. IL Mr..
Gareissen needed to have done anything
further to win our regard he did the
right thing in bringing his pretty, fresh
looking sister to US. She is cut on the
family musical bias pattern and al
though her voice is q gift Of lesser de-
gree than her brothers, there is young
tender quality there which makes her
friends wherever she sings. Another
proof OF my belief that personality goes
a long way in the assistance Of singers.
Lumbard's benefit was triumph of
art and friendship, and to put it in a
thoroughly sordid way, art and friend
ship paid for once. 1t wasn't just gilt
tering show Of swell gowns, flowers aud
applause. but solid testimonial which
con not help being great satisfaction
to the veteran singer and his friends.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean has been
making merry over our aristocrscy.
Don't you think they're real mean!
They deck their front pages with apo.
plectic-looking figures purporting to be
some OF or leading citizens with impos.
sible trousers on, supposed to be the
handiwork Of London tailors. II the
suppoeition is correct the afore men.
toned tailors ought to "go hang" Why
aren't our own clothes good enough for
us,-our Iative toggery OF buckskiu,
flannel shirts and q handily swung six
shooter? That would relieve many of
our banqueters from the haunting fear
that their trousers lack the approved
set. Why can not We be law unto our
selves? Why should New York forever
turn longing eyes to Paris, Chicago to
New York, Omaha to Lincoln or Ward
McAllister to London? Why are the
things beyond our reach 30 tempting.
those We have 80 disquieting? The
woolly west," under the impression that
it has accustomed itself to the barber
and his tortuous mode Of civilization
and sends to Council Bluffs for its boots,
has grown tritie weary of furnishing
subject matter for the comical papers of
the effste east and finds one OF the
"blows that almost killed father" in the
fact that supposedly dignified journal
like the "Inter-O Ocean" devotes 30 much
space to ridiculing our most splendid
social functions. Never mind, they'll
be sorry when they see US with our au-
ditorium.
Do you know, Eleanor, l have taken
lately to discovering my acquaintances
and l really believe analysis is much
more engrossing than synthesis. Peo-
pie are more interesting than things
always 1 usually wanted to find out
in my childhood how my balloons and
animals were made, and after
all the mystery was done, the bits Of
string. rubber and tufts OF hair were
nothing to me, they might land in the
waste basket or feed the kitchen range,
Tor aught of me. People turn out the
same way often. There is girl here
who, although l do not know her very
we'll, amuses me greatly. l have dis
covered she looks on herself in the role
,f heroine. Why she should do 50 would
puzzle anyone but berself. She hasn't
IN element of beauty and Of that l think
'he is dimly conscious; but she believes
herself possessed Of that undefinable
,ffracfian called f0r Lack Of anxthino