Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24

anda steps,, but a certain degree OF TAMIL
iarity in her men callers is much to her
liking and the sooner hey get acquainted"
the sooner she feels tina the occasion Is
really what 1t should be. She likes them
TO be alive. to call her by her first name,
to show an interest in what is being done
about the place, and to ask questions that
indicate a desire to learn rather than a
desire to make conversation. Romantic
Ronald makes her weary, very weary.
Angelic Arthur reminds her of petticoats
and curls. Dignihed Daniel creates q
certain degree of embarrassed restraint.
Chappie Chahlie disgusts her. But Siren
uous Sammy and Sunny Jim-ah, there's
the pair that gladdens her heart every
time she sights them. When they APP
pear she knows there will be "doings'
and Miss Omaha delights in ''doings''
above all things else. She is no invalid
and she doesn't want to be.
And how does all this bear on the visit
of the forty-four eminent Germans who
came to call on her the other day? 1t
bears very directly and very pointedly.
For, with no disrespect for the gentlemen,
their rank or their prominence, it may be
said that the whole group was made up Of
Strenuous sammies and Sunny Jimmies-
or, more properly, perhaps, Willing Will
helms and Frownless Fritzes!
They had life and ginger and good
health and good looks and get-up, and an
eagerness to be shown that made the
process of showing a positive delight in
stead of the drag that 1t sometimes is.
They were out to see things and they
didn't have to have a second invitation
to look closely. They were ready for any
thing worth while, and they did't care
whether that thing was in the garnet or
down cellar. Neither did they care who
else was looking. While maintaining a
certain gentlemanly dignity, they mixed"
in a manner most democratic, and they
'.iollied" in a manner most Americanatic.
They made themselves at home, took what
was offered, toasted the g~iver-and went
away leaving Miss Omaha regretting that
they cannot drop in every week or two.
Be 1t understood. however, that Mss
Omaha claims no monopoly nor prides her
self on having given the visitors the only
good time they have had. She realizes
that they have been having nothing but
good times since they stepped from the
steamer Pretoria at Hoboken pier May 1
and were taken in hand by the Arion
society of the city of Dutch founding.
The Arion society had arranged a grand
reception. The visitors, due April q, were
late and the reception was held without
the received being present, but that didn't
affect the warmth of their welcome when
they. did come, and, so long as they re-
manned in New York, New York left the
key to the wine cellar hanging on an out
side nail and the corkscrew lying in plain
view.
From New York they started on a tour
that is to occupy two months and take
them 1O,48O miles on twenty-three different
lines of railroad-to say nothing of the
several hundred miles they will cover in
carriages and on the soles of their feet.
Their first stop was at the Walker Jordan
dairy farms at Plainsboro, N. j., where,
because of the magnitude of the estab-
lishment and the scientific methods en-
ployed, they made observations that they
considered of much benefit.
From Plainsboro they went to the ma
tional capital, where they were taken in
tow by Secretary James Wilson of the
Agricultural department and led about
from one branch to another for nearly a
full day, finding their recreation afterward
in a visit at Mount Vernon and in viewing
Washington from an observation car. 1t
was there, too, that Mr.. John 1. Schultz,
assistant chief of the experimental division
of the Agricultural department, Joined
them as Uncle Sans representative, to be
with them when they visited his old train
ing ground, the Iowa Agricultural college
at Ames.
At Martinsburg, w. Va, they inspected
large orchards and at Lexington, KY,
they made the closer acquaintance Of the
American racer and the blue grass on which
he pastures. There, too, they began acquir-
ing knowledge of the Shorthorn, in which
they were particularly interested because
of its contribution to the German platter.
First impressions were very pleasing and
the acquaintance then formed appears to
bid fair to ripen into an admiring friend
ship.
At st. Louis they saw the exposition
site. and were entertained in q way that
would have made anyone but a German see
three or four exposition sites. At Kansas
City they explored the stock yards and